Connecticut western news., 1921-02-24

| uSHS. "OAhl dINuiS IO SIllSly IllS own ambitions, he mistrusts the grow ing partiality for Walter Gay ana sends him on voyage to the Indies experiencing keen satisfaction when the youth Is shipwrecked and reported 1 drowned.
 This loss adds one more sorrow to those already the portion of Florence, whose father emerging from the gloom of his apartment seeks to divert his mind by going on a journey with his friend, Major Bagstock, a garrulous old society beau. They travel to Leam- ington, where MT. Dombey Is intro duced to some of the majors friends, and meets Mrs. Skewton and her wid- owed daughter, the cold and beautiful Edith Granger, who at once attracts his fancy.
 Edith is proud, scornful, imperious. and for these traits the proud and | dominating man admires her the more. He offers her wealth and position, and she, needing these things, accepts him, scorning meanwhile both the man and his offering, but willing to satisfy the irritating demands of her scheming mother with whom her life is unen- durable.
 A loveless marriage follows and the naughty wife asserts her own strong will, refuses to further the social ann | bitions of her husband, and enrages him by showering affection upon Flor ence. At last, goaded by Dombey's effort to break her spirit, and ready to be revenged upon him for his endeavor to huniliate her by orders sent her through his agent, Carker, she con- sents to fly from her home. at the en- treaty of her husbands paid minion, who from the first has fallen victim to her beauty. Having revenged her self upon her husband by thus humil- iating him, Edith proceeds, to cast of Carker, whom she despises; she meets him at Dijon by appointment. and in the moment when he is glorying in the attainment of his desire, turns on him, deneunces him and before he can stop her, rushes from the apartment, making good her escape. while he Is left to confront his pursuer. her en- ragged husband, who has tracked them to Dijon.
 Rolled and entrapped. Carker fees back to England, eluding his pursuer, only to be again tracked to his hiding place. When he believes himself safe from detection, he suddenly spies Dombey advancing toward him across l the platform of railway station, and lodging in, alright on to the tracks behind him Carker Is killed by an on- coming train.
 In the hour of her fathers humilia- ton, Florence once more turns to him with loving protestations, but he, en- 1 ragged at the remembrance that she has ever won the love he has sought vainly, casts her of with an oath and strikes her brutally.
 Partially stunned and feeling her self homeless and fatherless, Florence rushes half-crazed into the streets of , London, and fainting with exhaustion finds shelter at the wooden Midship- man," now in the charge of Captain Cutie. Following the sudden disap- pearance of old Sol Gills. the captain has taken possession of the place, not knowing if his friend, whose life had become insupportable without his be- loved nephew, was alive or dead.
 Tenderly welcomed to this humble { home, Florence remains in hiding un- til the unexpected arrival of Walter. who suddenly appears upon the scene returning from a series of perilous adventures. Walter, the brother, is speedily transformed into Walter, the lover, and the young couple are unit ed, to the delight of Captain Cuttle also of old Sol Gills, who reappears from journeying to foreign parts in vain search for some news of Walter.
 Meanwhile, the fortunes of the house of Dombey, weakened by Car ker's doubtful transactions, and also by the loss of his shrewd guidance, 20 down in ruin, leaving the proud head of the firm broken in health and spirit, with home and fortune wrecked.
 Then tenderly forgiving all, Flor ence goes to her father and takes him to her home, where after a long ill., ness, he arises a changed man, repent ant of the past, and only caring to devote his last days to his daughter and her two children; Paul who re- minds him of his lost son, and little Florence, dearest of all to his peni- tent heart.
 This work, which was first issued in serial form in 1S47, met with i'm mediate success. It's pages contain a wealth of incident and character, of fun, satire and pathos. Florence is one of Dickens loveliest creations, and pr. Blimber's school is described in his finest vein. Kind Captain Cut tie is famous the world over, as are MT. ToOts, Mrs. Pipchin and old Joe Bagstock. The death-bed scene of lit tie Paul reveals the authors stead fast faith in immortality, and has done much to comfort sorrowing hearts throughout the world