Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-06

was to let my darling know or guess
the peril | was about to meet. But if
and old Benedick cannot close his lips
TO ears that are now hung round with
silver instead of gold unspeakable
where is the paddock proof against
even the finger of young love? Leila
was not born for tricks. Leila had
no tricks at all. But she loved me,
and knew that l loved her; and she
took me to be ever so much Drawer tnan
l ever was, or shall be.
"Yasper, l have watched for this.
Yasper, l know no not how long this
has been the one gap in my heart.
(The word | have rendered gap has
no equivalent in English. 1t means a
needle-eye for outlook on the crest OF
some commanding pass.) Love Of
my life what have l done, that thou
shouldest fling NE into the hole OF
DEATH"
She put forth her hands, for me to
take them, because she was not GER
tain of herself; and then, as we stood
breast to breast, she asked for one hand
to wipe her eyes, and then put it back
finger for finger, and looked at me, as
if we should never look again into one
anOthers nature thus.
Thou lowest me, as I love thee!"
She spoke with sweet content, as If
there was nothing that could make
much difference now. And then she
sighed, as if she felt some pity that she
must not tell; and she cut it short with
a merry little laugh which sparkled in
her eyes, so that l laughed too.
That the greatest nation of all the
world should be stopped from advanc-
ing any further by the skin Of dead
beari
What means my Leila
/ thought for a moment that the
weather, which had been oppressive in
the valley, must have clouded her clear
mind
rs not the nation of my love, the
Inglese-not the Franghese, as the
common people call them-the great
est, the nOblest and the most magnan-
imous, ever created by the God who
/ lives in heaven
There can be no question about
that l answered not from any mar
row patriotic spirit, but to make her
long more to be an Ergiishwoman.
But the Lord has not made them
the cleverest also. To give the world
some chance against them, He has not
taught the magnanimous Inglese to
know a live bear from dead one
What. Is it possible that you knew
this, and could hide it from me, Leila|'
In the wrath of the moment l drew
away. as the blackness of the trick lay
bare TO me; and my fury was increas-
ed. no doubt, by the sense of our own
gross stupidity. Leila is guilty of
three murders, I will never speak
again to Leila,'
We knew that he was very clever fell
low as well as a. first class rifle shot, and
we all agreed over our pannikins that we
had acted for the best. Phipps Wood
bridge Vowler and myself were present
having left our village quarters i'm charge
of Prince Mulachs forester thoroughly
resolved as we were now TO hold our own
and see the end Of it,
Toward midnight I found myself very
uneasy and i'm such q state Of anxiety that
whatever might happen could not stay
there. Even with our sentr- at the en-
trance now. we did not think it safe that
AN should sleep. and / was on guard out
side the tent. while the three others were
at rest within. / tried to content myself
with walking mp and down. and smok-
ing my short pipe. and thinking about
Leila. and wondering what my mother
rvho was Wonderfully good. but not well
of, ro,ld tbin;. of NV settling So early
i'm life with orI, 81 few sbilIines to bless
us. But interesting as this subject was, it
kent ON coming into my head that we had
not acted manly part in allowing Val
Parker. headstrons as he was. to eX-
pose himself alone TO some murderous
sneak. 'Was IL like Euglishmcn?' 1 kept
ON asking CATER losing two comrades i'm
that mysterious way TO go to sleep snug
~ while vet another might be walking
INFO the very laws of dcqth?" Heavy bull
l.- tbrou-b the bearf-rbat had been the
fate of Xii and Cbarlev-did we mean that
Val should have tbe same?
At last T could stand fl no longer. but
leaving those three to their slumbers.
which v-ould be no less secure-for any one
a-.ar5ir.- tiia ,,oraa must encounter me-
ser ofs I'm auost of Parker. waving a white
b,r,ll..,.ti.f lost re might take me for
tI,.. ,,,,,,.1..,.,. and l.t 0, .t mo aItoretbor
a. tI,, ,,.,..,,.- li,...tior FOR f. Is NOT safe
a.. e,,,e,.t q MAJ, to b, too particular when
, ols,,r or H.bt or breath of wind may
brir,- , burla+ into him.
Nothing could have been grander than
tl,, way t,.. world stood around me. such
as we cannot have at home: and perhaps