The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-03-21

NfA1bSiIl III 1902.
sisters heart, She understood j
now as She saw him lift the fallel
Hover and just touch ii withShi
lips
y have been mad enough for that
Daisy to fall in love with her. An,
/ if ! had not thrown away my Owl
Emanhood / need not now be in de
spsir That's the bitteFest though
ofslla
II isnot too late to- be true !,
sosrself yet Rick
shs.had q litae hope thatthis new
laeHne night worEsome good in him
but before the week was over he hat
broken bounds again as if determ
.Iinedsto bury regret in oblivion,
Meanwhile Tie time came fer Mis-
IWinter'to return to the city, and She
Esent for Ralpb, who had promised !,
drive her 70 the station. He can't
with his light carriage and melted
horse, looking neither sorry nor cast
down, Daisy observed with a throb ol
the heart.
"He isn't false, them he'll come
back to me again when she is gone,'
Rick had been at the village. He
was on his way home when, at some
distance away, he saw the carriage
standing at the parsonage gate
Ralph and Miss Winter were just
taking their places in it, the minis.
ter stood on the steps, and the curl.
GUS face Of a servant looked down
from a garret window. AS Ralph
settled down in his seat bis glance
fell upon that shambling figure by
the roadside, and he gave a vicious
cut with his whip. The spirited
horse started with plunge, a buckle
snapped, and then the next instant
his driver had lost all control over
him.
Rick had taken in the scene which
his eyes rested on, and a sudden still.
ness went over him.
They've been getting marriedF'
he said to himself. aghast. !"Beep
getting married, and he has cheated
Daisy. But he shan't get away so
easy as that"
His brain was clouded with liquor;
some blind impulse of rage and re.
vengc moved him, and his fingers
clasped and brought out The weapon
which he sometimes carried. They
we're close upon him now; he lifted
his hand and. fred the ehorse; there
is every reason to believe, for there
was q dangerous embankment near,
toward which the runaway was head
ing. But he missed his mark and
the next instant the steelshod hoofs
were trampling him down.
A little further on and the carriage
was wrecked, Ralph Armstrong was
picked up bruised and senseless; his
newly.made bride was dead, a bullet
in her heart, and further back was a
bleeding, pulpy mass beaten down in
the dust, that groaned when they
touched it, but was beyond human
aid.
The horror of that time was year
old when Ralph opened the rackety
gate and made his way again to the
old house, Daisy was sitting in the
porch, all in white, as he remembered
her SO well. Then he was holding
her handand looking into her startled
eyes. ~,
his lips, 81 never really loved any
one but you, and l have come back
to ask you to be my wife, after ALL"
"oh, Ralph, don't you know%
"Know what2" he asked.
"That I am DR., Lloyd's wife-was
married a week ago."
"And-are you happy2"
eyantedher to say no; he thought
his own misery would be easier to
bear if he knew she sharedi it. There
was a sound of wheels nearing the
gate. She turned her face that way;
a beautiful flush tinged it, and that
look answered him without the low.
spoken words:
81 am very happy"
have been young ard now I am
EOId, and as / stand before God to.