The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-25

gtAussSSu' Win ttnpt not cOlDc glowing
and fading in herjcheelis. \.
Isow do you knowg4 She asked.
How have You guessed my secret?e Z
y smiled down at her. 81
II am5not quite blind, though I am "a
mere man. a answered s""and i knu ~
you so well, Nell, I. e
She smiled back and pressed little
closer to me. " tf;; D iit5
Its a contrary world she said, half
in.jesti.haifin sadness,
u 4 Yes said, tits a contrary world.
and It always will be. And now, tell mo
alliabout youfand Dick" y,
l spoke rather sharply for the whole
affair seemed to me onc-slded, and IL
there Is anything ] specially hate 1t Is u
one-sided affair, f.s
Nell looked away. y X. 81
There seems so little. to tell,p she
murmured. Dick came! to me to-day
and asked me to marry him, and Land
T." "A 81
"Yes!m 4 said. And your"
She turned to me again with 4 look
that perplexed me. \. Is
DO you know what Il was that came
between, him and Phylllsg, she said.
Why no." I answered. you know I
don n
~ never knew till today she. said,
but he told meito-day, and 1 want 10
tell you. Do you remembar--do you re-
member that old story?r
started as If had been shot.
THAT old story!'s Iicrled. THAT old
story! Good heavens. Nell; you don't
mean to tell me that twas that?"
es,s she said. at was that,
Good heapenst" exclaimed again.
Somebody raked 1t up and told it to
Phyllis, l suppose?" n m,
Yes," Nell answered in the same
grave way. Somebody told 1t to Phyl-
lis and she believed 1t, and Dick
oh. Dick was too proud to explain or
deny 1t. OF course!" cried. for knew
the boy well. He told her that II she
liked to believe II she might"
Yes" said Nell "and Phyllis said
that he must either explain the story or
! 'Sive her up, and"
And he gave her up,"fI concluded
Yes. that's Dick all over"
Nell looked at me with wide. sad
| eyes.
How. different women are" She said
How strange 1t seems not to trust the
man one loves through everything"
You nver doubted him. i returned
No. never" she said. never for q
moment. couldn't. 4
! sighed.
All well. said, III all women were
like You the world would be such a diff
ferent place, Nell."-
And then my thoughts went back to
the past, and recalled the details of
the story that had served 10 part Dick
and Phyllis. 1t was quite an old story,
FOR 1t had happened in Dicks UNDER
graduate days, and l had thought II was
done with. need not tell the details,
but friend OF Dicks had managed to
get into an awkward scrape, and Dick,
with the reckless generosity that was
his strongest characteristic. had taken
the blame on himself. and SO shielded
the real culprlt until ne was able TO es-
cane from the consequence OF his rash
ness. Then the truth had gradually be-
come known. and Dicks friends had
ltriumphed in his innocence. Not that
his friends had ever really doubted him.
but every man has his enemies, and
Dick was no exception to the rule. And.
Of course. Il was m enemy who had
stirred up this half forgotten mud and
flung II in the face OF the. woman he
loved. An enemy-but who? could
| not help wondering, though. after all
that 1t was side issue, and In no way
affected the point OF the story. For the
point was that someone had told the