Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-27
HOW TOWOOA WOMAN
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face without Dlushlng. AS lor ner ny
ure, that spoke for itself so well thai
many maidens coveted 1t, as Mrs. Mat
tleway well knew.
Her greatest attraction, however, &C
cording to many gentlemen who adj
mired her, was the house she lived In
for it belonged to her, it was in a very
good street, it was tastefully furnished
and there was no mortgage on 1t.
So Mrs. Mattleway vas the recipient
of innumerable attention, most o.
which she enjoyed. 1t was only when
men proposed that Mrs. Mattleway did
not enjoy their society. She had been
married once, and 50 dreadful was heI
mistake on that occasion that she did
not intend to repeat il. A spirited wo'
man who is nearly thirty must interest
herselfin something if she hasn't a hus-
band, so Mrs. Mattleway made attempts
at business. She invested q little mon
ey in a manufacturing enterprise, and
she took such solid comfort from eX-
aminations of balance sheets and week
IL statements that she was sure she had
a head for business; she therefore began
10 make ventures in the stock market.
The inevitable results followed, and
the first Of them was that Mrs. Matte
way became an enthusiastic gambler.
Two or three times she succeeded; for
her broker, Piatt Winston, was q very
Shrewd fellow, and wen his enemies
admitted; beside, he had hopes Of per-
.,,,l;,- NJ, Mafflawoy kO rouar-a he
decided "nO" she had spoken to him on
another subject a year or two before.
No one who Is possessed Of a single idea
can help talking of it to every one. So
Mrs. Mattleway began to make the
stock market subject to conversation
with her acquaintanceS. One of shese,
a journalists, named Barth, had known
so many persons afflicted with Wall
street malady that he recognized the
symptoms in Mrs. Mattleway's
case at once, and did all
he could to discourage the
lady's mania. But he did not succeed.
Mrs. Mattleway laughed q cruel little
laugh, and ventured deeper than be-
fore. When her ready money failed TO
keep good her margins she mOrtgaged
her tenement houses; then she mort
Caged her own residence; finally she
gave her individual notes, which WhiS-
ton discounted.
Then the crash came. The bottom
fell out" Of Watertle preferred, and
Mrs. Mattleway found herself nearly
penniless, Winston called upon her,
nobly offered to extricate her from all
her difficulties (which he could easily
do, as all her money had gone into his
own bank account, and asked i'll re-
turn only that she should reScind the
dreadful "No" Of year or two before.
Mrs. Mattleway sent Winston away
sOrrOwful; she had endured him only
as a shrewd broker, but he seemed not
to have been even that. She heard her
door. bell ~ring-could it be a visitor? A
servant came to the door of her cham
Der, but she would not let wen a SER
want see her face. She merely put her
hand to the edge of the door and took a
letter; it contained, beside a package,
the following:
DEAR Mrs. MATTLEwAY: | want
10 confess to some underhand proceed
iugs and pray for forgiveness. l have
for months been bribing Whiston's
book-keeper to let me know the extent
of your ventures, and have obtained
much more alarming information than
i bad expected.
1t il so seldom that a man can be OF
genuine service to a lady that l have
uuspeakable pleasure in asking you to
make use oflnclOsed government bonds,
of the face value of $50, 900, for as many
months or years as you like.
For fear you may suspect me of sell
fish motives and personal designs, /
shall start for Euroge in the morning
by the City of TimbuctOo, and remain
abroad for an indefinite time. Should
YOU change your name before | return,
please say to the fortunate man, for me,
that he ought to be the happiest being
alive. Very respectfully,
CLEMENT BARTH.
Mrs. Mattlewsy started again to cry,
but her rising spirits got the better OF
her rising tears, and she went into an
ecstacy of laughter. Here was a man
indeed! Could she accept his money!
She would, at any rate, but oh! for a
chance to thank him-to apologize to
him for having even thought him like
other men, though how could she have
avoided it when she often detected him
in the act of cycling her euriously?
1.-THE City of Timbuctoon ITO
morrow morningw "An indefinite
time" She sent for q newspaper, look
ed for the mail notices, and found the
steamer would sail at IL o'clock. She
called q messenger, wrote two or thrse
notes, tore them to bits, and finally
sent the following, with orders to get
Mr.. Barth's address at his Office, and
follow him until found:
DEAR Mr.. BARTH:-A thousand
thanks; but i cannot accept unless you
come and let me say Thank you be-
fore you start. The circumstances will
justify q very early morning CAL.
"Yours truly,
ORANGES MATTLEwAY."
Mrs. Mattleway did not sleep much
that night, and in the morning she as
tonished the cook by appearing in the
dining-rOom before eight O'Clock, de-
handing breakfast and eating scarcely
a mouthful. Then she ordered the par
Tors opened and aired at once, aud she
few to the windows 20 often that her
maid hurried up to the room Of Mrs.
MATHEW avs invalid mother and made
alarming reports. The clock struck
nine, after which Mrs. Mattleway
counted the moments, and locked ex-
pectantly at every carriage that passed,
but, alas! they merely carried gentle
men down town to business. AT half
past nine she seemed to be in a fever;
at ten she was half indignant and half
heart-siek. Two or three moments
later a carriage stopped with q crash at
the door, but not before Mrs. Mattle-
way vas at the window. Twas he!
Should she remain and seem to be
waiting for him, or should she hurry to
her room and come down cool and COM
posed? She tried to escape, but her
maid, who had been as close to the door
as her mistress had TO the window, adj
mitted MI. Barth SO quickly that Mrs.
Mattleway almost ran into his arms.
And low pretty she looked as she
took both hands firmly In her own
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