Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-31

taikel and gazed-generally gaZsd, as his
powers OF conversation were limited, and
Miss DAILY did not care for the subject on
which he was disposed to grow eloquent
billiards and bull terriers
So regular a lounger at the counter, so
good a customer, so well-known an inhabi-
tant Of Battleton, was obliged to To received
with a fair amount Of courtesy, and he was
received in quite q sisterly-possibly more
b sisterly-manner by all but Miss DAILY.
Miss Daily said good morning and good
evening" especially sgood evening"" very
graciouSiy to him, but she did not initiate
the style CT the rest Of the young Indies or
put herself ous in anyway for Mr.. Todd.
Conscious OF the power she welded over his
susceptible breast she did not hasten to
meet his requirements at the bar; did not
Ian ever the counter and talk to him be-
tween the sandwich stands and the dishes Of
buns; did not regard him languishingly
While an irate passenger was hammering
away with the milled edge Of a shilling to
attract her attention; did not whisper or
laugh or slap him in a kittenish impulse;
and betrayed not even a jealous symptom
when he talked to Miss Dart or Miss Racket
or anybody else.
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the quietuds OF his bedroom, three months
after Miss DAILY had been in Battlston, and
after she had said, mo, thank you to half
a dczen pairs OF Courvoisier's gloves, Of
which he had begged her acceptance; ~shs
isn't like anybody else | ever knew ut the
Junction. Polly Racket would make six Of
her for fun, but she's an Rwfully nice
girl. somehow. She isn't silly, either, or
she'd fancy l was going to ask her to marry.
She's a sharp, clever little woman, pom my
soul, Tut / can't make her out. And that's
deuced odd, too, seeing what a lot Of girls
a v been always running after me-"
1t was not odd, hut young Todd was be-
yond the discovery of the solution to the
mystery his selE-complaisance stood in the
way, and the girls who ran after him were
Of the ordinary class Of high steppers, whose
mission in life was to be always running
after somebody. Even in his own sphere,
and where the exact amount Of his income
and his expectations were known, young
Todd was sought and flattered by some Of
@the sleek and shining creatures OF the
chase;' but young Todd never proposed. and
hsd been clways happier and more at his
ea,e at the station buffet, or in the streets
when the shop girls were going home. Hap
pier, till Miss Daily appeared; then IL was all
over with him AMI his nonchalant airs and
grins and grimaces. He strollsd in and out
no more in his cid p~atronizing way; he came
in early, and stopped SIS a rule all day; he
was the slave Of the refreShment counter,
the ghost Of his former self, the talk of the
little town whore everybody talked.
His mother condescendel to ask flew
questions Of him at last, and to tell him
what the world was saying; he lsugdsl at
her questions as irrelevant, and the shocking
expression he used as regarded tn world
needs no repetition in these virtuouS pages
His sisters satirizsi him and his tast =. N
he gave iS them hot, " as he afterwarl ex-
pressed himself to a friend, for meddling
with his affairs and what didn't concern
them He never interfered between them
and their larks with the curateS, did he!
Let him alone, and he'd les them alone; no
BODY need Re afraid he was going to make a
fool OF himself, or throw himself away; he
knew what hS was about well enough.
Trust him
But nobody trusted him any moro for this
declaration, and the home Of the ToddS be-
came hadow-land, in tho midst OF which
much suspicion and uncharity and con-
spiracy were brooding. They affected to
let him alone, and he let them alone accord
ing to his usual way-which was very mucd
alone ildeed-but they wrote long letters
and urgent letters to Uncle John, the main
STAY Of the family, trustee, executor, man Of
the world, and man of war in the Indian
service, and they begged very earnestly for
Uncle John TO take the matter up, as ths
whole affair was becoming very serious in
M II - A .-.- I'll.
young Todd was Edwin; he was his own
master, and they were desperately AFRAID Of
what would come OF it. They had been
afraid also to tell Uncle John before; they
di I not IKE intruding upon his studies, his
new work on Qualifications and Fireworks"
his new charge, red hot and slashing, against
the secretary Of state for war o. the IRON
plated stocking question; they knew how
hard he had been upon his nephew II
godson in many matters; but as he was
the only being whom Edwin regarded
with any degree OF awe, they trusted he
would come to IN, rescue and put a stop to
it" all before the family was di,graced for
ever and ever by n me:alliauce, or by sons
dreadful scandal that was almost as bad, il
not quite as lasting.
an soon put an end 10 this nonsense, y
said Maj Crawshaw, after reading his sis
ter's letters. Ill have no more Of it. He
had put an end to a great deal Of nonsense
in his time, being a harI-headed, sharp old
soldier in his way, and he was very sure OF
his power in demolishirg this soap-bubble
affair in less than four and twenty hours.
H. knew the worli and what it was made
Of; he understood men and women, particu-
larry foolish men and designing women,
whom he had come across in an experience
Of five and forty years, to whom Ee had
taught wisdom and given warning before
thiS-ahl many times before, for other peo-
pies sakes aud his own Let him march and
away against the enemy ut onca