The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-07

| nave CONSTITUTIONAL paAOr, ana head
of dark hair! The world will insist
upon elevating him into a blighted be.
ing, with a chronic wolf hard at work
under his waistcoat Iuse myself up by
working too hard over difficult will
case, in which some fresOme old man
leaves his youngest son forty thousand
pounds upon half sheet of nOte-paper;
and the world, meeting me in Switzer-
land. travelling to recruit myself, comes
home and writes me down-unhappy!
Now. isn't it too bad? HIwere blessed
with red hair and fat face, might
break my heart once in three months
without any of my sympathetic friends
troubling themselves about the tract
ure"
"My dear Mr.. Margrave," said Eli
nor-her voice, in spite of herself, trem-
bling little-'I am really now quite
an old married woman; and, presuming
on that fact, may venture to speak to
you with entire candor, may 1 nOt?''
with entire candor, certainly"
There is the old SILVER in the dark eye
lashes, and the white lids droop over the
handsome brown eyes, as Horace Mar
grave looks down at the hat which
swings backwards and forwards in his
liStless hand.
"Then, Mr.. Margrave, my dear guard,
ian, for will will call you by that
old name, which can remember speak
ing for the very first time on the day of
my poor fathers funeral. Ohr' she
added, passionately, show well--how
we'll remember that dreary, wretched,
terrible day! can see you now, as
saw you then, standing in the deep en-
brasure of the window in the little
library, in the dear, dear Scottish home,
looking down at me so compassionately,
with dark, mournful eyes. l was such
a child then. can hear your low. deep
voice, as heard it on that day. saying
to me: Ellinor, your dead father has
placed solemn trust in my hands. l
am young. may not be as good or as
high-minded man as, to his coniiding
mind, seemed to be; there may be
something of constitutional weakness
and irresOlution in my character, which
may render me, perhaps, by no means
the fittest person he. could have chosen
for your guardian; but so deeply do 1
feel the trust implied in his d wing words.
that 1 swear, by my hope in Heaven, by
my memory of the dead, by my honor
as a man and a gentleman, to discharge
the responsibilities imposed upon me.
as an honest man and an honorable
gentleman should discharge them!''
'Ellinor! Ellinor! for PHYS sake"
he cried, in a broken voice, clasping one
white hand convulsively over his avert
ed face.
81 do wrong" she said, "to recall
that melancholy day. You did-you did
discharge every duty nobly, honestly,
honorably; but now-now you abandon
me entirely to the husband, not of my
choice, but imposed upon me by hard
and cruel necessity, and you do all in
your power to make us strangers. Yet,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are not happy!'
mot happy!' He raises his head,
and laughs bitterly. "My dear Mrs.
Dalton, this is such childish talk about
happiness and unhappiness-two words
which are only used in a lady's novel,
in which the heroine is unhappy through
two volumes and three-quarters, and
unutterably blest in the last chapter. In
the practical world we don't talk about
happiness and unhappiness; our phrases
are, failure and success. A man gets
the woolsack, and he is successful; or
he tries for it all his life, and never gets
it-and we shrug our shoulders and say
that he is unfortunate. But a happy
man, my dear Ellinor-did you ever see
one?''
"You mystify me Mr.. Margrave; but
you do not answer me"
TO BE CONTINUED