The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-04
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER XCVIII.
Continued

Three day after that Nora visited
Twickenham from Monkhams, in obedi-
ence to a telegram from her sister.
Louis" she said, chad become so much
weaker, that she hardly dared to be
alone with him. Would Nora come to
heri" Nora came, of course, and Hugh
met her at the station, and brought her
with him to the cottage. He asked
whether he ght see Trevelyan, bat
Was told that IL would better that he
should ust He had been almost con-
tinually silent since the last dispute
which he had with his wife; but he had
given little signs that he was
always thinking of the manner in
which he had been brought home
by her from Italy, and of the
story she had told him of her mode
of inducing him to come. Hugh Stan
bury had been her partner in that
struggle, and would probably be receiv
ed, if not with sullen silence, then with
some attempt at rebuke. But Hugh
did see DR.. Nevill, and learned from
him that it was hardly possible that
Trevelyan should live many hours
ale has worn himself on ;" said the
uOClbI, anu luClt 10 ltlN III Ulul
by which he can lay hold of life again"
Of Nora, her brother. in-law took but
little netice, and never again referred
in her hearing to the great trouble of
his life. He said to her word or two
about Monk hams, and asked IA question
now and again as TO Lord Peterborough
whom, however, he always called Mr..
GlascOck; but Hugh Stanbury's name
was never mentioned by him There
was feeling in his mind that at the
very last he had been dipped in being
brought To England, and that Stanbury
had assls, ed in the deception. To his
wife be would whisper little petulant
regrets for the loss of the comforts OF
Casaluuga, and would speak of the air
OF Italy, and of Italian skies, and of
the Italian sun, as though he had enjoy
ed at his Sienese villa all the luXuries
which climate can give, and would have
enjoyed them S ill, had he been allowed
TO remain there. To all this she would
say nothing. She knew now that he
was failing quickly and there was only
one subject on which she either fear
ed or hoped to hear him speak. Before
No lett her for ever and ever, would he
tell her that he had not doubted her
fsiUhl
She had long discussions with Nora on
the matter, as though all the future of
her life depended on it. 1t was in vain
that Nora tried 10 make her understand
that If hereafter the spirit of her hus.
band could know anything of the trou.
bles of his mortal lite, could ever look
back to the things which he had done
in the flesh, then would he certainly
know the truth, and all suspicion would
be at an end. And if not, If there was
to be no such retrospect, what did it
matter now, for these few last hours be.
fore the coil should be shaken off, aud
all doubt and all sorrow should be at an
end I But the wife, who was soon to be
q widow, yearned TO be acquitted in this
world by him to whom her guilt or her
innocence had been q matter of sRch
vital Importance.
ale has never thought it," said
Nora.
But if he would say so! If he would
only look II! 1t will be all in all to me
as long as live in this world" Aud
tnen' though they had determined be.
tween Ihemse!Vesin spoken words never
'h' aSdiu Us one VINO nau
oeen mad, IN all their thoughts
and actions toward him they treat.
ed nun as though he were less re-
sponsible than an infant. And he was
mad-mad, though every doctor in En%'
land had called him sane. Had ba ~
been mad, he must have been n 81 NOV
he could not have tortured as be b"d
done, the woman to whom he owed ~
closest protection which one human he
ing can give to another.
During these last days and nights she
never left him. She had done her duty
to him well, at any rate, since the time
when she had been enabled to come
near him in Italy, 1t may be that in
the hrst days of their quarrel, she had
not been regardful, as she should have
been, of husbands will-that she
nlght have escaped this tragedy by sub
mltting herself to the mans wishes, a.
h ne haa always been ready to submit,
nsIsei to his words. Had she been
SUn, always to keep her neck in the
uGss under his foot, their married lift,
might nave been passed without ont