Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-09
VII.

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css:oa, bat the incident had b9el an awk-
ySsrd one, and shoQld have sugges ed to
Baptista that sooner or later the secret
must leak out. Az il Was, she suspected
that at shy rate she had not heard the last OF
the glazier.
In day OF two, when h:r hubbard hsd
gone to the old town 90 the other side OF
the island. there came gentle tap ct the
door, aud the worthy uitneas of hsr first
marriage made his appearance q second
time.
1T took me hours TO get TO the bottom
of the mystsry-Aoursn he said, with q
gaze of deep confederacy which offended
her pride very deeply. But. thanks to a
coed intellect, I've doae it. Nov, ms'am,
I'm not man to tell tales, even when a
tale would be so Good as this. But am
going back to the maiulsnd again, aud a
little assistance would bs as rain IN a
thirsty land
II helped yOn two days ago." began
Bsptista.
"Yes, cut what was that, my good lady
Not enough TO pay my passage to Pen
zmce. came Over or your account, for
thought there was mystery somewF ere.
Now l must 20 back on my own. Mind
this-'twould be very awkward for You II
your old man weIe to know. He's qIeeI
temper, though he may be Sood."
she knew SIS well as her viSi or how AK
ward it would be, and tbs hush money
she paid waR heavy that day. She had,
however, the satisfaction Of watching the
man to tie steamer aud seeing him dinin-
ish cut OF sight. Bat Baptists Pc. ceiVeC
that the system into which she had been
led OF purchasing silence thus was one
fatal to her pace Of mind, particularly il
: it had to be con inued.
Hearing no more from the glaz!er she
hoped the diff. uity IVES past But a.
ether week only ba1 gore by when, as she
was walking en- the Hugh (;he name giTer
to the prone osds), she met the same par
s)naGe ia the compIny of a fat woman
Carrying buCdle.
This is the lady, my dear" ne said t.
his companion. This, ma'am, is my
wife. We've come to settle in this town
/ for time, if so be we can find ROOM"
! That you won't &c" s&id size. NO
body can live here who is MT privileged. y
II am privileged, sid tie glsz,eE, by
my trade"
. Baptista went on, bat in the afternoon
she received q visit from the mans wife.
This honest woman began to depict, in
forcible cOlors, the necessity for keeping
/ up the concealmeot.
81 will intercede with NV husband,
ma'am," che said. He's true man, il
rightly managed, and pll beg him to con
slider your position, It's very nice house
you've got hsIe,' she added. glaaciEg
round, and worth little sacrifice to keep
it,
The unlucky Blptista STAYED off the
danger on this third occasion as she had
done on the previous two. But she formed
q resolve that, if the attack vera orcs more
to be repeated, sic would face revelation
worse though that must now be than be.
! fore she had attempted to purchase silence
| by bIibtS Her tormentors, never belie7'
ing her capable of acting upon such an in,
tsntion, came again; but she shut the doOl
in their faces. They retreated, mutteripg
something, but she went to the back of TIE
house, where David Heddegan was.
She looked at him, unconscious of all
The case was serious; she knew that well
sll tie moro serious IN that she liked hin
better now than she had done at first.
Yet, SIS she herself began to see, the secret
was ore that was sure to disclose itself.
Her nsne and CharlSs' stood indeibly
written IN the registers, and though only
q month had passed as yet it was q Won
der that his elandestine union with hel
had net already been discovered by his
friends. Thus squirting herself to the In
eyitsbie, she spoke to Heddegsn:
David, come in doors. have some
ting to tell you"
BE hardly regarded her at first. Sht
had discerned thst during the Last Weel