The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-09-26
I he Hazard Of
y the Race y

the nnidsntinsd victims Who haa ioss
their lives In the wreck OF the beat
express.
sylvia Worsfoid looked across the
brilliant spaces OF a garden abisss
with July flowers.
rive years had passed by since that
DISASTROUS day OF the race when me
mad last seen the man shs loved. the
man whom she had known had loved
her. cut who was now In a dishon-
ored grave.
She was herself almost upon the
eve OF marriage with Sir Edgar War
n. me dead mans cousin. who had
unexpectedly come into the family
ute a few months before. Ia default
OF ms dead cousin. a. next of hin.
nut sne was woman with n dad
neart and she loathed the verv
thought or marriage with mi. man
VINO mad stepped into his unhappy
cousins snoeS She had refused him
many times. and Il was nothing but
an appeal to her pride that hsd Al
,ast wruns consent from hsr--the
knowledge that her fathsr "a.
heavily IN debt to Sir EdEar-a debt
whose discharge was only possible nv
ne. consent to become his wife.
sylvia stood staring al the mir. sr.
where her double looked back az her
with mournful eyes, although she
was ghrbeo -as n bride.
WITHIN an hour she would be
Edgar Warren's wife
She was alone. having pleaded for
a Few last moments os solitude.
But az the touch OF hand upon
hs arm she began 10 tremble. her
heart beating wildly; but that touch
was bold. and In a moment she was
held In mans strong clasp. LOOKING
up with incredulous gaze Into we'll
rememoered eyes that were yet 40
changed In their steadfast Depths
from those OF the needless Dick
warren. They were the eyes OF a
man cleansed by the fres Of advsr.
Sly. man who had mastered him
self.
"Dick-oh. Dick. Is n your
sylvia. there win be no wedding
to-day, he said. Now that / have
come back to claim my own, II r. nv
cousins turn TO wander. sylvia"-hs
came close TO her once more-"aftsr
1 ned that fatal night. 1 thought IL
wen for people % suppose I had per-
ished In that railway disaster diA
not realize until long after the extent
OF my folly In acting on Edgars
advice.
HIS COUSINS DUPE.
Il did not understand how uttsriv
had been his dupe. until q former
man-seryant OF his, travelling In Al
giers with another master. betr.vsd
Edgar l saved this mans life. In
gratitude. he told me that I might
turn TO ENGLAND without any fear
whenever 1 liked.
He was present In Edsar'a mar
that very night. the only o:hsr occu-
pant. IL was he who admitted Nal
travers and. himself unseen. Nh.
messed the whole AFFAIR, and could
thus substantiate the fact tina. NAL
travers was shot inadvertently. ths
weapon discharged in the struggle"
~Why-why did Maltravers spofl
your borse's ehancer'
Ny cousin had deceived Maltrav-
ers into believing tina. I was the ons
who had ruined a life dear TO ths
money lender. whereas II was Edrar
who had acted the scoundrel. uSinr
my name But fancy that very
night Maltravers had discovered the
truth. 80
Edgar has had an EASY Tim. -,
now everything has gone wrong vvfsh
him. He has lost all his own monev
In disastrous speculations. ana mas
dipped heavily into mine as well. Al.
Tor hiss hatred toward myself. You
can guess the reason for that1''
"fou-you mean a. was because-
Because he wanted to win Won
yes. But he knew he had no chance
unless he could drive me from Eng-
land. a ruined man. And Pate playea
into his hands.
But now tina: have returned IN
lmS 70 prevent this marriage, which
! rightly guessed TO be a sacriace a.
company with this witness. wbose
evidence. when the affair IL reopenod
VIII satisfy the police. let ia thfnL
no more OF Edgar. We are toxethsr
you and /. the world Is ours
she nestled closer 10 him. and what
else there was to say between thass
two was spoken In loves own Ian-
guage-words not to be recorded.