The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-07
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLOPE.
CHAPTER LXII.
Continual

At last, after about ten days, Lady
Rowley did succeed in obtaining an in
tsrview with Trevelysn. A meeting
was arranged through BOzzle, and took
place in very dark and gloomy room
at an inn in the City. Why BOzzle
should have selected the Bremen Coffee
House, in Poulter's Alley, for this meet
ting no fit reason can surely be given,
unless it was that he conceived himself
bound to select the most dreary locality
within his knowledge on so melancholy
an occasion. Poulter's Alley is a narrow
dark passage somewhere behind the
Mansion House; and the Bremen Coffee
House,-why so called no one can now
tells one of those strange houses OF
public resort in the city at which the
guests seem never to eat, never to drink,
never to sleep, but to come in and out
after O mysterious and almost ghostly
fashion, seeing their friends, or perhaps
their enemies, in hooks and corners, and
CARRYING on their conferences IN low,
melancholy whispers. There is an aged
waiter at the Bremen Coffee House; and
there is certainly one private sitting
room up stairs. 1t was a dingy, ILL
lOOul1 WIN Oh OAN ASA 81 AAN
hogany table, an old horse-hair sofa, six
horse-hair chairs, two old round mirrors,
and an old mahogany press in o corner
1t was a chamber 80 sad in its appear
ance that no wholesome useful work
could have been done within it; nor
cOnld men have eaten there with any
appetite, or have drained the flowing
bowl with any touch of joviality. 1t
was generally used for such purposes as
that TO which it was now appropriated,
and no doubt had been taken by BOzzle
on more than one previous occasion.
Here Lady Rowley arrived precisely at
the hour fixed, and was told that the
gentleman was waiting up stairs for
her.
There had, of course, been many famil y
consultations as to the manner in which
this meeting should be arranged. Should
Sir Marmaduke accompany his wife,
or, perhaps, shoHld Sir Marmaduke go
alOnei Lady Rowley had been very
much in favor of meeting Mr.. Trevelyan
without any one TO assist her in the con-
ference. AS for Sir Marmaduke, nc
meeting could be concluded between
him and his son -in-law without per
sonal and probably violent quarrel. Oh
that Lady Rowley had been quite sure
Sir Marmaduke, since he had been home
had, in the midst of his various troubles
been driven into so vehement a state o
indignation against his son-in-law as Il
be unable TO speak of the wretched maj
without strongest terms of Opprobrium
Nothing was too bad TO be said by hin
of one who had ill-treated his deares
daughter. 1t must be admitted that Sil
MGrmaduke had heard only one side o
the question. He had questioned hi:
daughter, and had constantly seen hi:
old friend Osborne. The Colonels jour,
ney down to Devonshire had been made
TO appear the NEST natural proceeding
in the world. The correspondence OF
which Trevelyan thought so much had
been shown to consist of such notes as
might pass between any old gentleman
and any young woman. The promise
which Trevelyan had sndeavored to ex.
act, and which Mrs. Trevelyan had de-
clined to give, appeared to the angry
father to be mOnstrOus insult. He
knew that the Colonel was an older man
than himself, and his Emily was still tC
him only young girl. 1t was incredi
BILE to him that anybody should have
regarded his old comrade as his daugh
ter's lover. He did not believe tha
anybody had, in truth, so regarded tn,
man. The tale had been a moustrou
invention on the part of the husband
got up because he had become tired O
his young wife. According to Sir Mar
maGukes way of thinking, Trevelyar
should either be thrashed within an incl
of his life, or else locked up In mad
house. Colonel Osborne shook his head
and expressed u conviction that the poo
man was mad.
But Lady Rowley was moro hopeful
Though she was as confident about be
daughter as was the father, she was les
confident about the cid friend. She,pro
baby, was alive to the fact that q ma
of fifty might put on the airs and as
sumo the character of young lover
and acting on that suspicion, entertain
ing also some hope that bad as matter
now were they might be mended, sh,
had taken care that Colonel Osborn,
and Mrs, Trevelyau should not b.
brought together. Sir Marmaduke haG
tnmed, but Lady Rowley had been firm
III you think so, mamma" Mrs Trevel
yam had said, with something of scorr
In her tone,-"of course, lot it be so.
Lady Rowley had said that il would b,
better so; and the two had not seen eacl
other since the memorable visit To MN.
combe Putney. And now Lady RowIe,
was aboEt TO meet her son-in-iaw viii
some slight hope that she might arrang,
affairs. She was quite aware that nTs
sent indignation, though certainly
qualification, might be INDUCED in a
much too great cost. Itwould be bet
ter for all reasons that Emily should Q
back to her husband and her home, an
that Trevelyan should be forgiven 70
his iniquities.
Bszzle was at the tavern during th
interview, but he was not seen by Lad
Rowley. He remained seated dow
stairs, in one of the diDgy corners, read
to give assistance to his patron should q.
sistance be needed. When Lady Rowle