Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-30

young ladies.
Indeed / am myself not insensible to
a peculiar quality in her which l can
conceive to be very attractive to many
or to most people. She Is pretty, but
it is not that. And she has high ami
NAL spirits and graceful vivacity, but
neither is it these. No, and l doubt II
l can specify precisely what it is. Yet
l should be able TO analyze her III any
Lody can, because toward her, as to-
ward the rest OF mankind, l occupy the
position OF an outsider and dispassion-
ate observer merely. Moreover. have
motive for making the analysis-that,
in my role OF general caretaker OF the
family, | must determine whether or
not she is fit and proper person to be-
come Mrs. Mainwaring, and thus to
relegate mother to the position OF
dowager, for there is no doubt that
John will marry her IL he can, and al
ter making all due allowance for
waywardness of a maiden's fancy 1t
would not do TO build too confidently
on the probability OF her rejecting
generous hearted, fine looking, infatu-
ated young fellow with $4,000 year
to his fortune. At all events l shall
make it my business TO improve my
acquaintance with her. and the fact
that she evidently regards me as an
inoffensive and rather agreeable person
renders the execution Of my design all
the easier.
She came upon us as abruptly and
unexpectedly as an asteroid out or In
finite space. We had flashed dinner
more than an hour before, and mother
and were sitting on the veranda en-
loving the evening breeze and fighting
off an occasional mosquito John,
presume, was hobnobbing with Tom,
the groom, in the harness room. There
was the sound of carriage wheels far
down the dive, and one OF the dogs
barked. There was no moon, and it
was to dark TO see the carriage until IL
was almost at hand. Then it turned
out to be hack from the Village rail-
way station.
at must be some person in answer
to my advertisement for maid" ex-
claimed my mother in an undertone.
"What an extraordinary proceeding!
You must tell the people at the livery
stable, Frank, never to allow people to
come upon US in this way"
l said: Apparently the person
means to take the place. Her trunk
is on behind"
THAT is sufficient" mother replied.
Il shall not take her"
Meantime the hackman had descend
ed from the box and opened the carri-
age door. A rather tall female figure
got out. At sign from mother wegt
down the steps OF the veranda and MET
her. saw that she was young aud
well dressed. She did not look like
"person."
"Are you Mr. Mainwarlng?" she
asked in a deep but very agreeable
voice
~ am Frank Mainwaring," 1 said.
"Did you wish to see my mother?"
81 have brought her letter from
her brother" replied she, ana she
handed me a sealed envelope.
"Do you mean from Edward FORE
stal?"
YES"
CIVIL you come up and sit DOWN." /
preceded her up the steps and gave the
letter to mother, who must have over
heard what had passed and had risen 10
her feet. "From Edward. What can
IL be?" she murmured. Indeed we had
not heard from my uncle for 20 years
"Come in and sit down." she said to
her visitor IN somewhat agitated
tone. ~ will read what you have
brought, and"-
81 will stay here until you have read
it." returned the other, and she turned
away, refusing the chair L profered
her, aud leaned against pillar OF the
verands. As she stood there the hack
man approached and asked whether he
should take down her trunk. "Not
yet" she said. Meantime mother had
gone into the front drawing room,
where there was light to read the
letter. l said at venture, III L had
known you we're coming, we would
have made preparations"--
But she interrupted me. 81 took my
chances" she said. at Is only II days
since | left England. / brought the
letter myself, because didn't wish 10
trust IL TO the mails, and 1t is all have
to show for myself"
At this point mother reappeared In
the doorway. "My dear" she said in
an uncertain voice, ''come here where
can see you. Are you-are you
II am Sinfre," said the other, sd-
vancing with certain stateliness and
taking my mothers hand in hers. My
mother was strangely moved. She
gave an inarticulate cry, drew the girl
into her arms and kissed her. 1t
seems that her brother-my uncle Ed
ward-was dead. He had died In Lon
don, leaving very little property and
daughter, his only surviving child.
His wife had died years b efore. There
was no one in Eng and on whom he had
any clalm-he had lived upward Of 10
years 10 India-and he was troubled In
mind as to his daughters future.
Then he thought of his sister who
had married and gone to America, and
he resolved that his daughter should
go to her. America wound be better
place for her than Europe, especially as
there was so little money at her dis
pusal. He wrote on his deathbed the
letter which she had brought TO us, in
which be had recommended her to
his sisters care. "She is able TO take
her own part in the world" the letter
said. "She wishes no more than l to
be burden on you. But you will
know what things a girl like her may
and may not do In the great republic,
and l ana assured that my sister will
advise my daughter wisely and for her
best good" Such was the sum and
substance Of the message the girl had
brought.
ST am Sinfrel" 1 repeated the
words TO myself as followed her and
my mother to the drawing room. Did
ever a young English gentlewonan