Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-25
ut is as Mother s.. Gertrude says.

at is as Mother St. Gertrude says
We AUST trust to you"
II have an idea, he said. sit must
not be mentioned to the sister unless IL
is acceptable to you.
what is it?"
Laurence will never settle down.
he will fly from place to place. until the
persecution ceases. You know that
love you. know that in time my de-
votion will awaken reciprocal feelings
Ia you. Let your love for Laurence
guide you. have discovered property
both of you may claim. have taken
steps to hold it for you, as Mother 81.
Gertrude will explain. Surely there Is
in all this something that must give
you an assurance that nothing can do
will be left undone TO make you and
him happy. have told you how and
why his character can be indicated,
reconciliation effected, and your lives
with mine, enter vista more propitl-
Gus, prosperous and peaceful"
"Mr. Raymond, must say that
have thought this matter over; that
cannot give you the love wife should
have for her husband, ana that, while l
might set aside my personal wishes,
to further my brothers welfare, haVs
No right to be burden upon you.
at is no burden. II you never change
towards me, there will be soace in your
friendship that will atone for all"
"YOu have that already"
But the compGnionship have not.
cannot proceed until you are my wife.
The very mention OF this in the press,
bringing yeu and the convent into pub
licity, would create sensation painful
to Mother St. Gertrude. How can L
explain my interest in this case OF his,
risk my personal and political stand
ing, if fail and scandal ensue, without
something to fortify me? Let me be
candid. 1 sm not doing this fer Lau-
renee so much as for you. You can
hardly appreciate what it means to me,
and il is not likely that Laurence would
resent my interference. But il you
say so, If you ask me to make the sac
riice, will do so. l will give up all
for the hope OF winning your love"
Love is dead with me-" she an
swered. affection survives, the atec-
ton that springs from gratitude. will
consult with Mother st. Gertrude"
Raymond was gaining HE point at
every turn. He saw that the deep love
Isabel had for Mangan as lover aud
the affection due TO brother had
blended. Mangan was dearer than ever
to her now. ThQre was nothing she
would not dare Cor him who was torn
from har-aye, torn from her, for she
went at night and worried by day that
he had been botted cut OF the pic
lures she used to draw OF the future
plotted out from the NEST striking
scenes. showing up only in the back
ground of the newer canvas placed upon
the easel of her dreams. She longed to
keep him at the front, her hero still,
but fact put weight on fancy and
would not let it soar.
Laurence Mangan was dead. She
could never love another as she had
loved him. But Laurence Leland lived.
The cavalier garment of romance had
dropped from his heroic figure, but yet
he appealed stronger TO her sympathies.
Since 1t would be the only way to dem
onstrate how strong her love had been
and how attached she still was TO him,
and that the new relation would have
in it some of the sweetness Of the old,
she would crown her sorrow at parting
with sacrifice for reunion.
II will go to mother st. Gertrude, u"
ISABEL continued. 81 want to meet her
alone, to con6de in her, TO appeal to
her, TO pray for guidance"
"Shall l waltz"
Eyes"
Isabel went in the direction the nun
had taken. Raymond knew or felt that
he had dissipated the opinions the nun
had entertained Of him through Man
gan's report. Yet he was nervous. He
had a presentiment that all would not
be satisfactory. He arose and walked
back and forth across the reception
room, just as he had paced the Office OF
| the registrar Of arrears some days be-
fore when he took the first step in the
daring plot he was now carrying out.
"Fll marry her," he said. "She will
turn over the management to me, sign
her rights away, aud she'll not be the
burden on me she thinks. She can take
the veil then IL she wants 70. Mangan'
Oh, I'll have a Judge appoint q commits
sion that will incarcerats him in the
county asylum, and it isn't likely he'll
escape from there until 1 am politically
dead. And how are they going to kill
me? 1t will set Mangan crazy anyhow,
and the commission will not have 10
be-"
These and kindred ideas were surg
ing through his brain as he walked uI
aud down, his head bowed, his brow
corrugaged, his fists clinched as q man''