The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-04
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER XVI.
DARTNIOOR.

The well-weighed decision of Miss
Stanbury respecting the Stanbury-Ire-
veIvan arrangement at Nuncombe Put
nav had been communicated to Dorothy
90 the two walked home at night across
the Close from Mrs. MacHugh's house,
and il was accepted by Dorothy as be-
ING wise and proper. 1t amounted TO
this, If Mrs. Trevelyan shOuld behave
herself with propriety in her retirement
at the Clock House, no further blame
in the matter should be attributed to
Mrs. Stanbury for receiving her,mat
apy rate, in Dorothy's hearing: Inc
existing scheme, whether Wise OF 1oollsh,
should be regarded as an accepted
scheme. But if Mrs. Trevelyan should
be indiscreet,-if, for instance, Coionel
Osborne should show himself at
Nuncombe Putney,-then for the sake
of the family, Miss Stlnbury would
speak out, and would speak out very
loudly. All this Dorothy understood,
and She could perceive that her aunt
had strong suspicion that there would
be indiscTctiOn.
al neyerk knew one like her." said Miss
Stanbury, "who, when she had got away
from one man, didn't want another dang
ling after her"
A week had hardly passed after the
party at Mrs. MacHugh's and Mrs. Ire
velyan had hardly been three weeks at
Nuncombe Putney, before the tldlngs
which Miss Stanbury almost expected
reached her ears.
"The Colonels been at the Clock
House. ma'arh," said Martha.
Now, it was quite understood in the
Close, by this time, that THE Colonel"
meant Colonel Osborne.
mop
"Pm told that he has though, ma'am,
for sure and certain"
"Who says so ~
"Giles Hickbody was down at Lessbo-
ro', and seed him hisself,-a portly mid
dle-aged man,-nOt one OF your young
scampish.like lovers"
"That's the man."
80 YES. He went over to Nuncombo
Putney, as sure as anything ;-hired
Mrs. Clegg's chaise and pair, and asked
for Mrs. Trevelyan's house as open as
ANYTHING. When Giles asked in the
yard, they told him as how that was the
married lady's young man."
"Pd like to be at his tail-sO | would
with mop-handle," said Miss Stanbury,
whose hatred for those sins by which
the comfort and responsibility of the
world are destroyed was not only sin
cere, but intense. 'Well, and what
then |"
"He came back and slept at Mrs.
Clegg's that night,-at least that was
what he said he should do
Miss Stanbury, however, was not so
precipitate or uncharitable IS to act
strongly upon information such as this.
Before she even said word to Dorothy
she made further inquiry. She made
very minute inquiry, writing even to
her very old and intimate friend, Mrs.
Ellison, of Lessboro', writing to that
lady q most cautious and guarded let
ter. At last it became fact proved to
her mind that Colonel Osborne had
been at the Clock House, had been re-
ceived there, and had remained there
for hours,-had been allowed access to
Mrs. Trevelyan, and had slept the night
at the inn at Lessboro.' The thing was
so terrible to Miss Stanbury's mind,
that even false hair, DR.. COlenso, and
penny newspapers, did not account
for it.
al shall begin to believe that the Evil
One has been allowed to come among
us in person because of our SINS" she
said to Martha and she meant it.
In the meantime, Mrs. Trevelyan, as
NAV be remembered, had hired Mrs
Crockett's open carriage, and the three
Young women, Mrs. Trevelyan, Nora,
and Priscilla, made little excursion to
Princetown, somewhat after the fashion
of picnic. AT Princetown, in the mid
die of Dartmoor, about nine miles from
Nuncombe Putney, is the prison estab-
Gshment at which are kept convicts I'M
dergoing penal servitude. 1t is regard
ed by all the country round with great
interest, chiefly because the prisoners
now and again escape, and then there
comes period of interesting excitement
until the escaped felon she'll hove heen
again taken. How can you tell vbare
he NAV be, or whether it may not sniff
him to find his rest in your own cnD-
board, or under your own bed ? And
then, as escape without notice will of
course be the felSn's object, to attain
that he will probably cut your throat,
and the throat of everybody belonging
TO Won. All which considerations give
an interest to PrincetOwn, and excite
in the hearts of the Devonlaus OF these
parts a strong affection for the Dart
moor prison. OF those who visit Prince
town, comparatively few effect an en-
trance within the walls of the Jail.
They look at the gloomy place with a
mysterious interest, feeling something
akin to envy for the prisoners who have
enjoyed the privilege of solving the
mysteries of prison life, and who know
how men feel when they have their hair