The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-07
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER IN.
Continued.

lie TOOK MS leaNej anu. "0hV az OhSV
from CurzOn Street to Trevelyan's club,
and found that Trevelyan had not been
there as yet. In another hour he called
again, and was about to give it up, when
he met the man whom he was seeking
on the steps.
81 was looking for you," he said.
"Well, here l am"
1t was impussible not to see in the
look of Trevelyan's face, and to hear III
the tone of his voice, that he was, at the
moment, in an angry and unhappy
frame OF mind. He did not move as
Though he were willing to accompany
his friend, and seemed almost to know
beforehand that the approaching inter
view was to be an unpleasant one.
~ want TO speak to you, and perhaps
yea wouldn't mind taking turn with
me" said Stanbury.
But Trevelyan objScted to this, and
led the way into the club waiting
room. A club waiting-ToOm is always
a gloomy, uncomprOmising place for a
confidential conversation, and 50 Stan
bury felt it to be OH the present occa-
sion. But he had no alternative. There
they we're together, and he must do as
he had promised. Trevelyan kept on
his hat, and did not sit down, and look.
ed very gloomy. Stanbury, having to
commence without any assistance from
outward auIiliaries, almost forgot what
ii sas that he had promised to do.
'Ihave just come from Curzon Street, a."
he said.
Well
"At least was there about two hours
ago"
at doeSa't matter, suppose, whether
il was NO hours OF two minutes said
TrevelyaL.
mot in the least The fact is this: |
happened 20 csme upon the two girls
there, when they were very unhappy,
and your wife asked me to come and say
o word OF two to you
"Was Colonel Osborne there p
mo; l had met him in the street a
minute or two before
"Well, now; look here, Stanbury. If
you'll take my advice, You'll keep your
hands ont of this. 1t is not but that |
regard you as being as good a friend as
have in the world; but, to own the
truth, cannot put up with interfer-
euce between myself and my wife"
"Of course you understand that | only |
come as a messenger
"YOu had better not be u messenger |
in such a cause. lfshc has anything TO |
say she can say it to myself
"Am to understand that you will not
liston TO mcT
IL had rather not"
81 think you are wrolg,' said Stan
bury.
''Il that matter you must allow me to
judge for myself. l can easily under
stand that a young woman like her, es
peCIaliy with her sister to back her, |
should induce such a one as YOU to take |
her part"
~ am taking nobody's part. You
wrong your wife, and YOU especially |
wrong Miss ROwley."
"If you please, Staubury, we will say
nothing more about it," This Trevelyan |
said holding the door of the room half
open in HIS hand, so that the other was |
Obliged TO pass out through it.
Good evening" said Stanbury, with |
much anger.
Good evening" said Trcvelyau, with |
an assumption OF Indifference.
Stsnbury went away in absolute |
wrath, though the trouble which he had
IN ;;,- ir;;-,YiGCr was much less than he |
had anticipated, and the result quite as
He had known that no good
yeuld come of his visit. And Yet he
was now full OF anger against Trevel-
van. and had become partisan In the |
matter,-whiCh was exactly that which |
be had resolately determined that he
would not become. Il believe that no
woman on earth could live with him.
be said to himself as the walked away. |
ut was always the same with him, de-
sire for mastery, which he did dot know
now TO use when he obtained it. If it
were Nora instead of the other sister, he
gould break her sweet heart within
! month"
Trevelyan dined at his club, and hard
" spoke a word to any one
during the evening. At about
eleven he started to walk home, but
INT by no means straight thither, TAX
ppS,a long turn through st. James
.Sat bnd by Pimlico. 1t was necessary
. n%a+ baould make up his mind as TO
Fnsed the igld do. He had sternly re-
mist be preference of friend, and he
.nonsibiiity. I'd to act on his own re-
oP,i5 not Begin knew we'll that he
the next day as thCiu with his wife on
u LIZ Stanbury's nothing had hap
Pod done nothing elsSt to him, if it
in a He detersd made this
W. wopId not go to her room Q that he
mou ,id see her as early as p.osght, but
m,OOuun i then talk to he. in the I
morhlsg, Of which he was MAJ all j
the 1--WE wsS MANY husbands have Gomez
same resolution; ana nov w IiS to bt
have found the words OF wisuon " :
eficacious!
ITO be Continued