Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22
WHEELING REGISTER, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER o. 1895

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pressed her for an answer, say yes,
with her lips, while her heart said no.
"Bless youw the man murmured.
"You have made me very happy. Good
byew
1t was a year and a week from this
day that he and she stood before the
minister Of their church. 1t was called
a good match in the town. They had
known each other for such a long time
that it did not seem possible that there
could be a mistake. After the little
dinner. TO a few friends, the two went
away on a little journey TO the city-as
light of heart as if neither had never
met more than a schoolboy sorrow.
In less than a month the long neg
lected home at the other end OF the lane
had taken on a new appearance. There
were flowers about the place again
and a late vine was on its way above
the door that for two seasons had felt
the unbroken rays of the summer sun
People noticed, as people will, that ne
had taken on a contented appearance
How soon we are forgotten, chatter
ed an old gossip, and others echoed II
as they talked of the happy pair. One
dav. six months after the wedding, she
CHANGED TO read a poem that brought a
new and unsupported terror to her
heart These were the stanZas:-
What though she lieth mute on yohuef
hill2
Though ivy green, and snowy eg-
lantere
Have held in loving fold, through
many q year,
Her quiet grave, / fear her-I rear her
still
He loved her once. Ay, though he
hold me fast
And scar my lips with kisses burn
ing sweet,
No touch of mine may make his he
For mans first love is often-times his
last.
The seeds Of suspicion grow in shall
low soil. From this chance poem ono
after another circumstance came bacE
10 the suddenly intlamed mind until a
torrent of terrible thought drove the
Young wife almost to desperation
Then she became calmer, and proceed
ing on a foundation that had not Iact
in its structure, she deliberately plan
ned TO test her husbands devotion
THAT evening when she met him at the
gate with a kiss that he always said
was the subject of all his day time
THINKING. she was so quiet that he asked
ed as they walked arm in arm toeeth-
er nm the cinder, rOse-iined path, II
anything had gone wrong.
No" she answered, softly, but I've
been thinking Of something serious.
whether your preserves VIII turn
out right?" he laughed.
The look that she gave in response
was SOLDERING. Nothing like that, She
went on. calmly. Its about-about-
her"
She watched for some effect, and she
saw it. He started and paled.
"Whv. dearest. what-Wh2t-
Il have only been thinking She
said. that we should not forget-torgeJ
her so. that we should go up-up there,
like we did once before
"Together?' he asked
eyes. Why not?'
"Whv. l don't know" he said, "but it
seems. strange. somehow don't know
lust why; but let's not go together.
81 wonder when ne goes" she thought
that night as she prepared 10 retire
Surely she knew how all Of his time had
been spent. but she must have been de
ceived In this state OF mind she fell
asleeD. When she awoke the first light
of the morning was creeping through
the vine covered windows. She in
stantly remembered the horrible events
, of the night before, but now they did
not seem so bad. She would wake him
witha kiss and confess her mind, Just as
ne had done long before Then she
went to his room. II was deserted
/ She looked hurriedly about the house.
He was not there. The truth came 10
/ her in the instant She was surprised
that he could have gotten away on
other mornings and back again without
| her knowledge. She wondered, too as
/ She slipped into her light wrap hat, tnat
/ the neighbors had not observed and
/ whispered It 10 her. In such state OF
mind she hurried along the lane not
/ sDeal1ing to the surprised villagers, VINO
/ stared after her as she went up on Jhe
/ hill in the direction Of the graveyard.
| When. at length, she got to the stlle
over which people usually passed, she
/ concluded that ne might see her as sne
reached the top So she went around
/ TO a place where the fence was OLD and
broken. Here she could get through, she
Thought. unobserved. Passing through
/ the weeds and tall grass just on the out
| side of the cemetery, she caught slghl
+ of a figure over on the other side or the
graveyard. I'd twas her husband. In
her excitement she had m!scalculated
her pos,tion. and here, on the street side
/ Of the fence. she could see the neglected.
grave. He stood by it, with his hands
| clasDed back of him. a bunch OF MOVERS
rested on the headstone, and there
seemed 10 be many bautiful ones grow
ing lall over the mound. Whle she
| watched he fell to his knees, and, clasp
Rrg his hands in front OF his face, ne re-
| NAMED motonless for minute or TWO.
Then he got up and walked in the di-
rection of the stile. The woman crouch
ed low in the grass and waited until
her husband had passed down the road
and out of view.
The man felt better for his morning S
experience. He felt that ne had done
nothing wrong, and that he had repair
! ed a neglect. Singularly enough, Ma
ture had kept her kind min.strations,
and the grave was as we'll tended as 1t
had been nearly two years before. The
husband thought that he had felt his
last doubt-that the living woman was
as much to him now as the first had
ever been, and that his conscience
would never again allow a div,son OF
/ his consideration. He was, indeed, a