The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-09
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER XVIII,


Mrs. Stanbury, when tho letter had
been read to her, held up both her
hands in despair. Dear, dear" she ex-
claimed,-"O, dear" II
"She had such pleasure in wrltlnglt,
said Priscilla, chat one ought hardly |
40 beprudpe il her" The blacklist spot
in the character of Priscilla Stanbury
was her hatred for her aunt in Exeter.
She knew that her aunt had high quail
tiles, and yet she hated her amt. she
was we'll aware that her aunt was re-
garded as a shining light by very many
good people in the county, and yet she
hated her aunt. lt was now triumph
To her that her aunt had fallen into SO
terrible q quagmirc, and she was by no
means disposed TO let the SHINING old
woman easily out of it.
'It is as pretty specimen" she said,
Gas ever knew of malice and caves
dropping combined"
"Don't use such hard words, my
dear"
E"Look at her words to Us" said Pris-
ella. "What business has she to talk
to YOU about the credit OF the family
and abomnable disgrace You have
held your head upin poverty, while she
has been rolling in money"
"She has been very good to Hugh
and now to DOrethy."
'IfI were Dorothy would have none
of her goodness. She likes some one to
trample on,-some one of the name TO
patrouize. She sha'nt tramPle on You
and me, mamma"
Then there was discussion as to
what should be done, or rather dis
course i'm which Priscilla explained
what she thought fit to do. Moth
ing, she decided, should be said TO Mrs.
Trevelyan on the subject; but an answer
should be sent to Aunt Stanbury. Pris-
ella herself would write this answer,
and herself would sign it. There was
some difference OF opinion on thlspolnt,
as Mrs. Stanbury thought that If she
might be allowed to put her name to it,
even though Priscilla should write it,
the wording of it wnuld be made, III
some degree, mild,-to suit her own
character. But her daughter was i'm
perative, and she gave way.
at shall be mild enough in words
said Priscilla, "aUd very short
Then she wrote her letter as fol-
lows -
NUNgoMBE PuTSEN, August !. 80
DEAR AUNT STANBURY,-
"You have found mares nest. The
gentleman you speak of has never been
here at all, and the people who bring
you news have probably hOaNed you.
don't think that mamma has ever dis
graced the family, and You can have no
reason for thinking that she ever will.
You should, at any rate, be sure of what
You are sayiRg before you make such
cruel accusations.
"Yours truly,
PRISCILLA STANBURN.
"P. S.-Auother gentleman did call
here,-not to see Mrs. TIeveiyau; but !
suppose mammals house need not be
closed against all visitors"
Poor Dorothy had passed evil hours
from the moment in which her aunt had
so far certified herself as to Colonel Os-
boTne's visit to NuncOmbe as TO make
her feel it to be incumbent on her TO in.
terfere. After much consideration Miss
Stanbury had told her niece the dread
ful news, and had told also what she
intended to do. Dorothy, who was in
truth Mortified at the inlqulty of the
fact which was related, aud who never
dreamed of doubling the truth of her
aunt's information, hardly knew how
TO interpOSe. IL am sure mamma won't
let there be anything wroag.' she had
said.
"Aud you dou't call this wrong ?"
said Miss SJanbury, IN - tone OF mdlS-
nation.
"But perhaps mamma Will tell them
to GO" .n ham. .,. no.
Rut he was allowed To Oe there for
hours. And now three days have pass
ed. and there is no sign of anything be-
ing done. He came aud went, aud may
come again when he pleaSeS. still Do
rothy pleaded. IL shall do my duty,
said Miss Stanbury.
am qalte sure mamma will do moth
ing wrong said Dorothy. But the let
ter was written and s;nt, and the answer
to the letter reached the house in the
Close in due time
When Miss Stanbury had read and
re-read the very short reply which her
niece had written, she became ar first
pale with dismay, aud then red with
renewed vigor aud obStinaCy. She had
made herself, as she thought, quite Ger
tain of her facts before she had acted on
her information. There was some equiv
ncation, some most unworthy deceit, in
Priscilla's letter. Or could IL be posi-
BILE that she herself had been miStakenl
Another gentleman had been there
not, however, with the object of seeing
Mrs. Trevelya1! So said Priscilla. But
she had made herself sure that the man
in question was a man from London
middle-aged man from London,-wh
had specially asked for Mrs. Trevelyan,
and who had once been known to Mrs.
Clegg at the Lessboro' Inn to be Mrs.