The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-28


EDelyr sank into a chair and covered her
tdce S0Sth her trembling hands.
When came down before dinner !
found Ralph and Charles talking earn
estly by the hall fire, Ralph's hand on
his brothers shoulder.
''You see we are no further forward
than we were," he was saying.
ave shall have Marston back to-1nor.
row" said Charles, as the gong began to
sound. ''We cannot take any step till
then, especially if we don't want to put
our foot in it. 1 have been racking nv
brains all the afternoon without the YES
tige of a result. We must just hold our
hands for the moment"
Dinner was announced. and we waited
patiently for few minutes and impa-
tiently for a good many more, until
Evelyn hurried down, apologizing for
being late, and with message from
Lady Mary that we were not to wait for
her, as she was dining upstairs in her
ON4AOOAA4s JlSlCO1Oo W w she seemed
rather addicted.
And where is Aurelia?" asked Ralph.
''She Is not coming down to dinner
either" said Evelyn. 'sShe has a bad
headache again, and is lying down. She
asked me to tell you that she wishes par
ticularly to see you this evening, as she
Is going away tomorrow, and if she is
well enough she will come down to the
morning room at 8; indeed she said she
would come down anyhow"
After Ralph's natural anxiety respect
ing his lady love had been relieved, and
he had been repeatedly assured that
nothing much was amiss, we went Ia to
dinner, and q more lugubrious repast I
never remember being present at. The
meals OF the DAY might have been CLASH
fed thus: Breakfast, dismal; luncheon.
dismaller Tor more disnaD; dinner, dis
mallest (or most dismaD. There really
was no conversation. Even |. who.
without going very deep (Which L con-
slider is not in good taste), have some
thing to say on almost every subject
even l felt myself nonplused for the
time being. Each of us in turn got out
a few constrained words and then re-
lapsed into silence.
Evelyn ate nothing, and her hand
frembled SO much when she poured out
glass of water that she split some on
the cloth. saw Charles was watching
her furtively, and 1 became more and
more certain that Aurelia was right
and that Evelyn knew something about
the mystery of the night before. must
and would speak to her that very even
ing.
Bitterly cold" said Ralph, when at
last we had reached the dessert stage.
sit is showing still, and the wind is
getting up"
In truth the wind was moaning round
the house like an uneasy spirit.
THAT sound in the wind always
means. snow" said Charles, evidently
for the sake of saying something. 1T
Is easterly, should think. Yes" after
pause, when another silence seemed
Imminent, There goes tho 8 o'clock
train. 1t must be quite quarter of an
hour late, though, for it has struck
some time. can hear it distinctly.
The station is three miles away, and you
never hear the train unless the wind is
in the east"
Come, Charles, not three miles-two
miles and half" put in Ralph.
well, two and half from here down
TO the station, but certainly three from
the station up here replied Charles:
and SO silence was laboriously avoided
by dihgent small talk. until we returned
30 the drawing room, thankful there nt
least we could take up a book and be ST.
tntn Fe wished. We ali did wish it, an
paren1y. Evelyn wassitting by a lamp
when we came In with a book before
her, her elbow on the table, shading her
face with slender, delicate hand. She
remained motionlees, her eyes fixed upon
the page, but noticed after some time
that she had never turned it over.
Charles may have read his newspaper.
but if he did it was with one eve upon
Evelyn all the time. Between watching
Them both did not, as may be imagin-
ed, make much progress myself. How
was L to manage to speak to EVELYN
alone, and without Charles knowledge?
At last Ralph, VINO had gone into the
morning room, opened the drawing room
door, and put his head in.
'Aureha has not come down vet. and
1t is quarter past 8. wish you would
run up, Evelyn, and see if she is COM .
ing"
''She is sure to Gomez replied EVELYN.
without raising her eyes. .'She said she
must see you"
Ralph disappeared again, and the
books and papers were studied anew
with answering devotion. At the end
OF another ten minutes, however, the
impatient lover reappeared.
1T is half-past g." he said, in an in
2ured tone. do pray run up, EVELYN,
L don't think she can be coming at all. I
Rn afraid she is worse"
Evelyn laid down her book and LEFT
the room. Ralph sauntered back into
the morning room, where we heard him
beguiling his solitude with few chords
On the piano.
Presently Evelyn returned. She was