The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-16

road to watch till the vehicle should be
out of sight. As az the last speck
of it had vanished from his sight, he
picked himself mp, and dragged his slow
footsteps. back to the house,
Mr.. Glascock made sundry attempts
to amuse the child, with whom he had
to remain all that night at Siena; but
his efforts in that line were not very
successfufSFhS boy z~as brisk anongh,
spd AaPpy, and social by nature; but
events, or rather Ne @sntof events Of
the last few moutts,had so cowed him,
thgt he could not recover his spirits At
the bidding Of q stranger. "lf l nave
any of ny own said Mr.. Glaseock 70
hiuseH ~ hope they viii be Of q more
cheerful disposition" .8R
As We have seen, he did not hsSeS
ca ,line at the station-therepy iheu
rim : his lady loves displeasure Ior 'ne
pv,iod of hal f q minute; bnt pc Gu neet
Mrs. .TrsvelyaB d most at the door vi on
Marmad uke's lodgings. "Ies, Mrs. ITO
y-,is a.; no 10 here"
/ "iow am ever to thank you for such
goodness :" said she. "And Mr.. IreVel-
Yap-you saw him
"Yss-I saw him."
y R.fore he could answer her further
abe was upstairs, and bad her chlld In
her arms. II seemed to be an age since
the bow had been stolen from her in the
early sp,lbg in that unknown, dingy
street near Totteuham Court Road.
Twice she haT seen her darling Since
that-twice during bis captivity; but Oh
eacn of these occasions size had seel
him as one not belonging to herself, and
had seen him under circumstances
which had robbed the greeting OF al
most all its pleasure. But now he was
her own again, to take whittier she
wonld, to dress and to undress, to feed,
10 coax, to teach, and To caress. Aud
the cIild lay up close TO her as she hug
ged him putting up his little cheek TO
her chin, and burying himself happily
in her embrace. He had not much as
yet TO say, but she could feel that he
was cOnJented.
Mr.. Glascock had promised to wait for
her few mlnutes-eyen at the risk OF
Caroline's displeasure- and Mrs. IRE
veiyan ran down to him as soon as the
first craving of her mothers love was
satisfied. Her boy would at any rate be
safe with her now, and it was her duty
to learn som ethIng of her husband. 1t
was more than her duty-if only her
services might be ofa avail To him. land
you say no was well 7" she asked. She
had taken Mr.. Glascock apart, and they
were alone together, and he had deter.
mind that he would tell her the truth
81 do not know that he is ill
though he is pale and altered beyond
belief"
"Yes-I saw that"
81 never knew q man go thin and
haggard."
my poor LOUISE
"But that is not the worst of it,"
what do you mean, Mr.. Glascock 7"
81 mean that his mind is astray, and
that he should not be left alone. There
is no knowing what he might do. He is
so much more alone there than he would
be in England. There is nota soul who
could interfere"
"Do you mean that you think-that
he is in danger-from himself"
81 would not say so, Mrs. Trevelyan;
but who can tell? i am sure of this
that he should not be left alone. If it
were only because of the misery of his
life, he should not be left alone"
"But what can dos He would not
,ven see papa"
"He would see YOU"
"But he would not let me guide him
in anything. l have been to him twice,
and he breaks out-as if l were-a bad
LET him break out. What does it
matter?"
cam l to own to faisehood-and such
4 falsehood:"
"Own to anything, and you will con-
Quer him at once. That is what think.
You will excuse what say, Mrs. Ire
velyan."
ooh, Mr.. Glascock, you have been such
a friend! What should we have done
you'"
"You canuet take to heart the words
that come from disordered reason. In
truth, be believes no i'll of you"
"But he says So"
lit is hard to know what he says De-
clare that you will submit to him, and |
think that he will be sOtteued toward
YOU. Try to bring him back to his own
country. IL may be that were he to
die there, alone, the memory of his
loneliness would be heavy with you in
after days" Then, having so spoken,
he rushed off, declaring, with forced
laugh, that Caroline Spalding would
n yer forgive him.
The net day was the day of the wed
ding, and Emily Trevelyan was left all
alone. 1t was of course out of the ques-
ton that she should joiu any party the
purport of which was 70 be festive. Sir
went with some grumbling,
declaring that wine and severe food III
the morning were sins against the plain
est rules of life. And the three Rowley
Urls went, Nora officiating as one of
tn. bridesmaids. But Mrs. Trevelyau
was left with her boy, aud during the
day she was forced to resolve what
should be the immediate coarse of her
life. Two days after the wedding her
family would return TO England. Ii
was open 10 her TO 90 with them, and 10
take her boy with her. Buta few days
since how happy she wouId have been
could she have b rem made TO believe that
Sncn q U1Oue Ol ret III uIHe "Oulu De
within her power But now sho fel'
that she might not return aud leave that
poor, suffering wretch behind her. As
she thought of him she tried to inter.
rogate herself in regard TO her feelings.
Was it love, or duty, or compassion
which stirred herf She had loved him
as fondly as any bright young woman
loves the man who is to take her away
from everything else, and make her u
of his house and ofhimself. She had part
loved him as Nora now loved the man
whom she worshiped and thought to be
a god, doing godlike work in the dingy
recesses of the ID. II. office. Emily
was forced to tell herself
that all that was over with her. Her
husband had shown himself to be weak,
suspicious, unmanly-by no means like
a god. She had learned 10 feel that she
could not trust her comfort in his hands
that she could never know what his
of her might be. But still he
was her husband, and the father of her
child; and though she could not dare to
look forward to happiness in living with
him, she could understand that no CON-
fort wsuld be possible to her were she