Gunnison news-champion., 1920-07-30

Clvs's deraFsuse - - nsss Ussn-
ions By Eabe, ehan - LAdy Ksv
vuld countenance. hut Ethel bad
found out how undesirable man Lord
Icw was end broke the engagement
- dear TO her grandmother's heart
When Give heard that the eugnee-
.nent was over between Kew and Ethel
,e set out In hnste for London. was
installed rs confidant. and to me Give
said: airs. Mackenzie bothers me 10
hardly know where to turn. and poor
little Rosey. is mnde to write me q
note about something twice Q day.
Oh Pen! Tn up another tree now!"
Give met his cousin Ethel at n party
Or two In the ensuing weeks Of the
season. and ut one Of their meetings
Ethel told him that her grandmother
would not receive him. II was then
that Give thought Ethel worldly. al
though much of her attitude was due
to the keen and uprelenting Lady
Kew. The colonel and James Bennie
during all this time put their two fond
heads together, and Mrs. Mackenzie
llattered both Of them and Give us
well.
Meanwhile the Lady Clara was not
happy with her Barnes. AL the life
and spirit had been crushed out Of the
girl. consigned to cruel usage. lone
liness and to bitter recollections of the
past. Jack Belsize. now Lord High
gate, could stand the strain no longer
and took Lady Clara away from her
bullying but cowardly husband. The
clopement Of Clara opened Ethel's eyes
TO the misery Of loveless marriages,
and the mamma Of her new love. the
Marquis Of Farintosh, already dis
iressed over the unpleasant notoriety
of the proposed Newcome alliance. re-
ceived n letter from Ethel which set
her son free.
Ethel then turned to the lonely,
motherless children Of her brother
Barnes, and found comfort In devoting
herself to them. Give married his
lioscy. and his father determined to
become member Of parliament In
place of Sir Barnes. One night the
colonel returning from his electioneer-
Ing. met Give. candle In hand. As each
saw the others face, II was SO very
sad and worn and pale. that Colonel
Newcome with quite the tenderness Of
old days. cried "God bless me. my boy.
yourself. Clivy!"
II have seen n ghost father" Clite
said, "the ghost Of my youth. father.
the ghost Of my happiness. and the
best dnys Of my life. I saw Ethel to-
day?"
"Nay, my boy. you mustn't talk to
me SO. You have the dearest little
wife at home. a dear little wife and
child"
"You had a wife: but that doesn't
prevent other-other thoughts. Do you
know you never spoke twice In your
life about my mother7 You didn't care
for her"
I'll did my duty by her." inter
posed the colonel.
II know. but your heart was with
the other. SO Is mine. It's fatal. II
runs in the fnmiiy. father"
The shares OF the Bundelcund Bank.
Ing company, In which the colonel had
made his fortune. now declined stead
lily, and at last the crash came, wiping
out all the colonel's money and with
1t nil Rosey's fortune. The impOver-
ished Newcomes settled down first at
DOulogne, and then In London, the
colonel weary. feeble, white haired,
Mrs. Mackenzie perfect termagant,
I,osey pnle and ailing. and little Tom
my. the baby, comfort and care to
the hard-worked Give.
The colonel, no longer able to live
under the same roof with Mrs. Mac
kenzle, found home with the Grey
Friars and here saw him.
When the colonel's misfortunes were
at their worst Ethel, in reading an old
book, found letter from the coloners
stepfather between the covers. It was
u memorandum Of proposed beQuest
to Give. Ethel at once determined to
carry out this intended beQuest, and
90 she and hastened to Gives home
but not even good news could soften
Mrs. Mackenzie's evil temper. That
was sad and wretched night, in
which Mrs. Mackenzie stormed until
the poor delicate Rosey fell Into the
fever to which she owed her death.
We soon repaired to the Grey Frfara
where we found that the colonel was
in his last illness. He talked loudly.
he gnve the word Of command. sroke
Hindustanee as II to his men. Then
he spoke words in French rapidly.
selling a hand that was near him, and
crying. ''toujours. toujoursi" Ethel
and Give and the nurse were IN the
room with him. The old man talked
on rapidly for awile; then again be
would sigh and be still: once more
heard him say. hurriedly. "Take care
OF him when I'm in India;" and then
with q heart-rending voice he called
for the love Of his youth "Leonore,
Leonore!" The patients voice sank
Into faint murmurs; only moan now