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

ing, followed by the crowd of sightseers.
might as well leave them here at once,n
said one of the bearers to the other in Welsh.
81 doubt they are both dead enough"
The person addressed assented, and the
thick set man wrapped in the dark cloak, who
was striding along by Beatrice's stretcher,
groaned again. Clearly, he understood the
| Welsh tongue. A few seconds more and they
were passing through the stunted frs up to
the vicarage door. In the doorway stood a
group of people. The light from lamp in
the hall struck upon them, throwing them
into strong relief. Foremost holding Ian
tern in his hand, was a man of about GO, with
snow white hair which fell in confusion over
his rugged forehead He was of middle
height and carried himself with something
of stoop. Tbeeyes were small and shifting,
and the mouth hard. He wore short whis-
kers which, together with the eyebrows, were
still tinged with yellow. The face was rudy
and healthy looking; indeed, had it not been
for the dirty white tie and shabby black coat,
one would have taken him to be what he was
in heart, a farmer of the harder sort, some
what weather beaten and anxious about the
times-a man who would take advantage of
every drop in the rate of wages. In fact, he
was Beatrice's father and a Clergyman.
By his side, and leaning over him, was Eliz-
abeth, her elder sister, There was five years
between them. She wasa poor copy of Bea-
trice, or, to be more accurate, Beatrice was Il
grand development OF Elizabeth. They both
had brown hair, but Elizabeth's was straight
er and faint colored, not rich and ruddying
into gold. Elizabeth's eyes We're also gray,
but it was cold washed out gray like that of
a February sky. And So with feature after
feature, and with the expression also. Bea-
trice's was noble and open, if at times defiant.
Looking at her you knew that she might be
mistaken woman, or a headstrong woman, or
both, but she could never be a mean woman.
Whichever of the ten commandments she
might choose to break, it would not be that
which forbids US to bear false witness against
our neighbor. Anybody might read it in her
eyes. But in her sisters he might read her
fathers shifty hardness watered by woman's
weaker will into something like cunning For
the rest Elizabeth had very fair figure, but
lacked her sisters rounded loveliness, though
the two were SO curiously alike that at a dis
lance you might well mistake the one for the
other. One might almost fancy that nature
had experimental upon Elizabeth before she
) made up her mind to produce Beatrice, just
to get the lines and distances. The one sister
) was to the other what the pale unfinished
, model of clay is to tue polished statue in ivory
and gold.
"Oh, my God my Godl" groaned the old
man; 'look, they have got them on the
! stretchers They are both dead Oh, Bea-
tricel Beatricel and only this morning 1
| spoke harshly TO her."
beth sharply. ''They may only be insensible ~
ssAh ali bn o-,Sr,nr.a1. StI+
ter to you, you don't caro- about your sis
ter. You're jealous of her. But love her,
though we don't understand each other
5 Here they come. Don't stand staring there.
, Go and see that the blankets and things are
2 hot. Stop, doctor; tell me, is she deadln
How can l tell till I've seen her2n the doc
tor answered roughly, shaking him Off and
entering the door,
Bryngeily vlcarage was n very simply con-
, structed house. On entering the door the
/ visitor found himself in passage with doors
r to the right and left. That to the right led
to the sitting room. that to the left to the
[ dining room, both of them long, low and mar
/ row chambers Following the passage down
for some five PAGES, it terminated in another
L which ran at right angles to it for the entire
Q length of the house. On the further side of
I, a room at each end That at the end of the
right was occupied by Beatrice and her sister,
, the next was empty, the third was Mr..
t Changers and the fourth the spare room.
This, with the exception of the kitchens and
servants sleeping place, which were beyond
: the dining room, made up the house.
Fires had been lit in both the sitting rooms.
Godfrey was taken into the dining room and
cttaD6ad NV tho fnatprfc nd
t trice into the sitting room and attended by
the doctor himself. In few seconds the
: rooms had been cleared of all except the
!, helpers, and the work began. The doctor
looked at Beatrice'S cold shrunken form and
3 at the foam upon her lips. He lifted the eye.
' lid and held light before the contracted pu.
f pill. Then he shook his head and set to worl
with a will. We need not follow him through
: the course of his dreadful labors, with which
h most people will have some acquaintance
Hopeless as they seemed, he continued then
for hour after hour
= Meanwhile the assistant and some helper.
were doing the same service for Godfrey
. Bingham, the doctor himself, thin, clever
t looking man, occasionally stepping across the
passage to direct them and see how things
Q were getting on. Now. although Godfrey
: had been in the water the longest, his was By
g far the best case, for when he was Immersed
Q he was already insensible. and q person in
| this condition is very hard to drown 1t is
your struggling, fighting, breathing creature
d who is soonest made an end of i'll deep waters.
Therefore 1T came to pass that when the
q scrubbing with hot cloths and the artificial
i respiration had gone on for somewhere about
q twenty minutes Godfrey suddenly crooked a
finger. The doctors assistant a bouyant
d youth fresh from the hospital, gave a yell OF
Q exultation and scrubbed and pushed away
with ever increasing energy. Presently the
/, subject coughed, and minute later, as the
IS agony of returning life made itself felt, he
L swore most heartily.
d ''He's all right nowl" called the assistant
. to his employer. "He'sswearing beautifully.
r DR.. Chambers, pursuing his melancholy
st and unpronIising task in the other room
d smiled sadly and called to the assistant t,
continue the treatment, which he did witt
G much vigor. .
e Presently Godfrey came partially to life
e still suffering torments. The first thing Ii,
grew aware of was that tall. elegant woman
r was standing over him, looking at him witt
t half puzzled and half Mortified air Vaguel,
:, he wondered who it was The tall form ant
: cold, handsome face were so familiar TO him
l and yet he could not recall the name 1t wa
not till she spoke that his numbed brain real
a lied that he was looking on his own wife
swell, dear, she said, Pm glad that yol
1 are better. You frightened me out of m,
y wits. l thought you were drowned"
6 THANK you," he said family, and thel
groaned as a fresh attack of tingling pail
- shoot, him throuCh ond 1hrouUh