Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-11
now by my kitchen FIRE and eating food

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have been more courteous on your part.
AS say-as l am continually saying
land in truth Miss Osborne did make
the statement frequently, no doubt fear
ing that without her testimony the fact
might be questioned)-"you are mastsr
here, not |. I won't Interfere, and |
don't wish to- but ! should have thought
you had enough to do to feed your lazy,
| ids, pampered servants, without keep
ing open house for beggars."
1.-THE lads no beggar," Osborne inter
jected, "and even If he we're, | see NO
reason why you. Maria, should grudge
him few broken meats"
Broken meats, indeed" Miss Os-
borne exclaimed. "Of course. should
not object to anything reasonable
though it is just like you to pretend
that you think | would; but they have
not given him anything of the sort.
positively saw him with cold sirloin
before him, pickles, cheese and fresh
butter, helping himself"
"And what if he was?' said Osborne
Last week, Maria, when your cat was
Ill, it had salmon outlet to tempt its
appetite; and shall | refuse slice OF
cold meat to sick and suffering
child?"
Thank you, Frank, I'm much
| oh 10 fr,r ha< IL
piece OF fish. In looking over the
weeks account, | will see that that
item is debited to me personally, and
then l shall not feel that the poor, de-
fenceless animal is drain on your re-
sources
Hush, Maria, What nonsense
laughed her brother. Il hope can Of
ford to keep Tabby, though he is an ex-
pensive luxury"
"Well, one never knows" she an
swered sententiously. with a house
full Of greedy servants, who have little
or nothing to do but eat their heads off
a mans income goes nowhere.
my servants work for their wages
and have as much right to the food
they eat as / have" he retorted sharp,
ly; then he added, checking himself and
speaking more mildly: "Ah, Maria il
you could open your eyes a little wider
and see what goes on in the world
around us, you would understand my
motives better I've seen and known
God help mellow the bitter revolt
against misused power can mar a ma
ture that was once beautiful; and II
makes me fear to be even a petty ty-
rant
He turned away with his breast heav-
ing and sombre light in his eyes.
Those Russian experiences of his, of
which he never spoke even to Eva, had
left an indelible mark ON his life. Eva
knew nothing. or next to nothing, but
that he had not found Helga, and that
somehow his passionate love for her
had waned, though it seemed to have
left only void, not heart capable OF
loving again. She did not know how
day and night he had before him the
grim procession OF the workers at the
Vitinsk Mines picturing in some one
Or other of them that lover of Helga S
who had gone straight from the sun
shine of Naples and the warmth Of her
simulted passion, to the SHOWS and the
| biting cold and misery of Siberian ex-
lie. Had she known, being woman
and pure one. she possibly would not
manhood seemed soiled by the love he
had borne ,Helga, even after she knew
what she had done. Still, though she
did not know the thoughts that were
working in his breast, on her face, as
in mirror, was reelected the pain of
his.
Il don't know what all this TRADE is
about" Miss Osborne remarked. 1T
seems impossible for me to make an OBJ
servation, or ask question, but an ar
gument is Immediately commenced by
somebody" and she looked sternly at
poor Eva, who had said nothing. How
ever, I've done. Bring anybody you
like into the house, Frank; though
some fine day you may repent it, when
we wake up in the morning to find our
selves all murdered in our beds!"
With this parting shot she was about
to retire, the dignity of her exit some
what marred by hearty laugh from
her brother and a smaller one from
Eva
He held the door open for her, and
whispered quietly: Don't be uneasy
about the boy, Maria. / extend hospi-
tality to your favorites, though ! don't
know where they come from or what
are their credentials; and l must ask
you, my dear, to extend the same con-
sideration to my proteates."
CHAPTER XIX.
i Hubert John Tressilian Spencer Trev-
or woc a yo,inu man whO had suffered