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

anything. of this. | only knew l loved
him and he loved me. We were mar
| ried privately in the spring. am very
I sorry for YOU. but did not intend to
hurt you,
Amy listened to her words. Il see il
all nowi" she said. 81 was a silly fool
! that I did not see it before. / might
have known that hr could not love me
as loved linn. If he had only told me
oh, Cod, if he had only told me--he
might still be alive. His death is on my
| head! Oh, John. John! why didn't you
tell me? ! loved you so well that !
would have given you up rather than
this" And, for the first time since his
death, Amys tears flowed fast and freely.
Leoni's heart bled for the girl, but her
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 unselfshneSs, had
nothing but the tenderest pity for John
She blamed herself that she had not dis
covered his love for this beautiful foreign
woman in time. She felt interested in
her at once, and regarded her more in
the light of ii sister than of q successful
rival. She asked herquestions about her.
self, and was not shocked to learn that she
was 4 ballet dancer. She knew little
about this profession, and the little she
knew did not place its 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 n moment that he could have
married her had she been otherwise.
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 a night at the
homestead.
Amy and Leoni drove in the same car
riage to Johns funeral (Which was Il
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
how the dashing Col. Mortimer had or
gained mining company that owned
no mines, how he had swindled unsus-
pecting people by his false representa-
tons, and how the clever young captain
who had served so brilliantly under him
in the civil war had been used as q de-
coy and finally induced TO sign names
other than his own to bogus certificates
of stock The flight of Mortimer to
Canada and the suicide of Hurlstone,
who had been secretly married to one
woman while another waited for him at
the altar, gave the reporters a chance
such as they seldom had. 1t was an
exciting story, and they made the most
of it.