The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-23

worth thousand miles of special travel, |
and to be had by going less than as many
feet. This is the very latest day for
changing the survey. Tomorrow will
be too late. That is why I'm telegraph
ing so urgently"
Click, click, click! Mary went to the
telegraphic instrument. She delivered
the message by word of mouth, instead
of taking it down in the usual manner
with pen.
Gerald Heath, Overlook" she trans
lated from the metallic language of the
instrument; ''your idea is foolish. We
cannot entertain it. Henry Deckerman,
president.
Gerald looked like man receiving
jury's verdict involving great pecuniary
loss, if not oneof personal condemnation,
as he listened to the telegram.
"Zat ees whata I theenk," remarked
Ravelli, with insolent elation; "you
ARE one-a fool, as re president he say
Gerald was already angered by the
dispatch. The haunting epithet was
timed to excite him to fury, which he
impulsively spent upon the more imme-
date provoker. He seized Ravelli by
the throat, but without choking him,
and almost instantly let him go, as
though ashamed of having assailed
man of not much more than half his own
strength and nearly twice his age. With
Italian quickness Ravelli grabbed Ger
AIDS knife from the desk, against which
he was flung. He would have used it,
too, if self-defense had been necessary,
but he saw that he was not to be further
molested, and so he concealed the weapon
under his arm, while Gerald strobe
away, unaware of his escape from stab.
''He is a one beeg bully" said Ravelli,
with forced composure. "Eef lady
had-a not been here"-
''You tormented him." the girl inter
rupted. 81 once saw the best natured
mastiff in the world lose his temper and
turn on a. She stopped before say
ing 'cur," and added instead: eff he was
foolish you were not very wise to tease
him."
He is-a what to you, Eat you take-a
hees part?"
She bit her lips in resentment, but
made no reply.
'Pare-haps he is one-a lover oof you?"
Still she would not reply to his imper-
Thence. That angered him more than
the severest rejoinder would have done
ooh, am sure-a Eat he ees one sutton. 5"
She gave way at length to his provoca-
ton, and yet without any violent words,
for she simply said: 'You are insulting,
while he is at least reasonably polite
when he needs me at all, which isn't
often"
"Not-a often? But somewhat closely
he media you. See Eat.
With an open palm he struck the place
on the sapling where Gerald had whit
tied. The spot was on the outer edge,
where Mary could not see it from her
seat She went round to the front of
the primitivcly constructed desk or high
counter to crafty her curiosity. There
she saw that Gerald had carved hand,
her own hand, as she instantly perceived.
The small and shapely member was re-
produced in the fresh pale wood with
rare fidelity. She had unconsciously
posed it while working the key of the
Geographic instrument under the jack
knife sculptor's eyes, and there had been
ample time for him to whittle fac-simile
into the birch.
HE is almost as inpertinent as you
are" she said, and turned to see how
Ravelli took the comment.
t But Ravelli had disappeared.
! Then, being alone, she laid hand of
her own coquettishly alongside its wood
en- counterpart, and critically admired
the likeness.
''It was an unwarranted liberty" she
said to herself, "but he did it very well. "
The delicate fiber of the wood had
favored the carver's purpose. The imi-
tation hand bore shade Of fattery in
the barely tinted birchen white and in
the fine grained satin s,noothness that
the keen blade had wrought, but this
was not too much for more than a rea-
sonable compliment. As to the model
ing, that was sincerely accurate, and
the fingers rested on the key precisely as
Mary had seen them during many hours
of many days. IL is an excessively vain
girl who admires herself as actually as
she does a portrait, and the telegraphel
really saw more beauty in the bircher
hand than she had ever observed in the
live one. As she contemplated it Ra
velE returned noiselessly behind hez
Ga wish to say something, Mees Was
rine-."
The Italian accent of Ravelli grated
with unnatural harshness on Marys ears
and if he had been an intruder upon hel
privacy instead of man in really pub
lie place she would not have been sur
prised into deep flush. She snatchei
her hand away from its wooden counter
part and clasped it with its mate behind
her as she leaned her shoulder agains
the carving to hide it.
eff you have message to send" sh,
said, 81 can't get it on the wire to,
soon. It's within five minutes of tim,
to shut Off"
She started to go behind the desk. Fl
stopped her with touch upon he
shoulder and she shrank away reprov
ingly, although it was solely the man
earnestness that made him do it.
ono, no. 1t ees not words fora 2
wire Eat 1 have-a for you," he said. &c
wish-a to tell to yourself something
Will you leesten?''
eyes, if it is something that ough
tn hear"
"Thees eez it. I am a-more than
seem Acknowledgement so deef-e-ren
| you would hardly know-a me. In ri
} place I am only contractor for re Ia