Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-15

While the mourning parents at Guest-
woke went heavily, and Testers sorrow
sought relief in tears, strange piece OF
gossip was CONFUSING the little world OF
Silyercombe. The rectors William had 1t
from the ostIer at the Red Dragon, who had
il from the Litcheu maid whose mother
cbsreJ for All the best families who had it
from Mrs. Trscys own maid Maria VINO
surely ought to know whether her mistress
were engaged or not And engaged It ap-
reared she was--or rather had oeen, since
The POOR gentleman was dead-to captain
Talbot Guest, of Guestwycke. And that
Maria would swear to, for her mistress had
told her so with her own lips And were
not mistress and maid both busy as bees
stitching away at the mourning, besides what
WAS ordered from Exeter for bettermost
wear?
The breathless excitement among the
people of Tahiti when their King Pomare
instituted Christianity BY cutting up and
eating the sacred turtle-the sensation which
stirred the simple islanders Of Hawaii as
Queen Kapiolani, descending to the brink of
the fiery crater, plucked q handful OF PeIe )
consecrated berries-could not well nave
exceeded the commotion created IN Silver
combe as this piece of news ran like mag
netic current through Maria and her gossiPs,
and finally by WAY of the reetors William.
who served as conductor. to the gentry Of
the village.
Mrs. Tracy vas pretty young widow,
! who in social life had lately proved herself
I a formidable rival 70 the Silvercombe girls
: of less experience. She had established
/ herself some twelve months since in the best
/ APARTMENTS the primitive little place afford
"a and seemed in no haste to quit them,
! though it was understood that was merely
ON the wing to other chimes. What share
her interest in Captain Guest had IN de-
( tanning her at Silvereombe was best known
| 10 herself but however well founded had
been her hopes of one day reigning at Guest,
woke a. his wife, they were now shattered
forever, But the fact Of the conquest alone
/ ;ncrsaSed her importance immensely IN
/ SiIvercombe society. The eharmit young
,.;1oU hsd of course been credited with
vogue aspirations, matrimonywsrds, but that
/ he Should have aimed so high aud brought
49, her bird. Silvercombe could
not recover its establishment
/ PubIc opinion had always hitherto des-
tined Hester Conway for the heir OF Guest
wrcke. but now it underwent change,
PsopIe felt how impossible it was that Hes
ter With sIl her sweet grace sud gentle dig
n;,v should ever have ssPired TO rivsl Mrs;
TTscy's maturer, more sstutely managed
| charms.
The Hester who returned from Guest
w,cLs At the end Of the week pale and wan,
with dark rings encircing her oesIhialt lawn
Ete sIss pointed the contrast all the more
a,ronSIy. As usual the person most con-
cerned was the last to hear the news which
bsJ been worn thresdbsre with diecussior
5nr;ng her two days absence. 10 her SIS
$50 snrurise she received it WITH total III
creduhty.
81 don't believe it, she said blunslE turn,
ing suddenly upon Cora with 3 pale proud
! face. -
any dear Hester, she says 50 herseifi
sursly'she ought to know. And. indeed, nov
We come to think Of IL they were great
Sssl together while YOU we're away the early
80 cf last winter. before he went abroad
aIfs uucommonly strange; but abe IA;
actually put on mourning for hun, 50 o.
soarse it,muss bs.tzue." supplemented hssA