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

7 Dul lllOuhll III his NAl'h ~ , 800 NN+'
dition was an impossiblity. The more
he endeavored to muster ideas into line,
to pursue suggestions and TO reach DELI
mite conclusions, the more elusive did
each and all become. The affair was at
deadlock which his wearied brain re-
fused even to strive to break, busying it.
self perversely instead with the require
ments Of his wearied body. Nature had
been pushed TO the point of resistance.
and doggedly demanded her rights.
Had the case been that OF another
man Royal would have recognized the
futility of his effort at once, but for
himself he persisted fully half an hour
in the totally useless experiment of try
ing to force nerve and brain tissue to
work of which for the time they were
incapable thereby proving that knowl-
edge and experience admit OF more ready
application to general than to particular
cases, and also the truth of the PROPOSE
ton than man has usually one rule FOR
his neighbor and another for himself.
However. he gave it up at last, forced,
like his brothers, to admit that so long
as spirit shall be incorporate in matter
it must submit to the limitations OF mat
ter. He made such temporary eXplana-
tions TO the ladies under his charge and
such arrangements for their comfort as
would relieve him of anxiety on their
account for the hours necessary TO secure
needed rest for himself.
When he awoke the light was strug-
Cling through the shutters with the gray
pallor peculiar to winter dawn. The
treat hotel and the streets around 1t
were as still as the heart Of a desert.
ROYAL dressed himself and went to the
window. All along the street, in places,
shadows lay, as sharply defined as sill
houettes by the electric glare, which
deals little in the soft shading and witch
cry of the moonlight which 1t Stimulates.
II was too early even for the rafting of
milk carts or the matutinal billingsgate
of sparrows; but away in the distance,
beyond the vOceleSS thOrougfares and
expressionlesS houses, the sky was
family coloring for JOY in coming
good.
ROYAL drew a chair to the window,
and grappled anew with the situation
taking IL externally, and as apart from
himself, after the manner OF man OF
action whose intuitive position relative
to circumstances is that of a extra
neous, coercive force, rather than one
which is inherent and, insensibly, regu-
| lative.
1t did not take him many moments to
decide that disclosure of the true state
of the case was inevitable, and must te
made as speedily as possible. In spite
of the intimate connection with the al
/ fairs of the dead man which had been
thrust upon him, he knew next to moth
ing of his family relations or circum-
stances. He might lave brothers and
sisters, even parents, n' ng with whom
il would be necessary a. communicate
at once by letter or telegram. Ihere
would be funeral arrangements TO make,
l. and explanations of some sort TO give TO
the curious. A man dying amid hotel
| full o. people cannot be carried To a
cemetery. and incOntinently buried
without further cOgnizance being taken
of the matter than such as would be In
volved in the settlement Of hotel and
undertaker's charges. None knew bet
ter than Royal the impoSsibility OF
avoidance of escape from the omnipres-
ence of human curiosity,
The question in point was. to whom
should the first story be told? nder
ordinary circumstances it would have
seemed to him most fitting that the per
son most nearly concerned in an affair
should be the one earliest made intimate
with its ramifcations; but the present
circumstances were anything but ordi-
nary. and the communications he was
called upon TO make might easily be
reckoned unprecedented Royals in
stincts revolted from the straightfor-
ward method: it seemed to him rough
ard brutal He still hoped, in some as
Vet misty and mysterious manner, to be
able to spare Phyllis little, or at least
to soften things for her knowledge OF
her affection had aroused his interest In
way totally apart from, and yet
strangely commingled with, the interest
awakened by the popularity OF his own
position toward her 49,,
To this last, indeed, he gave niue
thought. for in his mind she was still TOO
closely associated with John Royal to
admit of Identification in any way with
himself. He was simply conscious as
q musician Of the fact that here was
case which would require delicate nan
ding.
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