South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

and bright good humor, though the
silly thing would CRY over a dead
canary bird or a mouse the cat had
seized upon She was accompanied
By her dear friend. Becky Sharp,
who was 20 make a short visit az
the sedley home before beginning
her career Of self support as a gov
erness.
Becky was small pale and sandy
haired. with eyes habitually cast
down. when they looked mp they
were large. odd and attractive. As
Miss shsrp's father had been an
artist and q drunkard. and her
French mother an opera girl. It is
not surprising that Rebecca as
serted she had never been girl
she had been a woman since she
was eight years old
At the sedIey home, Becky met
Amelia's brother. Joseph. a stout
puffy man who wore buCkskius and
Hessian boots several immense
neckcIoths, a red striped waistooat
and an apple green coat. He was
lay. peevish. a glutton and "a hard
drinker, but Rebecca decided in
stantly 70 set Ter cap for him and
began BY whispering 20 Amelia,
rather loud "He's very handsome
Rebecca's plans. however, were
foiled by George Osborne, an adj
mirer Of Amelia. and Miss sharp
took her departure from the ScdIey
house.
She went to be Poverness i'm the
home Of Sir Pitt Crawley which
place. in her letters to Amelia she
dubbed Humdrum Hall There
were many Crawleys. the most inn
portant being Sir Pitts spinster
sister. and his second son. Rawdon
Crawley The old lady possessed
70.000 pounds. and had almost
adopted Rawdou, who was her fav-
orite nephew. while several mem
bers Of the family fought 20 sup
plant him in her favor. Capt Raw
don Crawley was large young
dandy. who spoke with a great
voice and swore a good deal He
remarked Of the demure Rebecca,
by Jove, she's q neat little fillyi"
and both he and his aunt took a de-
cided fancy 10 the clever and fas-
chatting little governess. Though.
indeed. she made conquest of pretty
much whOmsoever she chose.
Now we must fit back 20 Lon
don 20 see what has become of Miss
Amelia. Far less interesting than
Becky. and with nothing but her
wax doll face to recommend her.
yet all the young men clustered
round her chair and battled for
dance with her. She was now en-
gagged 10 George Osborne. albeit his
sisters wondered. What could
George find in that creatureg' SO
much did they wonder this that it
affected George, and he concluded
he was throwing himself away on
the chit But poor little Amelia
adored him. and Capt. DObbin. who
favored Amelia himself kept Os-
borne mp TO the mark in his atten-
tons The infatuated girl cared
nothing about the NapOleOnic waT
that was raging. the fate of Eu-
rope was TO her only Lieut.. George
Osborne. while he, often away with
his regiment. the house guards
read her letters hastily. murmur-
ing. Poor little Emmy fond
she is of me! and Cad what a
headache that mixed punch has
given me 8"
About this time Miss CravIey re-
turned from visiting her brother
and brou Eht back with her TO her
Hoo. 4, p.rt- .r, ~, loo. . ,,..,.
sc naEe than Miss Rebecca Sharp
who. so well had she played her
cards, was now Miss Crawley's
much cherished companion. Where
upon capt Rawdon Crawley be-
came "a frequent visitor at his aunt's
home Incidentally. Lady Crawlcy
died-so incidentally that Miss
Crawley merely said. petushIy II
suppose 1 must put OFT my party
for the third" Immediately upon
The death of his wife, Sir Pitt came
e. his sisters house and underworld
10 retrieve his lost Becky as GOV
erness
FL daren't-T don't think il
would be right to bc alonc-with-
YOU, sir. she replied seemingly In
great agitation
Come as Lady CrawIey. then,
There. viii that satisfy YOU o" and
the vulgar. ilI-bred old NJ u fell
down on his knees and leered al
her like a satyr
Rebecca. in real CONSERVATION nj
her lost chance. wept genuine tears
as she exclaimed ooh. Sir Pitt
on, sir-I-Tm married already.'
When it further transpired that
the bridegroom of Becky's secret
marriage was the brass spurred and
ong-mustachioned Capt. Rawdor
Crawley, there were two Cataclysn.s
one in which Miss -Crawley went
from one Mt of Mysteries into am
other. and one where the freuzicd
old Sir Pitt went wild with hatred
and insane with banled desire. But
the bridegroom captain remarked
20 his wife. You're sure 10 get u.
out OF the sCrape. Beck. I never
saw your equal. and I've met with
some clippers in my time too"
George Osborne, though depend.
ent on his mercenary. low rec
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