The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-12
7AE COLONEL ElLs JH BGRNEec ABlT or AlS flIND

who was no other than poor Charles Bel size, come most unexpectedly into the family fortune and estate through the death of his father and elder brother; and how in the end Highgate had fled with Lady Clara.
 Following this came the announcement that the engagement between Ethel and the noble Marquis of Farintosh had, of course, been broken off by the Farin- toshes as a result of the scandal. The poor Colonel who had done his best to stihe his love for Ethel, convinced as he had become against his will that she was utterly mercenary, heard this part Of the news with dllatng nostrils and grim face, shamed for the shame that had come to his nece.
 That letter which had never reached him, would have told him something diff ferent. It would have told him that Lord F'arintosh had implored Ethel humbly to marry him, and that she had refused, not because of the scandal but because her soul had become willed with loathing of the fortune-hunting and title-seelling life in which she was enveloped. And if the writer of the letter added that Lady Kew had died in the midst of all this troube before she could change her will, which left Ethel all her great fortune, who will say that the true friend added this with any idea that it could affect CllVe or the COlOnel! NO, Indeed. Great fortunes are not so plentiful that even the best of us can afford to ignore them. But as for anything more, the writer of that letter knew full well that Colonel Neweome would care for nothing so much as the knowledge that his darl- ing Ethel was not the mercenary wretch that he had been forced to think her.
 But the letter never reached it's dest nation. A few months afterward, the al rat1 n1 fn 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 chill dren. He commanded the eager services of upholsterers, painters and carriage makers in his splendid Indian way. He presented Rosey with wonderful jewels, and was made happy by the sight of the blooming young creature decked in these magnificences.
 The Bundlecund Banking company was in highly fiourishing condition Its di- rectore told the Colonel that 1t was his duty, as their leading director, to live in splendor The wealthest people of Lon don sought his board and naturally ex- pected entertainment of a scale of pro- portionate to the great affairs of the great institution.
 All the world began to pay great atten- tion to Colonel Newcome now. Every body knew confidently exactly how many millions of rupees he was worth. He be- gan to feel quite convinced that he was wonderful man of business and put all his friends and acquaintances and de- pendents into the company, whose enor- nous profits from indigo and cotton and opium and copper and score of other i commodities were growing more enor- nous daily.
 Yet In all this glow and glory of achieve ment and honor the furrows deepened around the Colonel's old eyes whenever he looked at Give. He coulu see that his boy was not happy. He appeared duti- fully at the board meetings and other business conclaves that produced the Newcome wealth; but he yawned and went away and galloped his horse alone, or returned to his painting room and worked away in his old velvet jacket.