Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-08-11

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zee Gaze .,-c-.sl merchant, BY name
a5- ..'-.,.or ri az the time l am go
,''.'.- ..EofI sss ,hirty-twO years OF
-- M att-- bad been dead about nj
~ month. srd I was still living WIN
--, -,o.tsr suc nay one unmarried s'slel
,rs n.e,ssnt old gray stone house AZ
~.svfil which bad looked upon as my
So-,e sll nv life long was my mother :
@o'r son among five daughters; auc, II i
100 MOI ,s rouceited a specimen @. human
;,v as cne could meet in days maicn'
me fact Was due 90 my fathers wise lore
sight in sending ME here, there, ana every
where for a wear or two's residence st one
M another of bis distant branch houses
instead of keeping me so home 20 De sPou'
by the women.
Vow. however, bad promised my
mother not 20 roam ogsin rnl7ss unaef lu'
pressure of actual necessity, and oad taken
NV Mace ss ths resident head OF the mouse
rfO.intor. Hu. C,eNhammer N Co, Oh
PIiter street. D. O., Montreal foIt E'.A
shetr. Nelho1rre, Bombay, etc
This matter Of self Introduction over
come to a more difficult part OF my story -
Decentralization of my heroine she was
tbs onIv daughter Of the leading C.ayhiii
doctor and her usme YVES Cynthia Deoen'
ham. She h-l one b7ctler, Two ye-'s
voureer fh1n herself Cynthia was - and
Horace ~ when my story begins WIZ TIE
5sotb III fhsi- father. Dr. Debenaam.
T bad gore down by my usual tram, tne
.I from Liverpool street, and was sur
,rssl. on leaving the carriage ut Clay hill,
io zee NV sister Jemima waiting by the
doorof the station with worried, anxious
lock Oh her sce. which was most unusual.
'Hallo. Jem," I eXclaimed-she was
named Jemima after her goomothsr,
rich maiden aunt, aud her only corsoia
zion urder the H cton was that the oh
ncxious name was capable Of this manly
contrsction-"w what are y0u dong down
here 40 This tim. I-n'r this ne houI
usually devoted .0 tes and sclnda, served
up hot.'
She did 10. answer me; and, looking at
her mor4 closely, 7 made the astounding
discovery tbat she had been crying.
hurried her into the deg cart without
another wold. and waited before asking
my next question until We were clsar oil
tie struggling stream of passengers.
WHIST Is it. cid Lady, Don't break
down out here If you can possibly avoid It
What has hsppenedt'
cdr ID benham Is dead"
Dead Good heavens, how shocking
Why, be went up with me this nornlog
Jem. and seemed in splendid spirits . Was
tan acCideut.'
"Nc he came down by the 1870, took
fly, and went straight home. Cynthia " a:
surprised TO see him back so soon, and
wanted to get him some luncheon; bat b,
said Re didn't want TO Be bothered, end
almost shut the study door in her face
She said she thought there was something
rather queer ia his manner, snd felt enx
iOus. thinking the sun had been too mucl
for hin or scme,hi q Of the sind So, IN
stead @. e0llg asss, sl5 sat down IN tht
hall to be resf h.m. She was tired, hay
irg been r Zee garden all the morning
end, sir jog there IN the silent hall, wa
almost asleep. wren she was crcused by tn'
sound of something heavy falling inside
Der fathers study. Without stopping
moment to think, she rushed in and founC
him living Gcs downwards on the floor
They ODD everything they coUld, but MT
Jennings declares he was dead when 20
ielI.'
And what DO they sev ii is?'
Heart diseas-; but there is 10 ne ~
Inquest
Poor CYNTHIA
.'she SIS wonderfully calm, 80 goid Jem
with the tears runniug uowa her good
rpturei brown face. ''li she had ere
and made ever 90 little fuss should nc
have been so upset; but her patient
m9u--tul white tace ia more than / ca
stand. She qrieves terribly about Horace
lie and his father parted in anger the les
time ,tey net. and she thinks the memoir,
OF their quarrel vail be so terrible Tor Oh
poor boy row.
'A coed for nothing Young scsPegTace'
7 mutersd. with q complete absence o
sympathy g Sire need no, worry herself OF
that score. Jem; Horace won't erievl
much unlass b'. own interests are touched
very nearly. Who is with Cynthia nov ~
The mother We want her &c come
home with us tonight ~
Shell NOS DO t1st I'm certain, Jem
she Won't leave the house until sfier the
funeral Cynthia s not the girl to spare
herself when there are dutiss to perform,
and be viii think il her duty to stay al
Che house IN Park street until every
shiny Is over. Then there's Horsce, too,
90 look after Can be get here tonight "
"He can get up 20 town from Oxford
hUtI slraid he'll miss the last train
down. Here's Park street. VIII You
come and see Cynthia2'
shunk rsrnctively from this sugges-
no7. 7 loved Cyrthia very dearly; and
believe te bowed me-in fact, she bad al
mos, adu-,ei .-st her duty % her father
an brother ecs the only obstacle when l
hsd asked D. r-sx months bstoTe-to be
my wife. Anything 7 could do for her
good, I would ye. the thought Of going
to Dr Dsbenhau house lust now was re-
pDguau, 90 me-
ll come It ca be Of any use" /
SAID, feeling some self contempt ct my
oVn weakness; 'hut i don't suppose she
W.lsee me, Jem
tefnaE not, out no VIII look klnoi anu,
even ii you don't see her, you may be OF
use
81 We got down. left the cart at the top
oi the street, and went IN at the smart
chocolate colored gates, and round the neat
drive 10 the side door Of the DOCTORS pros
porous looking house. Icould scarcely re-
size that be lay dead within, cut down in
the PRIME Of his manhood by this awfully
sudden stroke, The scarlet geraniums and
the roses were in full bloom on the front
.swns-vivid patches of color in the July
sunshine; and, on the tennis lawn at the
side Of the house. the nets were still up.
Jem snd had been playing the night