The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24

locked This morning when she woke. it was
to rd that Miss Beatrice nad not sic,,l l.. -,
house.that night, and she came out to see if she
could find her.
! where was she going when she went outs"
Godfrey asked.
| She did not know, but she thought that
Miss Beatrice was going out in the canoe.
Leastways she put on her tennis shoes, which
she always wore when she went out boating.
! Godfrey understood it all now. 'sCo1e 20
the bcathouse," he said.
They went down to the beach, where as yet
nobody was about except few working peo-
ple Near the boathouse Godfrey res old
Edward walking along with key in his hand.
Lord, sirr' he said You here siri and
in that there queer hat. too. What is it, sirl"
Ibid Miss Beatrice go out in her canoe yes
terday evening, Edward?p Godfrey asked,
hoarsely.
No, sir; not as / know on. Ny boy
locked up the hoathouse last night, and | sup
pose he looked in it first. What! You don't
mean to say Stop; we'll soon know. Oh,
Goad the canoes gone!"
There was a silence, an awful silence. Old
Edward broke it,
''She's drowned, sir-that's what she is
drowned at lastl and she's the finest woman
in Wales. / knew she would be one day, poor
dear! and she the beauty that she was; and
all along of that id unlucky craft. Goad
help her! She's drowned, say"-
Betty burst out into loud weeping at his
words.
"Stop that noise, girl" said Godfrey, turn
ing his pale face toward her. Go back to the
vicarage, and if Mr.. Granger comes home
before get back, tell him what we fear.
Edward, send some men to search the shore
toward Coed, and some more in a sailing
boat [ will walk toward the Bell Rock-you
can follow men
He started, and swiftly tramped along the
sands, searching the sea with his eye. On he
walked sullenly, desperately striving to hope
against hope. On, past the Dog Rocks, round
the long curve of beach, till he came to the
Amphitheatre. The tide was high again; he
could barely pass the projecting point. He
was round it, and his heart stood STILL for
| there, bottom upward, and gently swaying to
and fro, as the spent waves rocked it, was
l Beatrices canoe.
Sadly, hopelessly, heavily, Godfrey waded
knee deep into the water, and, catching the
bow of the canoe, dragged it ashore There
was, or appeared to be, nothing in it; OF
! course he could not expect anything else. 1t:
(, occupant had sunk, and been carried out &c
sea by the ebb, whereas the canoe had drifted
back to shore with the morning tide.
= He reared it upon its end and let the water
3 drain out of it, and from the hollow of the
Q bow arch something came rolling down, some
. thing bright and heavy, followed by brown
object. Hastily he lowered the canoe again
L and picked up the bright trinket 1t was hi:
own ring-the Roman ring he had given Bea
3 trice; and which she told himin the letter sh
IL would wear in her hour of death. He touched
5 it with his lips and placed it back upon hi
hand this token from the beloved dead, VOW
ing that it should never leave his hand in life
and that after death it should be buried OF
Is him. And SO it will be, perhaps to be dug VI
thousands of years hence, and once NOR
+ play part in the romance of unborn ages.
Ave atque vale-that was the Inscription
10 rudely cut within its round. Greeting an
% farewell-her own last words to him. Oh
Beatrice, Beatrice! to you also ave atque vale
% You could not have sent filter message
Greeting and FAREWELL Did it not sum it all
% Within the circle of this little ring was wri
IL the epitome of human life; here was the be-
ginning and the end of Love and Hate, c
% Hope and Fear, of Joy and Sorrow
4, Beatrice, hail. Beatrice, FAREWELL till pei
q chance q spirit rushing earthward shall or
. Correcting" in another tongue, and Deati
~ descending to his own place, shaking frol
l. his wings the dew of tears, shall answer
Farewell to me and Night, ye children
- Eternal Dayi"
:. And what was this other relic? He LITE
20 tit was her tennis shoe, washed from he
no foot-Geoffrey knew it, for once he had tied i
Then Godfrey broke down-it was too much
10 He threw himself upon the great rock an
- sobbed, that rock where he had sat with he
>, and heaven had opened to their sight But me
are not given to such exhibitions of emotion
- and fortunately for him the paroxysm d
az % not last. He could not have borne it for lon
- He rose and went again to the edge of til
- sea. At this moment old Edward and his SC
~ arrived. Godfrey pointed to the boat, ar
u. then held up the little shoe.
=, 'sAh," said the old man, ''as 1 though
~ Goad help her! She's gone; she'll never con
% ashore no more, she won't She's twent
miles away by now, she is, breast up vii
-. the gulls a-screaming over her. It's that the
"a ID canoe, that's what it is: l wish
10 10 Goad had broke it up long ago. I'd rath
" have built her boat for nothing, l woul
On Oh the unlucky craftin screamed the o
~ man at the top of his voice, and turning b
=. head to hide the tears which were streamil
nY down his rugged face. "And her that
ti nursed and pulled out of the waters once
=. but dead. Oh it, sayi There, take tbs
1'' you sea witch, you p and he picked up gre
bowlder and crashed it through the bottom
r. the canoe with all his strength. "You SHAH
~ never drown no more. But it has broug
S ,a you good luck, it has, sir; you'll be a fc
az tunit man all your life now. 1t has broug
so you the drowned ones shoe.''
Don't break it any more said Geoffre
"She used to value it. You had better bri
it along between you-it may be wanted.
am going to the vicarage."
He walked back. Mr. Granger and Eli;
beth had not yet arrived, but they were
pected every minute. He went into the
=. ting room. 1t was full of memories and
n kens of Beatrice. There lay novel which
IS had given her, and there was yesterdays
d per that she had brought from town,
g Standard, with his speech in it.
I Godfrey covered his eyes with his hal
A and thought None knew that she had comm
MA ted suicide except himself. If he revealed
yW things might be said of her; he did not CT
N what was said of him, but he was jealous
IA her dead name. 1t might be said, for
"A stance, that the whole tale was true, and Il
H Beatrice died because she could no longer Fl
IA life without being put to an open shar
u Yes, he had better hold his tongue as to Ii
and why she died. She was dead-noth
could bring her back But how, then, sho
he account for his presence there9 Eas
was enough. he would say frankly that he ca
ut because Beatrice had written TO him of
ON charges made against her and the thre