Connecticut western news., 1920-11-25

O dennis tretired on half pey) came to breakfast at his accustomed corner in his Pail Mall Club. His were the best blacked boots in Lon dou. His bun waistcoat. checked era vat spotless linen, white gloves, his whiskers, his very cane were perfect of their kind. 2. -.a
 He seemed thirty years old. until you saw the fictitious nature of his rich brown hair and the cruw's feet around the eyes of his handsome fnce with fts Wellington nose. HIS long white cuffs showed the good sleeve hussons given him by his royal high E~R the duke of York. % A
 Through his gold double eye glasses, he seeds bis letters, one an invitation fam tho marquis of Steyne, one from fa0 hahop of Ealing and Mrs. Trail, amssnkscr from an earl and so on, and mee ef all. two others, one from his w6hssed sfster-fn-law, and the other Asaa her only child, Arthur penden- Ae Jr. The first begs him to @come tp4Ssdfateay" to Fair Oaks Oavering, A Mery's, "to entreat, nay command" Hss ~vsstched boy" to give up his en- sasemeot to marry Miss Costigan, an actress twelve years the senior of this . lad of. eighteen. The second from this saure lad beseeching his uncle to re-
 no~s hfs mothers objections to his prapesedi ueion with his "dear Emily" a descendant of the old Irish royalty, the most beautiful woman in the world. 'A love like mine, sir" writes young Pen, 'T Feel is contracted once and foreyer-I shall die without ever knowing another passion"
 ,The raajory inwardly in a rage, rue fully sends refusals to the marquis, the earl, the bishop and other enter tainers aRd takes a sleepless and tir- ing trip in the tight, smelly night mail coach for Clavering.
 On arrival Major Pendennis is most affable to Pen and his mother. He ' does not "entreat" or command" his nephew but wins the boys confidence and talks familiarly of his own noble friends and the brilliant career he has had in mind for Pen. The major then faces the enemy" Captain Costigan, the half tipsy imaginative old Irish soldier, the father and protector of Emily" To him and his beautiful, honest but dull daughter, the major Is equally suave. Beautiful she is, with broad brow, large melting eyes, black wavy hair white complexion, rosy cheeks and the arms of "Venus." Pen had come to see and know her through Poker, school friend, lad homely and kindly, dull at his books but bright in everyday matters, whose father, the great brewer, furnished him money and Lady Agnes, his moth CT, social position. Verses Pen had been writing to the Greek goddess he now dedicates to his new divinity.
 Major Pendennis, as his next move, lets slip, in the presence of the Cos tigans, the fact that Pen has no means beyond what his mother allows him out of her slender income. Costigan is then indignant. that Pen should have had the face to offer himself to his dear beguiled daughter" Pen can not believe his adored Emily has calmly thrown him over, until the Cos tigans openly "cut" him in the street. He almost dies, or believes he is dying of despised love, with all the symp- toms of sleepless nights and feverish l. days, and is scarcely consoled by his mother and little cousin Laura.
 Laura is five years younger than , Pen, his second cousin on the side of his mother, who adopted her on the death of her parents, perhaps because of a romance of early unmarried days ! with Laura's father.
 Miss Costigan secures an engage meDt at a London 4theater through Major Pendennis' influence. The mag netic attraction being thus removed, Pen goes to 'SOxbridge." Then through Poker and with the majors encourage ment Pen makes rich and aristocratic