The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-05

prescription which she, with pig-head-
ed obstinacy, persisted in giving.-be-
cause he woald not carry his wife off to
Naples,-she was ili-iudging and incon.
sistent enough to tell him that he was
wrong! Who was then left to him but
Bozzlef Bozzle was very disaereeable.
Bozzle said things and made sugpes-
tions to him which were as bad as pins
stuck into his flesh. But Bozzle was
true to his employer, and could find out
facts. Had it not been for Bozzle, he
would have known nothing of the Col
onePs journey to Devonshire. Had it
not been for Bozzle he would never have
heard of the correspondence; and there
fore, when he left London, he gave Boz
zle rowing commission; and when he
went to Paris and from Paris EDWARDS.
over the Alps into Italy, he furnished
BoZZle with his address. At this time,
in the midst of all his misery, it never
occurred to him to inquire of himself
whether it might be possible that his
old friends were right, and that he him
self was wrong. From morning to night
he sang to himself melancholy silent
songs ofinward wailing as to the cruel
ty of his own lot in life; and, in the
mean time, he employed Bozzle to ind
out for him how far that cruelty was
carried.
Mr.. Bozzle was, of course, convinced
that the lady whom he was employed to
watch was no better than she ought to
be. That is the usual Bozzlian Ian
guage for broken VOWS, secrecy, intrigue,
dirt, and adultery. 1t was his business
to obtain evidence of her guilt. There
was no question to be solved as to her
innocence. The Bozzlian mind would
have regarded any such suggestion as
the product of green softness, the pos
session of which would have made him
quite unfit for his profession. He was
aware that ladies who are no better
| than they should be are often clever
so clever, as to make it necessary that
| the BoZZles who shall at last confonnd
them should be frst-rate Bozzles, Boz
zles quite at the top of their profession,
and therefore he went about his work
with great industry and much caution.
Colonel Osborne was at the present mo-
ment in Scotland. Bozzle was sure of
that. He Was quite in the north OF
Scotland. Bozzle had examined his
map, and had found that Wick, which
was the Coloners post-town, was very
far north indeed. He had half mind
to run down to Wick, as he was possess
ed by q certain honest zeal which made
him long to do something hard and
laborious; but his experience told him
that it was very easy for the Colonel to
come up to the neighborhood OF ST
i L. 10 r nf
go down to Wick, unless she were to
decide upon throwing herself into heI
lovers arms,-whereby BoZzle's werk
would be brought to an end. He there
fore confined his immediate operations
to st. Diddulphs.
He made acquaintance with one or
two important persons in and about
Mr.. Outhouse's parsonage. He became
very familiar with the post-man. He
arranged terms of intimacy, 1 am sorry
to say, with the house-maid; and, on the
third journey, he made an alliance with
the pOtboy at the Full Moon. The potboy
remembered we'll the fact of the child
being brought to "our 'ouse" as he call
ed the Full Moon; and he was enabled
to say, that the same "gent as had
ehO OOJ ohNheAstc NhNA
had since that been at the parsonage.
But Bozzle was quite quick enough to
perceive that all this had nothing to do
with the Colonel. He was led, indeed,
to fear that his governor" as he was
in the habit of calling Trevelyan in his
half-spoken soliloquies,-that his gov
ernor was not as true to him as he was
to his governor. What business had
that meddling fellow Stanbury ut St.
DiddulI hs?-for Trevelyan had not
thought it necessary to tell his satellite
that he had quarrelled with his friend.
Bozzle was grieved in his mind when he
learned that Stanbury's interference
was still to be dreaded; and wrote to his
governor, rather severely, to that effect;
but, when so writing, he was able to give
no further information. Facts, in such
cases, will not unravel themselves with
out much patience on the part of the
Investigators.
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