The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-12
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
Continued
CHAPTER XVIII.

thunder0olt among lnen at Nun
combe Putney. Mrs. Trevelyan was al
together unable to keep it to herself.
Indeed, she made no attempt at doing
so. Her husband had told her that she
was to be banished from the Clock
House because her present hostess was
unable to endure her misconduct, and
of course she demanded the reasons OF
the charge that was thus brought
against her. When she first read the
letter, which she did in the presence OF
her sister, she lowered in her passion,
"Disgraced him have never dis
graced him. 1t is he that has dlsgraced
me. Correspondence! Ies;-he shall
see it all. Unjust, ignorant, foolish man!
He does not remember that the last in |
structions he really gave me were TO
bid me see Colonel Osborne. Take my
bow away! Yes. OF course, am wo-
man and must suffer. | will write to
Colonel Osborne, and will tell him the
truth, and will send my letter to Louis.
He shall know how he has ill-treated
mel will not take 4 penny of his
money,-not penny. Maintain you
believe he thinks that we are beggars.
Leave this house because of my conduct!
What can Mrs. Stanbury have said
What can any of them have saldI i
will demand to be told. Free himself
from the connection . Nora, Nora :.
that it should come to this. that
should be thus threatened, who have
been as innocent as a baby! If it were
not for my child, l think | should
destroy myself"
Nora said what she could to comfort
her sister, insisting chiefly on the prom
Use that the child should not be taken
away. There was no doubt as to the
husbands power in the mind of either
of them; and though, as regarded her
self, Mrs Trevelyan would have deiied
her husband, let his power be what II
might, yet she acknowledged to herself
that she was in some degree restrained
by the fear that she would find herself
deprived of her only comfort.
1--WE must just &c where he bids u.s.
till papa GENES" said Nora.
"And when papa is here, what help
will there be theni He will not let me
90 back to the islands-with my boy. |
For myself l might die, or get ont of
his way anywhere. | can see that.
Priscilla Stanbury is right if she says
that no woman should trust herself TO
any man. Disgraced! That l should
live to be told by my husband that
had disgraced him-by lover"
There was some sort of agreement
made between the two sisters as to the
manner in which Priscilla should be in
terroCated respecting the sentence of
Punishment which had been passed.
They both agreed that it would be use
less to make inquiry of Mrs. Stanbury.
If anything had really been said to JUS
tify the statement made in Mr.. Trevel-
vans letter. it must have come from
Priscilla, and have reached Trevelyan
through Priscilla's brother They. both
of them, had sufficiently learned the
WAYS of the house to be sure that Mrs.
Stanbury had not been the person &C
tive in the matter. They went down,
therefore, together, and found Priscilla
seated at her desk in the parlor. Mrs.
StanbBry was also in the room, and ii
had been presumed between the sisters
that the interrogation should be made
in that lady's absence; but Mrs. Trevel-
van was too hot in the ms ter for re-
straiut, and she at once opened out her
budget of grievance.
81 have letter from my husband"
she said, and then paused. But Priscil- |
Ia, seeing from the fire in her eyes that
she was much moved, made no reply, |
but turned to listen to what might fur |
ther be said. Il do not know why |
should trouble you with his suspicious
continued Mrs. Trevelyan, cor read to
YOU what he says abOut-COlOnel OS-
borne" As she spoke she was holding
her husbands letter open in her hands.
There is nothing in IL that you do not
know. He says l have correspondent
with him. So l have, and he shall see
the correspondence. He says that Colo
mel Osborne visited me. He did come
to see me and Nora"
GAS any other old man might have
done" said Nora.
at was not likely that | should open
ly confess myself to be afraid to see my
fathers old friend. 3ut the truth is
my husband does not know what wo-
man is
She had begun by declaring that she
would not trouble her friend with any
statement of her husbands complaint
against her, but now she had made her
way to the subject, and could hardly re-
sraln herself. Priscilla understood this,
and thought that it would be wise to in
tefrupt her by word that might bring
her PACK to her original purpose.
is there anything" said she, (which |
we can do to help you ?"
TO help me! No, God only can belp
me! But Louis iuferms me that am |
to be turned out OF this house because
you demand that we should 20"
"Who says that 7" exclaimed Nrs
Stanbury.
"My husband. Listtn,-this is wba,
he says: Il am greatly grieved to hear
from my friend Mr.. Stanbury, that your
conduct in reference 10 Colonel Osborne
has been such as to make it necessary
that You should leave Mrs. Stanbury's
house Is that true Is that true :" In
her general mode of carrying herself
and of enduring the troubles of her life
Mrs. Treyelyan was q strong woman;
but now her grief was too much for her,