Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

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Ter taught in any academy for that ele-
giant accomplishment. The telephone
bell precfuded any reply and .Ledyard
got up to answer it.
Hedges listened impatiently to the
one-sided conversation until Fielding
sent back the words: I've Just re-
ceived letter to the same effect.
Goodbye"
Something more about the case?"
"Yes," said Fielding, curious. isn't
| it, how one can grope in total darkness
up to the moment Of day-dawn?
@Dr. Hauptnut. OF the hospital tel
phones me that Jane Grey's mind is
i perfectly clear this morning, and that
her first words were: Don't let them
hurt Teddy. Ut was my step-father.' I"
i Little Hedges slammed his hat on
his heard excitedly.
Let's 60 to him."
"You can 60. I will see him later
There are some formaiities of the law
to begone through with. Besides"
He was addressing space. Hedges
was Gathering along the tiled floor
of the outer hallway at great rate.
That night Holbrook sat opposite
his master at small square table In
large, square room surrounded for
the first time in his life with the quiet
elegance of well-ordered home.
Through the rear windows Of the
room he caught the purple haze Of
wistsria vine in riotous bloom. There
were potted plants standing on the
stills of the windows and a canary
birds cage swung over one of them.
Dinner was just over and the Sc
date man-servant who had served
them had withdrawn. A great, sleek
Persian cat had sprung lightly to his
masters knee and was receiving his
dinner greedily from the hanld that
never forgot him.
Teddy had often heard Of the mas
ter's fine old house on Washington
square. Tradition had it that he had
lived there in perfect happiness for
brief married life of two years. His
wife. died, but the house was precious
to him. We prize the casket that has
once held our jewels, he said to an
offieious sister, who urged the closing
or the renting of the house.
There were art treasures in every
nook and Granny of the old house
which in happier mood Teddy would
have gloated over. His golden chance
seemed to have come too late
Absently stroking the cats fine head
with one finger, the artist looked at
his pupil with the tenderness Of a
father:
"You will stay on here with me,
dear boy, and make me happy l am
very lonely after my work hours are
over. That is, unless you still feel in
nay manner bound to care for that
unfortunate girl.
Teddy made motion of impatient
dissent.
mo; we are quits. crippled her
for life. She has, crippled me for life. !"
mo, not for life. You shall not say
that. You are SO young. You have
such talent. You are not afraid to
work."
Afraid to work? No; work is all
that is left to me. Work and the priv
ilege of working near you, dear mas
ter, will be balm. But my flights viii
all be taken on crippled wings. My
name has been dragged through the
mire and the stains on it will never
be wash-, out."
N.tever! Silly boy. Before you are
five years older there shall not be a
man in New York city who will not
be glad to say he knows you. Ny
word for it."
Teddy smiled mournfully and shook
is head. His master roared at him.
81 say yes. say it shall be SO. They
shall bow to your ability. They shall
forget this unsavory episode. Men
are not forgiving. They are not
brutes who would rather see a man
wallow than stand upright. You will
live this thing down. I will help you
ii live it down. Men will give you the
welcome you earn"
"And women?"
The artist shrugged his shoulders
and reached for his tobacco jar.
"Women-are women. But you have
not made a record of any sort In that
direction yet: You do not know them.
They do not know you. Hey? More
over-women forget"
Teddy repeated the words softly to
himself. Yes, women forget. Doubt
less Miss Towers had already forgot
ten the names Of some OF her Latin
class-"brands." as Barker called
them.
1t was peculiarly unfortunate for
Teddy that Mr. Wilson Desbrow had
read only the first account of his
misadventure in the Universe. He was
| not given to spending much time
reading unatter of any sort He pre-