The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-12

long ago or when?--to love. Ethel faced
 the knowledge with rebellion, directed
 blindly against herself, against fate and
 against her love- Give forgot all other
 considerations for time and gave himself
 utterly to the passion; then he awoke to
 the sad dawn of real life and knew that
 his holiday of youth was over, and that
 before hir lay but one course-an hon.
 orable r sat
 He te with him the victim of another
 mispl9t affection-the Hon. Charles
 Belsi handsome, disordery, bank
 rupt 1issolute younger son, long since
 disowned by Lord Highgate, his father
 and by his elder brother. Poor Charles
 was frantically in love with Lady Clara
 Pulleyn, whose parents were as desper-
 ately poor as Honorable Charles himself,
 and therefore hated him with a noble
 hatred.
 Belsize had discovered that Lady Clara had arrived in Baden for the purpose of
 becoming engaged to young Barnes New
 come. At this he set to drinking and
 weeping, with the logical result that he determined to kill Barnes, who was
 nightly frightened at the news and who
 was almost on the verge of fleeing. There was a most scandalous scene on
 the street. and then Lord Kew and Give
 who admired each other most cordially,
 despite their rivalry for Ethel, locked the
 poor sinner up until Give could spirit him away.
 The young artist wandered almost fran tically through Europe, now throwing
 himself heart and soul into his york; again surrendering all his soul to his hopeless love. Finally he went to Rome and there after many months began to think that he had resigned himself to his
 fate-when he heard a piece of news which sent him in mad flight to London. The engagement between Ethel New come and Lord Kew had been broken! There was little art for Give Newcome now. He spent his days schemlng for invitations to the great houses where he might meet her and his nights In the whirl of society content if he could snatch few moment with his counsin- On the whole, the months that followed were more unhappy than even the months of wandering. Lady Kew regarded him indignantly and defended her niece with immense cleverness. The world was full of new gossip about her. It was that she was to marry into a station far greater than that of even Lord Kew The prize selected by old Lady Kew, now that her first plan had gone astray when Lord Kew discovered that Ethel did not love him, was no less than my Lord Farin- tosh, immensely wealthy immensely proud, immensely good looking and im- mensey stupid.
 At this juncture Colonel Newcome re- turned home. He went at once to Sir Barnes Newcome (who was now head of the family, his father having diedD and ingeniously laid before him his private affairs; how he had invested his money most fortunately in the great Bundecund Banking Company, with the result thaS he was now very rich man and fast growing richer, being worth at least six ty thousand pounds "I have a pension, besides" said the honest soldier "of a thousand pounds a year. And two hun dred a year is all that I want for my self. I will give Give every shilling of the rest tomorrow if he marries as I wish him to- My boy will thus have an in come of three or four thousand pounds a year. Barnes" cried the Colonel. with his face shining, "I want your sister, want my dear Ethel for him!"
 Barnes listened with inward scorn and