The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-01-22

leading into the hall. Then she
paused. She looked like a woman al
ready dead; but there was new light
In her eyes, light he had never seen
before-a light of cruel and deadly
purpose.
There is blackness in my SOUL" she
said. She spoke quietly and deliber-
ately. her beautiful voice thrilled
through the room with q fearful SOL
emnity.
you have broken my heart. It
matters not whether die today or to-
But on the day you marry this girl,
this Eva Warren, l will kill myself!"#
Godfrey Brooke was one of those
men who ought to have been born In
the day. of Queen Elizabeth, instead
OF in the last half of the nineteenth
century. The restless spirit OF travel
and adventures OF those virile days
was in his blood, and nothing could
root it out. His parents tried to do
SO, and his relatives, particularly
wealthy maiden aunt, who loved him,
also tried their best; so did his vari-
GUS gOvernesses, schoolmaster and tu-
tors.
He was originally intended for the
church, as was fitting IN the only son
OF the worthy and erudite Canon
Brooke of Ely; and, despite really
shocking record at Harrow, the canon
persisted in his intention with regard
to the boy, and Godfrey Brooke went
up to Cambridge.
His relatives and friends, who were
very numerous, never spoke OF those
Cambridge days, which ended abrupt
ly and unceremoniously when Godfrey
Brooke, then in his third term at
Caius and in his nineteenth year, gave
a great feast to all his friends, gave
away all his things, and disappeared,
leaving the feast unpaid for and many
| other little things besides.
The canon never really recovered
from the shock he received when his
beloved son and heir sent him a Ia
comic and somewhat irreverent tele.
gram from Southampton, telling him
| he was going out to South Africa for
change of air. and requesting him
to settle up his various little affairs at
Cambridge. AS matter of fact, Mrs
Brooke died very shortly afterward, as
a direct result of her sons action. She
had hoped to see him Archbishop OF
Canterbury. The canon, however. tore
out his living heart and made a new
will, and he had much real personal
estate to dispose Of. He never men
toned his sons name in that will.
AS far as Godfrey Brooke was con
cerned the gods looked most especial
ly after him, and he prospered marvel
ously well; no one knew where or by
what means, because no one really
knew where he was or what he wa:
doing.
He had been away about two o.
three years when he made mucl
money in some big boom, and wrote t,
his father, enclosing him a check TO
quite a large sum toward a certain
deaconesses' home in which the canoI
was particularly interested. The wor
thy cleric died very shortly after re
ceiving his sons letter from Johan
nesburg, and his personality wa
sworn at something in six figures
Godfrey, however, never saw a penny
but he lid not much care. At the ag'
of three-and-twenty he was quite
rich m-n, and he had seen Ut of lif'
and the world.
He came to England very shortly a.
terward with very substantial banl
balance, looking very tanned ant
much stouter of build; he was yer.
serious, too. and had great ideas O
empire expansion, combined with a
Unsuitable longing to be back again il
the wilds.
ITO Be Continued.)