The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-02

to remain silent, and hers to demand an
answer. ~ have borne MUCH she con-
tinued. "because l would not vex you in
your illness"
"You have borne muchp
"Indeed and indeed, yes. What wo-
man has ever borne more ~
Sand :" said he.
"Dear Louis, let us understand each
other at last. Of what do you accuse
me! Let US, at any rate, know each
others thoughts on this matter, of which
each of US is ever thinking
81 make 10 new accusation
L must protest then against your using
words which seem to convey accusation.
Since marriages were first known upon
earth, no woman has ever been truer to
her husband than / have been to you"
"Mere you lying to me then at Casa
lunga, when you acknowledged tnat
yen had been false to your duties r.
"If acknowled that, / did lie.
ever said that; but yet did lie, belieV,
ing it to be best for you that l Should
do so. For YOUR bonor's sake, for the
child's sake, weak as You are, Louis, 1
must protest that it was SO. l nave
never injured you by deed or thought"
"Aud vet you have lied to me! Is a
lie No iniury-and such lie! Emily,
wby did you lie to ME : You will tell me
tomorrow that you never lied, and never
owned that you had lied"
Though it should kill him, she must
tell him the truth now. "You were
very ill at Casalunga," she said, after a
pause.
"Bnt not so i'll as am now. / could
breathe that air. l could live there. Had
| remained, / should have been well
n6w,-but what of that !"
"Louis, you were dying there. Pray,
pray listen to me. We thought that
yen were dying; and we knew also
that you would be taken from that
house."
"That was my affair. Do you mean
that / could not keep house over my
head ?" At this moment he was halt
lying, half sitting, in large easy-chair
in the little drawing-room of their cot
tage, to which he had been carried from
the adjoining bedroom. When not
excited, he would sit for hours without
moving, gazing through the open WIN
dow, sometimes with some pretext of q
book lying within the reach Of his hand
but almost without strength to lift IL
and certainly without power to read it
But now he had worked himself up Il
SO much energy that he almost raised
himself up III his chair, as he turDeC
toward his wife. Had l not the worlC
before NE TO choose a house in ~
'rhey would have put you some
here, and l could not have reached
you"
"Iu a madhouse, you mean. Yes,-i.
you had told them"
Twill you listen, dear Louis 7 We
knew that il was our duty 10 bring yor
hone; aud a. you would not let ME com,
10 v u, ana serve you, and assist you Il
come here where You TO safe, unless
owned thai you had been right, | SAID
thai You had been right"
Aud il was lie you say now ="
"All that is nothing. | cannot &c
through il; nor should you. There is
the only question. You do not think
that have been-I need not say the
thing, You do not think that 7" AS she
asked the question, she knelt beside
him, aud took his hand il hers, and
kissed il, "Say thai you do not think
that, and Will never trouble your FUR
Their about the past"
Yes, that Is 1t. You will new. l
trouble me" She glanced up into bis
face and saw there the old look which
he used to wear when he was at Willes
den and at Casalunga; and there had
come again the old one in which he had
spoken To her in the bitterness of his
wIath-the look and the tone which had
made her sure that he was mailman
The craft and subtlety OF women passe,
every thing ~ he said. "And so at las,
| am to tell you that from the beginning
it has been my doing. | will never say
so, though should die in refusing to d.
| it,"
J After that there was no possibility o
further conversation, for there cam
upon him ii OF. coughing, and then b
swooned; and in half an hour he was il
he'd, and DR.. Nevill was by his side
You must not speak to him at all OIL
this matter" said the doctor. "But
| he speaks to me! ?" she asked. LET i
pass" said the doctor. Let the subjec
he got rid of with as much ease as yol
can. He is very i'll now, and even thi
might have killed him." Nevertheless
though this seemed TO be stern, DR.
Nevill was very kind to her, declaring
that the hallucination in her husband
MUD did not really consist of belle
in her infdelity, hut arose from al
obstinate determination TO yield moth
ing. "He does not believe it; but he feel
that were he to say as much, his hand
would be weakened and yours strength
ened."
Can he, then, be in his sane mind 7
an one sense all misconduct is proc
ofiusanity," said the doctor. "ln his cas-
the weakness of the mind has beeI
consequent upon the weakness OF tn
body.
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