Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-24

tnat no newspaper would BRING neI Tue
news before his letter could reach.
However, as the day woreOn Paul came
nolselessly out Of the quiet room, where
the white shrouded form seemed still 10
spread 8 tender presence round 1t, and SAID
90 Eustace, with dry, plteOus lips:
~ have remembered Miss Bretherton;
YOU must 20 10 her tomorrow, atter-the
funeral"
II can't bear the thought of leaving
you,' said Kendall, laying a brotherly
hand on his shoulder.
LET me write TO day"
Paul shook his head. "She has been i'll.
Any way, it viii he q great shock, but If
yCu 20 it viii be better
Kendall resisted q little more, but 1t
seemed as If Maris's motherly Carefulness
over The bright creature who had charmed
her had passed into Paul. He was saying
what Marie would have ssid, taking
thought as she would have taken 1t for
one She loved, and 10 was settled as he
wished
When his long pacing in the Champs
E,vsses was over Kendall went back TO nnd
Paul busy with ms wite's letters and trlnk-
cts, turning them over with look OF
shiveriug forlornness, as though the
Thought of the untompaniOned lifetime to
come were already closing upon him like
some deadly chill in the aiC. Beside hlm
Law two miniature cases open; one OF them
was the case which Eustace had received
from his sisters hand on the afternoon be-
fore her death, and both of them con
tanned Identical portraits ct Marie IN her
frs brilliant w0msnhcod.
tDo you remember them2' Paul said In
his husky voice, pointing them out to
him. ''They were done when you were
atclllege and she was %. Your mother
had two taksn-O1e for herself and one for
your old Aunt Marion. Your mother eft
me hers when she died, and yOur aunts
COPY OF IL came back to US last year Tell
Miss Bre.her.0n / S history. She viii prize
it, To is the h=st picture s.ill.
Kendall made "a sign Of assent and took
the case. Paul rose and stood beside him,
mechanically spreading cut his hands to
the fire.
Tomorrow, SIS soon rs yO1 are gone, 1
shall 20 off to Italy. There are some lit
tie places in the south near Naples that she
was very fo-d of. I sbali sssy about there
for while. As soon as I feel l csn, shall
come back 30 The tic Ssnate aad my work.
Ie IS The ONLY hing lelt me-she was so
keen about lt ~ His voice sank into p
whisper. and long silegc5 fell upon them
Women il moments Of sorrow have the
outlet of tears and Csresses; mems great
ra.uge IS silence. but the silence may be
charged with symps.by aud the c0mtot of
shared grief twas SO in this case.
The afternoon light wss fading, and
Eendsl was about % rise and make some
necessary preparations for his journey,
when Paul detained him, looking up at
him with surken eyes which seemed to
carry in them al the history Of the two
rishts lust past. "Wil yOu ever ask her
what Marie wisheie' The tone was the
even and passioDlcss tone of one who for
the moment fsit none of the ordinary en-
bsrrassuents of intercourse; Kendall met
it with the ssue direCtness.
"Some day I shall ask Eer, or at least /
shall let her know; but it viii be no use. ~
Paul shook his bes6, but whether in pro
test engagement Kendal cocld hardly tell.
Then he went back 20 his task of sorting
the letters. and Ia. tce matter drop IL
seemed eslf ne were scarcely capable Of
taking an interest iD it FOR It's own sake,
buf simply as a wish, q charge of Marie.
Kendall parted from him IN the evening
with sn aching heart, and was haunted for
hours by the memory of the desolate figure
returning slowly into the empty houses and
hv sharp provision of All the lonely
nights and the uncontrolled morroWs
which lay before the stricken man.
But. as Paris receded further and further
behind him. and the sen drew nearer, and
the shores of the country which held lsa-
bal B-ethert0n. 10 was but natural that
even the grin upon him of this terrible and
startling cslamity should relax a little, and
that DE should realiZs himself ne a man
seeking che sdOrsd women, HE veins still
bearing with tie currents OF youth and
the great ungressad future still before him
lie had left Mamie iu the gave, and his
life would bear the sc3y Of that loss for
ever But Isabel Bra horton vas still
among the living che warm, the beautiful,
and evsrF mile brooght him nearer 10 the
electric joy of her pr,sence. lie took a
cad. strange pleasure III making the con-
trast between the one picture and
the other as vivid as possible.
Death and silence on the one side-Ob,
how true and how irrspaTable, But on
the Other he forced on his Imagination
ll 70 drew for him sn image or youth
and beauty so glowing that it aim os
charmed nesting out of his griet The
English psper which he succeeded IN GET
ting at C. lais contained the announcement:
Miss Bretherton has. we are glad 10 say,
.completelT recovered from the effects Of the
fintirg lit which so much alarmed tne
audience at the Cal'cpe last week. She
was able Co pley 'E.via' as usual last
ria1t ana wss greeted by q large ard
s-mDstheiic house He read 70 and turn
ed ne page hastily, SIS ~ what the para
.,raob znggssted was wholly distasteiul 70
him he refused altogether to think Of
her es weak or suffering; slranR from
ria own mast misgiviugs, ms own propae-
e.es about her. The world would be a
mora dark prison house if her bright beau Y
,vs-e cvercioudedl she was rot made for
9e-t5. and she should stand 20 linn IS the
,r,eee ofsU thst escapes snd resi5ts and
5efas chat tyr8nt Of our years, and pain
/ his instrument and herald
+ He reached London in the midst OF q
rainy fog. The endless black streets
stretched before him in the dreary Deem
her morning likg so many roads into the
+ neither regions; the gas lamps scattered al
unreasonable light through the rain and
foe. Tt was the quintessence Of murSy,
cherries winter
He resched his own rooms, and found
his man up and waiting for him, and a
meal ready. Tt was bu. three days since
re had been last there; the open telegram
was still lying on the table One Of his
frs. acts was to put it hastily ont Of sight
Over his breakfast he planned his embassy
60 Miss Bre.hertoD- The best time to lind
her alone he imagined, would be
about midday, and in the interval