Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11

we should have to listen TO people prais-
| ing Noble Simms's writings and not be
allowed to say that he is Dick Abinger
in disguise"
sTt must be very hard on you, Nell,
to have to keep secret" admitted
Dick, "but you see l must lead two
lives or be undone. In the temple you
will see the name Of Richard Abinger,
barrlster -at-law, but in Frobisher's Inn
he is ]. Noble Simms."
II don't see the good Of It," said
Nell.
"My ambition, you must remember"
| explained Dick, "it is TO be lord-chan-
ceilor or ord-chief-justice, forget
which: but while l wait for that post l
must live, and l live by my writings
(which are all dead the morning after
they appear. Now, such is the sus-
picion with which literature is regarded
by the legal mind that were 1t known L
wrote for the press my chance for the
ord-chancellorship would cease to be
moral certainty. The editor Of the
ScaLptrq Knife has not the least notion
that Noble Simms is the rising oarrlster
who has been known 10 make as much
by the law as guinea In a single month,
Indeed, only my most Intimate friends,
some of whom practice the same decep-
ton themselves, are aware that the SIM
gular gifts Of Simms and Aoinger are
united in the same person"
1.-THE housekeeper here must know"
asked Mary.
mo, it would hopelessly puzzle her,
said Dick: ''she would think there was
something uncanny about it, aud so she
is happy in the belief that the letters
which occasionally come addressed to
Abinger are forwarded by me to that
gentlemans abode in the Temple"
at is such an ugly name, Noble
Slmms." said Nell; 81 wonder you Sc
lected it,"
SIT is ugly, is it not?" said Dick. 81
struck me at the time as the most RI
diculouS name l was likely TO think OF,
and so l chose it. Such a remarkable
name sticks to the public mind, and
that is fame"
As he spoke he rose to get the two
girls the cab that would take them
back to the hotel.
"There is some one knocking at the
door," said Mary.
Come in, murmured Abinger.
The hOusekeeper opened the door,
but half shut it again when she saw
that Dick was not alone. Then she
thought of a compromise between tell
ing her business and retiring.
eff you please, Mr.. Smms," she
added, alphabetically, would you speak
to me moment in the passage"
Abinger disappeared with her, and
when he returned the Indifferent look
had gone from his face.
''Wat for me few minutes" he said;
ga man upstairs, one Of the best fellows
breathing, has met with an accident,
and question if he has friend in Lon
don. | am going up to see him.
"Poor fellow" said Mary to Nell, af-
ter Dick had gone; fancy his lying here
for weeks without any ones going near
him but Dick"
But how much worse 1t would be
without Dick!" said Nell.
81 wonder if he is barrister?" said
Mary.
81 think he will be a journalist
rather" Nell said, thoughtfully, "a tall,
dark, melancholy-looking man, and
should not wonder though he had
broken heart"
81 am afraid it is more serious than
that" said Mary.
Nell SHIT off on trip around the room,
remarking, with profound sigh, that
il must be awful to live alone and have
no one to speak to for whole hours at a
time. 81 should go mad" she said, In
such a tone Of conviction that Mary did
not think Of questioning it.
Then Nell, who had opened a drawer
rather guiltily, exclaimed, "Oh, Marym
A woman can put more meaning into
note of exclamation than a man can
pack in a sentence. 1t costs Mr.. Jones,
for instance, a long message simply to
telegraph to his wife that he Is bring
ing friend home to dinner; but In
Sixpenny reply Mrs. Jones can warn him
that he haG better do no such a thing,
that he ought TO be ashamed OF himself
for thinking Of it, that he must make
some excuse 20 his friend and that he
will hear more OF this when he gets
home. Nell's "Oh, Mary" signitied that
choas was come.
Mary fastened round the table, and
found her friend with a letter in her
hand.
''Wer, said Mary, THAT is one Of your
letters to Dick, is it not?"
yes" answered Nell, tragically,
"but fancy his keeping my letters lying
about careeSsly in adrawer-and-and
yes, using them as scribbling paper"
Scrawled across the envelopes In a
barely decipherable handwriting were
such notes az these: "School-boys max
ing masters cane-chair work up!" RE
turn OF the swallows poetic or humor-
ous?);" Better do something pathetic
tor change"
There were tears in Nell's eyes.
"This comes of prying," said Mary.
"Oh, / wasn't prying," said Nell; 81
only opened it by accident. That is the
worst of it. can't say anything about
them to him, because be might think l
oDened his drawer Toto see what was
in (which is the last thing In the
world | would think Of doing. "Oh,
Mary" she added woefully, what do
you Think
~ think you are a goose" said Mary,
promptly.
"Ah, you are so Indifferent" Nell
said. surrendering her position all at
once. Now, when see a drawer | am
quite unhappy until know what is in
it. especially if it is locked. When we
lived opposite the Burtons l was mis-
able because they always kept the
blind OF one of their windows down. II
| had been boy would have climbed
up TO see why they did it. All, that is
| Dick; know his step"
She was Fastening TO the door when
| - or,oD,harad the lettars. and spbsid-