The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-01

motherless children of her brother
Barnes, and found comfort in devot-
ing herself to them. Give married
his Rosey, and his father determined
to become member Of Pertinent in
place Of Sir Barnes. One night the
Colonel, returning from his election
ering. met Give, candle In hand. AS
each saw the others face, 1t was so
very sad and worn and pale, that
Colonel Newcome with quite the ten
derness Of old days, cried God bless
me. my boy. how i'll you look! Come
and warm yourself, Clivy"
II have seen ghost, father" Give
said. "the ghost OF my youth. father,
the ghost Of my happiness, and the
best days Of my life. saw Ethel
today"
Nay. my boy, you mustn't talk to
me 80. You have the dearest little
wife at home, dear little wife and
child"
"You have a wife; but that doesn't
prevent other-other thoughts. Do you
know you never spoke twice in your
life about my mother? You didn't
care for her"
II did my duty by her." inter
posed the Colonel.
"1 know, but your heart was with
the other. So Is mine. It's fatal, 1t
runs In the family, father"
The shares of the Bundelcund Bank.
ing company in which the Colonel had
made his fortune now declined, and
at last the crash came, wiping out all
the Colonel's money and with 1t all
Rosey's fortune. The impoverished
Newcomes settled down first at Bou.
logne, and then in London, the Colonel
weary. feeble, white haired, Mrs Mac
| kenzie a perfect termagant, Rosey
| pale and ailing, and little Tommy, the
baby, comfort and q care to the
hard-worked Give.
The Colonel, no longer able to live
under the same roof with Mrs. Mac
kenzie, found a home with the Grey
Friars, and here l saw him. His
| dear old head was bent down over
his prayer book. He wore the black
gown Of the pensioners of the hospital
Of Grey Friars.
When the Coloners misfortunes
| were at their worst, Ethel in reading
an old book. found a letter from the
Colonel's stepmother between the
covers. 1t was a memorandum of a
/ proposed bequest to Give. Ethel at
| once determined to carry out this in
tended bequest, and so she and l has
tened to Gives home; but not even
| good news could soften Mrs. Mac
kensie's evil temper. That was a sad
and wretched night. in which Mrs.
Mackenzie stormed until the poor de-
! licate Rosey fell into the fever to
which she owed her death. We soon
repaired to the Grey Friars where we
found that the Colonel was in his
! last illness. He talked loudly, he gave
the word of command. spoke Hindo-
stance as If to his men. Then he
spoke words in French Selling hand
that was near him, and crying. ."tou
jours, toujours!" Ethel and Give and
! the nurse were in the room with him.
The old man talked on rapidly for
awhile; then again he would sigh and
be still; once more heard him say,
hurriedly, Take care Of him when I'm
in India" and then with a heart
rending voice he called for the love Of
his youth "Leonore, Leonore!" The
patients voice sank into faint MUIR
murs; only a moan now and then an
nounced that he was not asleep.
At the usual evening hour the chapel
bell began to toll, and Thomas New
comes hands outside the bad feebly
beat a time. And Just as the last
bell struck. peculiar sweet smile
shone over his face, and he lifted up
his head little, and quickly said,
"Adsum," and fell back. 1t. was the
word he used at school, when names
were called; and 10, he, whose heart
was as that of a little child, had an
ewered to his name, and stood in the
presence of the The Master.
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by James 3. Connolly, will be printed
tomorrow.