Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-24

II know what Mr.. Marvin IS" interrupted
Miss Alice; @and he has promised me that I
shall be allowed to go on with my studies
the same as before. I shall graduate with my
class; and, If I prefer to practice my profes-
sion, / can do so in two years after our mar
rage"
In two yearsF' queried Mr.. Rightbody,
curiously.
ayes. You see, in case we should have a
child, that would give me time enough to
wean it."
Mr.. Rightbody looked at this flesh Of his
flesh, pretty and palpable flesh as it was; but,
being confronted as equally with the brain OF
his brain, all be could do was to say meekly:
"Ycs. certainly. We will see about all
that tomorrow
Miss Alice rose. Something in the free,
unfettered swing of her arms as she rested
thcm lightly, after a half yawn, IN her 1.-THE
hips, suggested his next speech, although still
distract and impatient.
"You continue your exercise with the
health-lft yet, l see"
"Yes, papa; but l had to give up the fan
nels I don't SEQ how mamma could wear
them. But my dresses are high-necked, and
by bathing l tougher my skin. Sec n she
added, as with q child-lke Inconsistencies,
she unfastened two or three buttons of her
gown, and exposed the white surface Of her
throat and neck to her father, II can defy a
chill"
Mr.. Rightbody, with something akin to a
genuine, playful paternal laugh, leaned for
ward and kissed her forehead.
ats getting late, Ally" he said ~parentally,
but not dictatorily. "Go to bed"
Il took a nap of three hours this afternoon"
said Miss Alice, with a dazzling smile, "to al
ticipate this dissipation. Goodnight, papa
Tomorrow, then"
Tomorrow, " repeated Mr.. Rightbody, with
his eyes still fixed upon the girl vaguely.
Goodnight"
Miss Alice tripped from the room, possibly
a trihe the more Alphabetically that she had
parted from her father in one of his rare mo
ments of illogical human weakness. And per-
haps it was well for the poor girl that she
kept this single remembrance Of him, when, l
I fear, in after years, his methods, his reason
ing and indeed all no had tried to impress
upon her childhood, had faded from her
memory.
For, when she had left, Mr.. Rightbody fell
again to the examination of his old letters.
This was quite absorbing; so much so, that
L., AL NOT potira tho FontStaDc Of Mrs RIGHT
body on the staircase as she passed to her
chamber, nor that she had paused on the
landing to look through the glass half-door
ON her husband, as he sat there with the
letters beside him, and tho telegram opened
before him. Had she waited a moment later,
she would have seen him rise, and walk to
the sofa with a disturbed air and a slight con
fusion; so that, on reaching it, he seemed to
hesitate to lie down, although pale and evi,
IDENTIFY faint. Hal she still waited, she would
have seen him rise again with an agonized
effort, stagger to the table, fumblingly refold
and replace the papers in the cabinet, and
lock it, and, although now but half conscious,
hold the telegram over the gas flame till it
was consumed. For, had she waited until
this moment, she would ave flown unhesi-
tatingly to his aid, as, this act completed, he
staggered again, reached his hand toward the
bell, but vainly, and then fell prone upon the
sofa.
But alas! no ~providential nor accidental
hand was raised to save him or anticipate the
progress of this story. And when, half an
hour later, Mrs. Rightbody, a little alarmed,
and moro indignant at his violation Of the
doctors rules, appeared upon the threshold,
Mr., Rightbody lay upon the sofa dead!
With hustle, with ~thronging feet, with the
Eruption of strangers and q hurrying to and
fro, but, more than all, with an impulse and
emotion unknown to the mansion when its
owner was in life, Mrs. Rightbody Strove to
call back the vanished life, but i'll vain. IL
highest medical intelligence, called from its
bed ut this strange hour, saw only the demon
stration of its theories made a year before.
Mr.. Rightbody was dead-without doubt,
without mystery, even as correct man
should ~die-logically, and Endorsed by the
hiCbcst medical authority,