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

ing Mr. Randolph to meet him and drive
him up from the railway station alone.
This was done, and on the way the pro-
fessor stipulated that he should be
enabled to hear Miss Randolph's voice
before she was aware of his presence.
"There is train back to the city this
evening, sir, he remarked, ''and, if
should conclude to take it, it would be
well to have spared the young lady the
annoyance Of an interview" The mat
ter was readily managed. Beatrix sang
with the unembarrassed freedom of
supposed solitude, and the Profess
scr listened. When the young lady
had finished her selection, whatever
it was, she rose from the piano and
passed out through the open window of
the room to the veranda. Here she was
surprised by the appearance of meager
and pallid parsonage, Of gentlemanly
| bearing and aspect, with broad scar
on the right side of his face and throat,
and many thoughtful lines and wrinkles
OF his brow and around his eyes, who
advanced toward her with bow and
took her hand AS she looked at him
she fancied there were tears in his eyes.
miss Randolph" he said, in low and
very pleasant voice, II am to have the
honor of being your instructor; my
name is Dorimar." He said no more at
that time, but raised her soft fingers to
his lips. and with another bow dis
appeared. He did not take the evening
train back to the city, but on
the contrary took up his abode in
the Randolphs' house, and being, in
addition to his musical attachments, a
man of cultivation, and of singular
naive charm of character, he was nearly
as much of an acquisition to Mr.. Ran
dolph as to his daughter. and they all
became very good friends. AS to his
teaching, it was a matter between his
pupil and himself, and was not often re-
ferred to outside. 1t seemed to afford
him especial pleasure to think that Bea-
trix was singing for music's sake, and
without any purpose of publishing or
profting by her requirements. emusic
is sacred thing, my child" he would
often say to her, "and like all sacred
things it is shamefully and almost uni
versally desecrated. 1t is not a mere
question of voice and ear, but of purity
and loftiness of soul. Great music never
, was greatly sung by charlatan, or a
ibertine, or fortune hunter. I, for my
part, thank God that you are what you
, are. and that you will never be obliged
to weigh your music against gold. The
world may listen to you if it can, but
you shall be spared the insult of receiv.
ing for it what it dares to call recon.
: pense!"
Beatrice acquiesced in all this wisdom
but somewhere in her secret soul she
may have cherished the germ of an am
bition to meet great multitudes of hel
fellow creatures, to test herself upor
them, perhaps to delight and inspire
them, if there were power in her so tt
6 do. Three years passed, and then Ec
went to Europe. There was some pre-
;, text about his attending lectures at {
university of mining engineering il
, Saxony, but it was tolerably trans
= parent pretext. That he should come
back at the end of two or three years
!. somewhat toned down was the best Mr.
Randolph hoped. AS to the question O
6 funds, after a good deal of meditation
Mr.. Randolph came to the following
= rather eccentric determination: Et
y was to be allowed to draw on tn
:. paternal resources for whatever sum
- of money he from time to tim
:, might require. "You may draw ittl
:, or you may draw much, my son,
? the old gentleman said, land, be it mucl
CT little, all your drafts will be dull.
;, honored. l shall not restrict you no
: advise you, but l shall depend upol
: your own sense of honor and decency, a
.. a Randolph and gentleman, not t
y, abuse my confidence in you" Thi
:. speech seemed to the utterer of it yer
= noble and impressive, and also yer
= sagacious and worldly wise. For if t
y, put a young fellow upon his honor wi
= not make him reasonably virtuous an
economical what will? Ed certainl
: showed himself pleased with the al
!, rangement, if not so much impressed b
= the phrases in which it was announce
~ to him. He was an enterprising an
=, able youth, and probably expected t
= make fortune of his own rather tina
" spend his fathers.
~ The next thing that occurred in TIL
eventful year was an offer of marriage
!, emanating from no less distinguished
y parsonage than Hamilton Jocelyn hin
- self. Beatrix thought it was exceed
=, ingly funny he should do such a thing
=, and not altogether comfortable; but a
! it was instructive with her to conside
=. other peoples feelings almost as muc
as her own, and sometimes more, sh
- suppressed her emotions and expresse
", her Acknowledgements, adding that sh
. had no idea of marrying anybody
i, When Jocelyn found that her resolv
;. was not to be shaken he very graceful
a said that to have known and loved he
" was privilege and revelation fc
}, which he should never cease to /
70 indebted to her. He said that h
20 had perhaps presumed too much i
hoping that she could ever cal
C for a grizzled old fellow like hin
IS self, but that his sentiments woul
a never change, and that if, at any futul
n time, circumstances should lead her
d reconsider her present views, she woul
h find him eager and grateful to thro'
q himself at her feet. He concluded b
d requesting that she would forbear I
{. mention the episode to any one, even
10 her father, lest the latter should /
e grieved to discover that she could NJ
e bring herself to consent to an alliant
J. with his Oldest friend. Beatrix reptile
r that she had no wish to speak of VIII;
It had occurred. and that she honed The