=Walter Hartwright=, drawing-teacher and lover of Laura Fairlie. When the report of her death has been circulated by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, Walter unravels the plot, restores Laura to her rightful place, and after the baronet’s death, marries her.--Wilkie Collins, _The Woman in White_. =Walter von der Vogelweide=, one of the German _minnesingers_, flourished in 1206. =Waltheof= (_The abbot_), abbot of St. Withold’s Priory.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). _Waltheof_ (_Father_), a grey friar, confessor to the duchess of Rothesay.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.). =Walton= (_Lord_), father of Elvi´ra, who promised his daughter in marriage to Sir Richard Forth, a puritan officer; but Elvira had already plighted her love to Lord Arthur Talbot, a cavalier. The betrothal was set aside, and Elvira married Arthur Talbot at last.--Bellini, _Il Puritani_ (opera, 1834). _Walton_ (_Sir John de_), governor of Douglas Castle.--Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.). =Wamba=, “the son of Witless,” the jester of Cedric, the Saxon, of Rotherwood.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Wampum=, a string or belt of whelk-shells, current with the North American Indians as a medium of exchange, and always sent as a present to those with whom an alliance or treaty is made. Peace be to thee! my words this belt approve. Campbell, _Gertrude of Wyoming_, i. 14 (1809). Our wampum league thy brethren did embrace. Ibid, i. 15. =Wanda=, proud, high-bred German beauty, who loves and weds a man, believing him to be of noble birth. Accident reveals the mistake, and she drives him from her in anger. After long separation, he rescues their child from death, and dies in the arms of his remorseful wife.--Ouida, _Wanda_. =Wanderers.= It is said that gypsies are doomed to be wanderers on the face of the earth, because they refused hospitality to the Virgin and Child, when the holy family fled into Egypt. (See WILD HUNTSMAN.)--Aventinus, _Annalium Boiorum, libri septem_ (1554). =Wandering Jew= (_The_), Kartaph´ilos (in Latin, _Cartaphilus_), the door-keeper of the judgment hall, in the service of Pontius Pilate. The tradition is that this porter, while haling Jesus before Pilate, struck Him, saying, “Get on faster!” whereupon Jesus replied, “I am going fast enough; but thou shalt tarry till I come again.” ⁂ The earliest account of this tradition is in the _Book of the Chronicles of the Abbey of St. Alban’s_, copied and continued by Matthew Paris (1228). In 1242 Philip Mouskes, afterwards bishop of Tournay, wrote the “rhymed chronicle.” Kartaphilos, we are told, was baptized by Ananias, who baptized Paul, and received the name of Joseph.--See _Book of the Chronicles of the Abbey of St. Alban’s_.