Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-21

{ brute. VINO l@tEtA 10 lt- % --4- " q y go
] disobedieut dos and whom / put down
as being a bully and q drunkard.
We were not so CHEEKY that night.
She talked the -alk Of thar world Of So
Cia-v that two years Of misery had put
back into an indefinite past. but l no
ri.e1 tha. her eyes took IN every detail
of curtains and furniture and orna-
ments. He helped himself most lib
I orally TO The whisky bottle. and talked
little. but thai little generally took the
form OF some insult ID his wife. Later
on she asked me about AfZ Kahn who
. waited ora us with grim stateliness, ana
I told her his Eory; how by lucky
/ Shot I saved him when he was IN
/ bears embrace, with the brute breath
. hot in his face; and how since then he
. had renowned everything his loved
+ hills and clanship and relations 70 fol-
+ low me through good and evil fortune
/ as my servant Finding she was in
terested Z talked on and told them
. some Of She border tales Of revenge and
/ blood thar Afrida told lac over the fire
/ on our Shikah expeditions; how ready a
/ border mans hand TO strike when his
chief orders; how little they value
/ lire. whether IL be theirs or anOther's;
and 10 ali this she listened eagerly.
/ The morose husband thawed under
/ the great doses of whisky and he told
me how the doctor had forbidden him
| 20 20 home 10 England, and how he
I was wandering over the uubeaten
+ tracks In the mountains, taking
his wife with him Just
10 show her what rOughing means
until the weather became passabiy
/ cool In the plains.
She went 10 their room Immediately
after dinner. but be sat up fer q coupiN
/ of hours Dragging about most things
/ in this world and Furnishing the
whisky bottle to such effect that when
at midnight he rose TO go he stag
ecred about and l had TO help him 10
his door
II was q glorious night. The moon
| half way up the sky flooded the broad
verand8 there with golden light the
oak and rhododendros, the great hill
across the river were ecked out In
/ vivid light an shade and the village
. doors made points OF brillincy in the
darkness of the gorge / stood against
q post OF the yerana, my brain IN
whirl with present surprise and Durn-
ing memories. I tried TO think Of
what this fresh turn OF the wheel
that brought her under my roof might
mean TO me. Munda Deyi, the great
sacred mountain, showed its mass Of
snow hanging. as it seemed. In the
Sky. and in my feyerish helplessness
In the battle against fate l felt long
ING TO pray 10 IL for some Of its ever
lasting strength and endurance
George Whispere a soft voice be-
hind me. and l turned to ind her
standing at my elbow.
She had put on q dressing gown
sort of thing, all silk and lace, and The
mOonlightcaught theivOry smootnnesS
Of her arms and bosom.
Then the fire in my brain leapt TO a
sudden blaze. and an that I knew was
that / was holding her again, once
more, tight clasDca in The hollow Of
my arms.
George she said again, and held
out her two hands 10 me.
81 never loved any one but you!' she
said as she looked up into my eyes;
and then she t0ij me how her hus-
band ill-ueatcd her, cursed her and,
when drunk. beat her. and on the deli
cate arms that were round my neck !
could see the purple welIs where his
heavy stick had struck her.
DO YOU love me in spite of all?'
she asked: and l. being a fool, told her
that was ready to- die for her
Then for a time she kept silent, only
nesting closer and closer to my breast.
At last she spoke in a whisper
which had iremble in it,, II only
were free from him / could marry You.
l shall be a rich woman
Her brain worked quicker than mine
and I didn't understand what She was
asking Of NE.
1T would be so easy she whisper
ed. land we should be so happy land
then what she meant began to dawn
on me and [ loosaued my clasp, though
she only twined her arm more closely
"If an accident were 10 happen TO him
now. while he is drunk. no one would
be any the wiser, and you can trust
you man.
Then the fire in my brain died ont.
shook her free and stepped back a
dozen pace from her Tor l knew mat .
She was asking me to murder, or I've
murdered. the drunken man, Hy /.
Guest. her husband, who lay help SIS .
in the next room.
you daren't." she said, with sud
den rage. and as 1 spoke to her she .
stood like a statue with the glow OF f.
desperate anger i'm her eyes.
What l said / don't exactly know; F.
but she understood me- and with a .
whispered "cowardIy fool she slip /.
ped back into the darkness Of the .
room.
walked all that night and the
early morning about the estate, and
ffev had LETT before I came back TO the
house: they went cwdn by the other
road and / never saw either Of them
again.
was there a sequel?
Yes.
T received the next summer through
the mail a newspaper cutting, telling
how the two were riding along hin
path i'm Cashmere i'm front Of all their
servants. how mis- pony must have
SHE'D. and how ne and the pony We're
found pounded to a jelly a thousand
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