The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09

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the mercenary wretch that ho had been
forced to think her.
But the letter never reached Us des-
,ination . few months o, afeerw with
Mr. and Mrs. Give Newcome. Give
had married Miss Rose Mackenzie.
Colonel Newcome. who would dine
on crust and wear a coat for ten |
years opened a magnificent. house for
his children. lie commanded the eager |
services or upholstercrs. painters and |
San Way aKe lie nresene tee Rassy with
wonderful jewels. and was made Happy
by tho sight of the blooming young
creature, decked In these, magniticences:
was in highly nourishing condition.
Its directors told tho colonel that lt
was his duty, as their leading director,
to live IN splendor. The wehlthiest,
naturally expected entertainment OF. on
fairs OF tile great institution.
All tho world ,1 began e pay gseas now ss
Everybody knew confidently exactly
how many millions OF rupees lio was
worth. Ho began to feel quite con
business. and put all his friends and
acquaiptances and dependents into lne
| company. whose enormous profits from
indigo and cotton and opium ana COP.
per and Il score of other commotdities
| were growing more enormous daily.
Yet In all this glow and glory of
achievement and honor the fnrrow s.
| deepeued around the coloners old eyes
whenever he looked at Give. He could
| see that his boy was not happy. He
appeared dutifully at tho board meet
! ings and other business conclaves tIat
! produced tho Newcomc wealth; but ne
yawned and went away and gallope,d
| his horse alone or returned 70 ms
painting room and worked away IN his
ola velvet aeket lie sPsht iii.s . Mas
too clearly uncomfortable for both o o.,
them. Poor Give tossed unhappiiy IN
his bed OF down, and black Care RODE
behind him on his fine horses.
So tho colonel was not happy either:
not happy In tho society OF his new
friends; not happy. even when hc Won
his election to Parliament as IN the m htn5
her for Newcome against MS hated
| nephew Sir. Barnes himself.
Tho brave old soldier was never
to take that seat.
that the great Indian merchant who,
was at the head of tho Bundlecund
Banking Company had died suddenly
from cholera in his palace In Galcutta.
| that tho Bundlecund Company had been
a vast. complicated. enormous sWindle.
and Colonel Newcome: after three
score aud ten honorable years, was
ruined.
/ The bills were put up in tho splendid
| house. Colonel NeWcome gave up even
his pension and allowed the brokers
swords that were tho only ornaments
| of tho plain little room with the iron
bedstead where he had lived In that
I splendid house. Then he and his, quite
penniless, went to poor quarters, where
Give tried to support them With his
| art. "a.
The poor old man gave up even his
cigar. the friend and comforter OF d. t9 1psi
her money. like the rest In tho smash
came out in her true colors and lash,
ed him daily with bitter taunts ana
gibes that stung him IKE strokes iiou,
a whip. He ate his scanty crust ana
bowed his noble old head IN silence
under that cowardly persecution.
One day he. went away Quietly tel.
ing Give that no was golnss s on a siere
ward came the annual solemn csre-
mony in memory Of Founders Day
in the old Greyfriars School; and those
went there tb say Sa amoh row Fne With With
/ his order Of the Bath on his breast, ms
dear old head bent down over ms
/ prayer book, Thomas Newcome! ~,
The steps of this good ola man i,au
1 been ordered lither by Heavens de-
cree: to this almshouse. Here u Was
o,dained that a life all love, and kind
ness and honor should end.
i His time on earth was to be but
I short: Yet ere his thread was cut; fate
l topped toward one young and blooni-
4 Ing and cut off poor helpless. pretty
i little Rosey. From her deathbed Give
4 was summoned to that of his father.
He lay In his little room. stricken
old man. with beard white as snow
covering the noble. careworn face.
4 Ethel arose and gave her hand 10 GIVE
j that dear little hand that the colonel
4 had loved SO well, and that WAS one on,
i, day to lie in Gives for life, after all
mt that day was still In the future,
4 a nd the one whose heart 1t would have
,ilIed to overfiowing to behold 1t would
not be on earth to see.
4 BY the colonel's side sat woman.
distinguished. with the air of grande
i dame, and beautiful even In age The
i colcnels baud .eachet for hers HI,
.Ipressed 1t and said with a hearlrand-
u ing voice: "Leonore! Lconore!" Thus
\ did he Ind his romance aSain-in the
person OF the great Countess dc Florac.
4 who had boen taken away from him In
4 youth as Ethel had been snatched from
Il his son.
At the usual evening hour the chapel
bell began to toll. and Thomas New
comes hands outside the bed feebly
beat time. And Just as the last bell
struck, q peculiar sweet smile shone
over his face. and he lifted up his
head little, and quickly said, "Ad-
, sum- and fell back
1t was tho word the boys used at the
school when their names We're called
and 10. he, whose heart was as that OF
. u little child. had answered to his
Master.
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