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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Assuming the Guilt

But Cecilia pleaded and wept and begged for delay. She would. of course, tell the general all. But Lady Covenant was afflicted with a disease of the heart which had of late made itself evident any sudden and strong emotion might be her death
 Cecilia implored Helen not to force her to reveal the truth until her mother should have gone-in a few days she would depart and then Cecilia would make frank confession to her husband
 Helen, with this understanding, agreed to assume the responsibility for the let ters until after the departure of Iadv Covenant
 She went to the general and tacit1y acknowledged the missives as her own she would tell him, or have told to him, later, the whole story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Quarrels Made Up

The ade-de-camp was very fond of sit ting next to Helen at table and would sit and watch her by the hour through his monocle.
 Had his conversational powers oeen greater he would probably have proposen in form; but the nearest he could ever get to it was to tell her what splendid logs and horses he had and ask her if she was fond of dogs.
 Through the intercesslon of Cecilia, and aided by the calmness of Helen, the lnar- rel between tho general and his ward was made up--and Beauclerc got the money to put Old Forrest in repair for his friend Beltravers, to whom he stuck in spite of everything.
 He had been going tn build a new house for himself--he would give that project IT.: and sell his hunters if the general would let him have the money for Old Forrest and so he got it and the house was re- paired at the cost of tens of thousands before the matter was finished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Suppressed Memoirs

And now, just before the marriage of Helen and Granville was to take place. II fashionable London was stirred by scEsation. The memoirs Of Col. DAubig- ly were to be published.
 Newspaper paragraphs foreshadowius he publication hinted strongly at some revelation about Helen. Whenever she vent into society the whispering tongues Tasged at irf
 The rumofE reached the ears of of
 The runors reached the ears of Gran ile and yet Helen could give him no .xplanaton. Cecilia was about to become | mother and promised that upon the irth of her child she would set all right.
 Gen. Clarendon. out of respect for lelen. went to the publishers of the D'Aubgny memoirs and threatened pros uton, and at last bought up the whole objectionable chapter before publication nd lad it burned, The general pre- 'eaved one copy and asked Helen to lark the passages in the letters which were hers and those which had been 'nterpolated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
The Missent Letters Arrive

Cecilia loved Helen heartily, but vas afraid of her mother and, being of light hearted, sanguine, rather frivolous tenn per, early contracted a habit of concealing from her self-possessed and logical parent any little circumstance which might cause vexation,. annoyance, trouble-Cecilla hated trouble of all kinds.
 Helen was much disappointed at not 7 rearing from the Devenants, but were convinced that they were still in Florence, where the dean and she had left them some months before, and so had not hearo of her uncle's death.
 o Mrs 'Collingwood sniffed at Helens fai.h in her great friends, but Helen was right for once in her trust Of human nature.
 The missent letters came at last; they were all that could be wished for-and cecilia was married! Had been married in Paris at the British embassy to Gen. eral Clarendon of the British army an1 Clarendon park; a great match-for The general had d dukedom in revision and was very wealthy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
A Fib for a Good End

Cecilia saw that her present plan of campaign would never result in the unit ing of her two friends. So she went to Helen and said:
 My dear IIelen have just found out Granville Beaucerc has acted like the grea test fool. He is absolutely we'll mamma was right about Lady Blanche Forester He has-well, you must hera- after look upon Granville as a married man. He is engaged.
 No, he did not tell me so-but l founl 1t out and he could not deny it. But he charged me to keep it a dead secret. .lnd I would not have told it to any living eoul except yourself.
 And to you, l thought that after Ill | had said about hm-I felt it necessary I thousht-I was bound-in short 1 thought it would set things to rights anl you would be more al your ease at on ,e. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Guardian and Ward.

Helen found herself beginning to get much interested in an unexpected guest whose arrival was delayed-a cert lin Granville Beauolerc. He was only little younger than the general, but the general was his guardian.
 The Young mans father, knowing his son, ghad provided in his will that Gran vile should not come into his property until he was 25 and that in the meantime the steady, cool, precise Clarendon should look after him and his affairs. Besides standing in the relation of guardian and ward, the two men were friends.
 Beauclerc was not dissipated-on the contrary he was the very pink of pro- prety But he was unstable, easily i'm posed upon and generous to a fault-no sort of man to handle large fortune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Where Was Granville?

g Helen bowed proudly and retired she nade arrangements 10 go and live with sn old housekeeper of her uncle's in the ;orntry.
 Hut Miss Clarendon-wh shrewd- tess had guessed how the matter lay anne and carried her off to the lonely astle in Wales where Helen fell sick
 Meantime. where was Granville? Why ltI he not rushed to the defence of felcn?
 Cianvile was a fugitive in Paris. He nd heard the rumors and the gossip faf found out that Horace Churchill ad instlgated the publication of the Objectionable chapter in the D'Aubguy lenors and had suggested that little ncre spice" be put into the letters.
 Horace, of course, though! they were iclen's letters He also had, in con junction with Lady Katrine HawlSsbv. oeen the cause of the publication of the rewspaper paragraphs reilecting on Helen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
A CLASSIC
 IN A PAGE
Copyright, 1911, by Irving King. All rights
 reserved


 One who reads only Castle Rackrent, ''The Absentee" or "Ormond cannot realize the biting sarcasm of Byron when he said of his wife "She was a Wahklus calculation, Miss Edgeworth's novels step ping from their covers" But one Who reads Helen" will fully comprehend why -there being an execution in the house and Byron most perplexed Of ms niiau- cal affairs-when Lady Byron walked ihto his room and said, Byron, do annoy you?" the poet replied, Most damnaoiy' madam
 It was the Irish stories of Miss Edge worth which inspired Sir Walter Scott to worth the "Waverley Novels, hoping, as he said, gro do as much for Scotland as Miss Edgeworth had done for Ireland
 Helen, was not published when Byron wrote the canto of Don Juan, which contains the reference to Miss Edge worth's works, but some society stories which she had issued before gave him the chance. He improved it and in Helen Miss F,deeworth made good his sarcasm to the fullest extent.
 Yet there was Mrs. Gaskell, who wrote "Cranford," who thought Helen" the best of English novels" And Lady Ritchie, Thackeray's daughter, has writ ten an introduction to recent edition of the story and Thackeray's daughter high iy approves. 4
 It all depends upon the point of view and there are so many points of view in this world. Some people are infatuated with differential calculus and some are not To carry the simlle further, Helen is really a story of the Fourth Dimen- sion-and it is great story, as the Fourth Dimension is a great fact. There is no fault in the Fourth Dimension-probabl that is the reason why it is so irritating. Helen" as Lady Ritchie says intro duces one to the ''very best London soei- ety." It certainly does. And Maria Edge worth was a genius. Anybody who can apply the Fourth Dimension to Lond 1n society and "get away with it' deserves to be immortalized- Maria is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Without a SusuiciOn

But surely" said Helen, he will in Il matter of this kind. tell his guardian and your nother?'
 70. he will tell them soon but in Inc meantime promise to keep the matter SC cret '
 Helen promised: Cecilia embraced her affectlonately. and Helen, tired and quite happy-at least her well balanced mind told her she was happy and she believed --llelen was in bed and asleep in a few minutes.
 Not the slightest suspicion crossed her mind that all her friend had been tellia; her was not perfectly true. To nore practlced or less coniidng person the isr- plexities of Lady Cec!lias prefaces and some contradictions and inconsistencics in the story, might have suggested doubis,
 But Helens general confidence, in her friends truth had never been seriously shaken.
 Madc Out of Whole Cloth Lady Devcnant she had always thought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Caught in the Maclstrom

Lord and Lady Covenant, the General and Lady Cecilia were all going to Clar- endon park at once and Helen must meet them there
 Cecilia home was to be Helen's home of course, hereafter-=it had all been arr ranged General Clarendon wished it. and so on. The Devenants would stop but | short time at the park, for Lord Devenant was to have the embassy to St. Peters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Promises Are Cheap

He was gone and when Helen attempted to walk she found herself so weak that she had to lean against a tree and there remained for a while without thought Then she began to recollect what had oeen before all this.
 When she reached her room Cecilia came to see her and was alarmed at the result of her duplicity and begged for for- glveness. Until it was explained to ner Helen did not know what she had to for give.
 70, Cecilia" said she, "all to save me from a' little foolish embarrassment you have made me miserable forever.
 Cecilia begged her not to hetraY her she would set it all right. Helen abso- ,utely forbade Cecilia to do anything Aithout first consulting her and getting her permission.
 Lads Cecilia promised of course-sie WAS always ready to promise anything to ayoid a scene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
and when she saw Beaucerc and Helen

and when she saw Beauclerc and Helen together she hated Helen.
 Miss Clarendon, the generals sister, was there, and it was the hope of inc general that a match could be arranged between her and his ward.
 But when Miss Esther Clarendon saw Helen and Beauclerc together she gave a sigh to what might have been. said good by to everybody and went back to the old castle in Wales, where she lived with her aunt, Mrs. Pennant.
 Esther was kindly, but sharp with her tongue to those whom she did not like and she hated society and its shams.
 But she did like Helen and she did ike Beauclerc-and she liked them no less that her own dreams, she saw with her accustomed shrewdness, could never be realities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
-By-- Maria Edgeworth

been sent to her husband she fumbled In the packet, felt 1t and drawing 1t ont showed it to her husband.
 "Helenl' he exclaimed. ''how lifelike how good, too, good for that william. Bat he is dead in Italy, hear; his brother i. over there arranging his affairs. This packet was addressed to me. Poor Helen. It was malice which made them send II. l shall not read the letters Send Helen to me"
 Cecilia ran at once in search of Helen and revealed to her all that had nap pened.
 Cecilia said Helen. you must at once tell your husband the entire truths
 70, if do l shall lose him."
 No, you will not lose him. This is the time when you must show yourself franz and sineere or you will regret it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
A Bolt From fhe Blue

. Cecilia was nearly worn out when tn, congress was over Her, schemes nad nearly been brought to wreck by certain. Lady Bearcroft4-a vulgar but good np tured woman who had married Sir Ben jamn, & famous politician
 For. after all, good nature without goo manners is but a blundering ally. danger ous to it's best friends. But Helen smoothed this over and, apparently, all was well.
 Then, like bolt from the blue. 1ame another perilous situation born of Ce- elias absolute inability to be frank and tell the truth.
 Before the marriage Cecilia-baips much in Florence-had been pursued hy q notorious roue, Colonel D Aubigny, lhd, being young and foolish. had written somt foolish letters to him. It was. n f9oliS! flirtation-Ceeilia had never loved him. and when she found out the sort of < man he was she had sent the colonel ,te the right about.
 The colonel had attempted to pay som address to Helen, also, but that -oe young lady froze him with look an6 with a word made him keep his distance. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Fatal Letters

Once D'Aubigny had seen miniature q; Helen painted by Cecilia. He watche his opportunity and stole it from Cecia's writing desk. Then he wrote across the back of it an inscription as to hmself
 When he and Cecilia finally parted D'Aubigny swore that he had burned all the letters she had written him. They hau corresponded under feigped names-lR was "Hendy" and she was 'Emma." v 7f
 Now one of the most fixed ideas of Gen eral Clarendon was that no man shoua marry a woman who had formery ovo Before he married Cecilia he pointedly asked her If she had ever loved beroi, and Cecilia-for once in her life--told th, truth and said "no."
 But 1t would have been hard to convince any one who read the letters Of "Emml to "Henry" that such was the case.
 One day, going to her husbands stud. Cecella saw packet lying on the ssi, erals desk. at the sight of which sht nearly tainted. The general had opened T.. and held in his hand a letter which h, had just taken from among the others il, the package,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

either for jest or earnest; but his looks expressed very sentimental love, and Helen took the opportunity to exp,um herself very decidedly
 It was surprised great surprise to MT. Churchill; a severe disappointman., not only to his vanity, but to his heart for he had one. It was some comfort, however, that he had not quite committed himself, and he recovered himself in lime enough dexteriously to turn the tables upon Helen.
 He thanked her for her candor, for her care of his happiness in anticipating d danger which, might have been so fatal to him.
 But he really was not aware that he had said anything that required so serious an answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Sounded Close By

Lord Beltravers and his sisters were TOW established at old Forrest General Clarendon had absolutely forbidden ce- clia to call upon the Countess de st. Cy- mon. But, believing that Granville had only gone as far as Old Forrest, she dis obeyed orders and drove to that forbidden place.
 But Beaucerc was not there-he nad gone with Betravers to London When she found this out she did not enter the house-but was obliged to leave her card. The Countess de St. Cymon was delighted. All this took place before breakfast time and at breakfast the subject of conversa- ton was the scandal which had broken out with regard to the Confess St. Cymon.
 A terrible discovery had been made. Bel travers had taken his sister to Old Forrest to hide her from London disgrace and had sct out to follow the Count St Cymon 10 Paris. where arrangements were 70 be made for separation.
 One Mystery Cleared Up
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
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burg and must soon depart for his post.
 So it was that Helen Stanley became a member of the family at Clarendon park and thought her troubles were ended whereas they had just begun.
 For Helen was now to be caught in the mae!strom of society and to be obliged to steer her course amid rocks and shoals and quicksands
 Lord and Lady Covenant regarded Helen as a daughter--they not only said So, but it was the truth-they meant it. Cecilia the light hearted and light headed, was her sister and a very loving and affection ate one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Bigbugs in Congress

The engagement of Helen and Granville was duly announced and the marriage das set. Lord and Lady Covenant were still at Clarendon park-there had been some hitch about Lord Devenant's appointmenj.
 Cecilia prevailed upon the general to in- vite to the park heterogeneous company of political big wigs" designing to bring them all together in sort of congress with her father and have his appointment made secure. Reluctantly the general consented.
 Things came out as Cecilia had de- signed: Lord Covenant got his appoil,- ment and announced that he was obliSc,. to start at once with his countess for St Petersburg-not waiting for Helens mar riage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Taking the Plunge

Horace Churchill, seeing Beauclerc aad Helen so much together. became desper- ate. He had, in his conceit. thought he had only to ask and he would be dc- ccpted.
 He had been debating in his mind whether he could afford to marry or tioneFs girl and so had hesitatei to take the plunge But now he threw discretion 10 the winds and finding Helen alone said.
 My dear Miss Helen. here is a topaz ring. On the topaz is engraved Cupid and .Monlus making football of ,he world. st
 twill you accept it from my hands? If I could obiiterare Momus it would lc more appropriate; but the device was In vented for me by French friend. Pray take the ling from my hands and. pardon ing my folly, think only of my love-
 Nobody Asked You"
 This was said so that it might pass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Seeinr a WaN Out


 Cecilia recognized the letter at once the package contained those foolish ms sives which the false D'Aubigny swor, he had destroyed. She grasped the bach of q chair to Reep from falling. Her husband gave her terrible look and asked; 'Is this a forgery?" at ih, same time extending toward her the e.- ter which he held.
 "No-no," faltered Cecilia, 'I cannot say it Is a forgery-but-"
 "But what-tell me the truth-tell me all"
 A happy thought came to Cecilia: the general often said that he could not tel Ceoilias writing from Helens. '"Oh, do not ask me. Clarendon she said. These letters are not forgeries- but you have often said there was one handwriting you could not tell from mine"
 Good Advice Rejected She wondered if the miniature. had alsc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Homage to the Martyr

Granville found this out, challenged Churchill and nearly killed him. He was supposed to be dying when Gran vile fled.
 Eut Churchill recovered, the Lady Cecilia confessed to her husband and was forgiven; Helen returned to London from her Welsh exile and was married to Granville.
 Never again was Cecilia guilty of dis stimulation, and when the whole thing became known to London society all shat section of it whose good will vas worth having hocked to do homage to the martyr-once Helen Stanley-now Mrs. Granville Beauclerc, Next weeks one page classic will he ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allen Poe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Onlv Dreams

Horace was at the park when Bear clerc at last sarrved. and when he SAW Beauclerc and Helen together he 5egan to hate Beauclerc. Lady Katrine Hawxs- by. that acldulous spinster was also there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Nobody Asked You

This was said so that 1t might pass
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Good Advice Rejected She wondered if the miniature, had also
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CONTINUED Next Week,
a Famous Race.

From the Travel Magazine.
The greatest ace ever run on the
Mississippi was between the Netchez, e
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There was spirited rivalry between
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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-09-28
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