The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-13
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MI Harlwelland Fgbert Van Dorm
ate disepgaged2p said Mrs. DO
Groot, imam angry whisper toher
daughter, on the evening Of her
debut, AZ The house ola fashionable
friend.
''You know Che position Paul
&Fbyrlsy holds in our home.
"Yolr father keeps him as his
secretary ont Of charity, on the
score Of thoir old boyiah friend
ship
u am surprised that You should
dance twice wilhhim thiseyening.
"some one is sure to make an i'll.
natured remark about IT,"
isreally very nice, mamma =
SAID Helen, gazing alter her late
partner with a suspiciously admir-
ing expression in her hazel eyes.
"lf be, was only rich he would be
perfect"
olSut he is not rich.
Chow can you be 20 foOlish-so
mad, Helen2p
Are you sure that he is not rich,
mammal
slave you noticed that splendid
diamond ring in the shape ola star
that he is wearing to-night2
"How could a poor man have
ring like Lhat2D
ut is paste, no doubt" said her
mother irritably,
And then a really tragic express.
ion crossed herstill handsome face
"Helen, Mr.. Van Dorm is coming
this way.
"I'Or mercy's sake, leave of star
ing after that poverty.stfickeu
Paul Thyrley, and make yourself
agreeable TO him il he asks you To
dance-unloss you wish to break
my heart"
With a sigh Helen dropped the
plumed fan from before her face
and turned to welcome the wealthy
banker with q beaming smile.
Egbert Van Dorm was q shor.
heavily-built, prosy man, Of five
and forty.
He had been born and reared in
poverty.
Coming into an immense fortune
when youth was gone, he had but
two ideas, apparently, in his brain
the one his money; the other hi'
very unintcrosting self.
Such as he was, however, the
brightest and fairest of society
bellies were ready to run a race fol
his favors.
And Helen De Groot's handsome
Spanish face flushed with exulta'
tion as the evening passed by and
still found him constant ut hel
side.
schooled by her proud mother
and prompted by her own ambi
ton, she cast aside her momentary
dream Of love, and met Paul Thyr
ley so coldly on the next morning
in her own home that his sudden
look of intense modification show.
ed the pain he felt.
From that day they we're as
strangers,
Paul Thyrloy busted himself in
the duties Of his place, aud turned
for comfort in his leisure hours tt
Helen's young cousin, Lucy Fair
who held a position in the grea,
grand house that was even lower
and less unsatisfactory than hi,
own.
One morning, some weeks after
his birthnight ball, Lucy Fair ran
hastily down the staircase from her
Cousins room, her pretty face all
bathed in tears.
"What is it Lucy?" he asked
holding her fast us she attempted
to run away,
What has been grieving your"
at is-oh, Mr.. Thyrlcy!
"Elelen says that | have been SC
rude and forward in my behavior
to you that you must despise me in
your heart" said Lucy, after a long
pause,
"She saw us come in from our
walk last evening do you know"
She hesitated.
The secretary smiled.
"Well, my Lucy.
ibid she see me bid you good
night with a kiss?"
us that the cause of all these
tears?" he said.
"oh, she has said such cruel
things, Paul!
"She declares that you cannot