Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-13

Lord N Waresam % had f Sesn pgrought home
from the hunting field with his neck
% aosfni sss shpn entered the
house. The Consequences was that she
life, still more precious to the family
fortune and future. was trembling IN ,ne
balance The verdict of the doctor was
that there was little hope for so either lner
gloomy prediction be fulfilled the man
whom Lady Mary Blandon-the spinster
sister of the Duke of Leicester-despis
above all men. would soon come INTO the
title and estates She and Mr.. Saver,
make who acted as a sort of confidential
clerk to the Duke, concoct a scheme TO
savernake extracted from the pockets or
Lord sWareham, revealed that woman,
who claims to be his wife. has come TO
live in the neighborhood to ascertain
whether the reports of his second mar.
rage are true, and acquainting him OF
the birth Of twins-two boys. mist
this story is discFedited by SaVernlke
and Lady Mary. they conspire to%ether
to effect out of it a way out o. the
difficulty which lies before them. This
IS nothing less than the exchange of the
young Lord Wareham the moment he
should die for one of the infants of this
strange woman This is accomplished by
various stipulations. To the amaZement
of all, and especially Of the doctor,
whom Lady Mary ingenousy got out of
the way little Lord Wareham got better
in remarkably short time. We are next
introduced to Randall Pa4srave at the
coming of age of the Duke. when "
grand ball is given at Lurlworth Towers
His mind is fun of bitter thoughts as he
PAGES the picture gallery, and inwardly
comments upon how near he had come
to the dukedom Maurice the Duke, be-
comes acquainted at college with young
Blandon, and Randall has a good reason
for encouraging the friendship. Blandon
belonged to rapid, card-playing, hard
drinking set of young men, most of them
much older than he, and through his
and his fathers influence the Duke had
been drawn into it as we'll With such
way of life could have been more in
furious, and upon this fact Randall Pal
grave had calculated. If the young man
married, all his efforts of the last ten
years would have been in vain History
would repeat itself There would be an
heir, and whether the Duke lived or died,
Randall PalgraVe's fate would be the
same; This fear of RandaTs was well
founded, The attentions which the Duke
bestowed upon the Princess -Lady
Ann O'Neill-called up all the bitterness
in his nature. The Princess promises to
be the wife of Maurice, not because she
loves the Duke, but because she is poor.
helping the poor people of kildaragh, for
whom she would have given her life.
The Duke takes her upon these terms.
The effect of this upon f'aIgrave is to
sion of the ''Moated Grange a dilap-
idated house on the banks of the Thames,
which had been left him by the departed
Duke. This he seeks to have furnished
and renovated, the msney for which he
borrows from the Duke himself. Some
time after Henley Week the Duke goes
in his dinghy up the river to keep an
appointment with his tancee. who is
staying with her guardians at the Moated
Grange and takes note of a particularly
dangerous part of the river, where, he
observes TO himself, a man coming home
late at night might have & nasty acct
dent and he decided to beware. The fol-
lowing morning, was brought the terrible
news, that the Dukes dinghy had been
ufaS1uulA. q o. ul.2 -Ae1 Lar- npw6I4iS and that
hats e!gareite. ease; with his mon
SavernaEe with yFailure'' writ large be- be-
fore his eyes, defermines not 70 see the
making last stand, and proposes TO out Out
wit the heir to the it'll, by finding the
Severnake discovers the twin brother in
the United States and induces him to
come forward and personate the dead
Duke