Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

AAAAa "hOAA SAN III LUt EtlNnN
station here, on the day we first met. 1t
is necessary that you should tell me all, my
darling"
She blushed slightly, and then a faint
smile lighted up her worn face.
"Ah, how happy an accident it was that
led me to the carriage where YOU were
seated that day. / should have been with
out a friend but for that"
But about this man-Grcgson?"
Il should have told you all about him if
there had been any opportunity of doing so
after you spoke TO ME at the hall. For. do.
you know, that at one time he had tried To
make me believe that he was in love with
me, and when he found that | cared nothing
whatever about him he began To prosecute
me IN a mean, paltry kind of way. till
positively became afraid of him."
Where was it that he first began to
annoy you?"
AT WangOora, about three years ago.
o see, he was my uncle's confidential
clerk, and came q great deal To the house
tie had not then given way, rs ! fear he
has now, to bad habits, and he was a great
friend Of DIR. BranksOme's. | never cared
tor HMM the least" Dear heart, she
looked up at me with the happy smile of q
maiden who tells her story for the first
time to the man she loves, and for a mo-
ment We forgot all about the prison bars,
and the two women who sat mutely watch
my us at the other end of the cell.
When he found that | did not care for
him he became, asI said, very disagreeable.
he would try To waylay me ..and hint
dreadful things about having me in his
power, and think he soon came TO hate
me rs much As he had prOfeSSed TO like lie.
Then he became carleSS and disobedieut in
his work, and he quarreled with Flinter
and was inSOlent to DIR. BranksOme, and
the end OF it all was that he was dismiss
ed"
And what happened them"
oh, a great deal. He prOfeSSed to have
discovered some dreadful plot in which We
were all engaged for the purpose of impos-
ing upon my uncle. / laughed al him at
the time, for | knew OF course that there
vas no plot OF any kind, and | little
dreamed OF what was coming. But the
man became hateful both To me and my
uncle, especially when we found that he
had actually followed Us to England. /
have never seen him, however, since that
day at York"
Tell me, dearest, who were the persons
whom he charged with being in this plOt?'
Oh; | believe | was the rhiet sinner of
all. He several times met me when ! was
alone, and accused me of it. Then he
hated Flinter. and said dreadful things
about him, aud even about DIR. Drank
PM But 1 never knew what the plot
was to which he referred"
Did DIR. Brank>Ome know what the
man was saying about him.
''OfcOurSe he did. Why, | think that,
next to me, he hated DIR. BrankSOme the
most, and I remember him saving once
that he could have sent him to penal ser
Yitude if he liked
In DIR. BrankSome's presence
Yes"
was startled by what | had heard, for
| remembered how BrankSome had dis
claimed any knowledge Of the meaning of
GregSon'S language To me in the railway
train when | had reported it to him. some
strange tLncies stole into my brain.
Tell me, Daisy, what do You think of
DIR. BranGSOme HIMSELF"
She glanced ut me, and that troubled,
NoNpkAuA AODk NAlltl i ltu uOllGNu llOlC
than once 1T Scarborough passed over her
face.
Il do not know how | can answer your
question: she said, after 4 pause, and
,peaking very slowly, ~ though weighing
ali her words, Dr.. BrankSome is a Won
dertul man. lnever met any like him.
When | am with him he can make me do
everything he nearly everything.
II i only when | am away from him that |
doubt and fear him"
Then you dO doubt and fear him some
tines"
Yes. when he is not near me. When
he il, ] hardly seem To have any will Ofmy
own. Ii is very strange. | cannot explain
it. sometimes think he is u very, very
good man; but there are times when ]
think very differently OF him.
when did YOU see him last, DaiSy:'
l asked, feeling as though l were on the
brink of some great discovery.
The day before the trial began. Did
you not know? Has ne not told your
''He has told me nothing
Tibet is strange, for he promised that he
would do -. He brought me my will,
which il seemed that it was necessary |
should sign before | was tried"
Your will! / don't want to pry into
YOU priva'e affairs, my darling. but l
must ask you if you lett anything to DIR.
Handsome
Anything! Why, | left everything to
him ofcourSe-that is, everything hut some
little things | want yOu-" She stopped,
blushing rosy red.
do YOU mean you left all your uncle'S
fortune to Dr. Branksome:'
.'YeS;y o see he was the trustee appoin-
ted by my uncle, and he did not need to
tell me that he was the only person to
whom | could leave my uncle'S money.
In an instant | SAW, ~ when the blaze of
summer lightning illumineS the wide land
scapc for miles ut 4 stretch, the whole con-
splracy, in the tolls of which my darling
had been caught. Bat that vivid flash OF
consciousness faded almost rs quickly as II
came. and LETT me once moe cropping in the
tYilight-nOt, however, before I had taken
NV bearings, rs it were, atreSh, and had
seen that u real position WAS altogether
different from what, up to that moment,
had i~maginedi it to be.
Daisy" | said trying hard to subdue
my excitement, are You aware that the
power of attorney which You signed the
other day makes me for the present abSo-
lutte master of all your property: You
have constituted me your other sell.
While you are in confinement here can 20
where | will and do what | please IN your
name. rs you representative. Are yon
willing that l should make full use OF
these powers
oh. yes, she cried; who can use them
better"
Then, darling, l shall make my tirSt
Use of them by putting a veto upon You. l
rant YOU to promise that You will ON no
account allow DIR. BrankSOme to see you
until YOU meet again. You know they
will allow no one to visit you unless You
desire il. VIII yOu PROMISE
Il will promise anything You wish,
Then | must tell you that shall go d.
rect from here to Great LOrton, IN order
that l maysearch the hall from the roof to
the cellars, IL necessary for proof OF Your
Innocence. The first thing | hope to lind