The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-10
SUBURBAN LITERATURE.
LEFT IN REPOSE:
A Romance Of the Xth Ward.

He was standing by the garden
gate. The gate had got used to 1t,
and made no complaints. He had a
bran new rose in the lapel OF his
coat, and it is Due to him to say
that he had paid for 1t on the mods
ern plan. There was a CLEAN of sat
isfactiOn in his Tenth ward eye and
his br0nzad cheek was Illuminated
with an unusual glow. To say that
he felt well would be as inadequate
to the situation as to place the
champion Of the Salt Lake Olympic
club IN front of Mervins Thomp-
son. But he doomed.
He didn't stop long at the place
where be is herein located, for thre-
reasons: He wanted to see somes
body inside; 1t was raining; and
juvenile mouth-organ band was
coming down the sidewalk. By
carefully considering the situation
the reader will be able 10 infer that
he went in unto the house. There
was a girl there whose figure was
slight Except when she visited
resort where six copsumptiye oys>
tiers are sold for half a dollar;
whose voice was such as to make
those who heard it pity Patti, and
whose face would make a calci-
miner cry with envy. The young
man having entered, the maiden
threw herself upon his chest and
wept few brief weeps upon his
manly shirt. She didn't irrigate
his attire because she felt bad, but
because she felt good. And why
shouldn't she? For three long days
her lover had made himself as sci
dom as a policeman 1T row, and
she had been, during all that time
as lonesome as Bonapsrte at st.
however, this need not be en-
larged upon.
sob, dearest" she ssid, a.
soon as the double breasted
Jordan canal which found its outlet
in her eyes had closed for repairs,
"why have you tarried? wherefore
so negliggnt?"
"Alas!" he responded, his face for
thenOnce assuming an aspect as dis
NAL as the jokes Of an Ogden editor,
and his tenes descending to the mel
lowness and uncertainty rarely met
with outside of a Legislature, 81
have been detained. 1t was newt
able. Do not weep, precious" And
he dried her eyes with his clean
linen handkerchief, and gave her an
E. Abbott kiss. a ter recovering
from this greeting he murmured
softly, very softly:
81 cannot doubt you. Ny love is
as enduring as the Herr Lasker
controversy or session Of Congress
in the Presidential election year
My heart is yours, and not even q
writ Of repIevin would get it back. y
The Young man pressed her to his
vest once more, then again, and 80
on, IS though he were being paid so
much per squeeze and had left his
savings in the London bank.
All at once the rain continued.
The night grew dark apace. The
wind blew like a whole herd of
police court lawyers in convention
LIGHTNING more brlllisnt but not SO
irregul-r as the flashes OF an electric
lamp played ftfully around the
landscape, as if giving warning that
conference was near at hand, while
the elements generally were rum
bling and grunting lik" a narrow
gauge eng Ne making bfoAd.gauge
time.
"This is dresdfuI," she sad, as
they reclined ON the sofa; "don'i
you think it is, precious"
81 do. | do; keep as close to me as
you can" This reply was a gratui-
tous injunction, for the girl was
already as close to him as she could
get without injury to his person
but nevertheless she convulsed once
more 10 his direction.
Each of these stars represents one
minute OF standard time. They
don't look like it, know, but they
are IS near to it as I can come
on paper. The storm has
spent its fury, and all things out of
doors are az subdued and quiet as
the entrance to his domiciIe of a
husband who has been out till /
q. NJ. on business. The girls white
arms are around her lovers neck;
she is asleep, and he is snoring the
snore OF the Just.
If the re der thinks [ am going TO
disturb them he is mistaken.