The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28

great book of which never a line was being written.
 Another annoyance added itself to Mir. Casaubon's troubles. His cousin. Will Ladislaw. appeared on the scene. Young Ladislaw was poor. All the money in the family had gone to Cas- aubon. and VIII merely had inherited the only good looks there had ever been. He got them from his grand mother, who had been Casaubon's aunt. She should have come into a great part of the Casaubon fortune. but she mar ried against her family's wishes and l was cut of.
 1 She and her husband had died abroad In want. Their son married as un- wisely as they had done. His wife was the daughter of gentleman who 1 did gentlemanly banking in the West End, but really made all his money by operating a high class pawn-broking esta blishment under another name in another part of London. One day the [ daughter. Sarah. discovered that fact and learned at the same time that the pawn broking was only a cloak for receiving stolen goods. Without word she fled from her home, and. later. married Ladislaw.
 Neither Will nor any one known to Will was acquainted with the story of ] his mothers life. It was known only that she had run away. After their
 
 Mir Casaubon. which that gentleman paid as a matter of justice, but with the austerity and coldness that make justice an infiction and an offense.
 Will had studied in Heidelberg and was playing at art. Not being adept at humbug, he knew that he WAS not destined to become a great painter, and was seeking for his true field. This looseness of mind shocked MT. Casau- bon. His irritation was increased by the feeling that Will felt merrily con- temptuous of his own vast labors on the great Key to All Mythologies. MT. Casaubon was person too superior to ordinary weaknesses to feel such a thing as Jealousy, of course. Therefore when he saw his radiant young cousin of the fine gray eyes and the shining hair spending much or his time with Dorothea, he attributed his violent annoyance to his dislike of WITS character.
 He decided that Will must go abroad again, but his power to insist on that was broken in very simple way. Soon after Will had first seen Dorothea i he informed MT. Casaubon that he would not trouble him any longer for an income because he felt that he should depend on himself.
 He was quite honest in this, as. in- deed. he had a childlike honesty in everything. He was ingeniously elated over his freedom, and he did not realize how much more he had chafed under the grudging justice of Casaubon since that gentleman had fettered so beau- tifuI and good young creature as Dorothea to his gloomy life.
 Instead of going abroad Will remain ed in MiddIemarch to edit d paper that Mir. Brooke had bought during tenn porary access of political enthusiasm which led him to offer himself for Par liament. To the horror of all his friends and neighbors. the liquid bratned Brooke offered himself s a candidate on the Radical side. Nat urally a good part of their indignatio and scorn was poured on the head of | VIII Ladislaw. especially as the paper under his direction soon began to make Itself annoyingly powerful.
 The Rev Mir. Cassaubon forbade Will his house His act led to a dispute with Dorothea. who felt bitterly hurt at her husbands remarks which insin- uatcd that she was supporting the man In what Casaubon called his rebellion" and disgrace He trembled violently as he tried to control himself. Then suddenly he fell forward in a faint.
 Dorothea at once forgot every ground of anger that she had and sank to her knees at her husbands side while they awaited the doctor.
 Il gate took Dorothea aside and told her that Mir Casaubon had an affection of the heart which sudden excitement might make ediately fatal, though with care he might live fifteen years
 He advised that the truth be kept from ! her husband.
 Dorothea bowed penitently to CBsau- bon thencefOrth. Without q murmur she made her life shadowy success sion of long days In the sombre libra ry, jotting down useless. pitiahIe notes | that Casaubon dictated in his dry, pre- 1 else voice. At all hours of the night 1 she arose and read to her husband | when he became walk
 1 Though she was penitent, and 1 though she determined loyaHy and 1 with out a moments hesitation to cease i all communication with Ladislaw. she was too sound in brain and independ- l ent in thought not to realize keenly i that her husband was grossly unjust to l the young man. Indeed. before their i dispute. she had suggested to casaubon ] that VIII was entitled to share of