The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-22

III nv Mrs Thomas with solemn pomr
tyro,,crh the great and little halls, the stons
'~arlor and the cak parlor, the library and
tbe hugo, drawing room. in which the white
I,sads of marble statues protruded from the
80 of brown holland wheroszith, they-were
1vronped about in manner CHASTITY tosbe-
hold At length they reached q small octa-
-o, shaped room that, facing south, com
manded most glorious view of sea and
Land. 1t was called the I4ady's Bouzioir, and
io;ned another of about the same size, which
in its former owners t4rnehad been ussdas q
smoking room
.sIf YOU don't mind madam, saifRthe lord
of all this naguifcence, 81 should Ike to
stop here. am getting tiredsof walking"
And there he stopped for many4years The
rest of the Castle was shut up; no scarcely
ever visited it, except occasionally tosee that
the rooms were properly aired, for he-wasa
methodical man.
As for Beatrice, shewens home, stilbchuck-
linz. to receive a severe reproof from Eliza
beth for her Iaforwar1lness." ButOWen Davies
never forgot the debt of gratitude he owed
her. In his heart he felt convinced tAat had
If not been for her no shonld havefled before
Mrs. Thomas and her horn trimmed eye
GLASSES, to return no1nore. Thetruth of tho
matter was however, that yuungsas Beatrice
vas. he fell in love with her then,and there,
oulv to fall deeper and deeper intothatdrear
abvss as years went on he never said any,
thing about it; henever even gtTe=a .hint-oE
his hopeless condition, though, of course.
Beatrice OWNED somethingof it assoon as
she cameto years of discretion But there
grew up in Owens SILENT lonely hreast,a
great and overmastering desire to make this
gray eyed girl his-wife. Hemeasurett time
by the intervals thstelapsed between his Wis
ions Of her. No period in his life Was so
wretched and utterly purpoelesS as those
two years which psssedswhflee she uaSat her
trimming college. He was very passive
lover, as yet his gathering passion did not
urge him to extremes, andehe. could never
makeup his mind to-declareit. Thesboxw Was
in his hand, but he feared to throw thedice
But he drew as near to her as he. dared.
Once he gave her a flower; it vsas-when She
was seventeen, and awkwardly expressed a
hope that she would wear itfoG his sake The
words were not much and the flower WIS not
much, but there was-a look about the mans
eyes, and a suppressed passion and energy in
| his voice that told their tale to the keen
witted girl After this he found that she
avoided him, and bitterly regretted his bold
ness. For Beatrice did not like him IN that
1
wealth was nothing. She did not coves
wealth, she coveted independence, and had
the sense to know that marriage with ssuchsa
man would not bring it to her. A,cagefsa
cage, whether the bars are iron or gold He
bored her; she despised him for>his-w zEut-of
intelligence and enterprise. Thata man with
all his wealth and endlessoppo rtuuIty should
| waste his life In such q fashion was TO her.a
| thing intolerabla- s-knsw If she-had half
his chance that she would make her name
ring. from one end of EtropeAo the other In
| short, Beatrice held him Us deeply IN con-
tempt as her sister Elizabeth, studying him
from another point of view, held him inreF-
erence And putting aside any human pre-
| objections, Beatrice would never have mar
ried q man she despised. She respected her
self too much
Owen Davies saw all this as tfroughsa.
glass darkIy, and in his own sl0w-way> cast
about for means of. drawing near. He dis
covered that Beatrice was passionGtely fond
of learning and also that she had no means
to obtain the necessary books So he threw
open his library to her. It-waS one OF the
best in Wales. He did more. He gave or
ders to London bookseller toforward him
every new book Of importance that-aFpeared
in certain classes of literature, and all OF
these he placed at her disposal, having first
carefully cut the leaves with hisown hand
This was a bait she could not resist. She
might dread or even deteSt Mr.. Davies, but
she loved his books, and if she quarreled
with him her well of knowledge would
simply run dry, for there were no circulat-
ing libraries at Bryngelly, and If there had
been she could not have afforded TO subscribe
to them. So she remained ON good terms
with him and even smiled at bis futile at
tempts to keep pace with her studies. Poor
mani reading did not come natural to HIN;
he was much better at cutting leaves. He
studied The Times land certain religious
works, that was all. But he wrestled man
fully with many q detested tome in order to
be able to say something to Beatrice about
, it, and the worst of it was that Beatrice al
ways saw through it, and showed him that
, | she did. 1t was not kind, perhaps, but youth
is cruel.
And so the years wore on, till atlergtn
Beatrice knew that a crisis was at hand
Even the hardest and most retiring lover
must come to the point at last, if he is rsearn-
, est, and Owen Davis was very much n-ear7-
est. OF late, to her disInay, he had 50 far
come out of his shell as TO allow himself tobe
nominated member of the school council
= VI course SQe knew luls WoSfyL4y
him more opportunities Of seeiDgher. Asa
member of the council he could visit the
! school of which she was mistress as often as
> he chose, and indeed he soonlearned to take
2 lively interest in village education About
twice week he wonld come in just asthe
school was breaking up and offer to walk
home with her, seeking for faEorabfeopp
+ tunity to propose. Hitherto she had always
. warCled of this last event, but she knew that
4 it must happen. Not that she was actually
I afraid of the man himself; he wastoo much
afraid of her for that. What she did fear
Z was the outburst of wrath from her father
I and sister when they learned that she hadre-
fused Owen Davies. Itnever occurred toher
that Elizabeth might be playing handsot
: her own in the matter.
!, From all of which it viii be clear, If indeed
it has not become so already, that Beatrice
,. Granger was somewhat i'll regulated young
woman, born to bring trouble on-hersalf and
all connected with her. Had she been other
4 wise, she would have taken her good fortune.
and married Owen Davies, in which case her
= history need never have been written.
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