The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25

that apparently respectable women WIS.,
tied it. They usually came closely
yelled, and there was one whom he had
seen as she passed his door whose figure
haunted him. He certainly had met
that woman somewhere, but where he
could not tell. He thought of putting
himself in her way some day, to see if
she recognized him, but then he remem-
bered that he did not want to be recog-
nized, so he avoided meeting her,
though his curiosity was aroused to the
highest pitch. This mysterious lady was
dressed i'll mourning and wore long
thick crepe veil, and he noticed that she
came in hired coupe which waited for
her few doors away.
| While awaiting developments in the
Costello case Rush had plenty of time to
think. He would have had time to read,
too. if he had wanted to, but he couldn't
bring his mind to it. As : usual thing
he could find diversion in Henry Es-
mond,' but somehow or other he could
not keep his mind on the page Hecould
read no name but that of Helen Knowl-
ton in the lines before him, so he set the
book aside and thought. He thought of
the woman's wonderful destinations
her beauty of face and figure, the set of
her head upon her neck, the round white
ness of her arms and their exquisite
texture for once by an accident his hand
had touched her arm. and he had never
forgotten the sensation he experienced
1t was as though he had touched dam
nsk rose just clicked from some cool gar
den spot
| He thought of all her little ways; of
her true womanliness, with its strange
combination OF childikeness; of her posi-
lion in the world; of the men who, if
there was anything in gossip, were mad
ly in love with her; of West Hastings in
particular and his probable relations to
her. Could it be possible that she really
loved this cold, selfish man of the world,
whose only attractions were his wealth
and certain polish that long contact
with society had given him? She was
worthy of better man. And then he
wondered ut his own conceit. Wherein
was he more worthy than West Hast
ings? He might not be quite as selfish.
certainly he was not as cold, but he had
neither the polish nor the wealth of his
rival. 'The polish be hangedr' he said
to himself; ''but the wealth I'll have or
perish in the winning. Perhaps not so
much; but if I can't earn enough money
to keep my wife in the manner she has
been accustomed to and take her off the
stage, I'll try some other business.
Then he would weigh his chances in
case the field was clear, and in the morn
ings, when he felt bright and the world
looked easy to conquer, he would feel
greatly encouraged. Other days he
would feel so blue and respondent that
if he had not been young and healthy he
would have ended his doubts and misery
by jumping off the dock. But for some
reason or other these dark days were few,
and as q rule he looked upon his success
with Helen Knowlton as merely a matter
of time. He had heard Aunt Rebecca
say that Helen was in no hurry to marry,
and that she would not entertain the sub
ject seriously until after she had made
her career" Just what Aunt Rebecca
meant by this phrase he did not know,
but it seemed to make his chances better,
and he thought of it every time one Of
his respondent moods came on. Still,
his chances did seem to be pretty poor
compared with those of West Hastings.
and when he thought of Helen's APP
preaching trip to Europe with Hastings
as a passenger on the same ship, his heart
sank within him.
Archie Tillinghast, too, was in despair
over the affairs of his heart Bessie
Archer seemed to get farther away from
him every day. Her interests were not
his interests, and she was becoming more
and more intimate with O'Hara and Mrs.
Pryor-a pair for whom Archie had the
most violent contempt. What could pos
sess clever, refined girl like Bessie, that
she should associate so intimately with
these two? He put it down to disease
disease of the brain, induced by misdi-
rected mental activity. She craved in
tellectual excitement, and, as there was
little to be got in the ordinary course Of
her life, she sought it in unnatural chan
nels. Bessie Archer was girl Of strong
character, but her strength had never
been properly developed. As Archie said,
"she had a morbid hankering after the,
great Why and the lesser why Noty
and between the two she fell to the floor"
Helen was too much absorbed in her
profession to give any time to occult
PHILOSOPHERS, so she and Bessie had not
been much together of late. Helen had
not only something else to think about,
but her mind was too well balanced to
have any leaning towards these follies Of
in them for Bessie's sake, but the more
she saw the less she cared for them.
Didn't it ever occur to you, Bessie"
she said to her friend, ''that if there
was as much in these 'isms' as you think
there is, different class of people would
be interested in them? that scientists
rather than scatterbrains would be their
investigators" But Bessie replied that
some of the most intellectual people she.
had ever met were believers in the I'M
seen. Helen saw that argument would
be useless; all she could do was to wait
until Bessies mind should take a new
turn.
Owing to his love for Bessie, Archie
could not possess his soul in patience
He wanted to strangle O'Hara, throw
Mrs. Pryor out of the window, and fight
a duel with Rush. On this last point he
had some doubts, for he couldn't ex-
actly make out case against his friend.
He had an idea that Bessie was more
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