Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-25
A JEALOUS LOVE.


ly, looking into Julia Dents pretty
brown eyes, red with weeping. For
give me, darling, this time. l will try
| 10 control my hateful temper IL you will
only forgive me my unjust suspicion
now"
But, Charlie" Julia said, you al
ways plead the same way. | think
deep love is above jealousy and de-
spises suspicion. l am never Jealous OF
YOU"
Il give you no cause for jealousy"
"As much as give you. You pay the
ordinary attentions Of society to other
ladies, dance with them, waitupon them
at supper, turn their music leaves, pay
| them passing compliments"
But you would not have me neglect
the common courtesies OF a gentle
man."
Il certainly would not, but do not
! fly into spasms of jealous rage every
time you look at another woman. Yet
when | claim the same privilege | eX-
| tend TO you and accept the ordinary
| civilities from my gentlemen friends
| you Sulk or rave and make my life a
| burden to me-
But what business had Hbrace For
man to call you 'Dewie' last evening?
! You told me yourself that il was baby
/ name you gave yourself before you
could say Julia and that only your
own family and very intimate friends
ever used it,"
And Horace Forman was like my
own brother from the time We were lit
/ - 1, l. l.
| three years ago. He was my fathers
ward until he came Of age aid We were
| brought up in the same house. When
| l was a baby, calling myself Dewie,'
/ he was a boy of six or seven, like my
| own brother. If we had loved EACH
! other there was nothing. absolutely
nothing. to prevent our marriage; so
/ you see how absurd your jealousy is. I
could have taken Horace Forman in
your place before I ever saw you, if he
! had cared 70 fill it, But he loved me as
/ | loved him, with the calm, quiet love
/ that makes brothers and sisters dear to
each other"
! Il see il all now, DeWie. Forgive me!
Remember. I never saw Mr.. Forman
until a few weeks ago and this init
macy Of years is hard for me to realize.
! No lover was ever more devoted than
/ he is.
Nonsense, He is my adopted broth
! err"
! In the same house, at the same hour
! that this conversation was passing in
/ the drawing room, two gentlemen were
! seated in Mr.. Dents office conversing..
Law books in handsome cases, parcels
of papers in neatly labeled pigeonhOles,
/ large desks and an air of heavy respect
| ability proclaimed Mr.. Dents profess
sion But it was an idle season with
/ him. the courts being closed for the
summer vacation. and he was enjoying
most thoroughly the visit of his young
friend and former ward, Horace Fer
man.
Il go back to Kansas 3 disappointed
man" Horace said, sadly. when l
left here | did not know myself how
deeply seated my love for Julia was. l
thought it was a brothers affection. the
natural result of years Of happy COM
| panionship. but when absence opened
nv ewes I knew il was the love man
gives to one woman only, the woman
he seeks for a wife | tested my own
heart well before I would return to Of
fer il TO Dewie. hoping that she, too,
might have found separation unendur-
able | find her engaged, and yet not
! happy"
There has been no influence. no COM
/ pulsiOn used. Horace to govern my
daughters choice. From the dictates
of her own heart she has chosen Mr..
Ward"
Because she loves him. But it is
that very love that is making her
wretched You and l both know
Devices sweet. conflding disposition,
her entire trust in those she loves, her
capacity for self-sacrifce. She cannot
| understand such a disposition as Char
les Ward 81 jealous, eXacting, suSpic-
ious. with a violent temper-and her
! efforts TO cOnciliate him, to satisfy his
I unreasonable eXactions, are trying her
| beyond her strength. She hides from
! you the quarrels. the reconcliations
| that are slowly killing her love, but l.
! who come in at all hours, my watch
| fulress sharpened by long absence, see
I more than she suspects.
you think Ward bad tempered?
There is no greater curse for home
| than a bad temper"
! II am sure he is. Last evening at
Walton's little dancing party he took it
/ into his shallow head to be jealous Of
me. watching me all the evening with
| eyes that fairly glared with fury. | did
not want to make Dewie wretched. so
/ | kept away from her. but when she
started for home | was in the hall. Mr..
| Ward took her into custody like a pO-
/ liceman. his face sullen and his whole
manner convincing me that he in
tended to scold her all the way home.
! This morning she came down to break
fast with white cheeks. heavy. swollen
eyes. and the appearance Of one who
had spent the night in weeping instead
of sleeping
shes fretting. but We cannot help
her"
Yet, believing call fair in love and
war" Horace Forman resolved that il
he could spare Dewie lifetime Of mis-
cry he would do IT, Had he found her
! betrOthed to man he could respect,
man who would have made her happi-
ness his strongest aim in life, he would
/ have returned to Kansas sore hearted,
but content that Julia should be happy.
| Convinced that Charles Ward was ut
terly selfish, of an eXacting, jealous
disposition and ungovernabe temper,
| he thought himself justified in trying to
break the tie between him and the gen.
! tie girl whose love was making her so
unhappy.