The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-05

against him and he is cast into jail
for debt, from which ignominy the
efforts of friends release him. He is
a proud man and wishing to pay his
debt Of gratitude he proposes to marry
the daughter of the family that has
tefriended him. Before the marriage,
however, he tells his future bride quite
frankly that he loves someone else
who is not free, and it Is with
this knowledge that she accepts him
While the wedding is in preparation
a letter comes to him from Mrs Fall
coner announcing the death OF her
husband, and in the silent hope that
his fancee will give him his liberty
he acquaints her with the change in
his prospects. We gather from the
text that the girl is unwilling to give
him up, and as he is too honorable to
demand his freedom he carries out his
pledge.
All ignorant Of this turn Of events
Mrs. Falconer in the meantime is so
sure of his love that she erects in
| distant Kentucky a stately mansion
modelled after the home Of her early
youth. She is still in the thirties and
beautiful, and deluded into the belief
that at last her dreams are to be
fulfilled she makes ready for her mar.
riage. A paper telling of Johns union
with someone. else rudely destroys her
paradise. Twice she has missed the
prize Of happiness. The intense joys
of womanhood she Is never to know.
, Il shall go softly all my days." she
murmurs.
Time sweeps on but her beauty does
not fade. She becomes the great lady
OF the Southern settlement and at her
home Aaron Burr and many another
famous American is entertained. More
than one man lays his fortune at her
feet and goes away disappointed.
There are women who never ex-
perience the heights and the depths Of
, life. Gazing deep into their eyes we
are reminded of the light of dim
have missed happiness and who know
it, but having failed of affection give
themselves to duty. 1t was into the
company of these quieter pilgrims that
she had passed"
/ One day long afterward when she is
alone in her garden she sees coming
toward her a magnificent young fellow
! at the brink of manhood.
He lifts his hat with courtly gesture.
| Il am John Gray. the son Of your
old friend, and my father sends me to
you to stay If you will let me. And
he desires me to deliver this letter
/ John Gray" she cried. You John
Gray. You. Take off your hat
For a moment she looked at his
forehead and his hair; her eyes be-
came blinded with tears. She threw
her arms around his neck with a sob
! and covered his face with kisses.
! Alone in the solitude of her bedroom
i she reads the letter.
John tells her that he loves her, that
lie has always loved her; and that it
! is the fire of this love that through
the years has kept his ideals agloW.
Many a time this candle has gone
out; but as quickly as ! could snatch
any torch-with your sacred name on
my lips-it has been relighted.''
| If" he adds, Il have kept unbroken
| faith with any Of mine, thank you.
And thank Cod
! Thus ends the novel.
1t was an early book of Mr.. Allen 5
the second one he wrote, and 1t
abounds in all the charm of olden-
time atmosphere, and in the beauty of
description, and delicacy Of feeling so
characteristic Of his work. Historical.
! ly 1t gives US a delightful picture OF
! Kentucky life in 1895.
/ Copyright, 1919, by Post Publishing
Co. tThe Boston Post.
! Condensed from The Choir lnvis-
ible" by James Lane Allen.
! Copyright, 1897. by the Macmillan
Company. Used by permission OF
author and publisher.
Published by special arrangement
with the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate. All rights reserved.
! Lies MiserabIes," by Victor Hugo
as condensed by Nathan Haskell Dole,
will be printed tomorrow.