The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-05

another mans wife. but tneIe Will DC
no severity in my first proposition. As
for v tbe cbild.-if approve of the place
IN wbicb she lives, as do at present.
he shall remain with her for nine
months in the year till he is six years
old. Then he must come to me. And
he shall come to me altogether if she
sees or hears from that man. l believe
that $500 q year will enable her to live
with all comfort under your mothers
roof"
"As to that" said Stanbury, slowly,
~ suppose had better tell you at once,
that the Nuncombe Putney arrangement
cannot be considered as permanent"
|t."Why noti"
because my mother is timid, and ner-
vous, and altogether unused to the
world"
"That unfortunate woman is to be
sent away,-even from Nuncombe Put
ney."
understand me, Trevelyan."
81 understand you. Understand you
most thoroughly. Nor do / wonder at
it in the least. Do not suppose that |
am angry with your mother, or with
your sister. / have no right to expect
that they should keep her after that
man has made his way into their house.
| can we'll conceive that no honest,
high-minded lady would do So"
at is not that at all"
"But it is that How can you tell me
that it isn't Z And yet you would have
me believe that | am not disgraced!"
As he said this. Treyelyan got up and
walked about the room, tearing his hair
with his hands. He was in truth a
wretched man, from whose mind all eX-
pectation of happiness was banished;
who regarded his own position as one OF
incurable ignominy,-looking upon
himself as one who had been made unfit
for society by no fault of his own.
What was he to do with the wretched
woman who could be kept from the evil
of her pernicious vanity by no gentle
custody, whom no more distant retire
ment would make safe from the effects
of her own ignorance, folly, and obstl-
nacyf
"When is she to 60 7" he asked, in a
low, sepulchral tone,-as though these
new tidings that had come upon him
had been fatal, laden with doom, and
| finally subversive Of all chance even OF
tranquility.
"When you and she may please"
"That is all very well; but let me
know the truth. would not have yeul
mothers house-contaminated but may
she remain there for week 7"
Stanbury jumped from his seat with
an oath. 81 tell You what it is, Trevel'
yam, if you speak Of your wife in that
way, will not listen to you. 1t is I'M
manly and untrue to say that her pres
ence can-contamiRate any house"
"That is very fine. 1t may be chival'
rous in you to tell me, on her behalf,
that i am liar, and that | am not a
man.
"You drive me to it," ..
"But what am to think, when you
are forced to declare that this unfOrta-
nate woman cannot be allowed to re-
main at your mothers house,-a house
which has been especially taken with
reference to shelter for her She has
been received, with the idea that she
would be discreet. She has been indis-
Greet past belief, and she is TO be turned
out,-most deservedly. Heaven and
earth ! where shall find roof Tor her
head ~ Trevelyan, as he said this, was
walking about the room with his hands
stretched up towards the ceiling; and
as his friend was attempting to make
him comprehend that there was no in
tention on the part of any one to ban
ish Mrs. Trevelyan from the Clock
Hyuse, at least for some months to
come,-not even till after Christmas,
unless some satisfactory arrangement
could be sooner made,-the door of the
room was opened by the boy, who
called himself clerk, and who acted as
| Trevelyau's servant in the chambers,
and third person was shown in the
room. That third person was Mr.. Boz
zle. As no name was given, Stanbury
did not at first know Mr.. BOzzle; but he
had not had his eye on Mr.. Bozzle for
half a minute before he recognized the
ex-policeman by the outward attributes
and signs of his profession.
ooh is that you, Mr.. BOzzle 7" said
Trevelyan as the great man made his
bow of salutation. "Well,--what is it'"
To be Continued