Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-05

Le spoke very EeullA, ana any lShOl e'-iN
intruder. hearing what he said, seeing
how close the simple, pretty little
Rhine maiden and the woman mater
stood together i'm the alcoye OF the par
Tor window. might have fancled--'
But it was time TO so home.
OF course Alexander saw Hedwig safe
TO the door of May street.
81 can enough tank YOU never, she
said earnestly. Cute nacht.
Cute nacht. fraulein; quite nacht.
Turning away he ran against an &C
COMMUNICATIONS.
Jones surveyed him with a twinkling
eye.
Changed your views?
Don't understand
Il thought. according to you the best
woman that ever breathed was only to
De tolerated You seemed a tritle over
flowing with liberation just now. Neat
little article, Made in Germany? Hal
Iot no offeuse, old chap, Alexander! no
o6ense. say
But Alexander. resisting the tempta-
tion TO knock Jones. who was a small
man. into the gutter stalked away.
And. after dinner in his luxurious
study. he sat solitary, and thought
and thought
he thought of the girl to whom he
had given his heart in early days, and
who had deceived him.
He thought of the undisurbed. regu-
lar. independent life to which he was
aCOus .0Wcd
He thought Of bis 40 years.
t-Ithe end of these meditations was
that Io went 20 his writing table and
rmuet litter TO Hedwig.
He said that ne was Unexpectedly OBJ
Iisei ODD go abroad. He thanked Frau
Iafn SChual for the pc ms she had
taken with him. and begged to inclose
the sum due t0 her for the remaining
lessons of the course. He mi IN regret
ted being unable To receive them. He
sent his best compliments 10 Herr
SchvcIb and remained hers very sim
+ cerev. Anthony Alexander
He went 10 Switzerland Intending to
do mountain or two. But in ridicu-
lous defiance of the most elementary
rules OF physical geography mountains
proved fiat. SO did other things when
me tried them A blooming face under
a hat with roses. am old brown dress a
happy girls voice, followed him every
where
AT last. leaning dismally over hotel
balcony one me evening i'm Cham
ourix. ne heard q German lady say to
friend "GUte uacht,'
He cou'1nt stand it any longer.
"Gute nacht' The words called him
back TO 9 May street. and he packed his
traps that night. and TO May street he
rushed as fast as train, boat and cab
would take him.
The SEINE maid. apparently with the
Some dirt on her face, answered the
BELL
Air SQualp? 'E's dead"
"Dead2
Yes, e died. e got worse, and
then e died.
"And- and-the young LADY,"
Left"
where's she gomez
Don't know
A sovereign shOne i'm her hand.
I'm very sorry, sir she said, star
ing. excited. "but the frowloin never
said a word to nobody. She ust paid,
and left
"WhCn2'
.Three weeks last Toosday."
edo YOU think she was going to Ger
many?
"T'm sure. sir. 7 haven't an idea She
paid the week and left She seemed
am of a daze'
Alexander knew what he had done.
He had run away from his one chance
of happiness-aud-n ow-whe.e was
Hedwig?
Bv night London looked to him like
cOuchant beast. stuck over with cruel
eves-a beast that swallowed lives
down. and kept the secret; by day the
sunny streets Knocked him with passing
faces. with trim figures that in the dis
lance looked like hers, with gumpses
of yellow hair.
OR was she back in the fatherland?
Safe with friends; with a betrothed
lover perhaps?
If it were so. and he could but know
of It, he thought he should have the
manhood 90 thank heaven.
He had been returned to town four
DAVIS AS he came in late from weary
stretch of walking his valet met him.
"A person TO see you, sir.
what sort of a person.
Alexander's nerves We're in a queer
state. He turned very pale.
"A woman. SIR
ga LADY,
ct think. sir. she's a num-"
Alexander walked into his study.
Amazed he saw rise before him figure
fin black. with tapping sleeves and
r.,,--fr,c To- c1-ivrc
A calm. good face looked from under
the white band and sable veil.
els it you?' said the nun, quietly
"who have been advertising 70 discover
the address of Hedwig Schwalb?'
His heart sank
"Ncs-yes.
"Sho is with as.
"IIcdwig, A num-
She shook her head with a grave air
"Nups are not made so quickly. Our
order has q chapel and iniirmary near
Soho. We work there. TWO days ago
p found the moor young woman lying on
the chanel steps. am Sister Frances.
She was l-inscnsible; we took her IN.
Her name is on ner clothes; we could
nos find out anything about her. she
has fovcr-it ifs on the brain-she
doesn't sneak sense. But we see she is
o good erl and has been well cared for
innocent refined II you are rela-
tive end wish to see her you can come
Wits me-
Not a relative" gasped Alexander;
can old friend"
The nun bent her head.
81 am sorry 90 nave to say it, but
there is no time TO lose if YOU want to