Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-13
you, but the woman who wrote that

you, but the woman who wrote that
book"
The other leaned back.
Il suppose yor're caught yourself, since
you make such q fuss about it."
well, if 1 am, haven't shown it to
him and everybody elsel"
The Countess jumped up and walked
across the room and picked up the book,
which lay face downward on the carpet.
You seem very much excited. must
say your Socialism dCe3n't seem to agree
with you"
Look here, the other came quits
close to her-''this man hiss been for the
last ten years doing his best to lose his soul
and sti1e everything that's good in him
He can be saved, / n Ger tain of that. Do
you think you can save him?r
The Countess tnrned away.
"Ohl botheIw she tossed her hsad.
''You know don't understand all thia
hghiaultin talk Of losing souls and swing
men, and all the rest of it. Tell me
straight out what you want. YOu can be
business-like eaough when you like"
Il want You to give mp trying to catch
this man; he's not your kind of man at
all, and it's not much of sacrifice You'll
never catch him on your msrits, and
though you msyn't understand il, you'll
just kill the little good there il in him, and
IN yO1 tor
"Well?'
"Well, want you to tel him the
truth ahOut the book"
"Tell him yourself"
mo, that never will. Do you 1emem-
Der when we agreed to publish the book
under your own name you said hundred
times that if il succeeded you would tel
the whole world? Well don't ask thst,
and never Will ask it, but l do ask you
to tell him
"Agresdl Wasn't it your own rro-
posal?'
'Yes, snd a wicked one it was. A Ii,
always ends like This"
You shouldn't have proposed it.
Didn't you wish lac TO? Don't you
understand that felt 80 grateful to you
that would have cut or my hands if you'd
wanted it?n
Your feelings have changed pretty much
now. I believe you bsts men
mo I don't hate you; but hate TO sse
you playing these stupid tricks and trying
to eotangle men ycU don't care about
Some men aren't worth anything better,
but think this one is.
TIE Countess had suddenly grown calm.
Even worth your trying TO catch, ehp'
"O5! hOw can you say such things!
Have I ever"
"There, there" coldly, don't lets have
any beloics-theTe's no need. hayn't
the slightest objection to telling your
friend ihat you wrote the book, and you
can devote yourself to saving bis valuable
soul. Good night"
She smiled as Miss Emden left her
When she Wss slone she fang her hands
above her head, and then threw herself
face downward on the sofa, She had les
the man she loved-but she had kept hsl
secret. She could not have refused to tel
Evsrard DObbs; and she was glad she had
onseated in such al Cff haud way as Il
uut herself completely 10 the right snC
Miss Emden in the wrong.
It's always the way, " she said 20 her
self, "the mole you do for people thu les
grateful they are. She'll % away noT-o
course. So much the better. l hate thes'
1p-ia-.he-clcuds people, perpetually criti
cisiDg you. She can have the money thst''
come in fom 'May-b'ofsons.' SEED no
take anything els, but she mas a right t
hat. Nobody would ever have published
her book without NY naue-she ought tC
remember that
An hour lister Jean Emdel csme GoTl
her eyes red Hi.h ccying, her hair disOr
dered, he chin firmly set.
''LCoS 81 G., she said, ''you have beet
GOOD TO me-ycu have saved my life. In
an Jug ateful Brute! D,n't tel him. II
20 away"
sand what about his sou" said IL
Countess malicionsly.
She looked troubled. Midame de Viller
msy laughed.
well, make your mind easy. I've jus
been out myself and Fo3tsd a letter TO bin
/ telling him the whole thing
The letter Dobbs received gu. the matte
in light not very favorable 70 the Coua
less: there is way of confessing siI
which makes the sinner aeem mora spot
| less even than Beforehand he still visit
her at Hampstead occasionally. he muci
more often visits Miss Emden IN Shsdweli
where she manages the Co-Opersiv,
Needle women's Association, estlbiisbe
with his capital, running nOg st a small
annual loss. SEE has published anolhe
volume Of poems, in her cwn nam
this time, and all the reviews 90.
she has crib5ed ehsmefully from
the suthoress of ''May-blossops." Sac be
lieves that Mr. O5bb8 is On Il e right roal
at last. he took an active part in managing
a recent women's strike, aud he il at pres
ent laid up with a sore throas caught u
lecturing from an inverted tub outside tn
Dock Gstes.-FaJiaa Bland, IN Murray