The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT.
By ANTHONY TR0LLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER LXXYIII.
CASALUNGA.


Sir Marmaduke had been told at the
Florence post office that he would no
doubt be able to hear tidings of Trevel-
van, and to learn his address, from the
officials in the post-otfice at Siena. AT
Florence he had been introduced to some
gentleman who was certainly of lmpor-
tance-a superintendent who had clerks
under him, and who was n big man, and
he had gone to Siena thinking that he
would find it easy to obtain Trevelyan's
address, or to learn that there was no
such person there. But at Siena he and
his courier together could obtain no in
formation. They rambled about the
huge cathedral and the picturesque
market-place of that quaint old city for
for the whole day, and on the next morn.
ing after breakfast they returned to
Florence. They had learned nothing.
The young man at the pOst-otfice had
simply protested that he knew nothing
of the name of Trevelyan. Ii letters
should come addressed to such name,
he would keep them till they were called
for; but to the best of his knowledge, he
had never seen or heard the name. At
the guard-house of the gendarmerie
they could not, or would not, give him
any information, and Sir Marmaduke
came back with an Impression that
everybody at Sena was Ignorant, ldl-
otto, and brutal.iMrs. Trevelyan was 50
dispirited as to be i'll, and both Sir Mar
maduke and Lady Rowley were dis
posed to think that the world was all
against them. "You have no cOncep-
ton of the sort of woman that man is
going to marry" said Lady Rowley.
"What man I"
"Mr. GlasGOck, A horrid American
female, as old almost rs / am, who talks
through her nose, and breaches sermons
about the rights of women. 1t is in
credible! And Nara might have had
him Just for lifting up her hand" But
Sir Marmaduke could not interest him
self much about Mr.. Glascock. When
ne had been told that his daughter had
refused the heir TO great estate and a
peerage, it had been matter of regret;
but he had looked upon the affair as done,
and cared nothing now though Mr..
Glascock should marry a transatlantic
XaLtippe. He was angry with Nora be.
cause by her obstinacy she was adding
to the general perplexities of the fami-
ly, but he could not make comparisons
of Mr.. Glascock's behalf between her
and Miss Spalding, as his wife was do
ing, either mentally OF aloud, from
to hour. 81 suppose 1t is too late now,"
said Lady Rowley, shaking her head.
"Of course it Is too late. The man
must marry whom he pleases. | am
beginning to wonder that any body
should ever want TO got married. / am
indeed"
"But what are the girls to dot"
al don't know what anybody is to do.
Here is a man Us mad as o March hare.
and yet nobody can touch him. If it
was not for the child, l should advise
Emily to put him out OF her head alto
gether."
But though Sir Marmaduke could not
bring himself to take any interest in
Mr.. Glascock's affairs, and would not
ask single question respecting
the fearful American female whom
this unfortunate man was a0ont
to translate to the position of an
English peerless yet, circumstances
SO fell out that before three days
were over he and Mr.. Glascock were
thrown together in very intimate rela-
tions. SIR Marmaduke had learned that
Mr.. Glascock was the only Englishman
in Florence to whom Trevelyan had been
known, and that he was the only person
with whom Trevelyan had been seen to
speak while passing through the city.
IN ms despair therefor, Sir Marmaduke
had gone TO Mr.. Glascock, and it was
soon arranged that the two gentlemen
should renew the search at Siena TO-
gether, without having with them either
Mrs. Trevelyan or the eonTier NJ
Glascock knew the ways of the psonle
better than did Sir Marmadnka "a
could speak the language. He obrainaS
passport to the good offices of the
police at Siena, and went prepared -
demand rather than to ask for assist.
ance. They started very early, befor,
breakfast, and on arriving at Siena
about noon, first employed themselve,
in recruiting exhausted nature. By tn,
time that they had both declared tina
the hotel at Siena was the very worst il
all Italy, and that breakfast withou
eatable butter was not to be considered
breakfast OF all, they had become 81
intimate that Mr.. Glascock spoke of hi
owa intended marriage. He must have