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

understanding, .a,senss ofFher unwsrth-
mess? Or-did she, with Woman's In
tuition. divine that this meeting. SOLE
cistic though the thought, was to be one
Of parting?
Loverlike, he sought in his own inner
consciousness for some reason that
would account for her conduct. Some
where and somehow, where and when
be could not then discover, he was re-
sponsible, not she. How quick the
mind works under such circumstances!
No hesitation was apparent in him
from the moment the heavy doors OF
the convent closed until he had his arm
around her, awakening her faith in his
own strength, while her head, leaning
against his breast, her golden locks
waving on his left shoulder, was press
ed gently back by kiss upon her brow,
and her face upturned TO his.
You didn't look for me, did you?'
he asked, assuming a gayness that no
did not feel.
mo"
With his arm still around her waist,
they walked into the reception room.
Didn't you expect me- TO come and
say goodby before went to Denver?"
he began. you must have known 1
wouldn't delay? When did you think 1
was going to put my promise into exc
cution?"
81 didn't know"
Suppose it was the day after to-
morrow"
"Why so soon?"
Don't you know?"
81 can't think"
"Well, the sooner I unveii the mys-
terry the sooner you are nine"
Her brother talking to her as 3 lover!
Her heart and soul revoted. lie had
expected her TO press closer TO him, not
to start back, as she did. Quickly she
saw her mistake. His strange look ap-
| prised her Of It, Size must suffer and
| bear. Her resolution seemed to call
up power superhuman, and the pain
that worked upon her features disap-
peared, much as does the sun chased
| shadow.
II had not thought you were going
away so suddenly"
now, even for little whiie?"
you know don't"
you mustn't worrJ darling. When
l come back, we will never part again. "
care you going TO Worces9r trst?"
Worcester? Worcester? Did ever
tell you anything about Worcester? !
did not remember it. But there Is no
one in Worcester | care TO see.
Then it is true"
What is trUe?"
She must be more guarded, she warn
ed herself, else he would get a clue to
the knowledge she had gained from
Raymond.
"That-that you are going away?"
but her mind was more on Worcester
than on Denver.
"Of course, dear. Now be reasOna-
Bile. II stay here l can't find out
what you want TO know and what /
want to know, too. Isn't it better 10
settle things at once? If / don't bring
the story back it is the first time have
failed in an assignment"
He spoke in a strain to cheer her, and
he tenderly added:
"How many days after I come back
will 1t be before you are mine-my own
forever?"
"Oh, Laurence, It can't be-" and hor-
ror darkened her face and made her
frame tremble for a moment as If 4
strong current Of electricity had been
sent through every nerve.
What can't be?"
~ can't-can't - be - your - wife,
slowly, as II every word punctured her
heart like a stiletto point.
Isabel, you are wandering?
ooh. maybe l am, Laurence; maybe
am. she said pathetically, despairingly,
as she threw her arms around bis neck.
Don't mind me, Laurence, don't mind
me, but don't be angry with me. / love
you So"
Her eyes suffused with tears. He
was mystiGed. she loved him, was
more demonstrative in her devotion than
she had ever been before, and yet gave
less encouragement to the prospects he
had builded on the foundation OF his
own alteration for her. Had the GER
tainty OF temporary separation unnerved
her?
Isabel" he said, "what is wrong?
Tell me, love-" and be smOothed back
the curls from her moist forehead, try
ing to soothe her.
81 can't, Laurence, can't"
She was bordering on the hysterlcal.
Then something is wrong" he ex-
claimed, holding her from him and peer
ing madly into her eyes, as il TO read
therein the working Of her mind and
draw out, with mesmeric force, the
meaning OF the incomprehensible sor-
row that preyed upon her.
you will always be dear TO me" she
said. Always dear to me, Laurence.
Another day you will know all. BE
patient, Laurence, be patient, but love
you, indeed l do, ana in few days you
will be sorry that you doubted me"
She showered kisses upon him, the
| kisses she felt as 4 sister she could give,
the first warm elIusion OF her love-
kisses whose ecstacy he had neve fell
before, and which awakened more
strongly within him the one grand pas
sion Of his life