Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-12

/ "She Is under treatment Royal put
/ his query in the form of an assertion.
The very StricteSt. And she is so
good and patient, so anxious for cure.
I She would not wear anything over her
eyes i'm church this morning. | couldn't
blame her, although | Scolded her for
/ her vanity, and made her promise TO
/ keen the lids closed, and doubled the
| lace so that one could scarcely di>tin-
guish her features. y girl naturally
wants to look we'll on her wedding day
particularly when her lover sees her
/ for the first time in six years. We
wrapped her up we'll both going and
returning, so don. think She can have
taken harm"
The squire, au energetic and impa-
tient old gentleman, Speeded the part
ing i'm a manner which Royal felt he
could never sufficiently applaud. He
/ had fresh horses put 20 the carriage as
il stood before the door, and hustled
about and hurried the women with
| their preparations, laughing and joking
with the utmost joviality. This was
not farewell at all, he cheerily declared,
only that French thing the prOnuncia-
ton of which he could never remem-
/ Der, and which meant just nothing
worth mentioning. The schedule
/ did not admit of extra kissing on the
down grade, and the party would GER
tainly be left unless limit was put to
embraces. As for recommendation to
take care of Phyllis and himself, he
would sc0rn 10 name the thing to man
who could defeat death and the doctors,
and come hundreds of miles to be mar
ried two months after he had been re-
ported broken all TO pieces.
So the Journey commenced amid mer-
riment and kindness, and overweight
as he was, even Royal lost sight for a
moment or two of the grim fact that
through him darkness and death had
Joined hands.
When he had his charges safe in the
ear and felt the train in motion he drew
a long breath: he was another step
nearer the end, at all events. The
strain on him was beginning TO tell
PHYLLIS was in the gayeSt spirits, and
laughed and chatted merrily. Her face
was closely covered, the heavy veil
doubled across her eyes. for which
ROYAL knew there must be reason, but
forebore to inquire into it Just yet lie
had gathered that the young lady's case
WAS far from hopeless, and the knewl-
edge that il was SO brought more rellel
and thankfulneSS than his position to-
ward her would seem TO warrant lie
could realize the intense I'M
portapce which immediate pos
session of the money must
have had for John Royal-importance so
great that he had been willing to risk
his life 10 secure IT, 1t might mean
SIGHT TO the eyes as well as food and raj
ment for the body OF the woman he
loved. Ii made the conditions of the
Will more difficult OF comprehension
than ever, bur he forebore 10 trouble
his mind with that question. Other
matters were more pressing than could
be the solution ofan apparently lmprac-
ticable wOman'S vagarieS.
They would make better time on the
down trip. the conductor Informed hlm;
the grade would help instead OF hinder
Ing them.
ROYAL. cognizant of the inevitable pain
m which each revolution of the wheels
brourht them more near, set himself to
nrenare the minds of the women, in a
measure. as best he could. The girls
cbeerfulness smote on him with sense
of discord. as though one should en-
counter mirth at a deathbed. And yet
~ sadden her seemed to him just then
the hardest task he had ever been com
nened to put his hand to. His pity
pulled him both wayS-he could not let
the calamity fall on her like thunder
holt from a clear sky, and STILL even to
tnrn her mind in the direction OF the
coming disaster, to his overwroughti5
nerves appeared like drawing chliu
into the already wayering shadow OF d
rock which would presently lail anu
crush it. II took all the courage Vi
LIB ,'1 he was master TO follow the lines
laid down for himself.
'''i He was as adroit as it was in the nature
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