Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-03

ton, went the dog-cart, and its owner
turned back into the noble old man
sion, which, only six years ago, he had
never dreamt of possessing.
For Colonel Erleston-his and Will
fred's father-had been only a collat-
eral branch of the old county family;
but the death of the last and unmar-
ried Lord of lockwood in the direct
line, had suddenly placed Bernard in
possession of fine family estates. Will
fred, under his kinsman's will, found
himself the owner of a very nice little
younger sons fortune, besides being
then, and still. his elder brothers
heir, since Bernard and his wife were
childless. Two sons, indeed, had been
riage, but both had died in early in
fancy.
About two years before his unex-
pected succession to lockwood, Ber-
nard Erleston had married an heiress,
Lady Flora Mowbray, the condition of
the will under which she inherited be-
ing that her husband should take the
name of Mowbray by letters patent.
But oddly enough, the condition did
not extend to any children of the mar
riage, or other future inheritor of her
fortune, w as a prefix to his own
name.
The Mowbrays lived almost entirely
at lockwood, being as distinctively of
nature urban, and a restless wanderer
to boot.
Quiet, stay-at-home Bernard declar-
ed: Il do wish the fellow would mar
ry and settle oown. It's high time
now, at Internationally, he and his
the heirs, too. 1t is vexing-more than
yexing."
Which wa true. But Wilfred SEEM
ed in no hurry to- end the vexation by
taking a wife. Sometimes he would
laugh and say: Plenty of time
Sometimes he would frown and say
that he would not be bothered or
married off to order" But the latter
mood had always been the most rare,
and then, perhaps, something else had
chafed his fine temper.
AS to the old doctor, shrewd and
kindly, he would say to the squire:
Pooh! let him alone. Young men will
have their fling; and as yet his liter
airy and artistic tastes are bride enough
for him."
DR.. Faber had known the brothers
ever since their advent at lockwood,
where the doctor had a charming cot
tage ornee, to which he came down
every week from Saturday to Monday,
and very often in the week. His Lon
don practice had been for years almost
entirely that of a consulting physician,
his habitual hours being two to five,
unless by special appointment at his
consulting rooms in Harley street, or
elsewhere. He had selected lockwood
because of it's combination of lowell
ness and proximity to town, as it was
only about an hours sharp run from
Kings Cross.
His daughter, an unmarried lady
heal forty, kept house for him at Dean
Cottage, as she formerly had in town,
ever since Mrs. Faber's death some ten
years ago.
This was a Monday morning, and the
doctor, as usual, had seen his patient
at the Hall before his departure to
town, but until after five he had no
time to look UP the lady of whom he
had spoken. That, however. was easy
enough, as she was always to be heard
of at Anderton's Hotel, where she first
went if back from abroad out of en-
ployment. If she moved from thence
into lodgings, the manager, she had
said, always knew her address in town.
So during the day the doctor sent a
messenger down to Anderton's with a
note, and soon got a reply giving the
inforpation he wanted. But was Mrs.
Savile still out of work."