Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-19

kroVs? Hes canon now" Ruby add
Cd, With singular .ngile.
His poor eite. MIS-. Wea,l3nd ejac-
uIa,eG simultaneously Wicl Beatrice, d
simple phase, bGJ impressive.
oh, come! poor Voeber's all right
CIV W5Li2EQ IL e.pos,i, ana le was
ever 50 bad a al that. Strange 20
&c him there tonight a.; ,aIge as life
cobirg a respecto le as an owl, with
youI5 Ta3Cker rowling RUBY half !
tons fat
AS that VereLe- always did" inter-
jec;ed Ruby.
His girl is growing into a nice liede
u1ing. Well. there was - .oj-. cne
sv4:n VINO sang Ruby in tue, pcor
Bob Aahwou.h."
\ failt. very faint, trenor passed over
the singers face; she locked steadily in
10 bowl OF chry sarrhemums be ore
her. Yes" she as4euted, his voice
and ear were "gue."
"Foor chap Wa we're Gwfully sorry
for him. ! never cC2,d ua&crs and
hoN he came 10 % for himself 20 cA4.
extern"
oh. i, was all shat VeTeker! the other
was only scapeg goat" Beatrice cried
i'll half-s,ifed yo.ce
How like a woman 10 be so UNJUST
II wasn't all Vereker, Ruby. II was just
ehis; Vereker was older. He hid knack
of never being found out. He'd been
through pUJlic school and Robin had
never stirred from the vicarage. We're
H. e he
lucky fellows upon earth, into scrapes-'
And sneaked out himself, and left
Robin to take the consequences" RUBY
said. her eyes flashing. "RO0in was
loyal and guileless and Yereker liar
and a sneak. One was a man OF honor
and a gentleman; the other coward and
a cur"
And a canon" Wes,land added softly
with an affectionate smile. All. Ruby,
what should we poor men do, if women
didn't side with the weak and unlucky?'
"Wha- did Boo Ashworth do?" Mrs.
Westland asked 81 have a dim remem-
brance of something whispered about
and us children being told not to ask
questions"
"Oh. it's an old scandal" her husband
replied. 81 was not at home at the time,
was at Guys went up that October.
I'd been reading with old AshWorth.'
OH said Beatrice, ut was a sad, sad
story He was tempted and trapped.
HIS father was so injudicious and so
harsh. Fancy allowing a man, grown
man, no pocket moneyi-the situation
was intOlerable.
Poor old man. he has suffered sadly
yet justly! But, OH it was bitter-biJ-
ter-for the boy" The mellow, many
toned voice failed; then came a long,
long sigh.
THE situation was intolera0le," West
land asented in the same gentle tone.
with the same glance, half reverent and
half compassionate, he had bent upon
the singers moved. sweet face, on which
the years had written nothing that was
not noble. Old AshwOrth never real
lied that Robin was anything but q
child. Clarence went to Marlborough
and Sandhurst, Wilfred TO Winchester
and Oxford, but when Robin left the
grammar school. ne was kept at home
~; II his fathers pupils-forgOtten, as il
were"
His father wished him to be a clergy
man." Beatrice added.
SO he articled him to solicitor.
Promise to be a parson. and you go to
Oxford, "as the old mans ca.chWord.
Not |. was Robins; fancy that was
the staple of heir conversation for
wears. Then the doctor used to pray at
him in family prayers. and make him go
TO perpetual missionary meetings and
Sunday schools. AS for old Aunt Perry,
she was a poor substitute for mo,her;
every peccadillo was exaggerated and
carried to his father instead OF being
smoothed over and hidden. Vereker
used to talk 10 the doctor about his soul,
and whatever deyilry he was about in
the week. he always turned up in a top
hat at church on Sunday. Robin re-
fused 10 discuss his soul; he said it was
indelicate: he often missed church and
never remembered the sermon. We're
ker was free. providing he came in at
eleven OF q night. and spent his time as
he pleased. Robin, going daily to work
al Jackson Forbes Office. was treated
like a school boy. He and Vereker used
10 play billiards at the Red Dragon but
Ashworth went against his fathers will,