The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-05-03

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terday-and now there was nothing
me Max that she had grown to love.
with the gradual. imperceptible ADJ
Nahced affection. sweet TO her shy ma
ture-that Max had never seen. No
uoupt all the while. over In Germany. q
stout and phlegmstic German landlord
hsd heen caring for his VINEYARDS ana
| playing the war lord in the landwehr ana
| living very comfortably with the dourh-
faced German girl hose hair was ltsnt-
| CT IMAM htE comple Nion. whom the coun-
! TESS wanted him t. carry. a man as un-
| ike the high-souled knight II her fancy
] as-as she. herself was unlike the EirIs
| Image Worst OF all was her own N.e.k
| raise behavior. NO she cried In an
| access OF bitterness. the worst is that
l can't feel that the worst. I can only
ieel have lost him. FOR ever! 1 don't
seem 10 mind that have lost myself"
Now she began TO pace the room try
| ing to think clearly. Was II her duty
! l" tell Florence the story and let her tell
| the girls The red-hot agony OF the
| ldea seemed 10 her excited conscience an
/ int4mation that II was her duty from
"hlch she shrank because she was =
! selfish. hysterical. dishonorable coward.
I Horrible as such abasement would b. II
| II were her duty, she could do IL; what
| she could not. what she would not do
was to tear the veil from the pure and
! mystical passion which had been the
! ilo"ei or her heart Not IL IL cost ma
| my soul. she said. with the frozen quiet
OF despair, 1t - awful. but can't do
~ one thing dii remain. she coulI
remove the picture. That false witness
OF what had never been should 20 No
| eyes should ever fall ON u again IL
| shouId never deceive more. She walked
| toward II firmly. She lifted her hand
( aud II feIL i can't" she m"Hn.d. IN
! Il" II tomorrow" She could not re-
7 member IN a.
I Offered her conscience
But she felt - sense OF respite almost
/ Keller. once having decided. and she re-
] covered her composure enough to 60 To-
her chamber and battle her eyes While
. she was thus engaged she heard "a knock
| 1t Is he she said quietly, well, the
! sooner tue better"
IL was he. he had come earlier than
ne expected. he explained. he was most
| SrateiuI Tor Miss Wings Kind message.
| lie looked like his unCl. aS the u.nt-
/ h"rs 81 "a family will look alike 10
was not SO tall. he was not SO hand
] him more graceful. And his English
MAS iauitless he must have spoken II
/ has hrst sentences. before they had
! permitted HIM to take chair his eyes
/ Travelled past Miss Wings face She
I Itr,tNrd that ne saw the picture. che
I knew that she grew pale. but. to her
Amusement. a calm like the calm which
! hsd wrapped her senses on the day or
/ her finding the picture closed about
her again 4 beg pardon said he
! - that - Count N0n Buffers Por-
| trait said she In "A clear voice, with
out emotion. He was not so com
/ posed. Then f. was YOU he said.
! and looked earnestly at the pictured
| face When Miss Raimund spoke ~
was the same. and determined to
/ inquire. but II seemed TO me unlikely.
YET u H. M'ss Wing / have a messase
She noticed that there were gold
! notes IN ths air and his pleasant. blond
! the room was fun OF sunlight
was with him when he died"
/ when the message OF his uneles dsath
/ she hoped that he- brain was NOT go.
INK to play her false.
] u sas iifteen years ago last july.
%on know, J ncycr knew how many
B art.'s sou received. or only the bare
/ Fifteen years fifteen Years What
/ was That date he was giving? That
I AmerIct. the dHN aftei-Rhlt was thar
4 STORY Pc was telling of a visit and a
. dent" Eut Sftll ~. listened with the
T same iron cuwP"~ur". The next words
. -h" heard distinctly
80 was like INN tp los" his life taat
] way and De- SO not ErudE" ~. Vet q
} W"r h"rI tt"' ~9"lTd lr tie only one
D ~ bis blood with him. Ito could speak
! ~ lfh i'ffi'uit, when be told mo 90 take
I 2, lock Of hair and his sigu.t ring To- yov
You must De- sure ana take 81 ue saiI.
t TO ~ 60 o." lady that ] hoped would he
u.amrl about it too She nn~ ms pic
o. f"f" AMI sH' SHOWS but tell her'-anl
. d'r"d little. Tor 10 smiled brightly 81
/ iue. sif tnC. "l'l tell her myself au1
7 tnen tl. doctors came. lie SAID nothing
r"f" ONLY once" trey told me. he muir
= INJURED something about his bstrotha,I.
/ hut hs o." rms. DO took ~ or His
f. child 49, . Ws- ! knew tlat 81 Was
sacred ] wrapped ~ bro the Tarer. ana
aftervarI . rut me lock ~ hair beside
q So soon a. ! could Z vent to lIeidri-
. Nc-E. Co 3D." pension You rad gone and
4 there vs. no address. no. frace.
I"ft mF address with tie ooun-
w aunt i- dead said tho young
. te-. DIT ~hc 'aI brr own cnoire of =
F wife f.r mN uncle. o q" not think one
/ could trust Dor WITH addresses"
We al rltr ours Co h"r To- give o.
sou. NJ rran.uatrrr also Tried MT
}ol WEI" gone } Thought ~ Tire banks.
Ing otter n4t found nothing "ften
. learn of t..- ori, through tie papers
itnt 3 gould Uot t.i whether an, thing.
vts HIvsH- 'n uy mind always rar-
r.,l Or. Yn..'s .tflo packet with me. I
i>.Hse we saii Ms- WING gently.
water am afraid can't walk @
HHt sh~. would nor is' him roar tr@
vtf,. "r hf- .trIA-r.NI.f fo hafre r-r
rrf. sHf .r.fI h.r-eif rrorr,t rirr Sa'k
fn .ft "Nr matters She found Dat ~
GGs,r,r ,' ,srrl, ~, .p 5g gri'e 70 az
rHf seem fu Dor frat MHNa nephew
r"..i Dr In0ort 81 " ANY, sri yef size
ins h-. worldly Hrfaifs f'l FLORENCE vts
~ D.f d'lsli'r vN'-e 'tf'- hgI -rett
possess .r- urf '.~frI.t ~ sd'rntIt-
fra "ru 600 .I.f u.r afrf Him forth 60