The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-02

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thing will ever take me into that part
of the country" she said There was
something perhaps In her tone which
checked Mr.. Glascock, 50 that he did not
I then press the invitation.
When the ladies were up stairs in the
drawing-room, Lady Milborough con-
trived to seat herself on couch intend
ed for two persons snly, close to Mrs.
Trevelyan. Emily, thinking that she
might perhaps hear some advice about
Gulness's stout, prepared herself to be
saucy. But the matter in hand was
graver than that. Lady Milborogghs q
mind was uneasy about Colonel Os-
| borne.
"My dear" said she, "was not your
father very intimate with that Colonel
Osborner
"He is very intimate with him, Lady
Milborough."
"Ah, yes; l thought l had heard so.
That makes it of course, natural that
you should know him."
ave have known him all our lives" !"
said Emily, forgetting probably, that,
out of the twenty-three years and some
months, which she had hitherto lived,
there had been consecutive period of
more than twenty years in which she had
never seen this man whom she knew all
her life.
"That makes difference, of course;
and don't mean to say anything
against him"
II hope not, Lady Milborough, be-
cause we are all especially fond OF him."
This was said with so much of purp ose
that poor dear old Lady Mllberough
was stopped in her good work. She
knew well the terrible strait to which
Agustus Poole had been brought with
his wife, although nobody supposed
that Poole's wife had ever entertained a
wrong thought in her pretty little
heart. Nevertheless, he had been COM
PEELED to break up his establishment,
and take his wife to Naples, because this
horrid Colonel would make himself at
home in Mrs. Poole's drawing-room in
Knightsbridge. Augustus Poole, with
courage enough to take any mas by the
beard, had taking by the beard been
possible, had found it impossible to dis
lodge the Colonel. He could not do so
without making a row which would
have been disgraceful to himself and
injurious to his wife; and therefore he
had taken Mrs. Poole 70 Naples. Lady
Milborough knew the whole story, and
thought that she foresaw that the same
thing was about to happen in the draw
ing-room in Curzon Street. When she
attempted to say word to the wife, she
found herself stopped. She could not
go on in that quarter after the recep-
tion with which the beginning of her
word had been met. But perhaps she
might succeed better with the husband.
After all, her friendship was with the
Trevelyan side, and not with the Row
leys. 49,
"My dear Louis" she said, 81 want to
speak a word to you. Come here" And
then led him into a distant corner, Mrs.
Trevelyan watching her all the while,
and guessing why her husband was thus
carried away. 81 just want to give you
little hint, which | am sure | believe
is quite unnecessary" continued Lady
Milborough. Then she paused, but
| Trevelyau would not speak. She looked
| into his face aud saw that 1T was black.
But the man was the only child of her
dearest friend, and she persevered.
"Do YOU know | don't quite like that
| Colonel Osborne coming so much to
your house." The face before her be-
came still blacker, but still the man
said nothing. 81 dare say it is preiu-
dice on my part, but have always dis
! liked him. | think no is dangerous
! frieud:-what call snake in the grass.
And though Emily's high good sense,
and love for you, and general feelings
on such subject, are just what hus-
| band must desire.-IndeeG, | am quite
sure that the possibility OF anything
wrong has never entered her head. But
| it is the very purity of her innocence
which makes the danger. He is bad
man, and | would just say word to
her, if were you, TO make her under
ing is not desirable. Upon my word
believe there is nothing he likes so
much as going about and making mis-
chief between men and their wives"
Thus she delivered herself; and Louis
| Trevelyan, though he was sore and an
CRY, could not but feel that she had ia.
ken the part of friend. All that she
had said had been true, all that she had
said 10 him he had said to himself more
than once. He too hated the man. He
believed him to be a snake in the grass
But it was intolerably bitter to him
that he should be warned about his
wfe's conduct by any human being
that he, to whom the world had been SO
full of good fortune,-that he, who had
in truth taught himself to think that
he deserved so much good fortune
should be made the subject of care on
behalf of his friend, because of danger
between himself and his wife, On the
spur of the moment he did not know
what answer 10 make.
He is not man like myself" ht
said
Just be careful, Louis. that is all,
said Lady MilbOrough. and then she
was gone.
To be cautioned about his wife's con
duet cannot be pleasant to any man
and it was very unpleasant 10 Loui.
Trevelyan. He, too, had been asked Z
question about Sir Marmaduke's ex
pected visit TO England after the ladies
had left the room. All TIE town hal
heard of il except himself. He hardly
spoke aother word that evening til
the brOugham was announced; and nj
wife had observed his silence. WheI
tkey were seated in the carriage, lie to
gether with his wife and Nora ROwley
he Immediately asked question abou
Sir Marmaduke. Emily" he said. "i.
there any truth in a report hear tha
your father is coming home ?" No an
swer was made, and for moment o
two there was silence. You must hav
heard of it then r. he said. "Perhap
. you can tell me, Nora, as Emily will no
reply. Haze you heard anything O
your fathers comingf'
"Yes; have heard of it," said Nora
slowly.
"And why hayeI not been told 7"
aft was tn he kent a secret said Mrs