The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-12

/ been Wholly unexpected by her; she had
4 been making her quiet investigations, and
had OWNED that Renton had been palter.
ing with the girl In all that time when she
4 had been waiting for him to speak ideclsi.
/ gelyi 10 herself She had felts 10 be h!lre,
that that was over and done with since
the morning when he babe her farewell
before his Journey, and made her heart
beat 80 with Joy as he slipped the handker.
Chief ring on her own fipger; but when
days had passed without the receipt Of q
lline' from him, She ad'beguat0 fear that
his flckleness had the better Of him again.
She had wondered, during those silent
days, Il Amabel could give no further DC,
cotntpfl hima she1 had reasoned eihal \
some kind fortune would remove Amahel
for q time, all would be well. And now,
as she sat there gazing on the sapphire,
every thing that she could do was TO re-
peat over and ever to herself, II must put
her out Of the wayi"
She would make sure OF the thing first.
She hooked up at sAmabels HAPPY lace.
"You are wearing Mr.. Renton's ring"
\ sTaiIams engaged toaMr. Repson1E gsn7
sSered the triumphant girlSwithhIa deep
soft blush. :.
~ suppose ! need not ask you, then, II
you have heard from him since he went
away?" $4,000,
"0h, every day said Amable. HE Is
80 good to me!' There was something
appealing inlthe girpS attitude; she was
| quite Honora's age, and was her teacher,
yet somehow seemed very much weaker
and younger; she was halt conscious, per-
haps, thai, she had, though unwittingly,
| robbed the other Of the love Of o lifetime;
she seemed almost 10 ask pardon as she
stood beside he, with her down-dropped
hands clasped together. and her down
dropped eyelidsyeiltng the depth OF her
eyes, as II they might reveal too much
happiness when they liiteds -"He- Is so
good to me,g said Amable.
"How Can he help it?" said Honora
briefly. And she looked at tho girl in her
indigo. hued dress, with the rich carna=
lions and creams Sof lief clear dark skin,
andfth smile that bro6ded over her bliss,
and she admired her and hated her to-
gether.
~ must put her out Of the way" re-
peated Honora. And she sat repeating 1t
long after Amahel had gone. "She has no
friends to inquire after her" she said Of
last. "And as for him, he will presently
torgeti, 1tcanIonly be the intatuation OF
d moment lthati conquering tho purpose
oil years. Were she but removed, he
would return to me and be as he was be-
fore. Why should let her rob me| she
cried aloud. "Hc was mine! he Is mine!
I. 10 only the glamour Of her colors and
lustres, her lovely flesh and blood, that
obscures our love. Asyear with her placid
stupidities and iminauderies would
yex his soul out OF bis body, and siie Too.
would be merely wretched. And l will
do her no harm, indeed" she added, pres
emily. "If shut her up half dozen
years she will be In no worse slavery or
prison bounds than she Is now, as she
goes through the drudgery of her dreary
round OF lessons. And when she Is free
| I am rich-she shall have an annuity
awaiting her that will secure her forever
from care and work, and she will be still
voting, and she will find other lovers.
What can shc know Of love? What Is her
passion EofJ two months beside mine, that
has grown with my growth and strength.
ened with, my strength? And by that
time his late will haye been settled. He
will have searched tor her little while,
will have Jailed, will have come TO me for
consolation, will have found It, and ! will
have my own again !, she cried. "He
was minei He is mine! He shall be
mine AS she stood there in the. sun
shine white, and with radiant eyes and
fierce, strong smile, she was the picture OF
triumph and defiance, n,C ilr
Wealth can do many things In a great
and wicked city. It can hire strong arms
and hard hearts; Ii can have coaches
waiting 10 the shadow Of appointed places
tonight, II yesterday missed, and 'to'mor.
| row L today misses; II can purchase Ger.
tiicates Of physicians; 1t can secure the
silence and the services of theLkeepers OF
the insane. And 1t did all that for Honora.
And when the iron gates had changed be.
| hind her rival, and she knew that I'LL she
spoke the word the girl would see no sun
shine save that which fell through agrate,
she sat down and awaited tho lover to re.
tain: whom: she had wrought such evil.
The Wild wretchedness and woe OF the
wailing girl within those cruel walls, the
struggles, the appeals, the frnitless efforts,
the despair that was akin to madness-all
these things mattered not to Honora now.
She would not be troubled by them. ut
may as we'll be she as ,".she said. ut
mad 10 be one Of US. Whattwill he think
Of her? What want him to think Of her
:--that she is false and vile as she Is fair !
Nenton, come !"
But Amabel Burney, In saying she had
not q friend In the world, had reckoned
without her host-or, rather, as we
should say, her hostess; for the person
with whom she had her home had not
seen the little maiden going In and out al.
ways so happy, 80 lindustrious, so bright
without giving her many o kind and :loy-
ling thought. And now when the child did
NOT come home, but her music, her dresses,
her letters, were all lying In her room as
she had loft them,day after day untouched,
the good woman became alarmed, visited
the Chiefyoi Police, turned over the let
tiers ill abe found the addressjand wrote
to Andrew Renton, and then went on
finishing the white silk wedding-dress,
though she dropped many o tear on the
seams ~ GI.3l 6S AsA9 n W.
And 50 Andrew Renton came came
sooner than be was expected, and un-
known OF first to any but the Chief and
the person who had sent for him, while
lallhis heart was awake and alive and
aaame. Fl chad needed but such thing
to make him o man; and now, fixed OF
purpose, sleepless and tireless, and racked
with o thousand pangs, he was working
Tout by dayIand by night the salvation Of
the lost girl Itistrue, 1.-The Chief had q
suspicion, for his own part, that i might