The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-04
CHAPTER TX.

gN!EISIl7N I s Sa Tbs Pf sIs
MM Sfirst &C.
ES&SSVW quaintance with
ssS1S&yV Helen Knowlton
SSSFE he had written
special articles,
for which he was paid so much a column,
but now he was taken regularly upon the
staff of the paper, on salary of $50 a
week. He was in no special department,
but acted in the capacity Of general
utility man." which gave him just the
experience that he most needed. He
worked in the city department, edited
telegraph copy" and wrote occasional
editorials, so that his nights were pretty
well occupied, and he could not have re-
newed his evenings at Helen's had he
been SO inclined. He was trying to drive
her out Of his mind; but he found that
simply impossible.
To refrain from calling at her house
was much easier; yet he did not accom-
plish even that sacrifice very success
fully. When he left the Office of The
Dawn at half past / or 9 o'clock in the
morning, he walked up to Twentieth
street and passed with lingering foot
steps under her window; but he had not
called upon her since the night his pride
had been so wounded by what he took to
be her desire to rid herself of his COM
pany. He had called at the Archers'
however. 1t came naturally in his way
to do so. Sometimes he dropped in of
an afternoon with Archie, and some
times by special invitation of Bessie, wh5
liked to talk over with him the things
she was just then interested in. Budd-
hism was at this time attracting her at
tention, and, as Rush was much more
liberal minded than Archie, she enjoyed
discussing this Oriental religion with
him.
Rush really cared little more for it
than did Archie, but it was something
to divert his mind. Had he dreamt for
a moment what hold it was getting
upon Bessie, he would have politely but
firmly declined to discuss the subject
He supposed that she took it up as he
did, as an intellectual amusement; but
with her it was a more serious matter.
To the intense disgust of Archie she re-
newed her acquaintance with Nine.
Parapoff, and continued to attend to her
seances. She did not ask Archie to ac-
company her any more, for she knew
that he would try to argue her out of 60
ing, and as she had made up her mind
to go the argument could only have
ended unpleasantly. She got hold OF u
young married woman with a taste for
the unnatural, and the two visited the
very remote and dingy apartments of the
High Priestess of Buddha and listened
to her twaddle with credulous ears.
As Archie was really in love with Bes-
sic, I should explain that she was not his
cousin nor any blood relation to him;
had she been should have taken no in
terest in his sentiment for her. She was
Mrs. Archer's daughter, but she had
been adopted, when she was years old,
by Mr.. Archer, when he married her
widowed mother. Archie had been
brought up to regard her as his own
cousin. but his feeling towards her had
been Of a warmer than cousinly nature
for good many years. She liked him
more in the cousfnly way, and always
turned the conversation with a skillful
stroke when she thought he was going
to express other than the sentiments of
a cousin towards her. Since her devo-
ton to Buddha there had been a little cool
ness between them. He could not toler-
ate any such nonsense, and the thought
of the class of people to whom Bessie
was turning for esoteric information al
most maddened him. Buddhism was
only another name for spiritualism, he
argued. The latter was q burned out
volcano from which its devotees were
trying to throw out imitation lava to de-
ceive the credulous. That Bessie Archer
should be one of the deceived he consid-
cred degrading thing "Let the vicious
and the vulgar run after such absurdi-
ties, if they will, but heaven forbid that
a refined young lady should find any at
fractions in this tomfooleryl" was his re-
Election.
"My dear Bessie" he said to her, "if
this Parapoff was what you say, she
would be sitting in a golden temple, deal
ing out her words of wisdom at thou
sand dollars word. There is nothing
that men would better like to know than
what the future has in store for them. If
they believed that they could be inform
ed with truth, they would pay any
amount of money; for it would save
them countless sums. People are credu-
lous enough, in all conscience, and If
they had the slightest encouragement to
believe in these soothsayers they would
patronize them to an extent that would
make theirs the most profitable profess
sion in the world rather than the most
i'll paid. They would be living in palaces
instead of in dirty rooms on back streets,
and their patrons would be the rich and
great rather than poor deluded servant
girls"
"But they are not all poor deluded
servant girls who consult Mime. Para
poff. Some very intelligent men and
women visit her rooms, among them
your cousin Bessie Archer, who does not
put herself in the class you mention"
"With the deluded, dear child, but