The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
Yes. probably 1t would be the same case

her to play such tricks? In the bottom of his
soul he thought that she had. but he would
not admit it to himself. The fact of the
matter was that half unknowingly he was
trying to drug his conscience. He knew in
his longing to see her dear face once more
that he had undertaken q dangerous thing
He was about to walk with her over an abyss
on a bridge which might bear them or
might break. So long rs he walked there
alone it would be well, but would it bear them
boths Alas for the frailty of human nature,
this was the truth; but he would not and did
not acknowledge it. He was not going to
make love to Beatrice; he was going to enjoy
the pleasure of her society. In friendship
there could be no harm.
1t is not difficult thus to still the uualms of
an uneasy mind, more especially when the
thing in question at its worst is rather an of
Tense against local custom than against nat
ural law. In many countries Of tho world
In nearly all countries, indeed, at different
epochs of their history-it would have been
no wrong that Godfrey and Beatrice should
love each other, and human nature in strong
temptation is very apt to override artificial
barriers erected to suit the convenience or
promote the prosperity of particular sections
u.
though all things may be lawful, yet all
things are not expedient. To commit or even
to condone an act because the principle that
stamps it as wrong will admit of argument
on its merits is mere sophistry by the aid of
which we might prove ourselves entitled to
defy the majority of laws of all calibers.-
Laws vary to suit the generations, but each
generation must obey its own, or confusion
will ensue. A deed should be judged by its
fruits; it may even be Innocent in itself, yet
if its fruits are evil the doer in sense is guilty
Thus in some countries to mention the name
of veur mother-in-law entails the most I'M
pleasant consequences on that intimate rela-
ton. Nobody can say that to name the lady
is a thing wicked in itself; yet the man who,
knowing the penalties which will ensue,
allows himself, even in a fit of passion against
that relative, to violate the custom and
mention her by name is doubtless an offender.
Thus, too, the result of an ENHANCEMENT
between & woman and man already married
generally means unhappiness and hurt to all
concerned, more especially to the woman,
whose prospects are perhaps irretrievably
injured thereby. 1t is useless to point to the
example of the patriarchs, some foreign.
royal families and many respectable Turks;
it is useless to plead that the love is deep
and holy love, for which a man or woman
might well live and die, or to show e1tenuat-
ing circumstances in the fact of loneliness
need Of sympathy and that the existing.
marriage is q hollow sham. The rule is
clear. a man may do most things except
cheat at cards or run away in action; a
woman may break half dozen hearts, or try
60 break them, and finally put herself UP at
auction and take no harm at all-but neither
of them may in any event do this.
Not that Godfrey, to do him justice, had
any such intentions. Most men are incapa-
BILE of plots of that nature. If they fall, it is
when the voice of conscience is lost in the
whirlwind of passion, and counsel is darkened
by the tumultuous pleadings of the heart.
Their sin is that they will, most of them, al
low themselves to be put in positions favor
able TO the development of these disagreeable
influences 1t is not safe to light cigarettes
in a powder factory. If Godfrey had done
/ what he ought to have done, he never would
have gone back to Bryngelly, and there
would have been no story to tell, or, no more
than there usually is.
At length Mr.. Granger and his guest
reached Bryngelly; there was nobody to
~A@SSS
coming, SO they walked up to the vicarage
1t was strange to Godfrey once more to pass
by the little church through those well re-
membered, wind torn pines and see that low.
long house. 1t seemed wonderful that all
should still be just as it was, that there should
be no change at all, when he himself had seen
SO much. There was Beatrice's home; where
was Beatrice?
III e~-,1 ,,,&.1 H. l.
dream. In another moment he was in the
long parlor where he had spent SO many
happy hours, and Elizabeth was greeting
him. He shook hands with her, and as he
did so, noticed vaguely that she, too, was ut
terly unchanged. Her straw colored hair
was pushed back from the temples in the
same way; the mouth wore the same hard
smile; her light eyes shone with the same cold
look; she even wore the same brown dress.
But she appeared to be very pleased to see
him, as, indeed, she was, for the game looked
well for Elizabeth. Her father kissed her
hurriedly and hustled from the room to look
up his borrowed cash, leaving them together.
/ Somehow Geofrey's conversational powers
| failed him. Where was Beatrices She ought
/ to be back from school. Itwas holiday time,
indeed. Could she be away?
! He made an effort and remarked absently
that things seemed very unchanged at Bryn-
gelly.
/ 'You are looking for Beatrice" said Eliza
beth, answering his thought and not his
words. "She has gone out walking, but I
think that she will be back soon. Excuse me,
but must so and see about your room"
Geoffrey hung about little, then he Lit his
pipe and strolled down to the beach, with a
vague, unexpressed idea of meeting Beatrice.
He did not meet Beatrice, but he met old Ed
ward, who knew him ut once.
lord, sir" he said, cts queer to see you
here again, specially when | thinks as how /
saw you tlrst, and you a dead 'un to all pur-
poses, with your mouth open and Miss Bea-
trice Arranging on to your hair fit to pull your
scalp off. You never was nearer old Davy
than you YVES that night, sir, nor won't be.
And now you've been spared to become a
parliament man, hears, and much good
may you do there-it will take you all your
time, strand think, sir, that should like
to drink your health"
Godfrey put his hand in his pocket and
gave the old man a sovereign. He could az
ford to do so now
Does Miss Beatrice go out canoeing nowf'
he asked, while Edward still mumbled his as.
tonished thanks
''At times, sir-thanking you kindly; il
amt many suvrinSs as comes my way
though hate the sight on it, do. I'd like to
stave hoe in the bottom OF that there
cranky concern: it amt safe, and that's the
fact. Therell be another accident out of it
one of these fine days, and no coming to next
time. But, Lord bless you, it's her way OF
pleasuring herself. She's queer 'un is Miss
Beatrice, and she gets queercr and queerer
what with their being SO tight screwed up a,
the vicarage, no tithes and that, and one
thing and another. Not but what LIN think.