The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-24

chard Henry Dana)
C1avering, Bart, who opens Clavering
Park which has long been closed. The
papers few years before announced
his marriage with the rich widow of
the late ]. Amory, Esquire, from In
dia. He brings Lady Clavering, her
daughter Miss Blanche Amory,
young lady, and his son and heir lit
tie Frank Clavering. Blanche has fair
hair, dark eye brows, long black lash
es yelling her eyes, slim figure, small
| feet, and constant smiles showing
sweet pearly teeth and deep dimples.
Sir Francis himself is weak crea-
ture, gambler, fond of low company
and rapidly wasting his wife's proper
ty with constant demands on her gen.
crosby. Lady Clavering a good kind
soul, illiterate and numbering the
Kings English, is hardly more fortu-
nate in her second marriage than in
her first with the sailor and convict
Amory.
Shadowing the Claverings is a mys-
| FERROUS Colonel Altamont, with a
strange influence over Sir Francis and
power to get money from him, despite
| the Baronet's lack of ready cash.
Pen becomes enamored of Blanche,
writes love poems, and meanwhile she
| leads him on only to drop him again
for anyone with better prospects.
When thus dropped, Pen offers him
| self to Laura, but in a half-hearted
way. Laura replies. When next you
offer yourself, do not say as you have
done to me, I have no heart-I do not
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| because my mother wishes for the
match After Laura's refusal, Pen
tires of the country and goes to Lon
don to study law. He settles in cham
bers at the Lamb Court Temple and
makes a friend of and room with
George Warrington, an older graduate
| of "Ozbridge." In London, Pen leads
life not of study, but of joviality,
though not of vice. He is too lofty to
stoop to vulgar intrigue. When re-
duced to his last few pounds. Pen. by
/ Warringtons help, gets a poem &C
cepted in magazine, is given books
| to review, becomes contributor to
the Pail Mall Gazette, writes the popu-
| lar novel Walter Lorraine" and be-
comes we'll off and well known. His
uncle is proud of him, gets him invi-
itations to dine in high society, and in
PRODUCES him, along other celebrities,
! to the great Duke of Wellington.
One night, the mysterious Colonel
| Altamont, half drunk, forces his way
| into the Clavering dining room in Lon
/ don and Major Pendennis recognizes
him as an Indian acquaintance. Soon
after this, he urges Pen to marry for
money saying, ut is as easy to get
| -ioh JTrif
! courages him to court Miss Blanche
Amory. Somehow the Major persuades
Sir Francis to give up his seat in Par
lament in favor of Pen and to arrange
| for a large dowery for Miss Blanche.
Finally, in lieu of any better prospect
she accepts Pen.
| The secret of Colonel Altamont's
/ influence over Sir Francis becomes
public property and reaches Pens
ears, for Altamont is none other than
Amory, the husband of Lady Claver-
ing. He was reported to have died,
| but in reality is alive. This makes
the Clavering marriage invalid and
Miss Amory heir to the fortune in
stead of young Frank. Pen then re-
/ fuses to benefit by the fortune or to
! take the seat in Parliament and writes
Blanche he is still willing to marry
her though he admits he does not love
her deeply. Later, when he calls, he
finds his old schoolmate Foker, rich
| through his fathers death, now in
stalled in Miss Blanche's affections.
Still, the fair Blanche confdentially
confesses to Pen that she would pre-
fer him if he could lay aside his cab
surd scruples." This he refuses to do,
so the Foker and Amory wedding is
arranged.
/ Then Pen, freed from his mercenary
alliance, finds his heart all the while
really devoted to Laura, so he pro-
poses to her in earnest and this time
is accepted Foker in turn finds by &C
cident the secret of Amory's survival
| and what is worse, that Blanche knew
and yet concealed it from him. For
this lack of confidence he leaves the
| tickle Blanche, so that there is only
one wedding at Clavering and that at
| the Baronet's Hail. It turns out that
Altamont, alias Amory, already had a
wife living when he went through the
form of marriage with the future Lady
/ Clavering; SO after all, Sir Francis
and she are legally husband and wife.
| Sir Francis reforms. Miss Blanche
| goes abroad and marries in Paris a
count with doubtful title. Pen is elect
ed to parliament on his own merits,
| the new railroad buys some of Pens
| lands and greatly increases the value
| of the rest, so he is well off and most
! happy with the adorable, high-minded
an devoted Laura.
Captains Courageous" the bril-.
liant sea story by Rudyard kiplins,
i dealing with Gloucester life and con
densed by James B. Connolly, author
many fine sea stories, will be printed
tomorrow.
Co. (The Boston Post). Published by