The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
r, WHAT BEATRICE DREAMED.

Godfrey lay upon his back watching the
still patch of sunshine and listening to the
ticking of the clock, as he passed all these
and many other events in solemn review, till
the series eliminated in his vivid recollec-
tions of the scene of that very morning.
I'm sick of it," he said at last aloud;
''sick and tired She makes my life wretch
ed If it wasn't for Ellie, upon my word
I'd By Jove it's 3 o'clock; I'll go and
see Miss Granger. She's a woman, not a
female ghost at any rate, though she is free
thnker-which," he added as he slowly
struggled off the couch, sis very foolish
thing to be-"
Very shakily for he was sadly knocked
about, he hobbled down the long, narrow
room and through the door which was ajar.
The opposite door was also set half open. He
knocked softly, and getting no answer pushed
it wide and looked in, thinking that he had
perhaps made some mistake as to the room.
On sofa placed about two-thrds down its
length, lay Beatrice asleep. She was wrapped
in kind of dressing gown of some simple
blue stuff, and all about her breast and
shoulders streamed her lovely, curling hair
Her sweet face was towards him, its pallor
relieved only by the long shadow of the dark
lashes and the bent bow of the lips. One
white wrist and hand hung down almost to
the floor, and beneath the spread curtain of
the sunlit hair her bosom heaved softly in her
sleep. She looked so wondrously beautiful
in her rest that he stopped almost awed, and
gaZed, and gazed again, feeling as though a
present sense and power were sitting his
heart to silence 1t is dangerous to look upon
such quiet loveliness, and very dangerous to
feel that pressure at the heart. \ truly wise
man feeling it would have fed, knowing that
seeds sown in such silence may live to bloom
upon bitter day, and shed their fruit into
the waters of desolation. But Godfrey was
not wisc-who would have beens He still
stood and gazed till tho sight stamped itself
SO deeply on the tablets of his heart that
through all the years to come no heats OF
passion, no frosts of doubt, and no sense of
loss could ever dull its memory.
The silent sun shone OH, the silent woman
slept, and in silence the watcher gazed. And
as he looked great fear, IL prescience of evil
that should come, entered into him and took
possession of him. Il cloud without crossed
the ray of sunlight and turned it 1t waver-
ed, for a second it rested on his breast, flashed
back to hers, then went out; and as it flashed
for life till death, ayl and beyond, his fate
and that sleeping woman's were one fate. II
was but momentary knowledge; the feal
shook him, and was gone almost before hi
understood its foolishness But it had beer
with him, and in after days he remembered it
Just then she woke, opening her gray eyes
Their dreamy glance fell upon him, looking
through him and beyond him, rather than n
him. Then she raised herself a little, AMI
stretching out both her arms towards him
spoke aloud.
$50 you have come back to me at last,
she said. 81 knew that you would come, ant
/ have waited"
He made no answer; he did not know wha
to say, indeed he began to think that he mus