Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-23

all was the prospect of hearing his own
selection discussed. however curSorily,
and this deferred him from Summoning
a meeting which. in good faith, he
ought 10 have summoned a soon Is his
intentions became clear To him.
Ii was not until the month of July
that he was somewhat rudely awakened
70 a sense of his duty. BY that time his
devotion to Miss Leslie had been very
generally remarked upon, and Miss Les
lies neither, for one, was beginning To
think that if he meant anything he had
better say so. Mrs. Leslie was not Il
worldly woman, and was in no great
hurry 10 see her only daughter married:
but she thought that Dorothy ought to
have the chances to which all girls are
entitled, and il stands 10 reason that
those chances must be diminished by the
conspicuous and apparently welcome at
tentiOnS of one man. She therefore
took an opportunity of saying to Mr..
ThorOld:
Il hope you won't be too busy TO come
and say good-by before We leave. We
shall be going home in less than a week
now"
Ii was ut one OF the last big official
receptions of the year that this COM
munication was made 10 Percy, who
was a good deal Disconnected by it. Al
though he had of late been 50 constantly
i'm Dorothy'S society, their meetings had
for the most part taken place under the
benevolent auspices of Lady Belvoir,
aud his interviews with Mrs. Leslie had
been few and far between. y certain
anxious look i'm the good lady'S eyes
made her meaning tOlerably plain to
him. and indeed he felt that her anxiety
was uStiGable. Well, il should soon be
set at rest: but of course he must now
lose NO slime in taking GuiSe and the
other men into his confidence. He told
Mrs. Leslie how very sorry he was to
hear of her imminent departure and
promised that he would call in Ebury
street in day or TWO, after which he
moved away in search of Lord GuiSe, of
whose red beard he had caught Il glimpse
earlier i'm the evening.
But Lord GuiSe. v men discovered, was
standing with his back against the wall,
propounding original solutions of the
Irish difficulty 10 q knot OF amused poll
ticiauS. and 10 was evident that there
was for the present NO chance OF obtain
ing his undivided attention. Percy,
therefore. passed ON in quest OF some
body else. whose undivided attention he
was fortunate enough 10 secure ere long.
Miss Leslie, when be Joined her, was
one OF group of three or four persons:
I but these slipped away one by one i'm
mediately after his approach. and he
could not help remarking that 4
similar phenomenon had occurred UNI
der similar circumstances more than
once of late. lie had no objection TO its
occurrence, only il certainly seemed 10
show that his cOurtShip had lasted long
enough.
Il have Just been Mortified to hear
from Mrs. Leslie that YOU are going
away" he began.
Il shouldn't have thought that that
was such a very hOrrifying piece OF
news" said Dorothy laughing. Most
people do leave London in July, don't
I they?"
Yes. unless they have the bad luck
20 be members of parliament But |
didn't realize somehow that the end was
so near. Shall you be sorry to Coz
Il shall be sorry for some things, an
: Swcred the girl 1t has been very
r pleasant. and people have been very
D kind 90 Us. oh. Yes. shall be- sorry"
; IL wonder whether you VIII be- half
r as sorry Is shat, boz
To this 10 was obviously impossible
2 that Dorothy should make any reply,
for how could she gauge the depth of
b d. D.. O. IN.
qucntly she held her peace. and he went
on % tell her how drcadfully he would
miss her. how empty London would
seem after her departure. how he would
hate the remainder of the long. weary
session. ana a good deal more 10 the like
/ effect. Perhaps her silence led him on
TO say rather more than he ought to
| have said without going farther still,
/ but aS il seems likely that the majority
| of those who will read these pages have
/ been i'm love once i'm their lives. some
clemency will doubtless be displayed in
their Judgment of him. lie could not
propose 20 her there and then by reason
/ of that ridiculous pledge, but in few
/ DAYS AT the outside he would be free to
declare himself. and he was naturally
eager in the meantime to find out, if he
could, what answer he would receive TO
his declaration.
Ii cannot be said that a quarter of an
hour of investigation brought him to the
point of actual certainty: yet at the eX-
| piration of that interval he was in high
spirits. and since he took away with him
one of the flowers which Dorothy had
I been wearing i'm the front of her dress,
I il NAV be assumed that he had no reason
90 deSpOnd. But wishing her good
night he had aScertained that she would
be al home on the following Wednesday,
and that She did not expect any other
visitors on that afternoon.
Meanwhile he was not the only per-
son who. at the same time and place.
had reluctantly determined to convene
an early meeting of the Anti-MatrimO-
NAL league. Lady BelvOir, magnificent
I'm emeraldS and diamonds, was present
at this reception. and Lady Belvoir, like
Mrs. Leslie and other less notable per-
SonageS. was about to withdraw the
light of her cOuntenance from London.
She said so To many of those with whom
she convursed. and among others to
Eustace Moreton, who of late had
logged her footsteps wherever she
went.
II knew YOU would be off before
long" he sighed. "Well, tell me what
day YOU mean TO start, and will order
the funeral.
Whose funeral?" she asked wonder
ingly. Not mine, hope?"
NO, mine. I'm going to cut my
throat. Did you ever happen TO set eyes
on a man who was utterly and quite
seriously in despair? If not it might in
tereSt you to take look at me, because
that is what am"
Lady BelvOir availed herself of this
permission. and there was great deal
more of te nderneSS and compassion than
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