Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-16

be Silent for che present and take notes
and 30 deciding, she washed her faoe,
smoothed her silvering hair, set her cap
daintily on her head and went down.
stairs, where the luncheon was decidedly
far more CHEEKY than the dinner had
been on the previous evening:
And the days passed on Life at the
cottage seemed very bright to all but its
its mistress, who could lot reconclle
herselfto the fact shat she had been de-
eeiyed; not even though 1t glsddened
her heart to hear Arthur laughing mer-
rily, as he sometimes did at his cousins
sailies, or to see him take an interest he
never took before In the farm and Its
workings.
Agst6s's pale, beautiful face would
come between the mother and the
change her presence seemed 10 have
eff, cted, and Lady Best felt that she
could never love Agatha, even though
Arthur's whole happiness was centereo
in her.
But If she had lost a son she had gain
ed a daughter, for, appreciating Han
MAINS merits as she did to the fullest,
she felt that she WAS each day learning
10 love her more and more. Many
times was it on her lips to tell her how
yrieyed she was at the direction Ar
lliur's fancy seemed TO nave TAKEN, ouI
pride held her back. -,
Al last, almost before they could be-
lieve in its approach, st. Partridge ar
rived, and with 1t q letter from MI.
Milton, saying he should be back in less
than q week; that he would take the
cottage on his way, see his sister ana es'
cort his daughter home.
What tears and fcrbearings did this
letter produce? Hannah Was evidently
in despair at leaving the cottage. Ar
thur became as respondent as he was
two months ago, only Agatha seemed
to have no regret.
"Of course not, since she expect to
stay here always, not with me, though;
She will not live here with me-" raged
Lady Best to herself.
And in this model Arthur found her
one morning, when he sought her in
the little morning. room she called heI
den.
He broke the ice without auy pre-
limiuary skating over II.
Mother, will it hot be pleasure 10
yCu if l bring you daughter to wei
Gomez
"Oh, Arthur, il you only knew how
have dreaded this question"
dreaded it, mother? thought you
would re delighted"
How could you? a penai!ess,
lackadaisical, intriguing the rest O.;
her sentence WIS sOb, interrupted,
however, by an exclamation from Ar
thur.
"Penniless - Hannah? Why, her
only fault in my eyes is that she has
money, and my uncle may think"--
"Hannah! You don't mean to say
it is Hannah you love? Oh, you dear
Arthur my own boy"
"You did not think it was Agatha?
Why, she has been engaged to my old
college chum, Laurence Wiimot, for
the last year. They had little breeze
lust before she came here, which | had
the pleasure Of making up. | could not
tell you, because the whole thing was
q e cret on account Of his uncle. lac
old gentleman, however, had given IN,
and they are to he married very soon."
Lady Best soon forgot all her anxiety
and the unhappiness OF the last toGr
weeks in her present joy; and OF course
SIZE promised to negotiate matters with
Mr.. Milton when he should arrive, and
she did so most effectually, for he SEEM
ed as pleased as she was; and from the
day that the marriage was finally set
tied, she began to unbend and find q
place for Agatha in her capacious heart.
sboweripg upon the girl-in very grail
tude for finding that her love for Arthur
was all mistake-as many kindnesses
and presents as she bestowed on her
well-beloved Hannah.
And when, at last, the two marriages
took place at Milton Hall on the same
day, the uuinitiated would almost have
thought that Lady Best was the mother
of both the brides.