Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-05-11

original package. Then, too, how could
Covers name affect him if he had never
seen him?"
Possibly he has heard something.
Clancy has been talking"
Il have looked into that" said the
colonel. "Clancey denies knowing any
thing-sayS he was drunk and didn't
know what he was talking about
All the same it was queer, thought the
adjutant, and he greatly wanted to see
the doctor and talk with him: but by the
time his Office work was done the doctor
had gone to town, and when he came
back he was sent for to the laundress'
quarters, where Mrs. Clancy was in hys-
terics and Michael had again been very
bad
Soon after the captains return to his
quarters, it seems, messenger was sent
from Mrs. Rayner requesting Mrs.
| Clancy to come and see her at once.
She was uShered up stairs TO Madame'S
own apartment. much TO Miss Traver'S
surprise, and that young lady was fur
ther aStOniShed, when Mrs. Clancy re-
appeared, nearly an hour later, to see
that she had been weeping violently.
The house was in some disorder, most
of the trunks being packed and in read
mess for the start, and Miss Travers
was entertaining two or three young Of
| iicerS and waiting for her sister to come
down TO luncheon.
The boys" were lachrymoSe over her
prospective department. least they af-
fected to be-and were variouSly sprawl
ed about the parlor when Mrs. Clancy
descended, and the in1amed condition
of her eyes and nose became apparent
TO all. There was much chaff and fun,
therefore, when Mrs. Rayner finally
appeared, over the supposed affliction of
the big IRISH woman at the prospect of
parting with her patroness. Miss Tray
erS saw with singular sensations that
both the captain and her usually self
reliant sister were annoyed and embar-
raised by the topic and strOve to change
it; but Fosters propensity for mimicry
and his ability to initiate Mrs. Clancy's
combined brogue and Sniffie proved too
much for their efforts. Kate was in a
royal bad temper by the time the young
SterS left the house, and when Nellie
would have made some laughing alluSion
to the fun the young fellows had been
having over her morning caller, she was
suddenly and tartiy checked with:
''We've had too much of that already.
Just understand now that you have no
time to waste, if your packing is untin-
iShed. We start tomorrow afternoon.
"Why. Kate. had no idea we were TO
go for two days yet. OF course | can
be ready; but why did you not tell me
before?"
Il did not know it-at least ii was not
decided-until this morning, after the
captain came back from the office. There
is nothing to prevent our going, now
that he has seen the colonel"
There was not before. Kate; for Mr..
| Billings told me yesterday morning, and
| told you, that the colonel had said you
could start at once, and YOU replied that
the captain could not be ready for sew
eral dayS-three at least
''Well now he is; and that ends it.
Never mind what changed his mind"
1t was unsafe TO trihe with Nellie
TraverS, as Mrs. Bayner might have
known. She saw that something had
occurred to make the captain eager to
start at once; and then there was that
immediate sending for Mrs. Clancy, the
long, secret talk up in Hates room, the
evident mental disturbance of both fem
mines on their respective Temperatures
and the sudden announcement TO her.
While there could BE- no time to make
formal parting calls, there were still
some two or three ladies in the garrison
whom she lOnged to see before saying
adieu; and then there was Mr.. Hayne,
whom she had wronged quite as bitter
" as any one else had wrOnged him.
He was out that day for the first time,
and she longed TO see him and longed to
fulfill the neglected promise. That she
must do at the very least. If she could
not see him she must write, that he
might have the note before they went
away. All these thoughts were rushing
through her brain as she busted herself
about her little room, slowing away
dresses and dropping everything from
time to time TO dart into her sisters
room in answer to some qucrulous call.
Yet never did she leave without quick
glance from her window up and down
the row. For whom was she looking?
1t was Just about dusk when she heard
CRYING downstairs child-and appa-
rentlv i'm the kitchen. Mrs. Rayner
was with the baby, and Miss TraverS
started for the stairs, calling that she
would go and see what it meant. She
was down in the hall before Mrs. Ray
ner'S imperative and repeated calls
brought her to a full stop,
"What is it?" she inquired.
"'You come back here and hold baby.
| know perfectly what it is. 1t is Kate
Clancy, and she wants me. You can do
nothing"
Too late, madame, The intervening
doors were opened, and in marched cook,
leading the poor little Irish girl, who
was sobbing pitcOuSly. Mrs. Rayner
came down the stairs with all speed,
bringing her burly son and heir in her
arms. She would have ordered Nell
aloft. but what excuse could she give?
And Miss TraverS was already bending
over the child and striving to still her
hcartbreaking cries.
What is it? Where's your father"
demanded Mrs. Rayner.
"Oh. ma'am, | don't know. | came
here to tell the captain. Shurc he's dis
charged. ma'am. an his hearts broke
entirely, an mother says were all to go
with the captain tomorrow, and he
swearS he'll kill himself before he'll go,
an can't find him. ma'am. Its almost
dark now"
go back and tell your mother | want
her instantly. Wen find your father
CO. she repeated as the child Shrank
and hesitated "Here-the front way
And little Kate sped away into the Shad-
ows across the dim level on the parade.
Then the sisters faced each other.
There was fire in the younger's eye
that Mrs. Rayner would have escaped II
she could.
..Kate. it is to get Clancy away from
the possibility of revealing what he