The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21

l that her husband was out ol loNh. ohS l inclosed a tract and begged Harry to
 read 1t.
 with a bitter laugh he sent Gumbo to Whites with a note to Lord March 1 Gumbo returned with polite note of ex- cuses in reply. Did Lord March say l anything?" asked Harry, looking very
 pale.
 He said it was the coolest thing he
 ever knew" said Gumbo. And another 1 gemman said, Damn his imperence!
 Aunt Bernstein, wicked old schemer
 though she was, proved better than the
 rest at least She sent her lawyer with l R5O0 and a kind message. But she at 1 tached the condition that Harry break | his engagement to Lady Maria l Thereupon Hary defiantly turned the
 lawyer out.
 l Then he sat down dismally, and if there l were tears in his young eyes, who shall l despise him as of feeble courage?
 But there were friends in need, who l had turned away from Harry in his glory
 and his days of Fortunate Youth, and who now came to him, without reproach l and without blare of trumpets. While l he sat staring into the fire, their names l were announced and presently they were | rshered in.
 One was d tall, knd-faced, good-hum- l ored looking soldier in a very plain and l worn uniform He was General Lam-
 bert, an old companion in arms of Harry's father.
 l The other was very lean and very pale. | 1 bones were high. Altogether very 1 homely young man, but altogether, too. l a very striking and likeable young man 1 was this-Iieut Col. James Wolfe of 1 Kingsley's regiment.
 1 They had warned Harry against his | company, and then retired. Now, wien- l out any fine speeches, they appeared 10 l offer themselves as surety for him. 1 Harry turned his face away that they I voice sounded below. Harry Warning l ton answered it with wild cry 1 "Whose voice was that?" he called. his 1 own trembling with a strange, increulDie. heavenly hope.
 l The door opened and-"Come away,
 James, said General Lambert. We are | not wanted here any more." For the voice was the voice of George l Warrington. The lost was found again. The dead was alive. The prodigal was l on his brothers brsaet.
 How George had been wounded how l he had been saved rpm tn" scalping 1 knife by a French officer; how lie had l lain i'll and unconscious in a frontier camp ever threatened by the lnoians, | who demanded him from nis French cap
 tors; how at last he had escaped by 1 agreeing to pay those who aidei him 1 slo0O: all this he toli Harry that night 1 after he had paid hls debts and freed | him.
 l The two brothers were nine-dsys 1 wonder in London. PnSn society read | justed itself and the claos and assemblies were full of polite sneers at Harry for | pretending to be overjoyed at his elders
 return to life and thu rob5 nis hlln Of l the estates.
 l George became the inheritor of all the
 adulation that had nesn wasted on the
 fortunate youth while he was the prince 1 heir. Poor Harry vis hardly noticed. l Even Aunt Bernstein aevelopee an aiiii'z- ing gift for looking fix ,d.y past him Willie | she talked to George.
 "It is a knight of old, it Is Bayard, 1t l is the grandfather come to life,' cried l the delighted old belle And indeed, ne | looked wonderfully like the portrait or | Colonel Esmond in Castlewood. "It is Bayard,' she said, when George | m 1 aaain to rob Harry, but would share his
 all with him and gladly But that declar- 1 ation was not made before the Castle
 woods: and Lady Maria, not caring TOT 1 the portion of a younger son, who hao 1 spent his patfimony to boot, had smooth | ereS her love for Harry ana had very I kindly told him that the dream was l over. George now set to work to straighten | out his penniless brothers affairs, dip- ping deep into his own patrimony to do if Harry. full of remorse, felt shame to | live upon him, and, if the truth be told, 1, felt humiated to be the tolerated guest 1 in the house of the great, where ne l had been the admired one so recently.
 So one day Harry sailed westward as l aid-de-camp of his friend, James Woite,
 nom promoted to be general in com
 mand of the expedition against Canaua. l General WOlle was very PdAc eAiN | i'll when he sailed. He left behind nm
 his affianced bride. But he turned no 1 face backward.
 | He was never to see England again.
 One day in England men embraced when l they met. The people shouted aloud ln 1 the streets. And though James Wollc l had fallen on the Plains of Abraham pc. | fore Quebec and died in that wonderlui l consummation of. his career, his end was
 so glorious that men dared hardly de-
 plore that end. The whole nation ross
 up and felt itself the stronger for James Wolfes victory. Should his friends weep
 because a chariot had come from the
 skies to fetch him away?
 | On every soldier who had fought wltn
 him fell share of reflected glory, ana
 honest George Warrington felt happier III
 the homage that was paid to him now as 1 Harry,s brother than he had ever Ieie
 when he was fattered as the heir to Vlr- l ginia. ,,,
 Georges heirship to the broad estales III i America. to be sure, did not pront nm
 much at this time. He had spent ailiios.
 all his f5OOO-partly for Harry, ana party
 for supplies that he had sent to the plll- l tations at the orders of Mime. Esniono. That lady. deeply grieved at poor Harry 1 loss of the crown Gas if, thought George |, so d,y .tshe were sorry that came back'D