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

suspicious than the rest of us. but that
he felt his grievances most. having
promised, as l heard afterward, to keep
special eye upon poor Charles Reid,
and bring him home safe for his sis
ter's sake.
That evening I had a little talk with
Leila, whose grandfather, Prince BOr-
bal-fOr every one seems bound to be
either prince or a peasant in those
larts-had taken refuge in a great
square tower, some three miles south
| of the Ingur stream. The Russians
so far as we came across them-ap-
peared to take things very easily as
.et in these remote parts of the noun
I tain chain. When they catch an enc
my they are rather sharp upon him;
| but if he escapes and seems unlikely
10 trouble them any more, they seldom
| exert themselves much to capture him.
/ This old chief had been the leader Of
/ a hopeless revolt in Northern Georgia
| from fifteen TO twenty years ago; and
/ when all the rest of his family had been
/ either slain or sent to Siberia, he made
/ his escape with a few retainers to this
/ UnhOly sanctuary. The small detach-
/ ment of Cossacks qUartered for the
| summer near our village, had caused
/ him at first some Uneasiness, which
/ had brought him perhaps through the
! woods that day. The soldiers, how
1 ever, as l soon discovered, had never
+ even heard of him, and were here on
/ q totally different errand, though of
/ evil import as it proved to us.
Leila had promised to be my bride
/ thought how that was to come to pass,
The moon alone, chat gentle witness
I of So many signs and VOWS, which she
/ does but seldom lead to honey, even
for one of her own short lives )-she
alone could shed any light upon the
/ tangled prospect. But it was not in
/ our young life whereof the moon
/ knows nothing, being such a cold dead
/ Wanderer to let cObwebs of human
welt, or even iron bars of fate divide
us hand from hand and heart from
heart. Although, with her glorious
I power of love- il was enough for that
+ noble Leila that l was /, and me was
me. by every law of social life and she
had the right TO know my name; and
finding Cox though used so often
/ i'm sweet harmony with swain less
romantic than might be wished, and
perhaps q little rugged in Georgian,
she had more delight in my Christian
name, which she whispered most de-
liciOusly i'm the softer form of Vas
per
"Nasper. go not to those heighths.
/ What is gold compared to thee? Evil
men. barbarian wretches, Turk in those
/ black corners, when the light of day is
fading and the cruel spirits of the
mountain wander across the snow and
among the caves. Let the other Fran
+ ghese imperil their lives, as the man
uer of the nation is; but Leila cannot
/ live without her Yasper.'
L tried to make her see that without
gold even love cannot go smoothly
+ through the course OF life that is spread
/ before us among people who insist
upon IL at almost every turn. And
/ she showed her common sense by say
ing that from all she had heard it must
/ be so. but the peril should justly fall
on those who had only gold TO care
/ about. l promised her, as was only
right. to wait until my turn should
come for the fatal watch upon the
. mountain, and then we were obliged
20 part i'm haste, for the creak of the
. ladder reached our ears, which meant
that the prince, her grandfather, had
f.. finished his nap of the afternoon, and
was coming from his lOOp-hOie in the
tower TO exert his sharp eyes upon the
world below.
lt was Parker's week to take the
/ nightly outlook i'm the rocky gorge,
which offered the only access to our
diggines from the savage tribe. Be
ginning already to draw together, Gas
/ men do IN the face OF death, like COWS
/ before a bulld0g) we implOred Val
. Parker 10 stop with MS, where we kept
/ our kettle boiling, with Kid or a roe
buck. or whatever it might be, accord
I ing as the luck of hungry men, on OF
/ those they delight on in their stOmachs,
+ might prevail But he was in hard
/ and .wsty mood, like the burr-knOts
which are found i'm these cold forests,
and turned into beautiful veneer in
. Paris: and having no master1ul mind
among Us-Whence came the ruin of
the entire enterprise-We could not
withstand him for ne was the biggest
/ of us. and was glad that he had never
seen Leila.
"Have YOU ever known me bragg
ne asked. and we were thrown upon
our memories. but could not say
/ "Yes:" although it must be owned that
there is. fin British manner. something
of a self-con,onted silence which does
not express inforiOTity. VERY well.
/ Then YOU can see what I am. | sWore
ON Charlev's grave what 1 would do.
/ You know that it must be done l am
F a reasonable man. Let nobody say an
other word 20 me-
He was loading his dOuble-baTTeled
rifle very carefully while he spoke, and
then he said "Good-by," and hoped
that he had offended none of Gus. We
had no right to stop him, and l am
not at all sure that he would not have
fired az the first who tried it. Let no
man follow me- were his last words;
cor I might shoot him by mistake.
Have no fear for me. / know what l
am doing: and | will stop this devilish
vilainy.'
Perhaps a young man who has found
. the 10Y of loving something better than
himself. and eXalting the human sky,
bv virtue of one perfect being beneath
fl. becomes q little small as well as
large. through the quickening of the
/ air around him. AZ any rate, l felt
myself more chary of my body at the
very season when my mind was lifted
upward most, and in every way most
/ reckless
When T was setting off to look for
Leila-the only sight worth seeing now
-Vowler. the Cornish miner stood IN