The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-07-09

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Kew was and broke the engagement
SO dear to her grandmother's heart.
When Give heard that the engage
ment was over between Kew n Etnes
he set out In haste for London. l was
Installed as cOnfidant, and to me GIVE
said: MRS. Mackenzie bothers me &c
I hardly know where to turn, and poor
little Rosey Is made to write me q
note about something twice q nay
Oh Peni I'm up another tree nowF'
Give met his cousin Ethel at a party
or two in the ensuing weeks OF the
season, and at n Of their meetings.
Ethel told him that her grandmother
would not receive him. 1t was then
that Give thought Ethel worldly, al
though much of her attitude was Que
To the keen and u~nrelenting Lady
Kew. The colonel and james bennie
during all this time put their w ZONE
heads together, and Mrs. Mackenzie
flattered both of them and Give as
well.
Meanwhile the Lady Clara was not
happy with her Barnes. All the lie
and spirit had been crushed out OF the
girl, consigned to cruel usage,
illness 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 ner
bullying but cowardly husband. The
elopement of Clara opened Ethels eyes
ITO the misery of lOveless marriages.
and the mamma Of her new love, the
MARQUIS Of FarintOsh, already dis-
tressed over the unpleasant nOtoriety
of the proposed NewcOme alliance, re-
ceived a letter from Ethel which e
her son free.
Ethel then turned to the lonely,
motherless children Of her brother
Barnes, and found comfort In devonng
herself to them. Give married MS
Rosey, and his father determined TO
become q member of parliament IN
place of Sir Barnes. One night the
colonel returning from his e~lectioneer-
ing, met Give, candle In hand. AS eacn
saw the others face, 1t was so very
sad and worn and pale, that Colonel
Newcome with quite the tenderness OF
| old days, cried "God bless me, my boy,
! how ill you look! Come and warm
yourself, Clivyl"
II have seer a ghost, father" Give
said, 1.-THE ghost of my youth, father,
| the ghost of my happiness, and the
best days of my life. ] saw Ethel to
dayY
NAY, my boy, you mustn't talk to
| me SO. You have the dearest little
| wife at home, q dear little wife and
! child
"You had a wife; but that doesn't
| prevent other-other thoughts. Dc you
know you never spoke twice in your
| NE about nv mother? You didn't care
for her"
IL did my duty by her." inter
| posed the colonel.
II know, but your heart was with
| the other. So is mine. It's fatal, It
runs in the family, father"
The shares Of the Bundelcund Bank
ing company, in which the colonel had
made his fortune, now declined stead
| ily, and at last the crash came, wiping
| out all the colOnel's money and with
1t all Rosey's fortune. The Empower
| ished NewcOmes settled down first at
| .Boulogne, and then in London, the
colonel weary, feeble, white haired,
| Mrs. Mackenzie q perfect termagant,
Rosey pale and ailing, and little Tom
my, the baby, a comfort and a care to
| the hard-worked Give.
The colonel, no longer able to live
| under the same roof with Mrs. Mac
kenzie, found a home with h Grey
Friars and here / saw him.
When the colonel's misfortunes were
at their worst Ethel, In reading an old
| book, found q letter from the cOlOners
| stepfather between the covers. 1t was
q memorandum of a proposed beQuest
to Give. Ethel at once determined to
| carry out this intended beQuest, and
20 she and ! fastened to Gives home
| but not even good news could soften
Mrs. Mackenzie's evil temper. That
was q 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 Friars
where we found that the colonel was
| in his last illness. He talked loudly,
he gave the word of command, spoke
/ Hindustanee as If to his men. Then
he spoke words in French rapidly,
| Selling q hand that was near him, and
crying, "toujours, t~oujours" Ethel
and Give and the nurse were In the
room with him. The old man talked
on rapidly for awile; then again he
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 "Le0nore,
Leonorei The patients voice sank
into faint muFmurg; only q moan now