Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11
CHAPTER NJ.
ROB IS STRUCK DOWN.

Rob turned from SimmS's door and
went quietly downstairs, looking to the
/ beadle, who gave him good evening
/ az the mouth of the inn, like man
going quietly 10 his work. lie could
not keep his thoughts. They fell about
him in sparks, raised by wheel whlrl-
\ Ing so FAST that it seemed mOtionless.
Sleep-walkerS seldom come 10 damage
until they awake, and Rob sped Oh,
taking crossings without halt, deaf TO
the shouts of cabmen, blind TO their
/ gpsticulations. When you have done
Oxford Circus you can do anything,
but he was not even brought to HIM
self there, though il is all savage lands
i'm twenty square yards. For time
he saw nothing but that scene IN
Simms's chambers, which had been
photographed on his brain. The light
Of his life had been suddenly turned
out, leaving him only the last thing he
saw 20 think about.
By-and-by he was walking more slow
IL, laughing at himself. Since he met
Mary Abinger she had lived so much in
his mind that he had not dared 10 think
of losing her. He had only given him
sell fits of dependency for the pleas
ure of dispeIing them. Now all at
once ne saw without prejudice the Rob
Angus who had made Up his mind to
carry OF this prize, and he cut SUCH
Moor figure that he smiled grimly at
il. He realized as q humOrouscOncep-
ton that this uncOuth young man who
himself must have fanCied that he was,
on the whole, less unworthy or MISS
Abinger than were most Of the young
men she was likely to meet. with the
exaggerated humility that comes occas-
ionally TO men In his condition.
without. however, feeling sufficient
Nv AZ home TO remain long, he felt
that there was everything In Simms
= Girl could fad lOvabie and nothing IN
himself. He was so terribly open that
anyone could understand him, while
/ Sinrs was such an enigma as girl
would love to read. His own clumSl-
ness coptrasted as diSaStrously with
/ Sinms's grace OF manners as his blunt
/ talk compared with Simms's W.T. MOI
| beinr able 10 see himself with the eyes
/ of others, Rob noted only one thihg IN
! his favor, his fEht forward; wnlGh
( they. knowing, FOR instance, taat nc
was better 10 look al than most men,
wouIt nave considered his CHIEF draw
hack. Rob in his calmer moments had
nerhaus as high an opinion OF MS ca
Dscity as the circumstances warranted
I bpt ne never knew that q good many
/ ladies felt his appearance when ne
passed them.
Most men are hero and villain several
times in p daY; but Rob went through
( the whole gamut OF sensations In nan
( an hour, hating himself the same mo-
! rent for what seemed another'S tauli
tho r,lxt. fancying now that be was
blessing the union OF Mary with tue
man she cared for, and again, that ne
/ had Simms by the throat. He ned from
the deeting form OF woman and ran al
ter it.
simms had deceived him, had
never mentioned Silchester, mao
Laughed at the awakening
thai was coming 10 him.
An these months they had been waiting
for Mary Abinger together, and SimmS
had not said that-when she came II
would be 10 him. Then Rob saw Wha'
a foolish race THESE VhVuS n'S -"
brain. remembering that he had only
seen Simms twice for more than mo-
ment. and that be himself had never
taT-ed of SiIchester. He scorned his
own want OF generosity, and recalled
his solicitude for Simms's welfare an
hour before. u,o ,r,no
-. 49, him The broken looking man
Win the sad face aged before his time,
,rh . walked alone up Fleet street, was
Pob S Angus, who had come to London
to tcV be happy. Simms would ask MIN Mn,
s ~ ~ mes TO his house to see her, but
II f1 was better that he should not GO
She wopld understand why il her nus Is
/ bind did not. Her husband! E %.
could not guIp down the lump IN In, NJ
throat He rushed on again. Win NOUN