The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-12
TaE COLONEL Ells JR BGRNEs A BI7 or Ills rlND


 Give forgot all other considerations for a time and gave himself utterly
 to the passion; then he awoke to the sat dawn of real life and knew that hii holiday of youth was over, and thai
 before him lay but one course--aI honorable retreat.
 He took with him the victim of an other misplaced affection-the Honor able Charles Belsize, handsome, dis orderly. bankrupt, absolute younger son, long since disowned by Lord High gate, his father. and by his eldel brother. Poor Charle was franticallS Fin love with Lady Clara Pulleyn, whose parents were as desperately poor ai the Honorable Charles himself, and therefore hated him with noble | hatred.
 Belsize had discovered that Lady Clara had arrived in Baden for the pur- pose of becoming engaged to young Barnes Newcome. 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 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 frantically through Europe, now throwing himself heart and soul into his work 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 re- signed himself to his fate-when he heard a piece of news that sent him in mad flight to London.
 The arrangement between Ethel Newcome and Lord Kew had been broken!
 There was little art for Give New come now. He spent his days schem- ing for invitations to the great houses where he might meet her and his nights in the whirl of society, content if he could snatch a few moments with his cousin.
 On the whole, the months that fol- lowed were more unhappy than even the months of wandering. Lady Kew regarded him indignantly and defend- ed 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 discoverL ed that Ethel did not love him. was no less than my Lord Fartntosh. immense lv wealthy, immensely proud, inn mensely good-looking and immensely 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 died) and ingenuously laid before him his private affairs: how he had invested his money most fortunately in the great Bundiecund Banking Company, with the result that he was now a very rich man and fast growing richer. being worth at the least sixty thousand pounds. T have a pension, besides '' saId the honest soldier, "of a thousand hounds a year. And two hundred a year Is all that I want for myself will give Give every shilling of the rest tomorrow if he marries as 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. T want your sis ter-I want my dear Ethel for him."
 Barnes listened with inward scorn and outward respect. His little, mon ey-grubbIng soul could not even per ceive the brave and noble sacrifice that was being made, far less admire the fered. His small mind required only a moment for the easy arithmetical com putation that four thousand year was nothing compared to Lord Farintosh,s nfeeen thousand; not to mention the