Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-31

4Ou8uSS uSy lmpIOVoU Tic OppOI-
tunity Offered Them, You May Be
Sure-But This Time They Were
Fooled and Deprived Of Choice
Morsel Of Gossip.
There were some things about NJ.
Moreile that the general public knew,
for he was hearty, open-handed sort
of fellow, but there were others that
they did not know, for he had lived
among the good people of the suburb
of Wauwatosa very long. They did
know that he was an ordinarily busy
man, and that he went In to the city
ON the 1880 train very regularly, and
that he was good fellow to be ac-
quainted with; but they did not know
that he owned city property, nor did
they know anything of his career be-
fore he came among them.
Last Thursday morning Mr., Morelle
came in as usual with the commuters
and laid out congressional war policy
as is customary on suburban trains
these days AS the train rolled into
the Union depot he was just arguing
with Doc Wendell and Walter Wright
as to whether Havana ought not to be
shelled Immediately, and they contin-
ued the conversation as they passed
! out under the train shed and joined the
fast-moving procession of commuters
but they had not gene more than
dozen steps when n,agniicently at
tired policeman pushed through the
| crowd and laid hand on Mr.. Morelle's
arm
He turned quickly and gasped: "For
heavens sake, whit is it now?" The
officer hooked arms with him, and to-
! gether they walked off through the
| side gate, followed, by the wondering
gaze of the denizens of the suburb.
| The others walked on and attempted
to carry on the conversation, but il
/ was evident that there was eonsum-
! ing desire to know more about 1t.
| They asked each other questions and
no one could remember of having
| heard Mr.. Morelle ever tell much about
| what he had been doing in former
| years. and the more they speculated
| upon it the more they became con-
| WINGED that there was a considerable
| hiatus in his recorded history.
Perkins went home early that day
| for some reason, and when he reached
/ the suburb he told his wife about
Morelles' being arrested at the station,
and forthwith Mrs. Perkins started for
| the Mcrelle residence. She found Mrs.
Morelle serene and contented and hard
! at work on shirt waists for summer
| wear Evidently that lady had heard
| nothing of the family disgrace She
| asked as many questions about Mr..
! Morelle as she could think of, and in
| the answers to them all she detected
| an evident unwillingness to speak
| frankly and openly of the past.
| Presently a young man came riding
| up on a bicycle and called at the house
| with a message that Mr.. Morelle was
/ detained in the city on business and
| would not be home until the midnight
train, possibly not until tomorrow.
| The message seemed to occasion no
| surprise to Mrs Morelle, but Mrs. Per-
4 kins remarked that she should think
! it strange Mr. Morelle didn't write q
| note instead of sending a verbal mes
sage, and then she fastened away to
tell the news to Mrs. Hornpiper. Mrs
| Hornpiper was just setting out for the
| market and at the market she met the
Morelle's next door neighbor, Mrs.
| Sweetston, and asked her if 1t wasn't
too bad about Mr.. Morelle being ar
rested and carted off in the patrol
wagon.
She wasn't quite sure but she be-
lieved it was ENLIGHTENMENT and bigamy
he was charged with, back In Pennsyl-
vania. They were such secretiye peo-
pie. anyway. she always suspected
there was something wrong, but then
it would be terribly hard on poor Mrs.
MCrelle, for she was such a delicate
little thing, and weren't the strawber-
ries lovely this season; so cheap, TOO
Mrs. Sweetson was dumfounded,
but she knew her duty, and she would
never shrink from the performance OF
| duty, no matter what the cost. She
Immediately enlisted the services OF
the lady who lived on the other side
of the Morelles' and told her about the
I case Of arson and bigamy and suspect
ed child murder, which had been
proven against Mr. Morelle, and gar
nished the account with full recital
of how Mr. .Morelle wasn't Mr.. Morelle
at all, but had changed his name and
had been in hiding for several years.
And to think that they, citizens OF
such a quiet suburb and decent people,
should have been duped into receiving
into their very midst this criminal and
outlaw!
But, then, murder will out, and the
sooner such things are settled once
and for all, the better for the commun-
ity. But, of course. it wouldn't be
Christian-like not TO sympathize with
poor little Mrs Morelle. who might not
be guilty of anything worse than try
ing to help her husband conceal his
identity for the sake of the good name
| re ha rxrhn Orfr Of oil uta
young enough to be innocent Of the
whole thing 1t was certainly to be
hoped they might not know Of the ter
rible disgrace of their father, but,
then, of course, they would probably
find it out some way when they grew
up-such things always did come out,
someway But meanwhile they would
better go over and console with poor
| Mrs Morelle, as matter Of duty and
charity.
| THAI, fctpd Iiubt