Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-30

II to her face, and I got up
and walked the room. She said
her mother had not approved OF the
contract aud il had made unpleasant
ness in the family. We had ceased to
walk the room, she was sitting on the
divan and I was standing beside her. 1
started to leave after some expressions
/ of sympathy, but she detained me. She
said, the plaintiff did; its much worse
/ than that, it's much worse than that
/ He insisted on marrying me. dld not
want to be like Aunt Lou, with
A HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN
and unable to educate them. She put
/ her handkerchief to her face.
] Here Colonel Breckinrid GO spoke
very slowly and reproduced the mourn
ful tones which young woman might
/ use in making a confession).
'Sbe said 4 gave him higher proof
| than that contract. Then l said she
ought to marry him any way. She said,
/ Il can't, 1 have grown away from him.
| I know what other men are and his very
presence is offensive 10 me- / replied:
| You can't afford not to marry him;
young girl as you are Then the con-
\ versation drifted away. There was
nothing more I could say. She seemed
/ 20 have said all she cared to"
There was an exquisite minor key OF
retrospective pathos as the Colonel
/ sunk his voica through these pas
1 sages:
"The conversation driited away" he
! repeated redectively, lingering the
ern0n fharn with
nv hat In my hand she said, Il have set
nv heart on becoming an authOress. l
/ said: Il don't sec why you can't do that,
/ but you must remember that this
double life'--here he assumed the
stern tone of moralist, man
STAINLESS ABOVE REPBoACH,
reproducing the paternal, advisory
manner of the counsel he said he gave
/ 10 the young woman. "'ThiS double
/ life,' l said, may come up against you
any time. lie has you in his power.
! A young girl can't afford that.
You should marry him as soon as you
can" She said: 4 won't 6o'that now,
/ any way, no danger Of his giving me
up
Then she spoke of an entertainment
at Vine street. She said there was TO
/ be cornetist play. l have been going
/ 10 CjnCian2ti ever since l was boy,
/ but never knew which one of the hills
/ Vine street was on. She said, in an en-
/ tireiy proper wsy-perfectly proper
/ Colonel Breckinridge seemed anxious
/ TO make assurance dOubly sure on this
point), that we might ride. / asked
/ n they would let her 60.
/ She said she was a summer
/ boarder, and she knew OF no rule against
/ IT, Then a young man came into the
room, whom / recognized as Mr.. Brown.
| We shook hands, and be said it would
! be perfectly proper for US to 90. 1t was
a warm August evening. Nothing was
said about closed carriage or about my
having a sore throat; no alluSion what
ever, no excuse, nor any reason fer any
excuse"
In the mild deprecatory gesture with
which the Colonel brushed away the
breath of a suspicion Of Improperly
| from his action at that time, be knocked
| a tumbler from the stand with a crash
which startled the room, and men
| looked around apprehensively, as though
| they thOuRhtof
KENTUCKY sHOOTING-IRONs.
1--WE started in an entirely proper
! way" he resumed. ANY excuse would
| have been wholly out of place, nor was
any reason asked"
For the first time the flow of silver
/ depreciation was harshly torn by the
/ matter Of fact query of Major Butter
/ worth:
"How long were you at the college
/ that afternoons"
"Oh, about an hour or an hour and
half"
"Did you speak Of going to Lexing-
ton then?'
Nothing was said about going to
Lexington that day and the next day
when l started to Lexington I was sur
/ prsed 70 find her on the train"
"What do you know.Of any bogus
/ teleZram?'
/ "I never heard OF any such telegram
/ until after this suit was brought. There
was no way l could have sent any bogus
/ telegram, This is entirely new 10 me. T"
"What do you know about her going
\ 90 Sayre Institute at LeXingtonP'
Il knew nothing of it whatever until
/ afterward Nothing whatever in any
way"
"How long were you driving that
evening"
"I can't say, Butterwortb; we got
back before the schoNl was closed;
about 10 O'Clock"
Did YOU have any conversation about
| your first wiie2'
None Whatever. Ny first wife was
not alluded 70. Ny little boy was not
mentioned There was no allusiOn 10
my family surroundings in any way
"Did you make
PRorEsrATIoNs OF LOVE
to this woman?"
Il did not"
Did you go to any concert that
night?"
1--WE did not
"What was there in the conversation,
I bearing, dress or appearance Of the
plaintiff 20 indicate that she was not a
I girl OF msture years?'
"She seemed 10 be young woman or
7 twenty or twentv-two. She might have
\ been nineteen. She was fully grown
\ Young woman, Of perfectly proper man
/ ner" (Gla0cing for the first time at
the plaintiG.) ''Very deferentiai,
very"
Anything TO indicate that she was
not a proper young woman" asked Mr..
7 ButterwOrth.
/ Colonel Breckinridge wanted none Of
his hearers TO cherish a suspicion that
/ he would have ventured forth with an
/ improper person. His disclaimers were
/ repeated, and in his softest tones, mot
the slightest" be replied, mot the