The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15


lady who might be cross about 10
wouldn't make them very we'll of. So
she wrote Arthur Pendennis a little
note that made him ride dietractedly
around the country, toss wretehediy
through sleepless nights and deem that
he should die.
But he ala not: and at last the Ma
jor thankfully saw his martyrdom at
an end and returned TO his beloved
clubs. Pen wrote tragedies more burn
Ing than ever, cultivated more Byrortc
gloom and talked Of his biighted love
to Mr.. smirke until that gentleman
feebIy confessed TO him that he. too,
loved passIonately; and on Pens laugh
ingly asking her name said that It was
his mother; which made the Prince OF
Fairoaks roar out most Indignantly and
send the poor curate out Of the house
in sore disgrace.
His majesty now decided to 30 to
oxbridge where Harry Folxer and other
friends from 6reyfriars were reading
for their degrees. The widow scraped
together all her savings and Dispatch
ed him there in magnincence. Soon
Pendennis Of Fairoaks was the leader
in all that classical place Of learning
and life. His rooms were the finest,
his wines here the best, his words were
quoted Dy eager 4OfntToEB ana MS COb~
tunes copied by all the college dan
dies.
All declared that he was easily the
best man in the university; but some
how another man carried of the Greek
ode prize and q rival won the Latin hex
ameter prize. and at the last poor Pen
got nothing but minor defamation
prize, which his mother rnarvelled ~
and cherished as the hnest thing ever
x.,nV. In a A01fa0A r
All the young mobiles and spend
thrifts al oxbridge belonged to PENS
set Honest Harry Foker. who was
presently sent down" because Of q
litt'r dinner that he gave In college In
whiell a prize fghting guest Operated
on n proctor who came to investigate.
said TO pen before he left TITS not me
I'm bothered about. As long as people
drink beer don't care But you're go
In too fast. my boy. You can't keep M
the pace. tell vou."
Presently Foker'B prediction came
true. One day the crash came. Pens
allowance had long since been spent.
he had borrowed right and left. trades
men openly besieged his door. and Fen
sat down to realize that he had spent
more than 1900 pounds in his two
years. and still owed 700 pounds. In
the midst at his troubles the lists came
nut and Pendennis found that he hao
been ''p1uckad."
He fed from OKbridke and went tn
London to see the Major. That gem
tlenan. who had been vastly delighted
with the fne acquaintance his nephew
had made at Oxbridge, received him
with pleasure that changed to trem-
bling Indignation whom he learned the
truth, and he stalked away, regrettinS
that his engagements would not per-
NIT him to see much Of Pen during MS
stay in London.
poor Pendennis skulked about Lon
don after writing TO his mother such
A letter as prodigals have had to write
ever since there were mothers anq
nrodiRals. The gentle soul who re-
ceived 1t did not care one-half 50 much
about the great sum Of money or the
loss Of the degree as she did to know
that her son, whose wild career In OK
bridge she had learned from many
sources. was coming back to her. re-
pentant. -,
Of PENS fathers money his? HADN'T ne
a right to spend II? Besides. the PROB.
lem Of raising the cash was NOT AZ ~
: dieicult one. for Helen's eyes were
rot the only ones that wept over Pens
penitent lsttor.
syou know, mama" said the owner
AZ the other pair OF eyes land remark
nhly fine ones they were), nave peer
living with you all my ilfe' 1nu -
Ma had 10 go to school II would have
cost me a great deal. So am sure
that the 500 pounds that are In my
hank belong to you. and shall be very
onrrv II you do not take them.
Mrs. Pendennis embraced the owner
AT ths fne ewes and wept again ana
csIied her "dearAt Laura" VINO was
This dearest Laura who Is introduceo
thus unexpectedly at this financially
opportune moment -. Al.
Srcs unon a time long before MISS
Ezalan ThistIewood ever tmaEinsd that
aha would marry an elderly little gen
tIsrosn with a bald head. there was a
1ounT gentleman of Cambridge Univer-
sitv who was as poor as she was HIS
nanos was the Reverend Frank Beh'
ana he was waiting for living before
n fell in they were separated, Ano
anallv he went away to colony
where he married years afterWard'
.rhara he and his wife died aft~r
tIeIen's marriage to Pendennis. and she
cent for Laura. the child whom the
BELLS had loft all alone In the "orlo'
ana brought her up as her own.
II was Helen's dream that some Gay
har beautifuI clever Pen should marry
her beloved Laura; and that young gem
tlarnap sometimes thought that ne
might eratify the two women ufti-
rnateiy when he had seen enough OF
Iifs.