Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-02-12
a MODERN MEDEA.

I disputed his tenets; she knew that they
were mountains which her faith could
not remove. She was prompt in attend
ance at family worship and church; but
so she was 81 breakfast, though such
appetite as she had appeased Itself be-
tween meals on pickles and chocolates.
FaIkland's soul was as real to him as
his mind. 1t expanded when he talked
with Egbert; it shrunk from the cold
RAYS of Grace's eyes. He felt that he
could not translate the Scriptures out
OF the original tongues for her, and she
didn't care for either Hebrew or Greek.
Sometimes when he spoke OF the love
Of God, an evanescent smile CURED ner
lips which disconnected him.
| Yet, despite-or, perhaps, on account
of-these peculiarIties, he was most
proud Of his daughter. Where, through
out that countryside, could be found
such brilliant, accomplished, beautl-
full girl? She seemed TO be an incorpor-
alton of divine essences, and yet how
respectful, how obedient she was to
him. though she must perceive his con-
scious inieriorlty. Nothing was diff
cult to her. She could turn letter
into Sanskrit, she could read an ora
torio at sight, she could drive coach
and four and knock over plover; YET
never would her cheeks display the
! slightest excitement.
II was in the summer, about two
years after Allce's death, that a stran-
ger called at "the Laplands" and pre-
sented letter of introduction from q
4 Ill h
sent in Europe. The visitors name
was Alfred Malnwaring. He was about
thirty-ive years of age, stately in bear
ing, elegant in manner, courtly 10
speech, tall and straight Of form, with
a handsome, ford face, which, If Il
possessed lines OF weakness, yelled them
by a heavy black mustache.
Mr.. Mainwaring was engaged at the
neighboring city in the formation OF .
company for the manufacture OF steel
directly from the ore through q secret
process OF his own. He had been ad'
vised by his physician on account OF
troublesome throat affection TO spend
such hours as were spare among the
hills of Anyway. He had luckily be-
thought himself OF the letter which
their common friend, Mr.. Loring, whom
he had entertained on his estates in the
North of Ireland, had urged him 10
take, for which insstence he should
ever be profoundly grateful to their
common friend, Mr.. Loring.
Falkland, though diffident, reticent
and accustomed TO nurse grief with
Loneliness, was attracted toward the
stranger-an influence the stronger
from it's very rarity. An intimacy grew
apace, and within a few weeks Mr..
Mainwarng was persuaded TO leave the
village inn for the more compatible
comforts of 1.-THE Laplands." AS guest
he was happy, being both evident and
effaceable. He was doubtless a man OF
culture and experience He had read
and he remembered. His conversation
was dotted with apt and unobtrusive
quotation marks. BE played "The Song:
Without Words" on the piano from
memory as II they were dreamy impro'
visations. His clear tenor voice would
burst into arias almost unconsciously OF
evenings when they were gathered or
the veranda under the musing moon
light.
And how well he talked, reluctantly
at first until his subject absorbed him
and then he entranced his auditors
Many and strange people and scene:
were his theme. The mountain passes
of Afghanistan with lurking natives
casting heavy knives: the jungles o.
Borneo, rank with animate and mani
mate posons; the lagoons OF Anstra
lasia, beglrt with coral; the slave coast:
OF Africa, heavy with fever and brist
ling with assegals. Falkland listened
intently, and so did Grace, as she
swung to and fro in the hammock, hel
face almost CHASTITY, her eyes glowing
like stars. She scarcely SPOKE a word
vet Falkland afterward remembered
that she had softly sighed as one may
sigh who Is aroused from pleasan
dreams.
Mainwaring was so consonant will
Falkland, too. He would be silen
when moods seemed TO control his com
panion, but his brown eyes would speal
an effective sympathy. Falkland cam'
to confide in hlm-he who had never no
vealed himself, even unto himself. II,
told OF his griefs, Of his buried ambl
ton, OF his hopes and doubts regarding
his children, and he analysed thei
characteristics by description, but no
by discernment. He sought Main
warnings confidence. too, though TIT
man held back. He insisted on sub
scriblng TO certain shares In bis enter
prise, and on advising his friends to d.
. likewise.
One day In the Autumn, when Fal K
land was at the village, he met hi
friend Mr.. Blackmore, an attorne,
from The nsighboring city. They pro
ceeded down the quiet street together
The lawyer was stating the facts OF th
case which brought him to Anyway
when there were the sounds OF quicl
hoofs on the hard road, and, with
wave OF hands and merry shout
Grace and Mainwarning dashed by Of
horseback and swept around the benz
TO the woodsd path that threaded tn
heights OF the sweet hills.
"Who is that fsllow?" asked Mr.
Blackmore with unproiessional haste.
THAT gentleman, sir. with my daug B
ter, is my friend, Mr.. MGlhwarlng, a
Englishman Of good family and an Ii
ventor," replied Falkland stffly.
"Nonsensel Obi Why, II course
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