The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-06

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at hand, his second courtship might have
considerably tried his patience, and would
certainly have been carried on under much
greater difficulties. But Just now, IN her
excitement and happy confusion, she fortu.
nately forgot everything but her 10Y at
seeing him, and all she could saw, still
half crying, was u thought you were
not comingp
"Not comingl But you got my lettersI
0 Lily, why didn't you answer themP |
begged you to send me only one line.
have been desperate at getting not sin.
gle word from you r.
He was calling her Lily, lust as he used
10 dol Miss Brown felt as Il she were no
longer Miss Brown But how could she
helpitr She could only stare at him in
bewildermcnt.
"You got my letterse Surely YOU got
my letters2" he repeated
~ never got one"
"You never got my lettes But adj.
dressed them here, to this house-Mrs.
Dixon, 10 Green Street"
"Alrs. Dixon" She drew her hand
away from him now, and looked suddenly
offended and digniled. " am not Mrs.
Dixon" Then, as she thought how very
nearly she had escaped being Mrs. Dixon,
she could have cried with vexation at the
idea Of having had her name so COUPLED
with her cousins as to give any foundation
for such report. But Mr.. Lawrence was
too impatient to find out the truth TO give
her time for her private speculations. He
had first TO explain TO her how his mistake
had arisen: how, first Of oil, he had been
misled by an old report Of her engage.
ment to Mr. Dixon. And again Miss
Brown blushed with annoyance at the re.
collection OF her girlish mistake. Then
he told her that he had next heard of her
having been seen in Australia with her
husband; and this puzzled them both.
until she remembered that cousin OF the
Dixons had actually married, and gone
out with his wife to Australia about that
time. aLgtI
"Mrs. Dixon was described to me as
tall, and fair, and slender; and seemed
able to think Of no other tall, slender,
fair woman in the world but yourself
Then, aherwards-years aiter-I CHANGED
to fall in again with the same man who
had told me, as believed, that he knew
you; and he told me then that he had
hcaru you were widow, but that you
were still living in Australia with some
of your own friends; and he gave me their
name. | wrote to what / thought was
your address; but my letters came back TO
me, and | supposed you had gone to live
elsewhere, or perhaps you had returned
home. And to think that you have been
here all the time! Why, shall keep
thinking OF you still as II you had been
out in Australia have been always
lanCying you there'
She smiled. ~ have never been out of
England in my lie. All supposing | had
been out Of England now, this summer!
How little thought - She stopped
but at that moment she could have reioic.
ed in her heart over that loss of fortune
which had kept her at home.
Then he looked at her with the old
leOk, which she remembered so we'll
"Will you be willing TO leave England
now? You refused me once, Lily; but
told you could wait. Ihave waited for
You twonty.one years. It's long time"
It was long time. No one knew bet.
ter than she did how long these years had
bc?n but she was not prepared To find
them come to this sudden ending. In her
embarrassment, she tried to put his cues.
ton aside, as il she had not heard it.
"You-you are going out 10 Australia
HgalnT she said, looking away from him. \
ITO Australian No; Ihave nothing to
do in Australia, now that have found
you: But II ask you to come out to
India with mel
ITO Indiap
"DO you dislike the idea of India? All,
that's what was afraid Of"
He looked so disappointed, that she
reused herselfto try to understand what
he wanted Of her, or rather TO try TO real.
ize it.
II wouldn't ask you," he went on anx-
iously, though, after all, you wouldn't
find India a bad place. Only, I have
some years Of work In'me vel: and the
truth is, Lily, l had set my mind on max
ing some more money; though we have
enough to live on; thank God We have
plenty to live on, even Il we remain IN
this country, and I never sec India again.
Only, Of course, we shan't be 80 rich as
we might have been, and as l wanted to
be for your sake"
She listened to him, but still In per
plexity that almost oVerpowered her very
happiness; in some terror too, it must be
owned, at that, tn her, alarming prospect
OF lndia--terrOr for his sake as well as
for her own. .es-sEyys III
1--WE" He spoke as II they were al.
ready one. But did he Gnde fstand how
little she could bring to the common
stoclkg If he wished 70 make money, did
he know what q hopeless, useless wife lie
was going 10 burden himself with? Ali
II she had only had her fortune! But no;
she was not going to wish for that back
again-she had got something better; and
perhaps he would not mind.
~ am. very poor" she said, looking at
him almost pleadingly.
Don't speak about that; have enough
for us BOTH" ~ r.
"But ought to tell you; and yet, l
suppose, it doesn't natter She was
thinking whether she ought to tell him the
story Of her brief fortune; but she was
reluctant TO speak Of it.
"There's one thing l want you to tell
me-" he said earnestly; "you won't grudge
my giving up the half of this money ?
You never answered the letter wrote 10
you aboutit, telling you the whole story.
Stay, though" he continued, seeing her
look Of establishment at hearing hin. speak
oil giving up money; "you didn't get my
letters-I forgot that Why, then, have
everything to tell you still. First OF all,
| don't believe you know that my name
has been changed since you knew me-"
"Yonr name You are Charles Law.
renee" 7 rr,---rs,-- Il
mo; am Charles Forlescue"
CHAPTER NIL. .84Aa.. 90
Mr. Finch, who had been absent in
London On some special business, had re.
turned TO MillchesIer, and without "a