Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-26
s..ISYelIFFE MYSTERY

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oyearl you couldn't have come to a
srson. Nobody in the place saw the !
Taffair through from first to last as /
Mrs BayEf indeed What can she
Ioi anything, buried behind the Rec,
edges, without q single window look
1.-THE Psrade2 Nov here, at Tamarisk
saerytbing that happens between the
and the bathing machines must pass
sr ones ewes.
asst see for yourself, my dear. Move the
Of gersniums and open the side win
Y the bow, and there, with an opera
you have the steps Of the Royal as
tct as next door; add just between Us,
ID windows and balconies of the Fitz-
ausbghts' house, where the very cradle
s. liteSally, the crsdle-ot last Summers
--serH was to be found.
Ait tea'at last. Sugar, dear1 aud ereamH
elp yourself to scones-my own receipt -
lFll tell you the whole story from begin
no end The beginning? Dear me,
.Isrd it is to know which is the begin
of anything! The mystery began with
saby, OF course, but | ought to explain
iaow the Fitz Connsughts came to let 1t
Itheir house, and to show how the Fitz-
Gaughts came to have house to let one
E 60 back to Moggs, the builder, and
legacy his wifs's uncle left them. Moggs
and is born Spectator, and just at
time the corporation had a strip Of
d along the sea front on their hands, and
. anxious to get rid of it. so what does
10 but buy up the lot-for q mere song,
Ost ssy-stick up little shsnty with
aisycliffe Mansions Estate office across
'front.' in letters so big there was hardly
n for the door under them, and start at
e on the end mansion. Every one laugh
at the folly. There, close a hand, Vas
warning; the big Hotel the rLllEa com.
any had opened last Spdng sld hid otca
0sipg no one knew what q week OF ever
incs. and who in the world did he eNnact
o take his mansions, even Is he ever got
's first flushed before his bauSrap'cy2 Bat
Oegs persisted, IS you see. = grand srsS'
one house, with plate-glass Windows AID
ausard roof aud weathercO"SS aud Gi!ief
on balusiradipg and balconies, just az It
Ss were Brighton, or Folkestoue at least;
il was the talk Of the place. And when the
ailway company had their grand picture OF
sisychffe painted and hung up a. all the
atoms along the line, didn't they PIT
oQVss house in, (close up to the frame, so
~ YOU couldn't see there were no more OF
aem.) with "Daisyclifs Mansions EasI'
qriie plain on the gstep0sts?
Well, nov I'm coming to the baby; at
least to the Fitz-Connsughts. They steam
Cd into the bay one lovely, sunshiny evening
in their yacht the Viking, and spent the
night st the hotel Next morning we heard
hat Mrs Fitz Connsught found the Daisy
cHffe air so exactly suited to her that they
had decided at once on living here alto
Qether. OF course they took Moggs mau-
sion-there was nothing else to take-sent
to London for their carriages and horses,
serxaIts and furniture. and hsd settled down
ard hsd asked everybody IN the place to
dinnsr, two garden parties, and tea every
"Wednesday, before the High street upho's-
tsrtr had opite flushed taking the measure
uien,s Cor De blinds and stair carpets.
That vas quite Mrs. Conuaught's way
dear impalsive creature! Everything she
fsncied she must have, and have it once
she was tall. slender, and gOlden-hsired,
eith childish voice aud great appealing
sres thai booked as if they didn't know what
hey wanted and never got it. She was an
artist and poetess, and that tells on the
nerves you know. No one could tell what
she sufftsed at times, she used to say, and
Dr.. Brett quite agreed with her, and said
a1f asy rate be couldn't.
DnisycHffe air ssd quiet aud scenery
quite enehapted her. aud Mr.. Fitz-Cou-
naught, a most gentlemsnly man, with s'big
wsxed mustache and the highes, collars
any body here ever saw, declared that all
places we're alike to him while she was with
hico. Beautiful was it not?
What was he2 (Some more tea, dear2
ard here are some hot cakes coming in }
Really, / haydIy know. Something to do
win American finance, We understood. lie
used to rush of at moments notice all
over the Continent, bringing back the sweet
est things in fans and jeSelry for her, OF
Lac lnuijge ABOUT sll dsy with a big cigar,
fai,iug 10 the fishermen, If he coHld get no
Ody TO 90 out with him in the Viking You
can guess what excitement all this was for
Us. Really, when the little yacht was IN the
bay and her boat alongside the pier, and
Mrs. Fitz. Connaught with her parasol in her
balcony, and the carriage and pair waiting
for Der at the door, it quite realized the rail-
way station picture. and made MS feel the
great days Of Daisychfe were dsWniug at
last
Was it their bsby2 Oh, dear, no! Tn
coming to it directly, only | FIRST wanted to
show that they were people to whom money
seemed no object whatever. I'm sure Mrs.
Fitz ConDsuehfs dresses must have cost
Nrtune. Old Captain Prosser, our church
r,-den. declared he cut notch in his walk
tick every time he met her In new
T Po and before the season was half over
~ 80 ~ exactly locked like Robinson Cru
.EI e1dar BY the time the Spanish mu-
NJ: wv U 3 ashore. So you may imagine
y 's g e. their house was rather shock
tSSes' OF iS'el had only called on every
bodE 70 os.:-iiA explained little-toat they were
lending their house TO friends, or didn't ike
TO leave the servants alone, or any Of the
things one does say on these occasions and
told us who were coming and what we might
DO about calling. But to go of for freak
one day by the morning train and leave the
maid to pack and follow with the luggage
10 the st. Midland Hotel I'm sure YOU
agree with me it was barely respsctablel
What made it the more aggrsvatiug was
that Mrs. Fifz. Connsught had always been,
in sort Of way, my particular friend in
DsisyeliGe, and to be met by Mrs. Baylifs
before even knew they were gone, with,
s'Of course you can tell Us all about this ex.
traordansry proceeding Miss Wybird,' was
extremely sxying. l felt it so much that
vSote b. Mrs. Fitz Copnsught at oncs, not
reproechfhlly. onlv asking If / could do any
thiDq fer ker. add the name Of he tensni
and s5prssssd Il the Midland, and-got no