Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07

ace slightly TUNED ANY, III sne vas caose
reside him. -.
kenneth" she repeated, this time with
; thrill OF something very ike lAnguish IN
her tone, what il the msttAr? Are you
sngr7 with met Kennetk-speak-"
Then at last he slowly turned his head
and looked st her with . strange, halt visit
ful anxiety in his eJes; be gazsd at her a.
4 his very soul were in that gaze, and Ef!-
ing his right hand gently laid It on her
shoulder as be had done the evening he
had hidden her farewell She did not
shrink from his touch, bat, bat, strange to
say, she did not feel it, and some irdehns-
Die instinct made her turn her eyes away
from his and glance AT her shoulder. But
even as she did 90 she Jaw that his hand
was no longer there, and with q thrill OF
fear she exclaimed again, SPEAK, Ken
meth, speak to ne"
The words fell on empty air. There wa
no Kenneth beside her. She was standing
on the hsarthrug alone.
Then for the first time, there came over
her that awful chill Of terror 30 often de-
scribed, yet % Undesirable to all but the
few who have felt it for themselves. With
q terrible though half s'ided cry Anne turn
ed toward the door. 1t opened before she
reached il, and she half fell into old Am
brose's arms. Fortunately for ber-for
her reason perhsps-his vague misgiyin2
had made him follow her, though OF what
be was afraid he could scarcely have told
"Oh, ma'sm-oh, my poor lady! he ex-
claimed, az be half led, half carried her
back 10 her own room, what Is Il? has
he gone? Bot how could he have gomez
was close by--I never saw him pass.
He IA not there--ke has no. been there,
said poor Anne, trembling and chnging TO
her old servant. "0h, Ambrose, what you
and | have seen VA no living Kenneth
Graham-no living man at al. Ambrose
he came thus 10 say good-bye to me.
BE Is dead" and the tears burst forth ss
she spoke and Anne so5bed convulslvely.
Ambrose looked q, her in distress and
CONSERVATION past words. Then at last ne
found courage 10 speak.
my poor lady" he repeated. ut must
be 90. | misdoub,ed ne and / did not
know Why. he cid not ring, but | was
passing by the door and something, a sort
of feeling that there was some one waiting
outside. made me opsnit. To my astonish-
men, il was he and Ambrose himself
could rot repress a sort Of tremor. he
did not speak, bat seemed TO pass me AMI
be I'D the stairs and in the library N an
instant. And then, not knowing what to
do. l vent to your room, ma'sm. Forgive
ne il | did wrong"
NO. no" said Anne. you coald not
have done other wise. Ring the bell, Am.
brose. tell Seton | have had bad news, aud
that you think thatir has up So: NE. Bat
wal, at the door till she come. II an
afraid to be lett alone"
And Mrs. Midway looked 50 deadly psie
and faint that when Seton came hurrying
in answer 10 the sharplyrung bell, it needed
no explanation for her TO BEE that Mrs
Medway was really i'll. Seton was a prac-
teal, matter Of fact person, and the hustle
of attending 70 her mistress, trying 10
make her warm egain-tor Annie vas shiv'
ering with cold-and p~ersuading her to
take some restorstives, ef~ectusl!y drove
suY inquiry as TO the cause Of the sudden
seizure out Of the maids head. And By
the time Mrs Midway wa better Seton
had invented 9 satisfactory explanation Of
it OH for hersslt.
You need q change, msam. It's TOO
dull for anybody staring in tow a. this
season, and its beginning TO tell on Jour
nerves. ma'em." wss the maids idea.
And some little time after TIE strange
occurrence Ms Midway was persuaded to
leave town for the country.
Bat not I'LL she had seen "A tae nsRspl.
psrs the fatal paragraph she knew would
sooner or later be there-the announce
men. Of the dearh, on board her MAJESTY s
troopship Arisdne, a few DAYS before reach
ing the Cape, Of Major X. r. Graham,
Of the One Hundred aud Thirteenth Rsgi-
ment.
She had known it. she said to herself,
yet when she saw it there, staring her in
the face, she realized thar she had been
living in a hope which she had not allowed
to herself that the spparition might in the
end prove capable Of other explanation.
She would gladly have taken refuge in the
thought that il was a dream, an optical de-.
fusion fed of her fancy necessarily brood
ing on her friend and on his last visit
ths, her brain was in some way disar;soged
or Misunderstanding, anything would
have been welcome TO her sBlt against oil
such vas opposed tue fac: that j; was not
herself alone who had seen Kenneth Ora
ham that fatal afternoon.
And nov, when the wors. was certain,
she recognized this still more clearly ss
the strongest testimony to the sppsrItion
mo-. having been the product Of her own
imagination. And old Ambrose, her sole
coufdant BiDshis simple way agreed with
her.
III | had not seen him too, ms'am, or
if / alone had seen him" he said. furliyely
wiping his ewes. But the two Of us. No,
II could have but the one meaning and
he looked sadly a; the open Newspaper.
There a slight discrimpsncy, ma am be
said IS be pointed to tie paragraph. Our
Major Graham's name wss K. K not n
r.
1T ia only q misprint | noticed that,
said Auns YEARLY. No, Ambrose, there
can Dc 10 HAsldhe- D4l i W uOA WoLL Guy
one-aot u one-evsr "a hear the story
You will promise me that, Ambrose? and
the old man repeated the promise he had
already given.
There was another 'drisc,impaucY,'
which had struck Anne more forcibly, but
which she reirained from mentioning to
Ambrose.
1t csnt mean nothing, it is 10 use put
ting it ii into his head, she said 10 herself
Still, it is strange"
The faults were these: The newspaper
gave the date of Major Grsham's death as
the 18th Noyember-the afternoon on
which he had appeared to Mrs. Midway
and her servant was that Of the 10Th. This
left no possibility Of calculating that the
vision had occurred at or even shortly af.
ter the moment Of death.
1T must be q mistake IL the announce.
ment," Anne decided. And then che gave
herself up 70 the acceptance Of the fact
Kenneth wal dead. Life held no individ.
ual future for her any more, nothing to look
o rwsrd to, no hopes, however tremblingly
admitted. that some day he might re-
turn, and return TO her that he did not love
her, and that only mistaken pride. or her
own coldnsss, or one Of the hundred mis-
takes or "perhspses" by which men. so