The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-29

husband" said TreYelyan gloomily
The task was not hopeful; but, never
theless, the poor woman resolved to dC
her best. -. u
And now Mrs. Clubhouse was ia her
niece's room, asking her to go down and
see her husband. Little Louis had al
the time been with the nurse, and tn,
very moment that the mother heard tina
the child's father was in the house, SD;
jumped up and rushed away to get pos
| session of her treasure. HAS he come
for baby !" Nora asked, in dismay
Then Mrs. Clubhouse, anxious to Obtain
a convert to her present views, boldly
declared that Mr.. Trevelyan had no such
intention. Mrs. Trevelyan came back
at once with the boy, and then listened
to all her aunts arguments. "But !
will not take baby with me" she said
AT last it was decided that she should
60 down alone, and that the child shonId
afterwards be taken to his father IN the
drawing room, Mrs. Clubhouse pledg
herself that the whole household ssoulu
combine in her defence if Mr.. Irevelyan
should attempt to take the child out OF
that room. "But what am TO say 10
him 7" she asked. e, NJ.
"Say as little as possible" said Mrs
Clubhouse, Except to make him under
stand that he has been error IN lmput-
ing fault to you" ,y;5
Gle will never understand that, salu
Mrs. Trevelyan.
A considerable time elapsed after that
before she could bring herself to descend
the stairs. Now that her husband was
so near her, and that her aunt had as
sured her that she might reinstate her
self in her position, if she could only
abstain from saying hard words to him,
she wished that he was away from her
again, in Italy. She knew that she
could not refrain from hard words:
How was it possible that she should
yindicate her own honor, Without as
sorting with all her strength that she
had been ill-used; and, to speak truth
on the matter, her love for the man,
which had once been true and eager, had
been quelled by the treatment she had
received. She had chung to her love in
some shape, in spite of the accusations
made against her, till she had heard that
the policeman had been set upon her
heels. Could it be possible that any
woman should love man, or at least
that any wife should love husband,
after such usage as thati At last she
crept gently down the stairs, and stood
at the parlor. door. She listened, and
could hear his steps, as he paced back
wards and forwards through the room.
She looked back, and could see the face
of the servant peering round from the
kitchen stairs. She could not endure to
be watched in her misery, and, thus
driven, she. opened the parlor-door.
Louis she said, walking into the room,
"Aunt 9ary has desired me to come to
you"
"Emilyp he exclaimed, and ran to
her aud embraced her. She did not
seek to stop him, but she did not return
the kiss which he gave her. Then he
held her by her hapds, and looked into
her face, and she could see how strange
ly he was altered. She thought that she
would hardly have known him, had she
not beeu sure that it was he. She her
self was also changed. Who can bear
sorrow without such change, till age
has fixed the lines of the face, or till care
has made them hard and unmalleable I
But the effect on her was as nothing to
that which grief, remOrse, and SesOla-
ton had made on him. de had had no
child with him, no sister, no friend.
BoZzle had been his only refuge,-a
refuge not adapted to make life easier to
such man as Trevelyan; and he,-in
spite of the accusations made by himself
against his wife, within his own breast
hourly since he had left her,-had found
it to be very difficult to satisfy his own
conscience. He told himself from hour
to hour that he knew that he was right;
but in very truth he was ever doubling
his own conduct.
"You have been i'll, Louis" she said,
looking at him.
"Ill at ease, Emily,-very i'll at ease
A sore heart will make the face thin, as
we'll as fever or ague. Since We parted
| have not had much to comfort me-"
"NOr have nor any of us" said she.
GLOW was comfort to come from such a
parting I"
Then they both stood silent together.
He was still holding hOr by the hand,
but she was careful not to return his
pressure. She would not take her hand
away from him; but she would show
him no sign of seftness till he should
have absolutely acquitted her of the
accusation he had made against her.
I'VE are man aHd wife" he said after a
while. "ln spite of all that has come
and gone am yours, and youare mine"
"IOu should have remembered that
always, LoRiS."
81 have never forgotten it,-never. In
no thought have | been untrue to you.
My heart has never changed since first
| gave it yOu." There came a bitter
frown upon her face, of which she was
so conscious herself that she turned her
face away from him. She still remem-
bered her lesson, that she was not to
anger him, and, therefore, she retraiDed
from answering him at all. But the an
swer was there, hot within her bosom,
Had he loved her,-and yet suspected
that she was false to him and TO heI
VOWS, simply because she had been OR
terms of intimacy with an old friend
Had he loved her, and yet turned her
| from his housed Had he loved her,
and set apoliceman to watch her. Had
he loved her and yet spoken evil of her
to all their friends Had he loved her,
and yet striven to ron her of her child
"Will you come to me ~ he said.
81 suppose it will be better So" she
answered, slowly.
Then you will promise me" lie
paused, and attempted 10 turn her to.
wards him, so that he might look her in
| the face.
Promise what p she said, quickly
glancing round at him, and drawing
her hand away from him rs she did so.
That all intercourse with Colonel
Osborne shall be at an end"
81 will make no promise. You come