Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-03

''Let me think a moment" said Mr..
P. Foreman, and he turned his head.
Arthur awaited his decision in an agony
Of dispair. Presently he spoke again.
81 will express no opinion of your guilt
or innocence, but you have offered what
/ cannot resist. ! Twill take the money
and will keep your secret for the sake
Of the lady you are about to marry, for
the sake of my daughter. 1t may be
the means Of restoring her to health.
AS for this brooch"
''Take it," cried Arthur, impetuously,
''and do what you will with it,. 1t is
one of my conditions. Heaven bless
you-heaven bless you'll"
"We are accomplices in transaction
that must not be spoken OF" said Mr..
p. Foreman, who had put the money
and the brooch in his pocket. ST pity
and despise you, as 1 pity and despise
myself"
He did not wish Arthur good night;
seemingly ashamed Of the bargain they
had made, he went downstairs, accom-
panied by Arthur, who closed the street
door upon him.
Dazed and bewildered, the yonng man
returned to his room, and with great
throbbings of his breast at the mystic
rious danger he had escaped, completed
his preparations for the wedding and
the honeymoon. Before he threw him.
self upon his bed in the vain attempt TO
seek oblivion for an hour or two, he
wrote letter TO his friend Jack Stevens,
saying he had unfortunately lost the
money that had been lent to him and
begging for another loan, which was to
be forwarded TO a hotel in Paris where
he intended to stop with his young wife
for few days.
There is no need to describe the we'd
ding. Everything passed off well, and
everybody in church declared they had
never seen a lovelier bride; but they OBJ
served, at the same time, that the BRIDE
groom appeared far from happy, and
one OF the spectators remarked that he
looked several times over his shoulder,
with the air of man who feared that
ghost was standing behind him. His
own people and his new relatives, being
in a state of excitement, did not take
the same view Of it; they said he was
nervous, which was quite natural on
such an occasion. Adelaide was tremb-
lingly happy, and she and her lover hus.
band departed on their honeymoon amid
the usual showers of rice and hurting OF
old slippers. In Paris, Arthur received
from Jack Stevens draft for another
ESQ: but In the letter which accompa-
MED the welcome draft Jack said he
could not understand how Arthur had
managed to lose the money. 81 saw
you," wrote Jack, ''put the money In
the side pocket of your dress coat, and
button your overcoat over it. How
could you have lost it? Did you have
an adventure, and are you keeping 1t
from me? Make a clean breast OF 1t,
old fellow. / should like to know. And
II there is anything l can do for you
while you are away, do not fail to call
upon me. I am in London for good, and
am entirely at your service" Arthur
pondered over this letter, and pondered
deeply, also, over the events which had
occurred on the night before the we'd
ding: and the more he pondered the
more he was dissatisfied. Once his
Young wife, who had noticed that some
thing was weighing on her hero's spir-
its, said to him:
"Arthur, dear, are you happy?"
Every happy, darling"
eBut quite happy, Arthur"
Eyes, darling, quite happy. Why do
you ask?"
~ don't know-only you seem so
melancholy sometimes"
"All your fancy, darling"
sI suppose so, Arthur. dear"
But the young bride was not satisfied
for all that. She was sure that her
hero was keeping something disagree
able from her. However, like a sensi-
HE little woman she did not worry him;
no bride could expect greater attention
and devotion than he showed toward
her. and she lectured herself, and said
that she could not expect TO know
everything about her husband all at
once. 81 shall have to study him, she
laid. s'and when know him thoroughly
7 will make him perfectly, perfectly
ON the eighth day of the honeymoon
something curious happened. They mad
travelled from Paris to Geneva ana