The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-17
WHEELING DAILY INrELIIGENCER SATURDAY. JUNE n 1888

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peerage. Ii whilst their love was great
est he had withheld such knowledge
from her, why should he tell her now
when his ardour had begun to ebbY
Not now at least, would he speak; he
must have time to think.
He had reached this point in his re-
Elections whom he felt touchion his
arm, and starting violently hesaw stella
leaning across the table, her eyes liked
on him questioningly.
"What is it?' lie asked somewhat
sharply,
81 called you twice, dear, but you
didn't heed. Have you received news
that has made you anXiousI y
He crushed the solicitors letter in his
hand as il to hide its contents, and
then, thrustine it into his breast pocket,
he replied, with an attempt ut careless
ness
"1Ies, something that has bothered
me-"
"What is it, Harry?" she inquired,
her voice full Of solicitude and SYM
pathy,
'DeDts, he renIeu'
mot very big ones, | hope, dear"
"Big enough TO make me anxious
he rejoined, ready to say anything
which would put her off the track OF
the real cause OF his self-absorptIon, and
needless whether he gave her grounds
for uneasinoss or not,
"Could we not settle down some
where and retrench ?" she began,
"Yes," he said, impatiently. "We'll
talk Of thisanothet time, not now, I'm
going out"
May not / 90 with your want to
see tho cathedral by moonlight, and l
haven't had u glimpse of it yet"
"You can see IL tomorrow night; l
must be alone; | want to think. Don't
wait up for me, but 20 to bed; you're
tired, " he remarked, rising IRON tho
table and turning towards the door.
Stella made no reply; his tone more
than his words hurt her, but ehe re-
solved to hide her feelings. AS she
was about to Quit the room she moved
towards him, and raising her face to be-
kissed, babe him good night.
Good night" he said, kissing her,
but so coldly that tears came into her
eyes; for her love had strengthened
rather than lessened with time,
The new earl went out into the
night, thinking not at all OF her, but
dwelling on the change which had be-.
fallen him. He walked through mar
row streets, bright with well.lighted
cafes and wine shops and crowded with
people now on pleasure bent after the
toll Of tho day. Suddenly no came in
sight of a massive pile OF buildings
whose base was wrapped in dense
shadow, but whose roof, with its num-
berless turrets and slender spires, Its
delicate tracerles, graceful arches and
crowded company Of saints and mar
tyrs, all mass OF glittering white mar.
bio, was Just then wrapped in the soft
Elusive light OF young moon.
Crawford scarcely glanced at the
cathedral, for at this moment all eX-
ternal things had no existence for him (;
the only realities were his thoughts.
Mechanically he trod his way through
the crowd Of tramcars and omnibuses
thronging the broad electrlc-lighted
Piazza del Duomo, until he reached o
quiet dark street but little frequented.
| As he walked slowly forward he pom.
dered upon facts, His brother Horace,
Of whom he had seen little since his
school days, was no more. A philan'
thropist, student, prudent, quiet
living man, none would have expected
him to end his days by suicide. The
cause which had hurried him to this
ghastly act was immaterial to the new
earl; its consequences important.
A year ago Harry Crawford would
have faced the situation opening before
him with delight that he knew no cur.
tailment with exultation uudisturbed
by misgivings. But now he was weighed
by the burden OF his own act; by the
encumbranCc which might become irk-
some. Whilst q free lance, little think
ing no should succeed his brother,
Crawford had never gravely considered
the result Of his action in marrying
Stella; had not troubled himself re-
garding the possibility OF escape from
It's tolls in case 1t became veXatious,
Now his sudden accession to an unex'
pected position completely changed the
circumstances. The situation became
serious.
OF tho wide lands his race had once
POSSESSED, nothing remained but the
ontailed estate, and this through the
extravaganza OF his father and grand
father was heavily mortgaged so that
the income left was little more than
fifteen hundred year, But the family
was one OF the Oldest and most historic
in the country. The house OF Redfriars
had been noble when the ancestors oil
the present nobility OF England, with
few exceptions, had been unheard OIL
and unknown. Its women had been
allied to royalty; kings hadsprung from
the race its men had ruled tho state
and fought Its battles by land and sea
their names were prominent in the
pages and embluzoned on the annals OIL
the Constitution.
Tho contemplation Of ancient records
and past glories OF tho family gave the
new earl little pride and less satisfac'
ton, save when considered from Q
mercantile point Of view. He was
aware that as something that might be
bartered, his family with its famous u.s.
sociations hold its value in the market
as surely us had an historic manuscript
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