Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-20

| Certainly"
| But you don't do it."
She rose now and moved slowly to-
ward the long window that looked out
upon a spacious garden lying forsaken
and given over to autumn.
MOP" responded Malvern, half care
lessly, with a feeling that something
was going wrong which he could not
prevent. He did not like his own tone,
| but it was too late to change it. He
/ had spoken, and his word was in the
air.
"No!" Leila repeated positively,
turning again to face him. He no
ticed that a gleeam of sunshine was
splashed along the gray OF the garden
behind her, and in another room at
distance the bright trill of a canary
seemed to answer the sunshine.
Il have only one DESIRE" he tried to
say, but Leila went right on:
Listen to me. Dick. Don't let us
have anything so vulgar as dispute"
Malvern felt, though, in looking back,
that she had made a mistake in using
that phrase But trifes will often
lead to something serious, especially
with people in our situation" She
had a habit of speaking with this air
of large experience and practical wis
dom, and it usually impressed him,
| but did not do so in the right way this
time. mo, l am going to be serious"
! she continued, land about trities. if
you care to call them so. 1t may all
seem very small and petty, but you
and l must go through the small
| things before we can enter upon the
large ones"
Just what l think exactly" he said,
treasured.
Don't interrupt me-" she warned.
meaning 1t all comes back to this
that you are hemmed in by the small
things, the old surroundings here in
! Windbury. I want you to make a ca
reer, and you prefer to let everything
go on as it is
Not l." he rejoined. What I want
is-our marriage. Don't let us wait,
LeiIa,"
"Well, at least a few minutes" she
laughed Then she began serious
again.
Dick, how are you going to make
the new career in Windbury?"
us there anything in my old career"
he demanded bluntly, growing irritat-
ed, "to be ashamed OFF,
"Of course not" she answered quick
| ly, but she spoke with a certain re-
luctance, which was caused by her fear
that he would not accept her ideas.
! This tone of reluctance he misunder-
stood, and it increased his annoyance.
He fired up into mood of unrea-
sonable eXaggeratiOn in replying,
vaguely aware that he was exaggerat-
| ing, yet determined to crafty his tenn
per's within and blind. therefore. to the
! then" he said, Il en- to understand,
! at1 |, that you may be jealous of an
other girl sometimes. yet are not jeal-
Gus, and that you are not ashamed of
my career so far, yet want me to feel
that somehow I ought to be ashamed
of ito"
He left his chair and began striding
! about the room uneasily.
Dick Malvern, don't be absurd"
than of counsel She did not resent
his rude speech so decidedly as she
would have done if he had meant it
! more, and, besides, the main thing
now was to gain her point as to his
! career This this point she advanced
with an unfortunate beginning. Re
member, you are going to change your
| position greatly when we marry"
Her father was rich. and Malvern,
! though full OF energy, ability and
/ promise, still held only the post of an
! assistant superintendent in Grey's
mills. What she had just said, there
! fore, seemed to him an allusion to this
/ fact and hint that his marriage with
her was to be a sort of social promo
ton, though she had not the least idea
/ of implying anything of the sort.
And so his pique went on increas-
| ing. oh" he exclaimed, I'm alb
surd. you think, Well. hasn't man
as well as a woman the right to be alb
surd now and then? And I am going
to change my position greatly. l
suppose I have a right to do that too
when it's by your consent! You need
not taunt me, though, with exercising
that right"
/ "A right" retorted Leila, with a
fash, and the gold circlet glittered,
trembling. as though 1t shared her an
ger. "a right-and over me and with
my CONSENT" She laughed defiantly,
her cheeks glowing, although tears
were yelling to her eyes. Very we'll,
sir! Oh you are terrible l say very
well. If you are going to fling my
consent back at ME that way, it is