Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-14

she was. and what he had once hoped
that she might be, Lord GuiSe could not
help saying;
Il never understood why you mar
ried BelvQir IL was always mystery
10 me-.
WAS it," She returned, with quick
movement of her head toward him. Il
am glad of that. / thought you Were
quite convinced that married him fOr
his position
i couldn't conceive Of any ether rea-
son"
II suppose not. All, well; it is an
old story now, ami nobody cares what
my reasons may have been, and since
then l have been engaged TO Percy
ThOrOld and have thrown him over, and
have been more than half inclined To
engage myself 10 dozen other men.
What does il matter9 There is one
right person, and only one, for every
body. Failing that person, Tom is as
good As Dick. and Dick as Harry.
Don't yo think So
ure produced a strange and disturbing
effect upon Lord GuiSe. 1t was little
enough that he thought about fox hunt
ing that day, and although the hounds
found ut the first covert, and he wit
messed the beginning Of what promised
10 be glorious run, he quite forgot to
wish himself on horSebauck. During
the homeward drive he scarcely spoke
at all, nor did he put in an appearance
At luncheon. While the ladies were do
Ing Justice to that meal he was walking
up and down his bedroom, and saying
20 himself in agitated accents:
Good heavens, no. this will never do.
/ may be- entirely mistaken, and even If
| were not-iuSt think of il, Once upon
time Sybil was as good girl a ever
lived. but of late yearS-Oh, it's motor
iouS. YOU know. Facts are facts, and
there's no getting over them. ! can
only do one thing. and I'll do it before
/ I'm an hour older"
/ The miStreSS'Of that house was an OBJ
servant old woman, who knew how TO
put this and that together. ItwaS there
/ fore with genuine reluctance and regret
that she made a communication to Lady
Belvoir later in the afternoon.
Lord GuiSe has been telegraphed
for. and has gone away in 4 great
I hurry" she said. 1t seems that he
was actually out of the house before we
had finished luncheon. He didn't like
70 disturb US, he says in the note that
he left for me. an 80 sorry"
But Lady BelvOir did not appear TO
be sorry at all. She was in great spirits
that evening: she laid aside the air of
demure prOpriety which had charac-
terized her since her arrival; she took a
leading part in certain high jinkS,
which il is needless TO particularize,
and toward the small hours of the morn
ing she wrote TO SpOndent of
hers in WeStmoreland letter, in which
the following passages occurred:
Il told YOU | would DO il, and now il
is Is good aS done. Lord GuiSe fed
precipitately from me to-day, lest a
worse thing should befall him. Perhaps
YOU think | shall give chase? Ny dear
girl. it is not | who shall pursue him,
but he who will come crawling back to
me. I heard from Percy the.other day.
U lie WIS III O1A i 0lAN lNtOr AAlA WsN' g.
miserable aS YOU could wish him to be.
In few weeks he will be back in Eng
land. and then, my dear, you will be good
enough TO put your pride in your pocket
and forgive him. In fact you will have
10 do so: because if you don't | shall
make no Scruple about telling him what
/ know 10 be the case.
There isn't such sUperabunbance
of happiness in this world that one can
afford 20 throw away ones chance fol
the sake of furnishing Il goose. As fol
/ GuiSe, who deserves no mercy, he shall
get none. | mean 10 lay that man pros
trate at my feet, and when he is there
shall simply dance on his head. Nobody
can call me rancerOus person; but in
I this case ! am not avenging private
wrongs; | am acting a the champion OF
my sex. And my sex may feel sure thai
I will do the thing thoroughly"