The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-18

grateful country was doing nothing
better for Sir Marmaduke, and an I'M
grateful Secretary of State at the Col
onial Office would not extend the term
during which be could regard himself
Is absent on special service. How
thankful he had been when first the
tidings reached him that he was to come
home at the expense of the Crown, and
without diminution of his official in
come! He had now been in England for
five months, with a per diem allowance,
with his very cabs paid for him, and he
was discontinued, .sullen, and with
nothing to comfort him but his official
grievance, because he could not be al
lowed to extend his period of special
service more than two months beyond
the time at which those special services
were in truth ended! There had been
change of Ministry in the last month,
and he had thought that conserVatiSe
Secretary of State would have oeen
kinder to him. "The Duke says eau
stay three months with leave OF ao-
sence, and have half my pay stoppeu.
I wonder whether it ever enters into hlS
anpust mind that even Colonial GOV
ernor must eat and drink" 1t was thus
he expressed his great grievance TO MS
wife "The Duke, however, had been
as ;nexorable as his predecessor, and
Sir Rowley, with his large family, was
Too wise to remain to the detriment OF
his rocket. In the meantime the clerks
in the office, who had greaned in spirit
over the ignorance displayed in his evil
dence before the committee, were whls-
pering among themselves that he ought
not to be sent back to his seat OF govern
ment at all.
Lady Rowley also was disappointed
uand nhsppy. She had expected 80
much pleasure from her Visit 10 hei
daughter, and she had received 30 llttie!
Emily's condition was very sad, but IN
her heart of hearts perhaps she groaned
more bitterly over all that Nora had
lost, than she did over the real sorrow
of her elder child. To have had the cup
at her lip, and then not to have tasted
it! And she had the solace of no COM
munion in this Stanbury as her son-in-
law, and not for worlds would she now
say o word against him to any one. She
had already taken him to her heart, and
she loved him. But to have had 1T al
most within her grasp to have had q
lord, the owner of Monkhams, for her
son-in-law! Poor Lady Rowley!
Sophie and Lucy, too, were returning
to their distant and dull Punishment
without any realization of their probable
but unexpressed ambition. They made
no complaint, but yet it was hard on
them that their sisters misfortune
should have prevented them from going
almost to o single dance. Poor Sophie
and poor Lucy! They must go, and we
shall hear no more about them. 1t was
thought we'll that Nora should not go
down with them to Southampton.
What good would her going do' "God
bless you, my darling" said the mother,
as she held her child in her arms.
"Geod-by, dear mamma"
"Give my best love to Hugh, and tell
him that / pray him with my las5 word
be good to you" Even then she was
thinking of Lord Peterborough, but the
memory of what might have been was
buried deep in her mind.
"Nora, tell me all about it," said
Lucy.
"There will be nothing to tell" said
Nora.
"Tell it all the same," said Lucy.
"And bring Hugh ont to write book
of travels about the Mandarins. No
body has ever written book about the
So they parted; and when
Sir Marmaduke and his party were taken
off in two cabs to the Waterloo Station,
Nora was taken in one cab to Eccleston
Square.
To be Continued.