Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-02


Dorothy. dear, have misplaced that
excellent magnifying glass that Cap
tain Porter gave me. Have you seen
I it, child?''
No, papa. You mentioned it yester-
day and l have looked in al sorts OF
possible and impossible places for it
Was it very valuable?"
1t was very excellent one, child" "
yes, sir, know-but was 1t of such
value, 1 mean-that a dishonest per-
son would be likely to carry ii away
on that account"
Il had no thought as to that, Doro-
thy But doubtless Captain Porter paid
many dollars for it. Though that would
not matter to him. He cares little tor
money. of which / presume he has
much, and he delights to secure the
best instruments. Many superior ones
he has given TO me, and many have
been lost. of late. in the most unac-
countable manner. | know that l am
old and forgetful, but | should think
that the searching we do for the lost
things ought to bring some Of them TO
light. Do you not think so, Doro-
AYR
Positively, papa, things seem to be
possessed. a have lately lost num-
Der OF trinklets gold rhimble, my
loeket, a ring, and beautiful vase
ever so many things, and they seem TO
have taken wings. | am sure that
Jane is honest. 1t would seem lmpos-
sile for her to pilfer, and there las
been no one else in the house, except
our friends"
Every one of whom is far above sus-
pieion. Besides, they are SO few, Dor
othy.''
Aunt Mary, Uncle William, Hetty
Thomas and Charles have been the
only persons in the house within two
weeks, and-well it would be ridicu-
Ious to mention them in the same
breath with the disappearance of
things"
Certainly. OF course, Dorothy. Tut,
tut, But it is amazing. child. Really
amazing and annoying.
Thus Professor Morris and Dorothy,
his daughter, talked while they poked
and rummaged, and peeked into corn
ers and CRANES. and looked behind
things, and under things, in the rooms,
and halls, closets, bookcases, and all
the places they could see or think
ABOUT II III their uOIue.
Professor Morris was retired teach
er of natural philosophy, who was
still devoted to his books. and the
other belongings and apparatus OF
student of science. but he was well
along in years, and that with frame
that had grown frall under it all, made
1 d bit querulous; though there was
ample reason. in the frequent and IT.
retrievable disappearance of articles
that he much priced for their useful
ness to him. or as objects of interest,
to irritate and disturb almost anybody
Strangely enough, the lost articles
were always of considerable money
value, though, in that particular the
unsophisticated old professor gave
them no thought, whatever. In all the
years of mis- manhood he had been en-
tirely engrossed by matters that per-
tanned to his studies and experiments,
and saving the love he had given his
wife, who died when Dorothy was but
mere fodder his affection for the
child. which was very deep, and his
strong regard for the few friends that
he affected, and who were all very in
innate and devoted. little else than his
pursuit in science had entered into his
life.
Dorothy, filial and sympathetic TO
her father, was his practical and care
full housekeeper, but a very human
young woman, withal and while being
the faithful companion OF his rather
humdrum life, found no difficulty IN
extracting from existence the soclai
pleasure that level-headed young folks
may find about them, under ordinary
circumstances. From these had come
to her the love of Charles Turner,
which she reciprocated, in her tender-
ly quiet way, and which resulted III
the engagement of the two; an arrange
ment that the professor complacentiy
accepted, as he did any suggestion tnat
Dorothy made.
The quaint little church, on the nrst
corner west from Professor Morris
home was where Dorothy had been
christened. and where, later, on Sab
hath mornings, she had reclted cate
chism. creed and collects, until her
confirmation. and where. from the time
She could read until this day, she mad,
ON sundays. in the responses OF the
I itany confessed to being 'miser-
able sinner'-which she was not-and
that she Ndu uoAC - :.
should not have done, and had lefI I'M
done things that she should nave
done. and that there was no gooo III
her. all of which Heaven, douotless
accented in the perfunctorlness mat
probably attaches to it in the hearts
of those who wrote IT,
The rector of this church, good man,
was the father of Charles Turner, ana
the Young man had been correctly
brought up. How he came to be afllct-
ed with kleptomania is one OF those
strange problems, so intermingled with
atayism. alteration, and physical AMI
mental occultism, generally, that to en-
fer into the mystery of it here would
be extraneous, and altogether out OF the
purpose.
Suffice it to say that young Turner
would steal anything of value that ne
could lay his hands on and conceal;
and added to this habit he had the
cunning that is always associated with
anv form Of mania to such degree that
he had easily avoided detection, and in
this he was greatly assisted by his high
w respectable environment. Several
times. however, at his club, and In the
mercantile establishment where he was
employed, he had been family suspected
of Durloining certain articles, when the
circumstances pointed directly at him,
and for this he had been under sur
VIGILANCE. but with eonsumate cr9fti-
raSc ba had managed to elude actual