Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-10
CHAPTER III.

"YOu are cruel, cruel, Me-. Warburton.
Why should you make me tell you that
love you?" sobbed the woman. What but
ruin can ever come from the knowledge OF
it?" And the glorious dark eyes and full
ripe lips were raised for a moment pitifully
to the face of her companion; but, alas for
her it was triumph, not compassion that
she read there.
"But you shall say it, my beauty, with
those sweet lips of yours, though your eyes
have owned it thousand times already;
then l shall feel as though life might even
yet be worth the living His voice had a
hard ring in it, despite is passion, and the
strong hands that es;e1 on her shoulders
hurt her; yet there WAS power IN the
man she was helpless to resist.
A nervous thrill ran through her frame,
and the color came and went in her cheeks.
Don't, don't make me say it; l can
never undo it then" she moaned; but
smile crept round WArburton's handsome
mouth as he listened.
"Now, be a good, obedieut child" he
said, 'and let me hear You just once say,
Horace, love YOU then l will hold you
against the world, let it say what it will.
Come, now, you've never called me Hor-
ace yet, Celia-Celia, my pet and my darl-
ing Alb! I gee, must charm those trem-
bling lips into speech. Now, when hold
Won 20, whisper it ever go softly, and love
will make me hear"
Horace, Horace, oh, you know l love
you; how can help it?' cried the woman;
but as she spoke she loosed herself from
his embrace, and stood looking wistfully
away toward the blue and shining sea.
All was so calm, so sweet, so sunny that
summer dag on the Riviera, 1t seemed as
though life should know raught Of sin, nor
wrong. ncr pain, and rs though human
souls should be free to enjoy the warmth
and the beauty of their snort young day
gladsomely, as the gay butterflies that
chased each other wan,only from flower to
flower.
Warburton threw himself on the sand at
her feet: no troubles of conscience dis
tufbed him; il was anOthT triumph won;
beirR won already, he could take it calm
", and he watched the w2mana little cnri-
ously as the color slowly faded from her
cnee ks and her hands claspe1 each other
helplessly, while her proud bead lowed
itself beneath the shsme that covered her
''Who would have thought it; the crea-
ture has something offs conscience, unused
the man; sit is troublesome, but 1t makes
the game more interesting" be let her
alone a moment OF two, la1guldly enjoying
her beauty, and Intellectually rellshlng the
study Of weak, tempted, struggling hu-
man soul-since that soul was woman 8
though he must not let the struggle be too
long continued, lest the issue might grow
doubtful, so much he recognized; recog-
nizing. too. that after the battle with her
own higher self the woman, in her weak
n fs aud her wesriness, would he all the
easier conquered by an external temper;
BAH there was scarce psychological
phase woman could 30 through on hei
downward path of VIII en- Ibis man dld nor
know the outward e'grs: ne had played
both Mephistophe aid Faust comolueu
in his own person to "''7" rot 10 recos
nize every point of adv mage
That night Mr.. Barrel wa' gayer IMAM
her wont The nou.- shere they were
STAYING wss fnil of 'n's s. cod- ano eoos o,
English society so often rob- ioand abroad
people VII Sc purses repnt'lons' neal. u
and happiness have gnreto wr.cS ana "ne
make the best they can o n reminder IN
out-of-: he-way p c-- Sl-e tte e histories
are unknown. With h'ry 1.h, h-r nt'u'y
and he husbands 's-st7, dr. b'tieii
reigned queen OF "A pl,ce where there was
little of attractive Womarhood 70 Dc met
nd It scarcely needed her gift OF song 70
vim her All the admiration md hattery even
she could wish. She had sung again and
again as though she could never tire, ana
her reckless laugh echoed through the room
and grated on her husband iasudious ear
even more than the songs she bad CHOSEN,
vet never had his pituul heart acueu 81
nueb for the woman he yet loved,
Some answering magnetism IN MS oMu
nature rendered him cOusliou o. me s'oIni
of nsssion that was surgiug within her and
u -, Iii. foreettinq pitg male MIN lofg