Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-18

Last night saw her smooth his brow,
he bent bis head aud kissed her;
They understood each other now,
She's going % be his sister.
Some say be really does propose,
And means % gain or lose al,
And thS- tle new o-rancement coca
10 soften her refusal
"Is talks so wild Of broken hearts,
or futures that she'll mar;
lie saws on Tuesday DE departs
For Cork OF LGui1irs
HI, death b. places az her door,
Yet SAYS DE won't resent 10;
Al. wcl. be talked THAT way before,
And very seldom meant It.
"Engacements now are curious things,
A kind OF uuderstaudin';
Although they do mo- run % rings,
They're good 20 keep YOUR hand in,
No rivals now Tom. Dick and Hal,
They ali love one another,
For she's sister % them ALL
and every ones heS brother.
"In FORMER days when men proposed,
And ladie, said them No,
The laws that courtesy imposed
Made lovers PACK aud 20
But now that they NAY brothers be,
81 changed the way Of men Is,
ThG having kissed The swain, and she
Resume their game az tennis.
cab. Nelly Meredith. YOU may
30 wiser tE.u YOUR mother,
But she knew wuat % do when they
Proposed 90 be- her brother.
o. these relations best have none,
They u only YOU cucumber;
or wives man may have but one,
o sisters any number.
Dick disappeared into the kitchen
with Mrs. Meredith, to show how they
make a salad at the WIgwam, and Nell
and her father went a-iSbing from a
bedroom window. The night was so
silent now that Rob and Mary seemed
70 have il 70 themselves. \ canoe In a
blaze OF coiOred light driited past with
out a sound. The grass on the bank
parted and water-rats peeped out. All
at once Mary had nothing 10 say, and
Rob shook on his stool. The moon was
out looking at them.
oh" Mary cried, as something
dipped suddenly 70 the water near them.
ut was only daOchick," Rob
guessed, looking over the rail.
"What is a dabchick?' asked Mary.
Rob did not tell her. She had not the
least desire TO know.
n the river, on the opposite side from
where the 'TawnY Owl" lay, a stream
drOwusitSef They had not known OF its
existence before, but il was roaring ike
q laSner % them now. Mary shuddered
slightly, turning her face 10 the island,
aud Rob took a great breath as he looked
at her. His hand held her brown sun
shade that was ribbed with velvet, the
sunshade with the preposterous handle
that Mary held upside down. Other
ladies carried their sUnshadeS so, and
Rob resented IL. Her back was toward
him, and be set still, gazing at the loose
blue jacket that only reached her waist.
IL was Sucn q slender waist that Rob
trem5ied for it.
The trees that hung over the house
boat were black, but the moon made a
iairylaud OF the sward beyond. Mary
could only see the Island between heavy
branches but she looked straight before
her until tears dimmed her eyes. VINO
would dare TO seek the thoughts Of
girl 40 such a moment? Rob moved
nearer her. Her blue cap was tilted
back, her chin rested on the rail. All
that was good in him was astir as she
turned ald read his face.
81 think I shall 90 down now" Mary
said, becoming less pale rs she spoke.
Rob's eyes followed her as she moved
towards the ladder.
'.Not yet" he called after her, aud
could say no more. IL was always so
when tuey were alone and he made hun
self suffer for it afterwards
Mary stood irresolutely at the top OF
The ladder. She would not turn back
and she did not descend. Mr.. Meredith
was fishing laziiy from the lower deck,
and there was murmur Of voices in the
saloon. On the road running parallel
TO the river, traps and men were shad-
ows creeping along 10 Hampton. Lights
were going out there. Mary looked
up the stretch OF water aud sighed.
WAS there ever 50 beautiful
night?' she said.
ssYss," said Rob, AZ her elbow, "once
at Dome Castle, the night l saw you
first"
81 don't remember" said Mary,
hastily, but without going down the
ladder.
81 milht never have met you" Rob
grimly, Iii some man In Sill
chester had not murdered his WIFE,
Mary started and looked up at him.
Until She ceased 70 look he could not go
on.
The murder" he explained, twas OF
more Importance than Col. Aoinger's
dinner. and so I was sent to the castle.
IL is rather curious 20 trace these things
back q step. The woman enraged her
husband into striking her because she
had not prepared his supper. Instead
of doing that she had been gosSiping
with q neiGhOor, who would not have
had time for gossip had she not been
laid 10 with a SDrained ankle. 1t came
out in the evidence that this woman had
hurt herself by slipping on a marble, so
that might never have seen you had
not TWO boys, whom neither OF US ever
heard OF, challenged each other 10
game OF marbles
1T was strange that We should meet
again In London" Mary said.
.No." Rob answered, the way we
met was strange, but / was expecting
you"
Mary pondered how she should take
this. and then pretended not TO hear It:
WAS 10 not rather The Scorn OF
Scorns' that made Us know each other?'
she asked.
~ knew you sitter read it a second
time" he said; 4 have got that copy OF
il still"
"You said you had the card"
II have never been able 70 under
stand" Rob answered, chow lost that
card. But" be added, sharply, "how
do YOU know that I lost it?''
Mary glanced up again.