Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-26
darling Trotty's neck. Is he still aiiVeF

darling Trotty's neck. Is he SILL ahFe'
pray nrav don't tell me he is deadl"
Every much alive, my dear young isoy,
and I am here to beg you to come anu cIs ~
him. He is quite too much ior any Oh us
to manage" Then turning to the nuise
and babp, on whom his eyes had restea ioI
a moment with intense relief as he entered
the CON-, he said to the woman, Win HASH,
ing ewes, '''How dared you disobey me q
20 wandering off and losing yourself at tne
most important moment? Your STUPIDITY
has nearly been the death OF US all. Inc
other nurse has gone into hts, ana II sne
dies, her blood will be on your sosi!'
cit was q pin, eccellenz," the woman
replied, unmoved.
Five minutes later Mrs. Roseleaf, Doris,
Mr.. LYMAN and the real baby were packed
into a carriage and were spinning along &c
the Palazzo to which Trotty had been con-
veyed.
Never in all her life will Doris forget the
aspect of things as she was ushered ln'O
the presence Of her lost darling. 1t was q
large, airy room, like q nursery. Irotty,
considerably recovered from MS OPIUM
d~rowsiness, stood on the floor in extreme
neglige, barking ~furiously at a dozen OF
more Of frightened people, any OF OF wnom
would rather grasp hot Goals than touch
him. His cap was rakishly careened 70
one side, he had torn his lace dress fore AND
aft, and his shawl trailed sideways on the
carpet.
''Santsssima Madonna! that black imp
sent to ne instead Of the dear contessina
Anima mia! the witches are at work THIS
nightp' groaned the nurse on her knees In
a corner, telling her beads with such Ter
YER that the rosary had snapped twice.
"You ought to have heard her shrieks
when she lifted up the veil and that one
evil eye blinked at her. It's the devil
himselfn she yelled, and Topped in a faint
on the floor"
"Trotty, dear Trottyw cried Doris, rush
ing forward.
Benignity and pleasure softened Trotty's
sinister eye; slowly his tattsred drapeIies
swayed to and fro with the beatihe wag'
cling of his tail. He started towards his
mistress, but tripped ignObly in bis petu'
coat and rolled over. "You darling, you
shall not be a baby any more" and she
tore off the garments so much the worse
for wear, and allowed Trotty to appear IL
the dignity Of his " coat.
This interview, very painful for all per
sons conserved, ave one, was IS
soon as possible, and the Roseleats were
driven back to the station, there to begin
their usual pleading with the guards tc
allow their dog to accompany them.
Before bidding them adieu, Mr.. Lyman
managed with considerable finesse to find
out where Mrs. Roseleaf and her daugh'
ter were going to spend the next six weeks
Oddly enough, he appeared, quite BY
chance of course, ut the same place a tort
night later, and somehow found it neces
sary and expedient to 60 to the resort mex
selected by them.
1t so turned ont that when Doris re
turned in the autumn to the "Lombardia'
she did have a handsome admirer 10 TAU
in the faces of the other girls.
HE is wonderfully devoted. When /;
the wedding to be?"
"Iu May, Mrs. Roseleaf told me. Shs
is heart broken at the idea of losing Doris,
but it is the only way she a be rid o.
Trotty-and this thought consoled her. -
Frank Leslie's.