The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-16
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLoPE.
[CORtinaed.l
CHAPTER XXXVII.
MONT GEMS.

The night had been fine and warm,
and it was now noon on fine Septem-
Der day when the train from Paris reach
ed st. Michael, on the route to Italy by
Mont Crnis,-as all the world knows
st. Michael is, or was year or two
back, he end ofrsilway travelingi in that
direction. At the time Mr.. FelPs
grand project of carvings line OF rails
over the top of the mountain was only
in preparation, and the journey from
ST Michael TO Sasa was still made by the
diligences,-thOsed dear old Continental
coaches which are now nearly as extinct
"a our own, but which did not deserve
death SO fully as did our abomin-
able vehicles The coupe of a dill
oence, OF, better still, the bauquette,
was a luxurious mode of travelling
"a compared with anything that our
coaches offered. There used, indeed,
to be a certain halo Of glory round
the occupant of the box of mail
coach. The man who had secured that
seat was supposed TO know something
about the world, and to be such q one
that the passengers sitting behind him
would be proud TO be allowed to talk to
him. But tho prestige OF the position
was greater than the comfort. night
on the box of n mail-COach was but a
bad time, and night inside mail
coach was a night in purgatory' Where
as seat up ABOVE, on The banquette OF
O diligence passing over the Alps, with
room for the feet and support for the
back, with plenty of rugs and plenty OF
tob lcco, used to be on the Mont Gents,
AID still is on some other mountain
passes, very comfortable mode OF
seeing a mountain route. For those
desirJus of occupying the coupe, or
the three front seats of the body of
the vehicle, il must be admitted that
difficulties frequently arose, and that
such difficulties We're very common
at st. Michael. There would be two
or three of these enormous vehicles
preparing TO start for the moan ain,
whereas il would appear that twelve or
fifteen passengers had come down from
Paris armed with tickets assuring them
that this preferable mode of travelling
should be theirs. And then assertions
would be made, somewhat recklessly by
the officials, to the effect that all the
diligence was coupe. 1t would general.
Englishman who could not speak
French would 60 to the wall, together
with his wife. Middle-lged EngliShmeI
with their wives, who can't speak
French, can nevertheless be very angry
and threaten loudly, when they suppose
themselves to be ill-treated. \ middle
aged Englishman, though he can't speak
a word of French, won't believe a
French official who tells him that the
diligence is all coupe, when he fluids
himself with his unfortunate partner
in a roundabout place behind with two
priests, a dirty man who looks like a
brigand, a sick maid. servant, and three
agricultural laborers. The attempt,
however, was frequently made, and
thus there used to be occasionally a
little noise round the bureau ut st,
Michael.
On the morning of which we are
speaking, two Englishmen had just
made good their claim, each independ
emily of the other, each without having
heard or seen the other, when two
American ladies, coming up very tardi-
ly, endeavOred to prove their rights.
The ladies were without other compau-
AOhot anu NNlb uOt hutul WIN their
French, but were clearly entitled to
their seats. They were told that the
conveyance was all coupe, bat perverse-
~ would not believe the statement.
The official shrugged his shoulders and
signifed that his ultimatum had been
pronounced. What can an official do
in such circumstances, when more coupe
passengers are sent to him than the
coupes at his command will hold :
"But we have paid for tie COUPE" said
the elder American lady with consider
able indignation, though her French
was imperfect, for American ladies I'M
derstand their rights. Bah yes; you
have paid and you shall go. What
would you have" 1--WE would have
what we have paid for, said the Ameri-
can lady. Then the official rose from
his stool, and shrugged his shoulders
again, and made motion with both his
hands, intended to show that the thing
was finished. ut is a robbery" said
the elder American lady to the younger,
Il should not mind, only you are SO un-
we'll" at will not kill ME, dare say"
said the younger. Then one of the Eng
Ilsh gentlemen declared that his place
was very much at the service of the in
valid the other Euglishman do
elared that bis also was al the service
of the invalid's companion. Then. and
not ill then, the two men recornizpd
each other. One WAS Mr.. Glascocx on
his way to Naples, aud the othsr Vs.
SIR. Trevelyan, on his way,-he knew
not whittier.
Upon this, Of course they spoke 70
each other. In London they had been
well acquainted, each having been an
intimate guest at the house of old Lady
Milborough. And each knew some
thing of the others recent history. Mr..
Glascock was aware. as was all the
world, that Trevelyan had quarreled
with his wife; and Treyelyan was aware
that Mr.. Glascock had been spoken of
as suitor to his own sister iD-law. Of
that visit which Mr.. GlascOck had made
to NuncOmbe Putuey, and of the man
ner in which Nora had hehavad fo her