Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-18
IN URWRRRRLY W0RRR.

stick TO his work IN the city library
The servants must be discharged except
Deborah, who should be caretaker ana
prepare her masters breakfast, ana
Paul must dine at the club, and, thank
goodness, they had friends who would
try TO make the time pass pleasantly
for him. There we're the Revells, the
MunsonS, the RobinsOnS-yes, and the
DupOnts too, they we're such good com
pany, and one must believe all one hears
and Paul did need busting after day
among the books.
So Ella cOmmuned as she packed,
wiping away furtive tear the wnhe,
for she was tender little thing ana
had never been separated from her nus
band. and so IL was arranged.
"Sister Anne will arrive 70 relieve me
certainly within mouth, she SAID IN
parting. "And then shall return ana
IL will be as If 1 hadn't been away %
write every day and try 10 keep happy'
and wear your ruO6ers' ana 90 nnu sohe
ENJOYMENT outside that stupid llorsry
and-oh, there's the whistle! DO hurry
aud don't Jump. God bless you, my
precious one! Teddy, look out the win
dow and kiss 90 hand 10 90 papa.
Paul Minturn's throat troubled him as
he hastened from the car, and his eye
glasses grew so opaque as the train
rolled away that he couldn't distinguish
his heirs salutatiOn. What q dear,
sweet little woman-the dearest, the
sweetest in the world Well, perhaps
A. was beneficial 10 once climb the
heights Of Absence and thus obtain
full view OF the Valley OF Felicity. Be
sides. In a few weeks she would return,
and their old life would be their new.
Meanwhile
Meanwhile, Paul was busy man, as
the competent head Of the great Claren-
dou Library must needs be. On the
pad which lay on his desk were hIty
important memoranda or things 20 De
done. He bethOught him OF these ana
boarded q passing car aud returned 10
his work. and throughout the day was
absorbed by IT, So, TOO, was Ella az
sorbed-but with visions OF her hus-
band.
Paul Mlnturn looked the scholar that
be was. He was tall and slender, with
a pale face and a clOse-chOpped brown
beard. and the glasses which scinJililat-
ed until be removed them, and then one
oreceiYed that IL was his blue eyes that
did tho sparkling. One also preceiyed
at the same instant that be was much
Younger man than be bad seemed. In
deed. Paul possessed two personalities s.
The Youthful one he put on after sun
set. At the libary he was demure,
stiff, earnest man. At home with the
children ne was a rOmp, with Ella an
ardent young husband, with thell
rlends-and there were as numerous as
how rleaseI-''the life OF the party"
"Wait until Paul Minturn comes, his
admirers would say, land then the cur
tain viii rIs,.' And 50 10 was. For
mality his auxiliary by day, was ms
beaten Zoe by night. he was no sooner
intrenched before fortress or stupidity
than he occupied it. What . store oil
gayety be could concentrate, TO be sure
Did ever one laugh so cOatagiouSly oil
sing so blithely or weave tales so en-
tertainingly? He toiled IN the prison
of duty all day and forgot that II was a
prison; but when the gates were
oDen. be remembers and rejOlced
that both he and the night
were young. lie was popular with
the women for these qualities, and with
the men because he seemed unconscious
OF their liking. Aad there was no de-
csit in this appearing. he had married
the one he loved, and he loved her the
more after marriage. This love gave
him a caste, which he scrupulOusly re-
sDected, and TO which no one save Ella
could belong He had, however, from
this very sanctity, an Indifference,
which, Joined TO a somewhat careSsing
manner, gave him an entlcing charm
for those TO whom charm can be en-
ticing.
Naturally, then, the ReVells, the
MunsOns, the RObinsOns, did not suffer
their friend Paul to anguish In loneli-
ness. No, the pad on his desk was each
day surrounded by dainty little notes.
aud husbands who were accused OF stop
ping in the club nights before dinner
were excused II they brought Paul homo
with them. AS for the DupOnts, Of
whom Ella had spoken somewhat du-
biously, their paniOnship, as often
happened Ia such cases, passed from the
conditional into the indicative mood.
For Que recognized thing, Robert Du-
pOnt, the husband, a successful mer-
chant of acute iLQuiring mind, was a
man after Paul's heart; for another, yet
unknown, Edith, the wife, was woman
who appealed 90 the weaknesses Of his
nature. Ella had hesitated slightly In
their suggestion because, In fact, there
was a certain dashing Col. Ashford with
whose name Mrs. Dupont's was some
times whispered. An, what constantly
increasing circles the tiniest pebble Of
whisper will generated She had hest
tated, therefore, because she was a
woman, and, slightly, because she was
herSefa
Now Paul, In the careless intimacy
which he gradually formed, considered
the husband far more than the wife.
Had he analysed their influence he
would have said that the former was
actively attractive and the latter pas
siyely repellent. The one, at least,
could talk aud smoke. AS for the other,
what was there in her 70 like? She sell
dom spoke, aud when the did didn't say
anything except complaints Of Robert.
She never did anything except Toll and
fan and toy with her rings, unless, in
decd. there were sweets or wine, and
then she was greedy. She was so large,
so cOOrleSS, so languOrous. Her eyes
were so black and so dilated.
She was such contrast 10
his little Ella -S so provoking
As the shade OF tulip on lily Of the
val ey. "Confound the woman Paul
used 70 soliloQuize as he walked home.
"IFI we're bound to such an inert lump
I think I would shoot myself" And
vet. once and again, he checked idle
thoughts about her, and once and again
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