Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-02-21

I know. Nothing is changed. Ana =
( Her vis-a-vis at the table, a severe and
l stately dame, opened her eyes just then
/ to see the young woman empty her
! wine gla SIS at a draught but she said
I TO herself that one should be surprised
at nothing these Creole women do.
/ And Of course MIR. Bentinck went
round Nine. D'Arco, weeping, lay
/ back in her chair, looking like a big
/ bundle of gorgeous rags. Gloria was
I in an inner room with Virgilio. Pres
/ emily she came out with him. She had
/ torn OF her glittering dinner dress. and
/ wore long, loOse-fOwing garment Of
| some diaphanous, dark blue tissue.
| She was clinging to her brothers arm.
/ But she stopped half way TO the door,
pressing one hand across her eyes
/ "Oh, my Virgilio," she exclaimed.
/ How can 1 bear it, 4
For our country, for the future, for
my future," he murmured.
She drew down his head, kissing his
forehead, and threw herself upon his
/ breast. with a storm of sobs, her hair
/ falling from its comb and enveloping
her In its black cloud.
/ There came a rap upon the door; her
/ brother loosened the clenched hands,
! still holding them. turned to Nine.
/ D'ArcO. who, a fountain pouring rivers
/ OF tears in silence, had risen to en-
/ brace him. Then once more he took
| Gloria IN his arms.
ooh, mother Of God" she shrieked.
/ eff YOU should not come back. Virgil
/ lio!"
DO not let her faint" he said to Ben
! timex. Il had best go now He look
ed at Harry fiXedly a moment L
/ leave her to YOU" he said, and was
I gone.
+ And Bertinck took her, too sacred in
/ her sorrow TO think of that moment in
relation 10 himself, and laid her on the
/ lounge. while Nine. D'Arco hustled at
/ ter some salts. She lay there quietly
till the clock seemed to startle her with
/ its stroke. She slowly opened her
ewes. full of gloom. of grief and Of ten
/ derness, and looked at him kneeling be-
side her.
Il have no one left but you!' she
said. And then, in spite of himself, he
bent and kissed her faltering lips.
/ There was nothing said of love or mar
riage: her head lay on his shoulder,
he clasped her in his arms. a long hour
Of trance. Nine. D'ArcO slept, more or
/ less audibly, in her chair, worn out with
emotion.
At length he laid the girl gently back
upon the cushions, and pulled over her
the cloak of sables lying there, and
, stepping across the room touched Nine.
| D'Arco's hand and reused her, since
/ when he was gone the door should be
/ locked. Let her sleep" he said. To
morrow 1 shall have petition to make
20 YOU. Sleep well, yourself, dear
madame, and good angels guard you.
/ Gloria kept a dreamless slumOer the
/ rest az that night, but stirred at dawn
and went 70 her own room. When later
/ i'm the day she woke, her maid had
come in and filed the place with white
roses: but the flowers that lay upon
4 her pillow were a stem of orange BIOS
/ SONS.
When Mr.. Bentinck appeared at the
I Arlington that afternoon the world had
/ turned over so lightly upon its axis.
/ Gloria was no longer in tears, but "a
diant. The carriage was waiting Tor
her. and she was going to lunch with
some South Americans. her dress or
white cloth braided in silver hidden by
her enveloping cloak, but her white
Dicture-hat very much In evidence with
its high flaring brim Overtopped by Dig
lunches of white ostrich-plumes. All
her dashing coquetry lad returned TO
her AT any rate, nothing could have
baDDened TO VirgiliO yet, was her way
Of thinking. nj, .,
your flowers are sweet. They al
WAYS are" she said. But, au reste-l
must have time to consider. l cannot
take advantage, you know" she said
With an intimate sweetness, OF your
svmDathv. your compassion. 80 you
are pledged to nO+hing-to notnlng'
that is, but Cuba. 80. .,,o
And then the soft and brilliant smile
soor,od IN belle the words. She gave
him her hand in farewell; but she came
~ again. saving, You are not OF
fended9 You are always my trlehu
"Noi" ne said: II Will not be your
er;end 7 will be your lover, your nus
hand. or nothing!
cant Won will be Cuba's friend! sac
,oi5 looking anxiously in his face. Ana
tbon She tiptoed. for tall as she was, ne
,.es taller and kissed him on the
18th and was away. And whether
She vas his bethrothed or not, tnG oe-
/ wildered Mr. Bentinok was not dolo ~
say. And it SO happened, or was 81
arranged. that he did not see hei '''oi'e
again for several days. ..,-.,
nevertheless Mr. Benunck cohIrl .,I
- ba present wherever the beautlIul
Chen went: for his attractive per
eoroIj+v his wealth. his apparent pos
sU,;Iities had made him q iaVorite IL
societv and he had not yet had 10 ask
s0r. srv+hing. so ready was every one
-, confer He felt q strong desire 10
,,,,.r,,,nd her now with his own peo-
,,Io. oDd he was surprised when, nav
80 sent n note to Mrs. NacMichael, d
Ds7,sonage of the gay world and me
l,,iSs of his old senator, to receive III
reDlv her card, saving she was W".'lus
sor him in her carriage, and to nave
30, beein as soon as he was seated DE-
/ Edo her. "Now. what is all this near
"A what does YOUR note meanF AND
- sbould I can on a Spanish adven-
turess?" .Ao &
"Sbe is not an adventures she i
not SPANISH. and there is no reason
why Won should call if you do not wish
and ! will bid you good morning ne
said. putting his hand on the carriage
stop. you hot-headed fellow said
Ms NacNichael cheerfully. "Aren
Won ashamed of yourself? Who has
Seen your friend the longer, or Miss
| Campeador?" - -,