Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-02

YVES teAElD1y lOuS, anu before reScn1nR the
heap Of clothes il occurred to her that,
after all, it would bs bsss to run first for
help. fastening along in lateral duec-
tion, she proceeded inland till she met q
man, and soon afttrward two others, to
whom she exclaimed: az think q gsntle-
man who was bathing is in soms danger.
l cSnuot see him IS I could. Will you
please run and help him at once, if you
will be so kir d?"
She did not think of turning to show
them the Gxact spot, indicating it V gualy
by the direction of her hand, and still
going on her way with tie idea Of gaining
more assistance. When she deemed, in
her faintneEs, that she had carried the
alarm far enough, she faced bout and drag
gsd herself hack again. Before reaching
the row dreaded spot she met one of the
men
I'VE can see ro!hipg at all, miss," he
declsred.
Having gained the beach, she found the
tide in, and no sign of C5arley's c,otheI.
The other men whom she had bescugit to
come had disappeared, it must have been
in some o'her direction, for she nd not
met them going away. They, finding
nothing, had probably thought her alarm
mere conjecture and given up the quest.
| Baptista sunk down upon the stor es
near at hand. Where Charley had IN
dressed WIS now sea. There coDld not be
the least doubt that he Yves drowned and
his body sucked up by the current, while
his clothes, lying within high water mark,
had probably bean carried away by tbs
risir G tide.
Sue rsmained in stuFor for some
miutes, till a strange sensation succeeded
the afole aid perceptions, mystifying her
intelligence and leaving her physically al
most inert. With his personal disappear
ance, the last Tires days of her life with
him seemed to be swallowed up; also his
image, 10 her MAIDS eye, waned curiously,
receded far away, grew stranger and
stranger, less and less real. Their meeting
and marriage had ben co sudden, unpre-
meditated, adventurous, that she could
hardly believe that she bad played he: part
in such reckless drama OF ell the few
hours of her life with Charles, the portion
that most insisted in coming hack to
memory Was THAR f1rtui.ous encounter on
the previous Saturday; and those bitter
reprimands with which he had begun tie
attack, as it might bs called, which had
p'qued Ter to an unexpected corsum-
| nation.
A sort of cruelty, an imperiousness, even
in his wa .mth, had chara c;e:izsd Charles
Stow, As a lover he had ever been hi;
OF tyrant; and i. might pretty truly have
been said that he Eal stung her into mar
risge with him at la9t. Still more alien
from her life dill thesG tfl ctio2s operate
to make him; and then they would be
chased away by an interval of passionate
weeping and mad regret. Finally, there
returned uroa the confused mind OF the
young wife the recollection that she va
| on her way home ward and that the packet
W. uld sail in three quarters of an hour.
Except the parasOl in her hand, all she
possessed was at the citation awaiting her
onward journey.
See looked il that direction; and entsr'
! log or Of those u 1demcns!ratiVe phase =,
80 cImUtn with her, walked quietly on.
At first she m lde straight for the rail
way, bat suddenly turning she went to 8
shop and wrote sn aEoOy nous line an
nou C n : his Il .ath by d wing to the only
rerjOa she Id ever heard Charles mention
as 6 rels tive. Posting this stealthly snd
with a fearful lCo& around her, shs ste ned
to acquire a terror of the late eve t.,
pu.suipg her way to the station ss if fjl'
lowed b. specter.
VIII she got to the eff she a'ked fol
the luggage that she had lett there en- tiC
| Saturday., as well as the trunk left On TIE
morning JUS. lapsed. All were put in TIE
boat. and she herself followed. Quickly
as these things had been done, the who's
proceeding, nevertheless, had been slmost
automatic on Bspt;s!a's pert ere shs had
come to aay defnits conclusion on hel
course.
Just tefJre the bell rang she heard con
ysrsation on the per, which removed the
last shade of doubt from her mind, if any
had xiited, that she was ChsIl Slows
widow. Thu sentences were but freq
mentary, hut she could easily piece then
out.
"A man do Tned-swam out too far
was stranger 10 tie place-people II
boat-saw him 60 down-c2u dat gel
there in time"
The news was little moe deflite than
tbs as yet; though it may as well be stated
once for all that the statement was true
Charley, with the oTsr confidence Of biz
nature, had yentured out too far for h!
strength, ST d sucCumbed in the sb e1ce @
assistance. bis ifeless body being at tina
moment suspended in the transparent MD
depths of thu bay. His clothes, however
had merely blel gently lifted by the Tisini
tide, and fl ,at d into nook hard by
wtere they lay out o: aight Of the passers
By till day or two after.