The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-12


gins & Lewis, our western agents, | this
morning learned that ny cashier has been
faithless. He fed to Canada Oh Saturday,
and Il hurried examination of his books
shows that he has robbed me of at least
sao0,o0o"
''But you are rated at million; surely
You can weather the Storm said Henry.
hope rather than reason prompting his
words.
'If you were business man, as / want
ed You to be-" said Mr.. Henshall impa-
tiently, You would know that mans
rating by an agency is never an evidence
OF the cash he can command"
Then. rising from his chair, he laid his
hands on his sons shoulders, looked eager
ly into his eyes end added, Harry, you can
save me if you willli'
81, father?' and behind the old gentle
man Harry Henshall saw the Undine face
peering at him from the pictured water on
the easel
Eyes, you. Harry. Sit down and when
have told you all am sure you will fall
in with my purpose, for have been to you
good father, and | feel that you will be
to me a dutiful son. !"
Harry sat down, and taking chair fac
ing him his father went on to explain his
troubles.
~ am in the power of one man, " hesaid,
land by scratch of his pen he can ruin or
save me-"
"Who is that9" asked Henry.
Edward Hartman
1.-THE bankerf"
eyes, Edward Hartman, Lena Hartman's
father. Harry, you and Lena played to-
gether as children, and Mr.. Hartman and
I've were neighbors and good friends in
those days-often laughingly spoke of the
marriage of you and Lena From that
time to this she has loved you. She is an
only child and her father is worth S6,OO0,-
600.
"If you will call on her at once may get
time to think, and if you ask her to marry
you it will save me and your mother from
an old age of poverty, and in the end you
will bless the day that you took my advice.
Mr.. HeDshall held out his trembling
hands appealingly, and Henry, who sat
with his back to the picture, took them and
said impulsiyely:
II would give my life gladly to save you
from trouble, father, so will do as you re-
quest; though it will be unjust to Lena
Hartman to offer her my hand when can
not give her my heart"
Rejoicing much at his sons obedience
Mr. Henshall left the studio.
Then Henry turned to the easel, and
more distinctly than it had yet appeared
he saw the beautiful, mysterious face look
ing up appealingly from the water.
He contrasted this exquisite ideal with
the real Lena Hartman, the art child thai
haunted him sleeping and waking with
the large, full faced and stupidity good
natured bankers daughter.
Henry Henshali's mind was certainly in
an unusual state of perturbation, but it
was placidity itself compared with the coz
dition of his unknown idol
The sudden disappearance OF Mr.. Craw-
ford and his family from No West Thirty
eighth street was at the suggestion of Dr.
Watson, whose keen ears and sharp eyes
were quick to discover the hourly ilcreas-
ing curiosity of their neighbors in tue
apartment house. and it was Dr.. Watson
who secured the new and moro secluded
quarters on Kowenhaven place, near Sixty
seventh street and Central park
| Being retired, we'll furnished and on the
ground floor, the new apartments were
preferable to the old ones, and Miss Brown,
the governess, who of late had shown a
coquettish interest in Mr.. Crawford, de-
clared to Edna that it was "a perfect little
paradise of home"
To Edna Crawford, who seemed to have
lost interest in life, it mattered not where
she was or whittier she went. so that the
place offered her refuge from the haunt
| in, a,ot. Of ~.
To avoid meeting this man at table she
seigned sickness and had her meals served
in her room; hut the very means used to
avoid him brought him into her presence
with an eager tender of his professional
services.
| When he was out of sight she loathed
him; when he was near, with his strange
eyes burning into her face, or his fingers
pressing her pulse, while he pretended to
look at his watch. she was as powerless to
resist as ii bird under the fascination of 4
snake.
Fortunately, the doctor Yas now away
the greater part of every day. and Edna
would take advantage OF his absence to
comfort herself with the magic violin
She Stunned her father. because be was
forever sounding the praises OF the doctor;
and 70: the same reason, she avoided Miss
Brown rs mech as possible, though tta;
iady's increasing deviation to Mr. CFaw
ford did no; escape her notice.
One evening after supper she heard Dr.
Watson saying to her father in the hall
i expect 10 see u party from the west to
night. aud if there is anything of impor
tarte TO communicate I'll wake you up or
my return after IL. :"
10 this Mr. Crawford replied il y nerv
Gus voice: 'if there ~ not Il certainty oil
arranging the terms, so as to prevent pub
LEFTY, we mast siil foT Earope en- Satur
day feel rs if Icnald net hold up mucl
longer Under the strain"
After the doctor had gone CIT Mr. Craw
ford came into his daughters room, and t.
his great delight she was less excitabl,
and more tlemonstratiyo in her affection
than usual.
After an hours talk she kissed him goot
night, saying that she felt weary an:
would lie down. and requesting him to tel
Miss Brown that she need not see her agaiI
till morning.
As soon as her father had gone ont Idni
quickly placed her violin and several roll
of music i'll the case, then hurriedly put III
her ic;velry and a change OF clothing int
n little valise and lowered the light.
She waited for an hour after Miss Brow
had gone TO bed in the adjoining room
| then quickly put on II street dress, ant
carrying the valise and violin case left tn
, house ;ss noiseessly rs a shadow,
, Looking neither TO the right nor left sh
, made her way to the Third Avenue Elevat
Ell road ard TOOK car hound south.
She got out at Fulton street, utterly ig
[ norant of her whereabouts, and quite a