Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-06-17

that you have all attained to the ideal
state OF domestic peace aud happiness"
| said James Grafton, thOughtfuliy. "Af-
ter the stormy scenes one is sometimes
called upon to witness" (he thought OF
yesterday and the sister. in-lawl "the
sweet, calm atmosphere pervadins the
entire home-life here Is most soothing"
| 1--WE get on very well together" said
Euniee, in her soft, placid voice.
| "Your sister and her husband are, L
think, the most admirable young couple
I / ever met. They never wrangle. BY
| the way, / haven't asked how they
were. How are they?"
| "Oh, as furnishing as usual, return
I ed Eupice. 81 wonder they haven't
been in the garden. They generally
| like to be out here during the children's
/ half. hour, as we call the half-hour be-
fore dinner
So saying they entered the house
| toge<her-that house the bachelor had
now for some time held so sacred, They
entered by the drawing-rOom which
opened to the lawn. They rather sur.
prised Mrs. Csthcart, the young and
lovely wife, diligently reading q novel
| on the sofa, and her gallant husband
| APP arently absorbed in the evening
| PAPER, Immediately behind her. They
| we're in fact, back to back. And this
| was the more remarkable, as the honey
moon ways of this charming couple
| had often been q subject Of comment
among their friends. They were both
reading so diligently that Mr.. Grafton
and Miss Bell had quite time enough to
take in the coup doll and its meaning
before husband and wife moved. A
moment afterward they both started.
! Cathcart sprangup blithely to meet his
guest as If he were intensely relieved by
the interruption of threatened tete-a
tete.
"You are good fellow to turn up af-
ter the awful affair OF yesterday. I'm
sure wonder you survived it" he ex'
claimed, nearly wrenching the bache-
lor's hand off.
Pm sure | Jnder how it's been
done" retdrned Grafton.
weddings are such sell, growled
| the young married man, as James Graf
ton turned to the sofa and expressed
fervent hope that his hostess was quite
| well.
"Drcadful headache; nearly frantic
| with it," said Mrs. Cathcart, knitting
her pretty brows and rising, pressing
| ore hand to her forehead as she did.
! EThere had been times, and those dis.
tant but few brief hours ago, when
| such a movement of pain would have
wruDg her husbands heart, and his
"My darling, what can / do for it,"
would have sounded perfectly agOniz-
ing: now, the wretched being only
| tu ned abruptly to his Sister-in-law
with "Come, Eunice; dinners late
| enough already" and marched OF with
her huflily.
81 am sorry you are so unwell. The
day has been oppressive. You will be
| glad to get down to the sea side, won't
| you?n said James Grafton, IA he gave
| his arm 10 the trO-evideLtly snuhbed
| wife.
Il shall be glad 10 get away 50 ne
! wlbe. I'm sure | don't care where 1t
! is. / want s change terribly sad Mrs.
Cathcart, with certain hardness of
| tone III her voice that her guest had
never before observed.
"Do you know, | always admire your
| 4 n.ng-TCOm 80 MUCH put in the
bachelor rs they entered the room.
There's a perfectly hideOuS glare Oh
! it Just HOw," retoIted Mrs Cathcart.
! And your decorations are charming
these trailing bits of briOny and
! Wild
Don't agree with you, Grafton. Pm
sick Of seeing the place Uttered with
weeds" interpOlated Cathcart, the
young married man, with an angry
sniff, IL they took their places at the
| table. John" he exclaimed, turning
! TO the servant, "see that there's some
| thing decent out of the conservatory in
the center Ofthe table tomorrow some
thing 1T least three feet high, and
buShy."
John, as he went about his work with
imperturha6!e gravity, remembered
with great inward mirth that only a
few days before he had been ordered to
remove tall fern because, as his master
had said, il hid his wife'S face. Rum
'uns, married folks, amt they" he re-
marked To himself. All, indeed they
are, especially when young, cookbook
ing, and very much in love with each
other! But their "rUm'-ness, o worthy
John, strange as ii il, Is rs nothlngto
their utter want of consideration for
other peoples feelings.
What James Grafton and Eunice
Bell suffered at that little square dinner
| really have not tue heart to relate in
detail; and, indeed, there Is but small
need that [ should Ito so, for have not
you and taken melancholy part in
many only too similar scenes? lcould,
however, forgive the young couple for
their conduct during dinner; but | con-
sider absolutely feel certain both Capt.
and Mrs. Cathcart knew that James
Grafton would have enjoyed quiet
stroll about the grounds when the sun
was setting for of course he was Oh
certain subject as easy for them to read
as the morning paper, yet these two
selfish married creatures, absorbed only
in the interesting game OF
initiating each other, hung on
to the two unmarried ones
the whole evening with relentless
malice that is perfectly unattainable
except by a husband and wife who are,
for the time being, not on speaking
terms.
After dinner Mrs. Cathcart, by way
| of pretending she did not care, ratified
off her gayest dance muse and sang
dozens of her brightest songs; but moth
lug would please her except TO have
Eunice sitting quite close to her, turn
ing over the pages. Once, indeed, Miss
Bell ventured rs far as the window, but
she. was speedily captured, sisterly
! arm being gently but firmly placed
arc und her waist, while a plaintive
vOce murmured in her ear: "Ah,
Eunice! sisters atlrction-love- is,
after all, the only thing in the world
one can really depend upon"
And while this was going on in the
drawing room Cathcsrt had etlectually
button. hOled Grafton, and was c0nlid-
ing to him that his domestic life had
suffered an utter collapse. He inteuded
indie ri. it was his only chance ofsav-
ing his life aud reasOn-to exchange
with HutchiDgs, and go to seek glory
and he devoutly hoped death in South
| Africa.
But the most wretched evening must
| at last come to an end. About 10
! o'clock James Grafton again found
himself in Tnlip-tree lane; but instead
of the happy calm of few hours earlier,
he now felt as if he had been assisting
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