Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-13

times, ! told YOU again and again last
summer and fall that / did not love you
and ought not 20 think of being your
wife. Yet poor homeless, dependent
as am. how strong was the temptation
20 say yes 10 your plea.
"You know that l did not and would
not until time and again your sweet
mother whom do love, and Kate, who
has been a mother 10 me. both declared
that that would make no difference; the
love would come: the happieSt marriages
the world over was those in which the
girl respected the man of her choice;
love would come. and come speedily.
when once she was his wife. You your
self declared you could wait in patience
YOU would WOO and win by and by.
Only 10 promise % be your wife before
returning 90 the frontier and you would
Doe content. Steven, are yOu content?
You know YOU are not; YOU know You
are unhappy; and il is all, not because
am going To- love some one else, but
because am not growing TO love YOU.
Heaven knows l want 10 love YOU; for
So long as YOU hold me 70 il my promise
is sacred and shall bee kept
More than that, If YOU say that ii IS
Your will that I Seclude myself from
these attentions. give up dancing. give
mp rides. drives. walks. and even receiv-
ing visits here, 50 be 10. l will obey;
but write this 90 me. Steven-not TO
Kate: am too proud 10 ask her TO
show me tine letters l know she has re-
ceived from vOu-and there are some
She has not shown mc-but ! cannot
understand "a mans complaining 10
other persons of the conduct of the
woman who is. or is 10 bf, his wife.
Forgive me if / pain YOU; sometimes
even % myself / seem old and strange.
have lived So much alone. have had To
do and think for myself 50 many wears
while Kate has been away. that perhaps
I'm not like other girls but the re-
~pcct feel for YOU would bee injured If
I thought YOU strove TO guide or govern
me through others; and of one thing be
sure. Steven. must honor and respect
and look zap 10 the man l marry, love or
mo- love.
~Oncc YOU said il would Kill You if
YOU believed / could be- false To YOU. II
bv that Won meant that. having given
my promise 20 YOU % be your wife AT
some future time. / must school myself
to love vou and viii Doe considered false
+ If love do not come at my bidding or
yours. saw to Won solcmnIy, release me
now. may not love. but | cannot and
will not deceive Won. even by stimulating
love that does not exist. suppose that
love were 20 Doe kindled i'm my heart.
Suppose were 90 learn 20 care for some
one here. You would be the first one 10
know it; for I would tell You as soon rs
+ / knew 10 myself. Then what could /
hope for-or YOU? Surely You would
not want 90 marry a girl who loved an
other man. But is it much better to
marry one who feels that she does not
love you2
Think of IL. Steven; ! am very lone
ly, very far from happy, very wrctched
over Hates evident trouble. and all the
sorrow I am bringing You and yours;
but have l miSled or deceived you m
any one thing? Once only has word
been spoken or q scene occurred that
Won could perhaps have objected 10. /
told YOU the whole thing i'm my letter OF
sunday last. and why ! had not told
Kate We have not met since That
night. Mr.. Hayne and /. and may not;
but hc is a man whose story cNciteS my
profound pity and sorrow, and he Is one
of the TWO or three ! feel that ! would
like 90 see more of. Is this being false
to You or Co my promise? II So, Steven,
YOU cannot say that l have not given
YOU the whole truth.
1T is very late at night o'clock
and Kate is not vet asleep, and the cap
tain is still down stairs, reading. He Is
not looking well at all, and Kate Is sore
/ lv anNiou, about him. IL was his evil
dcncc that brought years of OStraclSm
and misery upon Lieut.. Hayne' ana
there are vague indications tnat nm ms
own regiment the officers are beginning
ro believe that possibly he was not the
guilty man. The cavalry officers, oil
course. saw nothing 10 us ON the subject
land have never heard the full story.
+ II he has been, as is suggested. the We
tim of Scoundrcl. and Capt. Bayner
was at fault m his evidence, no punish
mcnt ON earth could Dee too great for the
VILLAIN who planned his ruin. and no re-
morse could atone for Capt Rayner'
share. never saw SD sad face on
mortal man as Mr.. Haynes. Steven
Van Antwerp. 1 wish We're man.
would trace chat mystery 20 the bitter
end
This is a strange letter % send to
to YOU: but anna strange girl. Already
/ ann more than expecting YOU to write
and release me Internationally; and YOU
ought 90 do III. | do not say / want IT,
Faithfully. at least, yours,
NELLIE.
ZIP. Should YOU write to Kate
YOU are not TO tell her, remember OF
my meeting with Mr. Hayne. OF course
/ am anxious To have your reply TO thai
letter: but il will bee five days yet.
An odd letter, indeed, for girl not
vet twenty. and not of "a hope inspiring
character: but when il reached Mr.. Val
Antwerp ne did not pale i'm reading IT.
his face was CHASTITY before he began
IIf ANYTHING. he seemed relieved by
some passages. though rejoiced by none
Then he took from an inner pocket the
letter that had reached him few days
previous. and all alone i'm his room, late
at night. ne read il over again, threw II
uDon the table at which he was sitting
then with passionate abandonment,
buried his face i'm his arms and groaned
aloud I'm anguish.
Two DAYS after writing this letter
Miss Travcrs was SO unfortunate as to
hear conversation i'm the dining room
which was not intended for her ears
f She had gone To- her room immediately
after breakfast. and glancing from her
window saw that the officers were Just
going To- headquartert for the daily
matinee. For half or three-QuarterS oil
am hour. therefore. there could be no
probable interruption; and she decided
/ ro write am answer TO the letter
which came from Mr.. Van Ant
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