Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-18

disregarded the height OF the sun, ana,
in spite OF habit, was boyish and buoy
ant. The train arrived, and with IL
Ella and the children. Rapture and
! thaDkfulness enthralled him. Ihey
were we'll and restored TO him. Inc
pure. chsrishing fires would again tran
GULLY burn on the home hearth. Sone-
/ how be had feared that an evil Woulu
prevent this reunion. How ridiculous!
Away with such vapOrs Was ne De-
coming a hyponchondriac?
81 never was so delighted to see any
one in all my liie!" he exclaimed, and
truthfully. Il feel as Dives would
should he leap from the gulf into Para
disc"
Hush, dear" said Ella fondly. "You
are always so emotional, SO excessive.
You are not looking at all well. You
haven't studied nights, have you? You
need my care, think, more than the
children do. Tell me, haven't the Re
wells, the Munsons, the Robinsons, been
attentive? Your letters are always so
sweet, but so very, very unsatisfactory. "
"MOst kind and thoughtful"
"And the Duponts?"
"Oh, 1 am sick OF the Duponts.
only want to think Of you; that you are
with me, never to go away again"
The years rolled on, bringing happi-
ness and prosperity to the Mlnturn
household. Paul became renowned lie
| his calling, his methods being quoted as
authoritative. Besides this he mad &C
ouired a substantial literary fame. But
| these successes, which might satisfy the
nostris OF ambition, were nothing 10
| him in comparison with domestic alice
ton. Day by day Ella aud he had
grown nearer and dearer until they
composed that Ideal individuality whose
Darent is love. The vague but potent
dread which once had haunted him had
/ loag since disappeared and was Ior-
gotten. 10 a world Of scandalmongery
/ their name was spared, even the cynlc
quoting 1t merely as the exception
which tries the rule.
/ The old-time intimacy with the he
wells, the Munsons, the Robinsons had
continued. AS for the DupOnts, Robert
/ had died, confident in his wife aud at
testing his faith by bequeathing a Tor
tune TO her, aud the widowed Editn
had returned TO her childhoOd's home
AT Aberdeen. Affairs were in this set
tiled Ind satisfactory shape when one
morning Paul, as usual, went 10 the
j library and, seated within his private
Office. began TO sort the mail. 1t was
voluminous aud official with a single
exception. This letter, marked Per
, soma" he tossed aside after no had
noted the city pOStmark and recognized
It's superscription.
J Blast that fellow" he muttered'
~ never did like him. What can ne
want Of me?"
= Doubtless this question required to
tantalzation, for in the midst or his
5 correspondence Paul threw down his
pen. tore apart the envelope, and read;
"My dear old boy" (''NOw why should
he call me his dear old boy growled
Paul, when l don't see him twice a
year and that's twice too often? Let
me see, " and on be read with lowering
brows.) 1--WE are in the deuce OF a
scrape, aud no mistake; so grit your
teeth, keep your Golfers COOL and Us
ten"
Paul put down the sheet, his hand
trembled so. His face turned Hyld
land then crimson. Could 1t oe that
la fault long since ignored and
forgotten and buried beneath years OF
good conduct had sprung into lusty life
and was about TO throttle him? Wosld
this monster dare pull down the fair
fabric OF his home? Oh, it couldn't be;
vet what else could IL be? Then, II so
it was, let him pray 10 be the only one
crushed beneath the ruins. On he read
like a condemned wretch marching 10
execution 10 the music OF farandole:
"Our fair and, L may say, mutual
friend, Mrs. Dupont, returned to Aoer-
deem 20 reside some two years since.
She is now involved In most notorious
cSclQndre, which fear she enjoys, for
she is thoroughly dcclGSee and contem-
plates goine on the stage.
In brief, she has caused certain
Mrs. MantOn to sue her husband for an
absolute divorce, and not only this, but
the wrathful lady has also sued her for
the alienation OF the husbands affec-
ton. Mrs Manton's attorney is Atel
Burgess, a man who knows no feeling
OF delicacy or restraint in the pursuit OF
his clients interest. He has obtained
through an unfaithfui maid a number
OF letters belonging TO Mrs. Dupont.
Whether he could succeed In introduce
ing them in evidence on trial is ex-
tremely doubtful, but 20 influence pub
| he opinion they have been published in
an obscure sheet-obscure no longer.
"Among these excessively amatorY
illusions are several from me and one
from you-hinc tllG ldcrjmTi and they
have all been copied in the current
number OF TolUn RUcti0nS, which here
with mail to you.
ut is hard enough for both OF US, but
for YOU, the moral married man. l can
only advise firm denial and an applica-
ton for an injunction, though 1t is
rather late TO bar the barn door.
With considerations from your fellow
miserable sinner, l main, SC,
j. ASHFORD"
The letter fell from PaulS grasp.
Paurs head sunk down upon his desk.
Oh, how ashamed be vast To think
that he, the upright, must endure such
vulgar community with one whom he
/ despised, aud not be able TO resent It
Where was that sincere respect, which,
together with the public, he had paid to
himself? And yet he realized, and
there lay bitterness, that the man who
had yielded TO the facile temptation OF
an idle moment, the man who had
penned such sentimental nonsense, was
not his own actual self.
No, that self was a man who loved
his home, his children, and, above all
else, his wife. Let caSuists dispute
and skeptics sneer, he knew! But
would the world believe him? All, lit