The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-16

any moment to don MS arilor an" "aS
a deadly warfare with animal food. lie
found a disciple in Miss Walker. VINO
proved an admiring satellite amazingly
soon after learning what MIR. I0iy S
business standing actually was, US MIS-
Skipwell's lady boarders freely remarked.
A voting girl entered the dining
room. leading n deformed child. The
GIRL was so lovely in the freshness OF II
Hebe-like bloom that the dingy room
seemed to brighten for her presence. She
took her place at side table. Mrs.
Gallinipper and the politicians wife as
the leadIng ladies Of the establishment,
ignored her, and began TO whisper to
Miss Walker
IL have something in my room
which will please you believe, he said,
with llaltering eagerness. perhaps you
will ask Miss Lottie and Henry to step
in also after dinner"
Really you are too kind, murmured
Miss Walker, glancing up through her
evclashes in a manner that would have
struck terror to the soul of any man less
blind than the vegetarian.
The Girl Lottie was belle of the fourth
fioor. There are better schools for
maidens than pau,ng On the landing OF
a bording house to laugh and chat
with half dozen young men, but
this had Mentor in the little detorm-
ed brother Henry, Tor whom she toiIed
NIL day in the store Of Drudge y Co.
When the laughter became hilarious, a
thin hand plucked at Lotties dre,s.
"Como am see my last doll, sister. |
don't like you when you speak 50 loud.
Ladies speak softly, like Mrs. CALI
nipper," Lottie would retort, dchantly,
smarting under some slight from the
first floor. I'm not u lady you know
Then she would 90 quietly to admire
the doll but all the same Mrs. Gallinip-
per was the Mordecai in Lotties gate.
Robert brought balm to wounded
vanity in unvarying devotion. He was
II Young man OF hopeful temperament
and large nose, prone to excessively gay
cravats. With true feminine coquctry,
Lo,tie now smiled on her lover, bewitch-
ingly. and then seorned his humble offer
ings.
@Where are you going?' inquired
the fourth floor that evening, for the
most part with n pipe in it, mouth.
Lottie's response was by ne means
choice, vet the lips that framed it were
ROSY and soft:
aOld Toly has invitedius down stairs
81 think he is going to marry Miss
Walker; he's always whispering to her
with such queer look" said Henry.
The furnished chandelier shed all Its
radiance down on the flower pyramid
before which to two young visitor paused
in specifies delight, the boy withtightly
clasped hands.
As for Mr.. Toly he seemed to have
suddenly gone mad. He skipped Wild Y
about his domlnions in tiuttcr Of agi-
tation; he presented the two young
ladies with boxes of bonb0ns; he insisted
on having his health drunk in g HISS OF
sherry all around; and when he placed
the largest pot Of heliotrope in Henry :
arms. he became hero in Lotties eyes.
"Oh, how good you are" cried ardent
impulsive sistcrhood, resting one pcachy
cheek, with a nesting movement, on
the yellow hand of the host.
This trining incident ocrasioned deli
rum On Il e par. o cur wolthy vegetarian.
When his guests had departed, and the
diamond seemed to scintillate before his
eyes. he paced the floor with light. un-
equal footsteps. Love may klndie as
pure and exalted a flame at No. 10
Place rs in more favored localities.
The manhood of Mr.. Toly had been un
disturbed by throb Of passion; he had
devoted himself TO the sale of steel pens
and the study of his own constitution.
And now merry, dimpled face nav
inc once been mirrored IN his soul, the
DEPTHS were stirred and troubled forever.
His senses had been taken captive in II
sudden overwhelming rush of emotion,
and oatmeal porrldge, douchc baths,
flesh brll. hes and the water cure treat
meut became rs dross. Nature resented
the Interference of Il shop girl, who
acted as a drag on the wheels Of Il very
complicated machinery, and the reac-
ton was more alarming from the fact
of Mr.. Toys having treated himself rs
if made Of glass for so many years.
The soft cheek had touched his hand,
the bright eye, had bcamed on him
kindly; for two hours he had been per-
mittcd to gIoat on the golden hair, deli
cate little nose, and shell-like ear. So
Mr.. Toly worshipped his divinity through
the midnight hours, after his own fancy,
and built air-castles Of surprising spIen-
dor, such rs had never before haunted
his brain.
ale is areal good old thing was
fair Lottie's comment rs she carried
Henry's gift up stairs.
Robert, who was not included in Mr..
Toly's select invitation, sat on Il trunk in
his hall reading newspaper beneath II
haring gasjct. There was not much fun
IN the evening, but Robert made the
best OF it. The heliotrope was received
by the fourth floor with admiration,
partly because of its fragrance, but
chiefly to CRAFTY Henry. Robert alone
was dubious. Was Mr.. Toly growing
sweet on Lottie? What did it all mean?
The belle OF the fourth floor was in II
pcrverse mood; she even sailed off with
out saying good night. Once alone she
drew from her pocket letter already
pcruscd many times that day. The paper
was scented, the handwriting easy and
graceful, and totally unlike Roberts
round, clerkly hand. Long after Henry
slept she sat gazing with wide-open eyes
into the gulf before her.
Miss Walker retired with a pensiye
smile. She was disposed to regard Mr..
Toys vugarics Of the evening lenientiy.
"Poor man" she said, with gentle
sigh, II am sure that he needs some one
to take care of him." Then she peeped
into the bOnbon box, ana was not sur
prised to find verse of poetry, written
in II spidery hand with one of Mr.. Toys
patent pens dwelling with ungrammatlcal
rapture on her eyes and complexion.
.'He never did ii before, evidently,
reflected this wise young woman who
had her own way to make in the world.
She received the poetry none the less
complacrntlv that il was intended Tor