The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

democrat, as his fathers had been before
him.
These forefathers were of Virginian
descent, and two generations ago had
owned large plantations in the south.
But the young Randolph Of that epoch
had fallen in love with a northern lady,
and ended by marrying her and settling
down on this estate, which was his
brides dowry.
He was originally quite wealthy, but
lost money by speculations during the
war. With intent to compel better
fortune he soon after ran for an Office,
but was defeated, as foregone conclu-
sion, by crushing majority. To crown
all he lost his wife, to whom he was de-
votedly attached. She died of typhoid
fever in 1868. He was left with two
children, boy of 10 and a girl of 6.
Mr.. Randolph, though OF a naughty and
headstrong character, was not what is
called thorough. He was tall and of
slender build, with high shoulders, a
gray mustache and imperial, and thick,
wavy hair, growing rather long. His
eyebrows were bushy and overhanging.
and gave to his eyes fercer expression
than might otherwise have belonged to
them; he had a habit Of twisting them
between his thumb and finger when in
thought, which looked ominous to stran
gers, but really amounted to nothing.
His fingers were very long, and so were
his arguments and discussions; almost
the only short thing about him, in fact,
being his temper. His general aspect
was that of a retired southern brigadier
whose slaves had been unrighteously
made contraband His expression was,
ordinarily, profoundly serious, and he
smiled rarely; but it was not difficult to
make him break into shrill, giggling
laugh, which absurdly marred the severe
contour of his visage and betrayed the
underlying weakness.
He was fond of phrases, and had a
fancy for calling himself 1.-THE most in
dulgent of fathers" but whenever his
children transgressed the moral law of
their fathers good humor or Incidence
and this was not seldom the case with
1 Ed, who was as restless and independent
as a hawk-he fell upon them with
sweeping broadsides of rebuke, culmina-
ting, if they answered him back, in vic.
/ lent assertions of their total depravity.
! Ed was sent to school, but the study OF
books had no part in his scheme OF exist
ence. In the boys seventeenth year
Hamilton Jocelyn, friend of the fam.
lily, being on visit of few days to the
Randolphs, was tickled by Eds bearing
and the story of his exploits, and offered
/ to take him back with him to New York
city for month or so, to give him in
struction in the laws and amenities Of
polite society.
He went off accordingly, and the
month had prolonged itself to six before
he came back. His father thought thai
he had been improved by his sojourr
there. He had brought back with hin
certainly a great deal Of entertaining
talk, and gave Beatrix endless account!
of the great city, its streets, its houses
its horses, its theatres; above all, of it
operas and its concerts. Both she ant
Ed had always been paSsionately devot
ed to music. They had understood it
by the light of nature, as it were, from
a very early age, and had constant,
praciced ever since. Eds voice was no
of much use, but he was an admirabl
performer on the violin Beatrix, OF
the other hand, was above all things
! singer, and her voice developed into
soprano of remarkable range and power
/ Her studies were not confined to churcl
, music. She knew by heart all the grea
: operas and oratorios, and i'll pursuanc
of the marked dramatic ability whicl
, she possessed she had, with Eds assist
ance, acted out scenes from many of tn
former $50 far as two performers might
on the stage of the back drawing room.
One day Hamilton Jocelyn, who ha
heard all the famous singers of the worl
in his time, attended one of these privat
| entertainments Contrary to expecta
ton he turned out to be the most eulc
l CYSTIC auditor that Beatrix had ever had
and he wound up his praises by declal
ing that she must be provided with
master to bring her voice out The mos
indulgent of fathers was gratified b
this tribute Of admiration from such
; source to his favorite child, and wee
] or so afterward the master was sent fol
This was an elderly Englishman G
respectable antecedents, who, twent
years before, had begun his musica
career with what was considered th
finest tenor voice OF the age, and who's
knowledge of the principles of music
was as profound as his proficiency wa
remarkable. But before he had been
year on the operatic stage the theatre il
which he was singing caught fire, ant
he was burned about the throat in sucl
way as forever to destroy the voic
which would have made him rich anC
famous enough to satisfy ambition itself
Professor Dorimar, as he afterward cam
to be called, had some small privat
means which rendered him in humbl
way independent, and with a philo
sophical serenity which rarely char
acterizes the musical Temperament
he settled quietly down to be write
on the art and science of whose highes
triumphs he could never more hope t,
} partake. For the last eight years h
had lived in New York, but he wa
known to very few. He sat with hi
piano and his manuscripts, and hi
visions of divine harmonies, in retire,
little room few blocks west of Wash
ington square, and seldom went fort
save to listen for half an hour to on
or other of the very few singers VIII
in his Judgment were great enough t
sing. He never was known to have un