Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-02

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She looked into the glass and saw
beauty. Into the schedules OF her
fathers will and saw heiress.
She determined to throw her hand
kerchief, as soon as she could discover
the right person to pick it up.
HE must belong to great family,
thought the young lady. "He must
promise me to be great man. de
must love me to distraction. hate the
name of Billopl l should look lovely In
wedding dress"
She was very young, very premature,
motherless, the daughter and compan-
ion of a coarse man who had basely
made a great fortune. Rich rogues al
WAYS fancy that their children will in
herit only the wealth and none or the
sin. They are shocked when the pater-
nal base metal crops out at some new
vein in. their progeny. Better not
embezzle and Cypress, papa, II you wish
your daughters to be pure and your
sons honest! Colonel Billop did not live
TO know what kind of an heiress he and
his merciless avarice had fathered.
81 must see this young Brothertoft,"
James reverie continued. Poor fell
low, | have got all his property! Mr..
Skaats says he is very distinguished
young gentleman, and will be one OF the
first men Of the province. handsome,
too, and knows lords and ladies in Eng
land! Let me see! | cannot meet him
anywhere so soon after the funeral.
But he might call on me about business.
I feel so lonely and solemn And l do
not seem to have any friends. Every
body courts me for my money, and yet
they look down upon me, too, because
nv father made his own fortune"
Col. Billop had taken much pains to
teach his daughter business habits and
instruct her in all the details OF man
agement Of property.
She sat down at her desk, and In a
bold, round hand indited the following
note:
"Mr. Skaats, Miss Billop's agent, begs
that Mr.. Brothertoft will do him the IA
yor to call at the house in Wall street
tomorrow at eleven. Mr.. Ska ats is in
formed that there is picture at the
manor house which Mr.. Brothertoft
values, and he would be pleased to make
arrangement for the late owners re-
tanning it,"
Skilful Jane! to whom a Vandyck
was worth less than its length and
breadth In brocade She sealed this note
with Colonel Billop's frank motto, "Per
omnia ad opes," and dispatched 1t.
Edwin was delighted at the prospect
of recovering his ancestor. 1t is mighty
Influence when the portrait of noble
forefather puts its eye on one who wears
his name, and says, by the language OF
an unchanging look: ~ was Radical
in my day, be thou the same In thine! l
turned my back upon the old tyrannies
and heresies and struck for the new lib
critics and beliefs; my liberty and belief
are doubtless already tyranny and her.
esy to thine age; strike thou for the
new! I worshlped the purest God OF my
generation-it may be that purer God
is revealed to thine; worship him with
thy whole heart"
Such monitor is priceless. Edwin
was in very grateful mood when he
knocked at the door in Wall street.
A bank now rests upon the site OF
the Dilop mansion. Ponderous, grim,
granite, stand the two columns Of its
propylon. A swinging door squeaks
"Hailr' to the prosperous lender, and
"AvauntI" TO the borrower unindorsed.
Within, paying tellers, old and crusty,
or young and jaunty, stand up to their
elbows In gold and smile at the offend
ed dignity of personages not identified
presenting checks and in vain requir-
ing payment. Further back de-
positors are feeding money, soft
and hard, into the nav Of the
receiving teller. Behind him book
keepers WELD prodigious ledgers and
run up and down their columns, agile
as the lizards OF Postum. And In the
innermost penetralia Of that temple OF
Plutus the high priests, old dons OF d.
rectors, worth billions, sit and fancy
that they brew crisis or credit.
So stand things now where Edwin
Brothertoft once stood contemplating a
brass knocker.
The door opened, and he was present
ly introduced into parlor, upholstered
to the uppermost OF its era.
Instead Of that mean and meager
agent here is the principals singularly
handsome, bold, resolute young woman,
her exuberant beauty depressed and her
carnations toned down by mourning.
Both the young people were embar-
raised for a moment.
He was embarrassed at this unlocked
for substitution Of q beautiful girl for
an ugly reptile Of Skatts; and she 10
find how fair a spirit she had conjured
I'D. He with a sudden conjunction
for the prejudice he had had against
the unknown heir, his dlslnheriter; aud
she with her instant conviction that
here was the person TO pick up her
handkerchief, II he would.
Shall the talk Of these children be
here repeated? II might iii pleasant
page: put this history cannot deal with
the details Of their immature lives. 1t
only makes ready In the first act for
the rapid business OF ripper period.
When Edwin Brothertoft left the
helress's parlor, after sixty minutes OF
delight, she seated herself at the desk
whence she, under the alias Skaats, had
Indited his invItatation, took a fresh
sheet of paper and a virgin quill and
wrote:
Jane Brothertoft-
Then the same in backhand, with -four
Ishes and without. Then she printed in
big text:
LADY JANE BROTHERTOFT. OF
BROTHERHOOD HALL.
Then, with conscious, defiant look.
she carried her prophetic autograph to
the FIRE and watched il burn-
fro BE cosrEUED.l