Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30

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what he hsd won. He sought and OBJ
tanned without Opposition fr4m any
quarter, an interview With Mhiicens
alone.
said, under his breath, with desperate
effort to stick to the resolution he had
made that he would be quiet an ! gentle
throughout. They were quite Tar from
one another, parted by almost the en-
tire breadth Of the room.
"I'm sorry, very sorry indeed, Allan.
but 1t can't be helped," she began.
"Sorry! you say you are sorry--you
still csll me by the old name, and yet
YOU say it can't be helped"
"Ob, / am sorry you insisted on see
ing me, it can do no good" she said.
aBut am in the dark, do you hear !?
You loved me-you love me still
know it, =.
az do. There, / tell you so honestly"
"Then why, by all that's sacred, are
YOU marrying another man"
Listen to me-" and she told him, as
well as she could, how she must get out
of the way of her two sisters-be
"shunted" her brothers called it. How
she was not preferring a rich match
without love to poor one with 1t; but
that her marriage with Lord Bangs was
by sacrificing her own feelings to duty,
at least possible, whereas a union with
Allan was impossible-at all events for
very many years.
"Oh, don't mistake me-" she con-
tinued. "If / had only my own happl-
ness to consult" -,
"But that makes it all the worse" he
urged. "If you told me your feelings
for me had changed"
"They never cam
Sand does Lord Bangs know this?'
81 told him / was very fond OF you,
and could not pretend L was in love
with him."
"And what did he say"
"He laughed, and said every nymph
had her shepherd, of course, that real
love ONLY came to women after mar
rage, that he was neither jealous nor
sentimel tai; and oh, Allan, what do
you think he ended with"
"Heaven knowsW
"Why, he said | might be quite easy,
for that, though he wished TO marry
me, he wasn't romantically IN love him.
self"
"The mans brute" burst forth the
younp Scotchman. at is because you
have heart, and have given 1t forever
to me, that l will move heaven and
earth to save your happiness, and my
own too, for they are one. GA, repeat,
if you had changed, if you cared for
this rich lord, my pride would
bid me depart in silence. L
know not what would become
of me, but would trouble you no more.
But, now hearing from your own
sweet lips that you are true-ani, Oh,
whatever befa!l, / bless you for those
words again and again-knowing, l
say, that you are true, let me beseech,
implore, nay, have ! not rig Int to or
der YOU, to pause at the brink of the
precipice and draw back while there IL
yet time"
"But, Allan, my parents have arrang-
cd settled everything. l am power
less IN their hands. They leave me no
choice; they prove to me that it must
be. DO not urge me To sinful renei-
IiOn.n
"And it is no Gin, pray, to love one
man and we'd another? To perjure
Yourself at the altar of GOd"'
That's Just what | said to papa, and
be told me that all these things are
conventional; that every one knows the
marriage service is put in our mouths,
and that we have no choice as to the
exact expressions. He said If the con-
tracing parties mean to be faithful and
kind to each other, nothing more is re-
uuired of them either spiritually or So
cially. Oh, we had quite a long talk
about IT, | assure yOu,"
During this speech, Cameron had
gradually drawn quite close to her, and
was now looking hard into her eyes to
see if she was dealing with him frankly.
Yes, there could be no doubt, the girl
if blinded by sOphistries, was yet with
out guile.
During ali this colloquy he had never
called her by name, though she address
ed him as Allan as simply as if their re-
lations had never changed.
Perhaps he waited to see if she de-
served it; or did he keep the power that
is inherent in such terms to try a last
appeal?
He made it now. Taking her I'M
resisting hand in both his own, he said:
"Did l not know you so well | should
think you were acting part. Mlliy-my
own Milly! it were better-better far
in the sight of heaven, believe me-that
you should fly with me this night than
fulfill this cursed engagement. do not
say shall urge that. | will think, de-
li6erate, pray. Only tell me, Milly, that
you will never wed Lord Bangs"
"Oh, | cannot. You should not urge
me, indeed you should not. | have
promised papa and mamma"
And she began to try and twist her
hand away from him, and her whole
aspect became one of perplextty and
alarm.
For moment the young man thought
he should lose his senses.
What was to be done with sucha girl?
She owned she had for him what she
called love, yet it was love which would
not submit to either guidance or coer-
cion?
The solution lay in word, but it was
quite beyond Allan Cameron.
She was Fulford!
How long the painful conference
might have lasted l am unable to say,
but at this point steps and voices were
heard approaching, and in another mo-
ment Mr.. Fulford and Lady Wall en-.
tered the room.
"Ah Cameron, how are you? Won't
you stay and lunch? This is queer news
of the House of Lords"
Such was the perfectly easy greeting
Of MilIy's father to the man whose
wreck he had succeeded IL Sc 'mp.isl
ing.
Lady Wall was very il !i!te:elt.
Kissing Mill;cent was eiusion, she
bestowed an inclination of the head
upon her lover much ruder than any
cut direct.
The fact is, her ladyship had made
war so many years of her life upon
"detrimentals," that she continued af-
ter all her daughters had married to
hate them from habit.
Poor Allan bad but one distinct feel.
ing at the moment. A longing to es-
cape from them all and be alone. Nut
Iering few words of excuse and fare
well, he rushed into the street, strobe
off for bis solitary lodgings, and locking
himself in, he flung himself upon his
bed, and sobbed aloud.
He felt that his happiness in this
world was over.