The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-01
CHATTER XVII

his energies was
, in that direction. Whatever he did in
the line of his profession he did with en-
thusiasm, not only because it was the
profession of his choice, but because sue
cess meant Helen, and Helen meant all in
life that was worth having. Heknew that
his chances of winning her as a success
ful man were better than his chances as
an unsuccessful man; and then he had
no patience with men who did not get
along in the world Some of his friends
thought this indicated slight touch of
hardness in his nature. but it did moth
ing of the sort. He believed that man
with health and strength and fair
amount of intelligence ought to be able
to make his way as well as the next.
With such an ingrained belief as this
he was pretty certain to get along; for,
rs [ heard a wise old fellow once express
it, ,''your cock-sure man is bound to
succeed" If it had not been for this
trait in his disposition Rush would have
retired from the contest for Helen
Knowlton's hand before he had entered
upon it. He was not such a fool rs to
think that he only had to tell his love to
Helen to have her confess L reciprocal
passion. He knew that if he was to sue
ceed in his pursuit of her it would be
after long siege.
He knew hii youth t. IL = Sarious Oh
stacle in his path. He was at least five
years younger than Helen, though to
the casual observer he seemed quite as
old as she did, for she had been kept
very young, and he'had always seemed
older than he was.
On this point of disparity Of years he
had been gathering statistics of late, and
he was surprised TO find how many mar
riages were made where the husband
was younger than the wife, and he was
delighted to find that the great majority
of such marriages were happy. His
grandfather Hurlstone was ten years
younger than his grandmother, and to
the end of their days they were loving
couple. At 70 she appeared quite as
young as he did at So, and, although she
died first, he did not survive her many
months Rush intended to use this il
lustration with fine effect when the
time came, but Just now he was busy
preparing himself for his new depart
ment. He entered upon his duties as
foreign editor with zeal, and, as the for
eign department of the paper was the
one in which its proprietor felt the
greatest interest, his work was brought
conspicuously to that great mans atten-
ton. Rush knew enough French to
read the French papers, and he could
make out fairly well with the Italian OK
changes.
why don't you study German" said
Helen, when Rush told her of his new
position and his plans. "You will find
it a great help in your profession"
Rush, delighted to think that she took
enough interest in his affairs to make a
practical suggestion, secured German
teacher the very next day and went to
work with a will. Some of the older
men on The Dawn smiled at his enthu-
siasm
"Why, my dear fellow, you may be put
at police reporting to-morrow-you can't
tell from one day to the next what your
position will be on this paper-and then
what good will your languages do your
'Quite as much good as at the foreign
desk" replied Rush, with smile; ''for
you know the mixed nationalities of our
criminal classes. But, seriously, I do
not consider that the study of languages
is ever thrown away; and, again, as long
as hold position on The Dawn want
to learn all that appertains to it,
So he went ON with his German and
Italian, which, if not absolutely necessary
to his position, were of very great assist
ance. Helen highly approved of his
thoroughness, and was genuinely pleased
at = promotion. Aunt Rebecca, for her
part, said that she was ''prouder of him
than of any of her boys" Rush would
have been in very happy frame of mind
if it had not been for Helen's impending
departure. The evening before she sailed
he spent at her house, and, while it was
always an ecstatic delight to him to be
in the same room with her, he would
have enjoyed it more if there had not
been SO large a party-Bessie Archer,
Archie Tillinghast, Uncle Lightfoot
Myers, Mary Dick Griswold, West Hast
ings, and half dozen more whom Rush
did not know Us well.
He saw very little of Helen; she was
monopolized first by one and then by
the other, so that he had no. chance of
seeing her alone. West Hastings was
very devoted; and Uncle Lightfoot told
him it was ''deuced selfish" of him when
he was going to cross over in the steamer