Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-21

die, and perhaps there are reasons why
he cannot die. Never marry, never
love-"
There was long pause. / did not
know what to say.
while | am speaking Of this he
resumed, 81 want to say that you sent
me two letters, for which | have never
thanked you, old man. But | was
grateful for those letters. ard l should
like"
ct is not necessary. It's all right.
I understand perfectly"
Then we will not speak OF this
aain. If man means TO go on, and
l mean to go on for another thirty or
forty years, and the insurance people
seem to think there's a chance OF it
if. | say, a man means to go on he must,
by the time he has passed thirty, have
got some sort of control over his own
thoughts. He must be able to say to
himself: 'Such-and-such an episode is
closed! you must not think of this; you
must not remember that.
Can any man control his own
thoughts?"
1T is a popular fallacy that he can
not. | do, and many men do. be-
lieve that most men Of my age with the
average history must either learn to
do that, or must mad. But enough
we will talk Of other things"
Perhaps it was because l had not
his facility for putting things out OF my
mind. Certainly, although we did talk
of other things for some time we spoke
with some seriousness and constraint.
Gradually we got back to the old man
ner
do you remember" he said, chat 1
wrote to you about some opals? You
took that solemnly-at the foot OF the
letter. 1t was only my way Of convey
ing to you the news that | was dealing
in opals. had fifteen hundred pounds
worth of them lying on the big table at
which sat when l wrote to you. But
| didn't mean that | wanted you to ind
me a market for them
"When YOU write to a man who is in
a bad temper, underline anything
which is not to be taken seriously, and
tell you've done it. Then ne may pos
sibly understand you. However, you
did well with your opals, if Sinden is
the result"
mot as we'll as l should have done
Opals do not fetch their real value yet
they will. but at present they don't.
/ tried other things, too, but we needn t
go into the details of my money-grub-
bing. Not being a Croesus like yourself
I had to grub and did grub. 1t would
have been too absurd for Wilmay not
to have had anything she wanted.
However, it's over now"
1t is as we'll, perhaps. that should
explain that am not Croesus. had
an annual income of Fl, 100 year and
no prospect that it would ever be in
creased. Indeed, as it was derived in
part from the rent of agricultural land,
it promised to grow less.
asked him how long he had been at
Sinden.
Il have been here" he answered,
zone week to-day. have only been in
England fortnight. | had an agent
here watching for a chance to buy Sin
den for me, and as soon as he cabled to
me that he had got it returned"
was rather surprised. There was
nothing in the furniture or arrange
ments of the house which indicated so
recent an occupation. There was moth
ing temporary or makeshift. | said as
much, and he explained that he had
been lucky in making people do things
for him the way he wanted them done.
He said that on the next day he and
Wilmay would show me the place.
Tell me about Wilimay," l said.
"What is she like?"