Connecticut western news., 1921-08-18

lost Bec..y as ~Overnoss.
 "I daren't-I cont t..ink it would hn right to be alone rith-you. sir" she replied, seemingly in great agitation. Come as Lady Crawley, then! There, will that satisfy you?" and the vulgar, ill-bred M. P. fell down on his knees and leered at her like satyr.
 Rebecca, in real consternatiOn at her lost chance, wept genuine tears, as she exclaimed: "Oh, Sir Pitt-Oh. | sir-I-Pm married already!"
 When it further transpired that the bridegroom of Becky's secret marriage was the brass-spurred and lOng-mus- tached Capt. Rawdon Crawley, there were two cataclysms. one in which Miss Crawley went from one fit of hys- terics into another, and one where the frenzied old Sir Pitt went wild with hatred and insane with baff1ed de- sire. But the bridegroom captain re- marked to his wife: You're sure to get us out of the scrape, Beck. never saw your equal, and I've met with some clippers in my time, tool" George Osborne, though dependent on his mercenary, low-bred father, despised him, and when the elder Os- borne forbade George to marry our over the traces and married her out of hand. The marriage was egged on and managed by the faithful Dobbin; and, radiant in her straw bonnet with pink ribbons and a white lace veil, | little Emmy went off with her hus- band to Brighton for the honeymoon.
 Here they fell in with the Rawdon 1 .Crawleys. Becky, mistress of a fine establishment, and surrounded by re- spectful admirers, was so adroit at wheeling tradesmen and standing off creditors, that she made 1t possible for them to maintain a fine social posi- tion on nothing year.
 Soon after this, among the brilliant train of camp followers that hung around the Duke of Wellington's army, 1 our friends were all in Brussels. George now desperately infatuated with Becky, and neglecting his six weeks wife shamefully, slipped a note in a bouquet at ball, begging Becky 1 to elope with him. But before the note was answered came the call to arms, and Lieutenant Osborne, forgetting all ! love and intrigue, kissed Amelia and marched away-marched, alas, to his death on the field of Waterloo.
 Colonel Rawdon Crawley, promoted for gallantry, returned in triumph, and he and his wife passed the winter of 1915 in Paris in much splendor and gayety. Becky's salon became fa- nous, and great people hobnobbed there. Colonel Crawley's dexterity at cards and billiards became so marked that he constantly won from his guests, and under Becky's tute- lage he became a clever and success full gambler, and thus aided in their fortune of nothing for year.
 Amelia, now the Widow Osborne, and with a small son. Georgy, was in sad penury; her father-in-law refus- ing to see her at all, and her own fa- ther and mother dependent upon her. Becky, too, was the mother of son, but she cared nothing for her child. Nor for her husband; indeed, she SC far forgot her wifely duty as to be guilty of an intrigue with the rich old Lord Stevne. Colonel Crawley dis covered this, thrashed the nobleman and left his wife. Then, Becky, fol- lowing her own devious ways, became an undisguised adventures and neglected to care for her reputation. She bobbed about from one city tC another; now bounded by creditors now cared for by some rich admirer.
 At last, when poor Becky had fallen very low in funds and in repute, she was found by Joseph Sedley and his sis ter Amelia. The old acquaintance was renewed, and gentle, generous Amelia took her one-time bosom friend into her heart and home. Major Dobbin strongly disapproved, and denounced Becky for what she was in her very presence. Amelia resented this, an6 Dobbin then begged Amelia, once again to marry him-a plea he had often made. On her refusal, Dobbin went off vowing never to return, leav- ing Amelia alone with her fealty to her dead George. Whereupon Becky, learning the state of things, told Amelia of Georges note to her, asking her to elope with him, and contrasting the faithless George most unfavor- ably with the patient and long-suffer- ing Dobbin. So Amelia recalled Dob- bin, married him, and they lived happy ever after.
 Mrs Rawdon Crawley then attach ed herself to Joseph Sedley, though not by any legal bonds. He was her utter slave, and insured his life heavily for her benefit-and benefit she did, for he died soon after.
 Rawdon Crawley died, too, and the son Rawdon refused ever to see his mother again.
 Rebecca lived at Bath or Chelten- ham, where some excellent people con- sidered her a most injured woman. She devoted her life works to piety and charity, and though when she