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

While Rush was doing this detective
work he was almost isolated from gen.
eral society. There was some excite
ment to be got out of it, but he and Mar
tin were rather holding back until the
arrival of the man johnson from the
west. Martin thought and expressed his
suspicious to Rush, that johnson had
been in love with Rose Ellington, and
had been cut out by Costello, who was
reported to have strange destinations for
women. johnson had not the time or
the money to spend in ferreting out the
proofs of his suspicious, and was obliged
| to take The Dawn into his confidence
He had not seen Costello many times,
and although he declared that he would
know him again if he saw him, he felt
surer of recognizing him by his voice,
which he said was indescribab!e, but pc
culiar and meyer to be forgotten.
Rush longed to see Helen with an ire
sistible longing, to which he gave way
one evening. Leaving Martin on watch,
he went to his lodgings first and dressed
himself, and then walked around to the
Academy. The opera was Faust"
again. Helen sang divinely. Rush
music, and he was lifted out of himself
by Helen's exquisite performance. Mar
guerite was admitted to be her best part,
and she certainly gave an ideal interpre-
tation of it, Dear girl, how he loved
her! He forgot the tenor, who was act
ing in his most imprisoned manner; he
forgot everything but Helen; and when
she appeared at the window in 4 food of
moonlight, her dark eyes intensified by
her golden hair, and sang the exquisite
duet. he actually weighed in his mind
the probable result if he should Chamber
over the foot lights and fold her in his
arms. Here sit, he thought, "a pas
sion of love tearing me in two; and yet
l suppose l look as calm and as mruffled
as that venerable banker in his box"
His only relief was to join in the out
burst of applause that broke from all
parts of the house He never liked to go
behind the scenes between the acts when
Helen was singing Faust" because she
was so absorbed in the part that he felt
it was proclamation to bring her out of it;
SO he wandered about the lobby, hoping
that he might meet some one whom he
knew and who knew her. He did meet
some one very soon. West Hastings was
out there, looking very blase, and talk
ing with two or three club friends about
his projected trip abroad and the good
time he intended to have. Then he came
across Mr.. Archer, who insisted upon his
going up to the box.
Bessie has that O'Hara there. and he
bores the life out Of me with his insuffer-
able Alterations. | don't like the man,
and yet l have no right to take so violent
prejudice against him. 1t would be
great relief to me, however, if you should
come up, and know Bessie would be
glad to see you. We haven't seen you
for long time. What has been the
NATTER Mr.. Archer asked, as he con-
Quoted Rush to his box
Rush explained that he was working
up special case for The Dawn and was
unusually busy. As they neared the
box, they saw O'Hara bending low over
Bessie from his seat above They could
almost see the pupils of his cat like eyes
dilate as he talked to her in his slow, pc
culiar voice. Mrs. Archer looked at him
and shuddered. She could only catch
word of his conversation now and then,
and that more than satisfied her. He
was talking upon subject she disliked. !
Whether one believes in spiritualisn 4
or not" O'Hara was saying. ''he must
admit that there are some wonderful
things done in its name. 1 should like
you to meet a little woman down town
"a medium, l suppose she calls herself
She would tell you things that would set
you to thinking. If you want to make an
appointment to meet her, will arrange 4
the meeting, and get Mrs. Pryor to chap
eron us. It's not an attractive place. but
it is perfectly reputable or you may be |
sure | shouldn't suggest your going
there"
All this was said in low voice, SO that !
Mrs. Archer did not catch enough of the !
conversation to know what it was about. 1
Had she known, she would have spoken |
out plainly. O'Hara seemed to speak 4
DcHliu iIlo IOiSu e, anu IL was Qulto ulII1- |
cult to understand him unless you gave
your mind to the effort. This impedi- |
ment, if impediment it could be called,
made him speak slowly, and this slow
ness gave certain impressiveness to the
simplest remark he made.
Mrs. Archer greeted Rush with the |
greatest cordially. He seemed like a
Whit of fresh country air after breeze !
from Hunters Point. Bessie also was !
pleased to see him. Though she was
very much interested in what O'Hara |
was saying, she found the man rather
oppressive, and there was something
about his dilated pupils that she didn't |
altogether like.
When Rush entered the box, O'Hara I
went out, and Mrs. Archer seemed to
breathe more freely. The conversation /
was lively and general until the curtain
was rung up again. Then they listened |
with breathless interest to the beautiful /
music. Rush could not help contrasting
his present surroundings with those of a
few hours before and few hours hence.
On every side of him were youth, beauty,
refinement and wealth. The woman he