Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-18
CHAPTER XVI.

The heat of MONDAY in mid-June
was making so many ovens of the
city's paving stones. The incessani
rumble of wheels penetrated through
open windows with nerve-torturing
distinctness. Fat men scudded past
with straw hats in hand, applying
damp handkerchiefs to damper brows;
unlovely obiects-all.
Humanity in overcoats and furs is
appreciably more endurable than hui
mantiy at boiling point. The park
view from Miss Mildred's window was
the one redeeming feature in the out
look. Through the fresh greenness oil
the full foliaged trees, clumps of vel
low forsythia blazed in patches OF
gold; tender-leaved vines were creep
ing shyly over the rugged gray faces
of the rocks; it was all lovely now
but soon the trees would turn rusty
and dingy with the dust of late sum-
mer.
Ledyard had asked her that morning
TO decide where she wanted to go, fol-
he meant to get her out of town by
the end of the month. He said that
every year, and every year she read
all the hotel mems letters, knowing
she must decide in favor of cheapness
and nearness to the city.
Miss Milly was clearly in discon-
tented frame of mind, because her lit
tie romance, that affair of Diana S
and young Holbrook," languished.
Under the whip and spur of Hedge
mania for hard work, Teddy gave him
self scarcely any time for social recre-
alton. How could she tell that his
unshakable determination to stand
for something" was often translated
in his own ardent bosom into "win-
ming Diana?" Evidently with Teddy
1t was to be all work and no play I'M
til he was famous artist, withabald
spot on his head and nothing in his
heart. Ledyard approved of this as
siduity. She did not.
Mrs. Desbrow and Diana were to sail
for Europe soon. BY the time they
came back Holbrook would have al
most forgotten the girl. Everybody
could forget her but Ledyard. They
never talked about that matter" now
but she knew he was being faithful to
his own resolution. For once she was
ready to condemn, utterly and violent
ly, his fine-spun theories of home and
loyalty. If only all this devotion could
have been expended upon that other
woman!
Doubtless Mrs. Monette would marry
Lawyer Martin and forget that there
was any world outside the boundary
line of Colorado. She sighed audibly:
And it might have BEEN"
"Cf all sad words of tongue or PEN
This continuation of the quotation
came to her with a pretty burr in the
voice, apparently from the other side
of her own portieres.
Miss Mildred turned quickly, just in
time to receive shower OF kisses that
battered impartially upon her cheeks.
nose, chin and forehead. She held her
assailant off at arms length
Mime. LIE Due! Where did you drop
FROM"
mot from the skies. chere annie,
though you looked surprised as if l
had. But it is almost as good as the
skies-ah. that dear. beautiful Colo
RADIO! How much do l not owe you,
darling Miss Mildred, for sending me
out there? See, am fat. See, am l
not brown? Do / look handsome?"
The self-absorbed little Frenchwo-
man flung herself on sofa. with a
laugh of satisfaction at her own i'm
proved condition. Mildred sat down
by her.
but. Mrs. Monette? You have not
left herr"
'Ciel, no! She is my bonanza-my