Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-01

| The organ grinder and his monk ar
| much more aggravating they must hav
| see for yourself" and he had half
| dragged, half-led her onto the balcony
before the door was opened
1t was not that he anticipated any
result in permitting her to see these
| two alone. He had colored his story
to please himself without regard to the
| possible truth. His expedient was
merely for the sake of gaining time, of
preventing the possibility of her re-
naming to face the newcomers, who
had reached the room full twenty min
utes before the dinner should have ter
| minated
| From their post in the shadow with
out 1t was easy to command a view of
the room and to hear all that was said.
! The jealous woman on the balcony
noted how fair her rival (seen before
only in her unripe girlhood) was how
exquisitely the clinging robes of soft
eau de nile became her figure; how
sweetly the violets she wore nestled in
her ripping hair and clustered on her
| BOSOM
Eva" Osborne was saying in a
! pleading voice, ct is dreadful
scourge. Surely, surely you will not
go?"
He had flimsy pink paper and a
buff envelope in his hand
Il must" she answered firmly. "Oh
must. You, above all, should not try
to dissuade me, Frank. Are they not,
as it were, my own children? Am
not responsible? No, Frank, it is the
one thing you must not ask. Diphthe-
ria has broken out in the home built
by me and filled by me with helpless
little ones. My place is by them
But it is not" he went on, earnest
ly, "as though were asking you to re-
linquish a duty that none but you
could fill. There are others on the
spot. All that money can do"
She silenced him with a gesture of
establishment.
Frank, when did such an argu-
ment find its way to your lips? All
that money can do Is it because
chance to possess a fortune that | am
at liberty to bride others to run the
risk, to take the duty and the chances
for me? All that money can do?
That's the worlds code, Frank, not
yours. You don't speak like yourself
tonight
He had faced her suddenly, his feat
ures working with emotion and his
breast heaving. Il speak," he said,
like a mariner who sees the last light
ashore go out. There has been pre-
monition of evil hanging over me all
day, and tonight it seems to me that
if we part we part forever. | do not
speak as guide or mentor (what am I
to be either?) but as man who loves
with his whole soul and begs you to
remain"
He had caught her hands in both
his own. The well-kept secret was
out at last. 1t was told for the first
time with those bright eyes watching
from the balcony.
stay with me. / cannot part with
you"
He had gathered her to his breast,
everything forgotten for the moment
in his absorbing ear.
mo, Frank" she said, moment
later. IL choose rather to go by my
work strengthened by your love-" Then
she added, so low that the watcher
without could not catch her words
II think if you had been quite free
you would have told me this before
While I am gone will you have time
to Think"
With a groan Osborne dropped into
chair, overpowered by his keen sense
of reimbursement; but to those with
out he seemed merely an ardent love-
broken down by a temporary parting
from the object of his passion.
Companion, time presses" whisper
ed Durand, to whom the fates for theii
own ends had sent more than he dared
to hope for. 'Is there to be dem
onstration tonight"
Helga Kitiskoff turned her pale fac
upon him and whispered: yes"
THE man has h. his orders to hav'
the gig ready. 1t will be waiting TO
me in the stable-yard. I have but u
bring it round"
a Quick, then" she answered. ut ms
| be before she can leave the house
"You do not fear? You are true t