The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29

Won make that out III YOU believe III what
we have been taught, as I think you do,
wherever it was you found yourself there
would be plenty of company, and II, like me,
Won do mott believe in anything. why, then, II
YOU would hive slept, and sleep asks Tor
nothing"
Ibid YOU believers nothing when Nou lay
upon the rock, waiting to be drownedS MISS
Granger?" L
'.Nothingln she answered; ''only weak peo-
ple find revelation in the cxtremities OF fear.
If revelation comes at all, surely 1t must be
born in the heart and not in the senses.
believed in nothing and dreaded nothing,
except the agony of death Why should
be afraida Surprising that l-------@77'''s't-;en,
and there is something beyond, Is IL my 1auis
that | cannot believed What nave l dons
that should be afraid2 [ LaveneTer harmed
anybody that know of, AMI II couid De-
Ieve l would / wish had died, she Went
on. passionately; ''it would alNbe over now
/ am tired of theworld, tired On work and
helpleSsness, and ell the little Worries wnicn
wear one out am not wanted here, nave
nothing to live for, and wish thaSN1 mad
died!"
''Some day you will think differently AIlss
Granger There are many things thaV
woman like yourself can live for-au tee
least, there is your work"
+ She laughed drearily. Ny work! IL you
only knew what it is like you would not tslk
to me about it. Every day Irou my stone u9
the hill and every night it seems toSroll downi
again But you have never. taught IN VII
lage school How can you know! lwoES all
day, and in the evening perhaps nave 70
mend the tablecloths, or-what do you thinlal
r. IF sounds !
GUS does it not, that should wEite sermonsl
But 1 do. l wrote the one he> going 10
preach next Sunday. 1t makes very little
difference to him what it is so long ashe can
read it, and, of course, | never say anything
which can offend anybody, and do not
think that they listen much. Very few peo-
pie go to church in BryngeIly."
Don't you ever get any time to yourseN,
then?" -
.sOh, yes, sometimes | do, and then so
out in my canoe, or read and am almost
happy. After all, Mr.. Bingham, it IS very
wrong and ungrateful of me to speak1ike
this. l have more advantages than niIs-
tenths of the world, and / ought to make the
best of them. l don't know why have been
speaking as l have, and to you, whom never
saw till yesterday never did it before 10
any living soul, l assure you. 1t is just like
the story of the man who came hear last year
with the divining rod. There is cottage
down on the ciiff-it belongs to Mr.. Davies,
who lives in the castle. WE'LL they have no
drinking water near, and the new tenant
made great fuss about it. So hlr. Davies
got men, and they dug and dug and spent no
end of money, but could not come to water.
At last the tenant fetched an old man from
some parish q long way off, who said that he
could find water with divining rod. He was
: curious old man with a crutch, and he
came with his rod, and hobbled about till at
last the rod twitched just at the tenant'sbacl
door-at least the diviner said it did. At tuy
rate, they dug there, and in ten minutes
struck spring of water, which bubbled up
so strongly that it rushed into the house and
flooded it. And what do you think! After
all, the water was brackish. You are the
: man with the divining rod, Mr. Bingham,
! and you have made me talk great deal too
much, and, after all, you see it is not nice
talk. You must think me very disagreeable
and wicked young woman, and daresay |
I am But somehow it is relief to open one:
mind. 1 do hope, Mr. Bingham, that you
will see-in short, that you willnot misunder-
stand me-"
: Miss Granger" he answered, ''there is
/ between us that which will always eutitle
I us to mutual respect and conference.-the
L link of life and death. Had it not been for
i you l should not sit here to listen 70 your
confidence today. You may tell me that O
g mere natural impulse prompted you to do
S what you did | know better. IL was your
g viii that triumphed over your natural i'm
IS pulse towards self preservation. Well,
}, will say no more about it, except this: II
t ever a man was bound to woman by ties Of
d gratitude and respect, 1 am bound to you
81 You need not fear that l shall take advan
n tage of or mislnterpret your confidence.
# Here he rose and stood before her, his dark
le handsome face bowed in proud humility.
d miss Granger, l look upon it as an honor
done to me by one whom henceforth | must
N reverence among ali women. The life yor
gave back to me, and the intelligence which
n directs it, is in duty bound to you, and
shall not forget the debt"
y She listened to his words, spoken in thai
ar deep and earnest voice which afterwards be
e, came so familiar to her najestys judges anC
a. to parliament, listened with new sense o
Of pleasure rising in her heart. She was thi
mans equal; what he could dare, she coul'
ID dare; where he could climb, she could follow
Ut aye, and if need be, show the path-ani
she felt that he acknowledged it. IN III
ID sight she was something more than hand
some girl to be admired and deferred to 70
as her beauty's sake. He had placed her O
T. another level-one perhaps. that few wome
So would have wished TO occupy. But Beatric
was thankful to him. 1t was the first tast
n of supremacy that she had ever known.
a 1t is something to stir the proud heart Q
such woman as Beatrice, in that momen
1g when for the first time she feels herself
r. conqueror, victorious not through the vulga
en- advantage of her sex, not by the su5miSsio
ct of mans coarser sense, but rather by th
Is overbalancing weight of mind.
MS "Do you know" she said, suddenly lookin
up, you make me very proud" and 81
-ul stretched out her hand to him.
I'D He took it, and, bending, touched it wit
his lips. There was no possibility of misii
* terpreting the action, and though she colore
eli a lttle-for. till then, no man had even kisse
az the tip of her 1lnger-she didnot misinterpr'
it. It was an act of homage and that was al
Ok And 50 they sealed the compact of the
oil perfect friendship forever and a day.
hg Then came moments silence. 1t w
iSs Godfrey who broke it.
he Miss Granger he said, ''will yoa allo
90 me to preach you a lecture, a very sho
ng onca'
SO on she said.
eat Every well. Do not blame me if you don
700 like it, and do not set me down as a pri
Tue though 1 am going to tell you your faults
Tread them in your own words. You q
proud and ambitious, and the crampel lin
'eo III which you are forced to live seem