Mountain advocate., 1921-01-28

Clives departure led to more fiirta-
lions by Ethel than old Lady Kew
could countenance, but Ethel had
found out how undesirable man Lord
Kew was and broke the engagement
so dear to her grandmother's heart.
/ When Give heard that the engage
mcnt was over between Kew and Ethel
| he set out in haste for London. was
installed as conhdnnt, and to me Give
said: "Mrs. Mackenzie bothers me so
hardly know whore to turn, and poor
little Rosey is made to write me
note about something twice a day.
oh Penl I'm up another tree now"
3 Give met his cousin Ethel ut II party
or two i'm the ensuing weeks Of the
season. and at 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 unrelenting Lady
| Kew. The colonel and James Bonnie
during all this time put their two fond
heads together, and Mrs. Mackenzie
/ lluttCfPu DOil VI lH'hl anu "'N ~
well.
Meanwhile the Lady Clara was not
happy with her Barnes. All the life
and spirit had been crushed out of the
girl, consigned to cruel usage, lone
Illness and to bitter recollections of the
pnst. Jack Belsize. now Lord High
gate. could stand the strain no longer
and took Lady Clara away from her
bullying but cUwardly husband. The
elopcmcnt of Clara opened Ethel's eyes
To the misery Of lovclcss marriages,
and the mamma of her new love, the
Marquis of Farintosh, already dis
trpssed over the unpleasant notoriety
of the proposed Newcome alliance re-
ccivcd 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
ROsey, and his father determined 10
become Il 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, it was so very
sad and worn and pale, that Colonel
Ncwcome with quite the tenderness Of
old days, cried "God bless me, my boy.
how i'll you look! Come and warm
yourself, Clivy!"
~ have seen ghost, father" Give
suld, "the ghost Of my youth, fnther
tho ghost OF my happiness, aud the
boat days of my life. saw Ethel to-
dRyT
may, my boy, you musth't tnlk to
ne SO, You have the denr5st little
wits OF home. d dear little wife ana
child"
You had wife; but that doesn't
proyCnj other---Other thoughts, DO you
know You npver spoke twice IN your
life about my n,other? You didp't care
for her"
IL did my duty by her" inter.
posed the colonel.
~ know, hut your heart was with
the other So is mine. It's fatal, 1t
runs in the family, father"
The shares of the BunGelcund Bank
ing company. in which the colonel had
made his fortune. now declined stead
lily. and ut last the crash came, wiping
out all the cOlOnel'S money ami with
il all RoScy'S fortune. The impOver-
lshed NcwcomcS settled down first at
Boulocnr. and then in London. the
colonel weary, feeble, white haired,
Mrs Mackenzie perfect termagant,
Rosey pale and ailing, and little Tom
my, the baby. comfort and Il care to
the hard-wOrked Give.
The colonel no longer able to live
under the same roof with Mrs. Mac
kenzie, found home with the Grey
Friars and here ! saw him.
When the cOlonel's mlsfOrtunes were
Mt their worst Ethel, in reading an old
book, found Il letter from the colOners
stcpfather between the covers. 1t was
Il memorandum of proposed bequest
to Give. Ethel mt once determined to
carry ont this intended bequest, and
so she and | FASTENED to Gives home;
but not even good news could soften
Mrs. Mackcnzie's evil temper. That
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,
Seizing Il hand that was near him, and
crying "toujOurs tOujours ]" Ethel
and Give and the nurse were in the
room with him. The old man talked
on rapidly for awhile; then again he
would sigh and be still; once more l
heard him say, hurriedly, Take care
of him when Pm in India" and then
with Il heart-rending voice he called
| for the love of his youth "LeonOre,
LeonOrew The patients voice sank
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