The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21
TYR. GEORGE WASHINGTON AND LADY T5rOND


 In London there lay two sums of f50Oo | each, one in Harry's name and the other In Georges. These had been left to them directly. The latter Harry would not touch. He had not even caused its trans fer to his name. It seemed like natural
 act of love for the departed to let it lie
 as it was.
 But of his own he had taken $500. He did not mention to the Princess Poca-
 hontas that he had thus begun to spend
 his capital. His luck at lanzquenet and
 macco swelled it to thousands. But ne | bought fine clothes, fine horses and made l generous presents. He was free and kind with Fortunatus's purse in his pock- ct. The unlucky had but to ask and he stood ready to lend or r-gve. l In short he was for a time wild, | harum-scarum, dissipated fortunate youth. There was but one fly in his ointment. l It was his engagement to Lady Maria. Somehow that dream had faded very soon and he could not shut his eyes, though | the poor lad tried honorably enough, to the fact that 1t was paint and not bloom.
  1 so powerfully at first.
 | He did not pine any more to hold her l hand in some dim corner. He kissed 1 no more dead roses. No longer did ne all but swoon with bliss when she | called him her Enrico and swore that she would never, never take from her | heart the sachet that held his precious
 letter in which he had asked her to | be his.
 | Cousin Will had showed him the | record of her age Other tongues had whispered to him of her past career. and the lack of spicy detail was due only to an uncomfortable habit he had of clapping his hand td6 his sword and telling offcious gentlemen that they | would have to answer for anything ! they might say.
 His honest mind never entertainei any thought of breaking his word. He would not even permit himself to sus- , pect that he had been trapped. Baroness Bernstein pleaded with him in vain. He declared that he woul1 | marry Maria despite the fact that she
 was as old as his mother. In his sturdy l loyalty he even paid her debts when she got into trouble over the money she owed. It made another hole in his patrimony, but this did not prevent | him from going to Whites again and risking some more.
 Luck turned against the Fortunate | Youth. He had to take recourse again to his patrimony. It melted away in the next nights like the thousands that
 he had won in his brief, bright, daz- zling career.
 Then my Lord Castlewood, long dis gusted with himself at letting others
 win what he might win. suggested a little game of piquet When it was done, Castlewood was the richer by d | thousand pounds.
 That evening the Fortunate Youth goes into Whites and sits down with Lord March and others. He is no more fortunate than he has been in preceding l nights He calls for more counters anJ more. Then, a little pale and silent but very easy and polite, he gets up and goes home. He has lost all his winnings and all his patrimony-five I tn ousand pounds gone in three nights. | Oh, to think that a Virginia princes | back should be slapped by a ragged l bailiff's follower! That Mime. Esmonds s son should be in a sponging house Yet to such a pass in the rake's progress had | Harry come quickly enough. l It was. however, rage and Annoyance that Harry felt more than worry. He had 1 friends. So he sent to Lord Castlewood, telling him that little matter of a5OO had caused his detention. And would Lord Castlewood be good enough to make him loan out of whAt he had won? | My Lord Castlewood regretted in po- lite note that he had already spent his winnings and had not penny. Well. there was Sir Miles Warrington, his dead fathers brother. The baronet's 5
 family had been very eager for the For tunate Youth. Only few nights ago his
 aunt had kissed him and loved him like a son. Alas, the messenger brought back 0
 letter from Aunt Warrington regretting