Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-09
A MERE INTERLUDE,
Ely THOMAS HARDY.
CONTINUED

4uo "d1OAIS nlAAu Y uACAAy hAtuAGSNs VIII
Mr.. Hsdisgan entered with tbs Smelling
salts and other ncstrums.
"Be you any bsttel?" he questioned,
quickly.
'T do2's like the hotel" she exclaimed,
almost simultaneously. II can't bear it;
il doesn't suit mer'
SIS that all that's the NATTER" Re r.
turned. pstiishIy this being ths first time
of his showing such c MOOD Upon my
heart and life such tri1iDg is trying to any
mans temper, Baptist! Sending me-
about frCm here 10 you'd, and then, when
come back, saying ys DOR { like the place
that have Iunk so much money and words
to get fer ys 'Ol dang il all, tits enough
to. Bat won't say shy more at prss
ert, mse deer, though it is iust too much
to expect 10 turn out o. the house now.
We sha' at get aGOthsr q1iet place at this
time Of the evening; every ether inn in the
town is bustliDg with raCkety folk Of one
SORT and t'Cther, while here tits as quiet az
IS the graVe-the country, would gay.
So bide still, dye hear, and tomorrow We
shall be oct of the town altogether, as
esrly IS you like"
The Obstinacy of age had, in short, over
mastered its complaissnce, and the young
woman said no more The simple course
o. telling MIN that in an adjoining room lay
a corpse, which had lately occupied their
own, might, it would have seemed, bsen an
efeetual one without r'her disclosure,
but to alIude to that subject, however it
was disguised, was more than He3degsn's
young wife had strength for. Horror broke
her down. In the unexpected contingency
one thing only presented itself to her par
alyzed regard-that here she was doomed
to abide in hideous situation between the
dead nus band and the living.
Kindly time had withdrawn the fore
going event three days from the present of
Bsptis,a II dIegau. 1t was 10 O'Clock in
the morning; she had bean ill, not in an
ordinary OF definite sense, but IN a state Of
cod stupsfaction, from which it was Gii
iCult to arouse her so much as to cay few
sentences. When questioned she had re-
piled that shs was pretty well.
Their trip, as such, had bseu something
Of failure. They had gcns as far as Fal-
mouth. but here ne had given way to her
entreatiss 10 return home. This they
could not very well do without repassiDg
through PeDzlnee, at which place they
had now again arrived.
In the train she had seen a weekly local
paper, and read there q paragraph detail
ing the inquest on Charles. 1t was addf d
that tire funeral was to take place ct his
native town Of Rsdruth on Friday.
After reading this she had shown 70 re-
lpc .aucs 10 enter the fatal neighbO:hOOd IF
the tragedy, only stipulatirg that they
should take their rest at O d ffsreut lodging
from the first, and now, comparatively
braced up aud cslm-inde'd, a cooler
creature a trgetherthan when last in town
-sha said ID David that che wanted to walk
cut for a while, as they lad plenty Of time
on their hsnds.
''To shop, as usual, I suppose, NEE
deal?'
"Pa:tIy for shopping" she said. "ADd
il will De best for you, dear, to stay in
after t.O.EiDg about 80 much, and have
good rsst while 1 en- gone"
He asssntsd, and BITtsta sailed forth.
As she hsd stated, Ter first visit was male
to shop-a drspar's. Without the exercise
of much choice she purchased black bon
net and ysil, also black stuff gown; 3
bisck mantle she already wore. These
articles wsre made up into parcel, which
in spite CT the saleswoman's offers, her
customer said she would take with her.
BsaciDg il or her arm SIZE turned to the
railway, and at the station got ticket for
Redrut5.
Thus j. appeared that, on her recovery
from the paralyzsd mood Ct the former
day, while she had resolved rot to utterly
blast the hsppiue9s of her present husband
by reveslipg the his Dry Of the departed
one, she tad also determined to indulge s.
certain odd, iueonsEquent, feminine sert'-
msnt Of dfce1ey, TO the small extent Of
which it could do no harm to any renO1.
At Red-uth she emerged from the railway
carriage in the black attire purchased at the
shop, having daring the transit made tie
change IN tha empty compartment she had
chosen. Tns other clothes were nov II the
baadbOx and parcel. Lsaying these ii
the cloak room, che pTocesoe1 onward, and
after a wsry survey reached the side of 3
hill whence . view Of the burial ground
Could be obtained.
It was COW q little before 2 o'clock.
While Bsptisss waited funeral procession
assembled the road. Bsptista FASTENED
across, and by tie time the procession en-
tered the oemstery gates she had uGo6-
trusively joined it.
In addison to the schcol masters own
relatives (not few, the paragraph in the
newspapers Of his death By drowning lad
drawn together many reighbors, scquaini-
ances and ouloOkers AmGng them she
passed unncticsd, and with q quiet stsp
pursued tbs winding path to the chspsl,
and sfterward thence to the grave. When
all was over and the relatives and idlers
had Withdrawn, she stepped to the edge of
the ehasna. From beneath her mantle she
drew 3 little bunch of forget-me-nots and
dropped thsm in upon the coffin. In
few minutes she, also, turned and went
away from the cemstery. By O'Clock
che was sgain in Pspzapee.
''You have been q msrtel long timew
said her hUsband, Grossly. 81 allowed ye
q hour at most, NEE dear"
SIT occupied me longer" said she.
''Wsll, / reckon it is wasting words to
complain. Hang it, We lcok 50 tired and
visit that can't find heart to say what I
wouldp'
ST am weary and wisht, David; am.
We can get home tomorrow for certain, I
hope?n
''We can, and please God we will. D" ssid
Mr.. Heddegan, heartily, as if he, too, were
weary Of his brief honeymoon. II must
be into business again on Monday morning
at latest"
They left by the next morn steamer,
end in the afternoon took upA their resi-
dence in their own houss at 81 gh Town.
Her husband was a man whS had made