Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
WHEELING REGISTER, SUNDAY, JANUARY 81, 1901
we shall find him the most provoking
and-and the finest of them all.

| quay La WCiit " lHC -h1odtCI GfduSts
| not by boat but by land. having taken
| the precaution to ask the way of the
somewhat reluctant Savernake. "You
| ought to have stayed and got aequaint-
ed with Lady Mary tonight" the latter
reproached him.
But the "headstrong youngster" las
his Mentor had called him) only laugh
| ed. 1T seems to me my sweetheart
| has the first right to my society,"" he
said.
He reached the Moated Grange short
~ after nine o'clock. He was NOT ex-
ped.ed-at all events. by nobody but
Anne. Dinner was not yet thing
of the past, for the men were linger-
ing over their wine in the dining
room-Randal and Blandon. and Sir
James Clancarden. whom the father
and son would have given a month of
their lives to be rid of.
All other guests save the Clancar-
| dens (who had only been induced to
stay because of the inquest and the
funeral to follow had gone from the
Moated Grange on the very day after
the accident with the dinghy. Only
Lady Clancarden and Anne sat in the
bow-window drawing-room, slipping
their coffee. and talking Of their de-
~, FO T
eve might, under the circumstances.
stop for a day or two in Cleveland
square with Lady Mary if she asks u.s.
Lady Clancarden was saying. las
think she probably will. They would
be hurt if we refused: but otherwise
don't see why we shouldn't go on at
once to Ireland"
perhaps somebody else may put in
a word about that" said a voice; and
they looked up to see the Duke, who
had come in unannounced.
Both thought they had never seen
him look so handsome. 1t seemed to
Lady Clancarden that. after so long a
separation, so strange a reunion, the
lovers should be left alone together,
and when a decorous fe wminutes had
been passed, she excused herself on the
plea Of uperinteHding her maid with
some necessary packing.
They'll be in from the dining room
presently" he said to Anne, when Lady
Clancerden had rustled silkenly
through the door, and she had half
closed it after her. I'm here to see
you. No one else. VIII you come out
of doors with me?"
He spoke rather masterfully, far
more SO than had ever been the wont
of her lover. yet there was a tremor in
his voice. Anne rose without a word
and let him wrap round her shoulders
thing of down and silk that lay flung
over a chair nearby.
She thought he would take her to the
summer house where they had met on
the last evening they had spent to-
gether-when he had given her the
opal eye-but he did not He seemed
to have forgotten the existence of that
convenient retreat for lovers and led
her down to the river side. A great will
low tree arched over the water, ana
sprayed its leafy branches above them
as they stood in the purple, moonless
twilight of the summer night, like the
translucent green arch of cataract.
Mechanically she paused. His eyes
drew hers. For a moment he stood
still, and there seemed a war of con-
tending emotions on his features,
which she could not read. Then he
took her face between his hands and
| kissed her passionately on the lips.
a faint sigh broke from her, for she
was at last released. Never had she
permitted such a kiss before. She had
| forbidden her mouth to him, though
| they had been betrothed lovers for
months, and had shrunk from tse
| thought that the day would come when
he might demand all from her as his
right. Even the touch of his cheated
| lips on her hand, or a cold cheek, had
| distressed her; but now-now she had
not even thought Of thrusting him
away. That kiss OF love, laid full up
on her mouth, seemed to mark an era.
| She was a statue 40 longer, but a very
| woman.
"You-you never did that before, .
she said family.
He looked at her for an instant, as
though he would have asked ques-
ton, but he though better of it.
| Il am going to make up" he answer
ed, in an odd voice, "for a great deal
of lost time. But tell me this-I have
not made you hate me?''
"Oh, no. There is something
would like to tell you. Maurice. You
know, when you frs. asked me to care
for you, told you / could not as I
ought. But-5ut I've been finding out
that was mistaken"
When did you first fnJ that out?''