Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14


/ ia, more a swift. movement or her
whole slender body, ouJ.lt Is NeneIneIl''
reDressive and full OF a, strange anger.
II will not let You speak 10 me me me
! that saws she, her voice tremolins WIN
| race. thinks George. You fancy InS's
! because have always been your gOOu
friend that 1 care for you-n mat
There is something so naughty, 50
frigid. in her almost childish anger, that
he loss courage.
II thought only that YOU were my
friend. +" stammers he, drawing back a
@Wsl. so am. but you must let me
WHY what have I done?" asks he,
recovering himself again. as he tells
himself She is proudly unkind and IN
fair 10 him Il have only ooia you ln'''
You would make NE
con. enough. enough. cries the girl
with an angry stamp OF her small 1901.
"How do YOU dare TO talk TO me hke
tbatq Why il was only thiS-Chls
bssi+ating as if suddenly struck by some
crushing thought. morning tnat-on!
breaking off with a bitter SOD can 1t
be only this morning-it seems a nun
dred years ago since poor DICK she
covers her evse with her hands.
III does saws Meredith, IN low
tone Roth stand silent awile. grlet-
Stricken then-"What happened this
morning." asks he.
"Ob IL is nothing" pressing her
=, L
know why I seemed TO care-sO much' a
moment ago. but il was only this morn
ing that she told me YOU she Stops
"She?"
Bertv is silent. feeling a little asham-
sd of herself for having given away IN
a second of emotion 20 so deteStaole a
Derson as Gladiator, Of course, ne
knows. without saving.
ooh. it is Claudia" said he inpatient
w. "Wen. what did she tell YOU!
"Tbat YOU were in love with some
body"
Herself for choice cOntemptuousiy'
NO. no. she seemed angry with you
with some other girl altogether. VI
course 1 knew nothing about 1t, but she
evidently did and with a reproachIul
glance al him, so do YOU
Silence again. a very heightened one
this time. during which he walked up
ard down the library at least ha1
dozen times and then
We'll" stopping short at last right IN
front of her. Il confess TO 1t.
II am glad that you have thought u
necessary to tell the truth at last. Well,
90 and marry that girl you are in love
with. and don't talk nonsense TO me.
There is a very splendid rage IN her
dark eyes. 90.
why. and I would" says he, If
She would only let me.
Let you?"
yes"
"She has refused YOU?
Virtually"
Betty's wonderfully expressive eyes
grow grimly mirthful.
And serves you very well, too" says
she. eff YOU proposed 10 her While
still engaged 10 Claudia, you have only
got your deserts.
L don't know that quite proposed TO
her. and I was not engaged to Claudia
at the time.
"Oh. quite an old affair? Betty grows
interested.
1T isn't. it never will be old-to me.
And there was one thing about her, Bet
". that I find it hard 70 reconcile with
her charm and her sweetness. Once
when l was i'm great trouble she showed
me the utmost kindness-She sustained
me by her courage and-what 1 thought
was her love. Yet when she made me
regard her as my friend, my cOmrade-
as one before whom I might lay my
heart with a certainty that she would
accept il, she"
Yes! Yes" Betty is leaning for
ward. tears in her luminous eyes.
"She deserted me. Would none Of
me-"
ooh. a wretch says Betty.
No. she is not that"
perhaps. then, even though you
knew her before, she had heard of Clau-
dia."
Certainly she had. But she must
have known too. think, that I never
really loved Claudia.
It should have nothing more to do
with her. if 1 were you" says Betty,
with an ominOus shake OF her small and
stately head.
''YOu give that advice?"
Certainly" very sternly. "Of course,
if 1 knew who she was could advise
YOU further, but" here poor Betty's
wonderful courage all at once breaks
down. To give him advice as to his
marriage TO another!
"ShaI tell you her name?"
"Oh, no. no" She turns a very white
face TO his Il don't want to hear il. I
don't want 10 know anything about her
Go away and marry her"
Meredith catches her in his arms and
draws her slender figure 10 him.
"I can't. I go away Lst me tell you
her name-Darlingr
Betty's eyes. with 4 radiant smile
breaking through their tears, hold a
| question.
1T is?' whispers she.
BETTY"
CThe Enid