Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-11

"This means much TO Laurence
| Laurence, you call him, and m friend
ship warrants me In using his name,
continued RAYMOND. He Is under
cloud. If you were my wife 1 could
appeal in his behalf to those WlO mean
10 ruin him, ruin him through wrong,
feel. As a disintereSted person, could
not stay the storm that lowers ABOVE
him, but to protect me and mine from
dishOnOr these people could De Induced
to consent to an investigation that
would vindicate Laurence. Then, again,
I have long desired to lift him 10 the
highest place in his profession. II IS
within my power to do So"
"But 1 know nothing OF this, or OF
what it means. Am 1 asked to pledge
myself before there is justification?
VIII you still torture me with suspense?'
NO, 1 will begin my story Your
father was George Leland, an honored
aud an honorable man. lie came from
England with your mother ambition
Coading him on. Laurence was the
eldest child, nearly eight years your
senior. Two other children your par
ents had. They are dead. Your Istner
was cratic in his way. For several
years he lived at Worcester Mass
When your brother was years OLD,
your father began 10 travel, searching
for speculatiOns. Your brother Lau-
renee was not very strong, and as your
mother had hopes Of bringing her nus
band back TO Worcester, she LETT the
boy there ia her sisters care. AS he
grew up, the bows all addressed MIN as
Laurence M2ngan. Mangan was the
name of your aunt's husband. be had
no children of his own, and Laurence
became his IDOL"
'.But how is It that Laurence does not
know his own surname?" she queried.
~ am coming to that. Your mother
was taken IN here, shortly before your
birth. She didn't feel equal TO journey
back TO Worcester, having been worn
out with travel through several states
and az any rate your father took Tx
ing to this city, and she was very eau
tious in avoiding suggestions that might
again awaken the rowing disposition
within him. Your brother was in his
aunt's care from his third year, as the
boy was not strong enough to stand the
travel. Your father was moving from
place 70 place, your mother always with
him. They settled in this city in 1873,
and IL was your mothers intention TO
have Laurence brought on, when
she was stricken down. Your uncle
had queer notions Of your father.
He knew he had not the dis
position Of the migratory swallow,
returning to the old haunts with the
change of seasons, and that he would
never revisit Worcester. Mr.. Mangan
had therefore made up his mind that
Laurence would remain with him.
Mangan was not wealthy, but be was
comfortably situated, aud he had no
thought that objections would be made
10 his adoption of the boy, especially as
the probability was that your father
would not be long in wasting his sub
stance i'm his SpeculatiOnS Mr.. Man
gan never told Laurence OF his people,
for the reason, he said 70 his vile, that
'it is time enough when his folks re-
turn, or until he is older and capable OF
apureciating the case Your mothers
death was followed quickly by that OF
your aunt, aud Laurence never learned
this story. Your father placed you In
the convent"
"Why has my father been silent and
apparently so careless Of Laurence and
me?n
"He went to Denver and was killed
killed for his money. He had not time
20 make any arrangements"
And how have you learned this; how
came you TO be acquainted with a his
tory that is a mystery to me and to-to
Laurence?'
"Simply enough. The old lawyer
with whom / studied was your fathers
counsel In rummaging over old papers
a short time ago, found letter from
the district attorney of Denver, inclos-
ing memorandum written at your
fathers dying reQuest-he lived q few
hours after the shooting. That memo
randum directed your fathers counsel
90 look after your interests. l presume
the LAWYER found you had a good home,
that Lawrence had another and that,
as a your father had left no property,
matters could not be improved. Out Of
nv love for YOU l made inquiries that
enlarged my knowledge. Your family,
on the maternal as well as the parternal
side, is an honored one"
"Why not tell laurence"
HAS he never spoken to you about
me?"
mo, beyond saying that you were not
/ friendly toward each other on account
of politics. 1 never asked more, just
because it was politics"
"He's a queer lad, remarked Ray
7 mond.. "If I told him, he would almost
! kill his uncle, now an old man, for the
deception practiced upon him.
I'm what does all this mean danger
| for laurence" asked Isabel.
"You have not yet told me that my
/ interest i'm you is reciprocated?
THE interest is.
oBut there is something more ! seek. "
"A womanS heart is not like the wax
matrix of a phonograph, susceptible to
the slightest sound and holding 10 until
itself is molten" was the evasiye re-
Spouse.
There il no one whom you would
have nearer or dearer 10 youth this
one sense, / me2u-the sense OF honest
love?"
III Lawrence IS my brother-then-
pprhaps"-and realizing that she had
almost made an admission, she broke off
into the strain most pressing upon her
mind:
Glow is Laurence tbrsatened?'
RAYMOND was satisfied. He knew
that gratitude in woman, like pity, is
akin TO love. The first process in its
evolution was visible to his quick eye
and was confirmed by the ear that had
marked the intonatiOn when she re-
ferred TO the quality Of a woman
heart. He could now finish his story
and trust safely 10 time, he thought, to
mako her his own.