The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-17

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interested In the races; in short, he liked
being In London at this time OF the year
better than beinganywhere else In Europe,
and he insisted on remaining, and even
felt asort Of boyiSh satisfaction In aug
menting G%lendennings jealousy 10 the
utmost by constant offers OF attention To
the young wife.
BY the first Of July, Hugh's business
was concluded, and he took Agnes to
France and Switzerland for a month, but
! the two were no longer on terms OF atEec.
tlonate intimacy. Hugh was still Jealous,
and regarded his wife's steady GOODNESS as
q sign o Utmost chilling Indifference; Agnes,
, on her side, felt that to maintain q semb.
lance Of buoYant happiness when she felt
80 detected at the way she had been out.
ragged, was TO lessen her dignity as q wo.
man. The two sailed from HRyre for
New York on the l4th OF August, 1885,.
On the seventh day out, when they were
halfway across the ocean, Hugh Glenden.
ming was suddenly missed. There was no
trace OF him oil board the steamer, and It
was readily concluded that the rash and
unhappy young man had thrown himself
overheard.
1t was naturally the cruelest possible
trial for Agnes when she vas forced to
believe that her husband had committed
suicide. She knew, too, that he had been
dtsheartened by her GOODNESS; again aud
again she had repulsed him when he had
tried to have an explanation. Natural.
~, now that he was gone, all the generos.
ny Of her first love returned; she forgot
his faults and remembered only her own;
she accused herself OF cruelty and heart.
lessncss, and sorrowed like the despairing
Of widows.
It seemed natural, under the circum.
stances, that Agnesshould not only mourn,
but mourn with peculiar hopelessness, for
her young husband, who had been taken
from her only q few months after their
~wedding.day; she sorrowed q year, two
years, three years: but by that time her
family all began to make an effort to per-
suade her that 1t was wrong thus 10 con.
tnue expressing not herself butthem with
this long.past ailiiCtion. She was faithful
and tenacious Of Impressions, but at the
end oil four years she had resumed her or.
binary dress and begun onc more to min
gle In the society Of her mothers house.
She was more attractive than in her girl.
hood, and her story was too well known
and created a touching interest In her
youth and beauty, She had several adj
mirers, but not until George Dana return.
ed did she allow any n 10 come near her
as a lover. George had, perhaps, always
been fond Of her; he was, at any rate,
now ardently in love with her. Remem.
bering as Agnes did poor Glendenning's
jealousy OF the young man in London, it
was with some mental disquietude and
outward struggle that she allowed herself
to yield to the feelings that she could love
again, and love her cousin George.
However, his courtship was 80 far sue
cesstul that she promised TO marry him
when she had passed the fifth anniversary
Of her husbands death. That date, which
was to divide her old allegiance from her
new, was the Goth OF August, 1866. The
day passed quietly in the pleasant coun.
try-house. George Dana was to come in
the evening, and Agnes rose when she
heard the train whistling at the bend, and
said she would walk across the fields to
meet her lover. Every one smiled, and
no n offered to accompany her. The
family, consisting Of the father and mo-
Their OF Agnes, her three sisters. and four
Of her married sisters children, all sat on
the piazza waiting for Agnes and George
to return to tea.
Suddenly, Mary Holt exclaimed, 'If
Hugh G%lendenning were alive, l should
say that was he;" and she pointed To a
man who passed the house at a distance
OF some two rods, and who now at her
exclamation lifted his hat and bowed.
The sight of this mar created the most
powerful sensation in the group, and Mr..
Holt sprang TO his feet and went down to
the gate; but he had vanished. The like
ness to Hugh Glendenning had been
startling; not oaly his face, but his atti.
tude and gesture and gait, seemed to have
declared that 1t was Hugh G%lendenning
himself. In another moment George Dana
came running up, calling for help. He
had, he said, while crossing the fields to
meet Agnes, seen her in conversation with
aman wholooked like Hugh Glendenning,
and who strobe away on his approach, and
when he himself reached her she had
swooned away and was lying on the
ground.
The trouble which now overwhelmed
Agnes and her family was one OF those
cruel enigmatical troubles which take all
freshness out OF life. Agnes, when re-
stored to consciousness, declared that
while she was crossing the fields her hus,
band had suddenly started out from be-
hind q tree, caught her BY the arm, held
her tightly clutchcd, and said TO her in a
horrible tone, "Do not dare to marry that
mani ~ and that she remembered no more
until she opened her eyes and saw her
mother bending ovO her. A frightful
bruise on the tender flesh Of her arm cor.
roborated her story. The family had all
seen man who, II not Hugh Glendenning,
was his absolute likeness.
George Dana was the only one who
combated the truth OF these ideas; he de.
clared it to be wholly impossible that
GlendennlHg should be alive; he himself
had questioned the captain and officers
on board the steamer after the suicide five
years before. Everything pointed con-
clusiyely to the belief that the unhappy
man had been drowned. The steamer
had been searched over and over; on the
fatal day Of the disappearance they had
not even sighted q vessel or a boat; thus
there could have been no rescue from the
sea. He wa dead, George declared with
irresistible decision. When confronted
with tho fact that they had all seen Hugh
or his ghost, he declared it to be a chance
resemblance that Alice was dispirited
and nervous, and when the man touched
her, her disordered Imagination supplied
the words she believed him to have spo-
ken.
George, however, being broken. hearted
at the failure OF his engagement was not
TO 70 trusted as a counselor in such a
crisis, The marriage was given up. AID.
vertisenents were put in the principal
papers for a year, Imploring Hugh Glen
denning, il alive, TO communicate with his
wife and family, but not a word was
heard from him. Agnes naturally suffered
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