The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-08

anything, of this. only knew / love
him and he loved me- We were MAJ
ried privately in the spring. am yer
sorry for YOU, but did not intend t
hurt you.
Amy listened to her words. IL see
all nowf she said. 81 was a silly foo
that I did not see it before. l nigh
have known that lir could not love m,
as | loved him. II he had only told IN,
/ Oh, God. if he had only told me-h,
might still be alive. His death is on m,
head! Oh, John, John! why didn't yoI
tell me? | loved you so well that
would have given you up rather thar
this" And, for the first time since hi.
death, Amy's tears flowed fast and freely.
! Leoni's heart bled for the girl. but he,
Italian nature did not understand the
! self sacrifice of the words she spoke.
Rather have him live and be the hus-
band of another? Never!-she would
rather see him dead twenty times
Amy, with exquisite unselfishness. had
nothing but the tenderest pity for John.
She blamed herself that she had not dis
| covered his love for this beautiful foreign
woman i'll time. She felt interested In
her at once, and regarded her more in
the light OF sister than of successful
rival She asked herquestions about her
self, and was not shocked to learn that she
was ballet dancer. She knew little
about this profession, and the little she
knew did not place it's members in the
category of saints; but she WAS certain
that Leoni was perfectly good woman,
and she believed too thoroughly in John
TO think for 4 moment that he could have
married her had she been otherwise.
a strange friendship was begun over
the coffin Of John Hurlstone-a friend
ship that grew stronger with years-and,
to the scandal of Farmsted, 1.-The ballet
dancer John Hurlstone married" spent
part OF every summer at the rectory.
where she was loved and admired by the
old rector as sincerely as by his daughter.
Mrs. Hurlstone could not quite free her
mind from the idea that Leoni was in
some way responsible for Johns death:
but as time went on this feeling wore off.
and she and her daughters called on her
whenever she visited the rectory. and
always had her to spend night at the
homestead.
Amy and Leoni drove in the same car
riage TO Johns funeral (Which was a
private one, much to the disappoint-
ment of the villagers, and stood hand /
in hand at his grave. While Amy was
calm and silent, Leoni was beside her /
self with grief, and was finally carried /
fainting to her carriage.
1t was not long before the story OF
John Hurlstone's career in New York
became known through the newspapers.
Columns were devoted to it. 1t was told
low the dashing Col Mortimer had or
5anized mining company that owned
10 mines, how he had swindled unsus-
oecting people by his false representa-
ions, and how the clever young CAPTAIN
Who had served SO brilliantly under him
II the civil war had been used as a de-
10Y and finally induced to sign names
'ther than his own to bogus certificates
If stock. The fight OF Mortimer to
canada and the suicide of Hurlstone
Who had been secretly married to one
woman while another waited for him at
he altar, gave the reporters a chance
UGH as they seldom had 1t was an
Xciting story, and they made the most
f it.