The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-10

We havc bfonghtu,sn ourselves, tits the price
that We mast pay so- this hour which has
gone. You arc to 30 away tomorrow, that
we may BE- pat ouj Of temptation, and YOU
must come baci, no more Sometimes shall
write 10 you, and sometimes perhaps you win
write TO me, till the thing becomes n burden:
then you can stop. And whether you forget
me or not--and, oh, Godfrey, do not think
you will-you will know that | shall never
forget you, whom | saved from the sea-to
love me. ~
There was something SO sweet and SO inf
mteiy tender about her words, instinct as
they were with natural womanly passion,
that Godfrey bent at heart beneath their
weight as FIR bends beneath the gentle. gath
ering snow. What was he to do how could
he leavcher! and vet she was right. He must
go, ana goquick,y, lest his strength might fail
him, and hand in hand they should pass a
bourne from which there is no return.
Heaven help us, Beatrice" be said ~
viii go tomorrow morning and, il can, l
will keep away"
You must keep away. will not see you
any more. ! viii not bring trouble Oh you,
Godfrey
You talk of bringing trouble on me" he
said; you say nothing of yourself, and yet
man, ever. man with eyes on him like N.Y.
self, IS better fitted TO weather such a storm
Ii 1t ruined me- how much more would it ruin
your"
They were at the gate of the vicarage now,
and tue wind rushed SO strongly through the
frs that she needed to put her lips quite close
TO his ear to make her words heard
Stop one minute" she said; perhaps YOU
do lot quite understand. When a woman
does whaG | have done it is because she loves
with al her life and heart and soul, because
all these are part of her love. For myself
no Longer care anything-I have no self
away from you; / am no longer of myself or
in my own keeping. l am of you and in
yours. For myself and my own fate or
name ! think no more; with my eyes open
and Of my own free will have given every
thing TO you, and am glad and happy to give
it. But for you still do care, and if l took
any step or allowed you to take any that
could bring sorrow on you should never for
give myself. That is why we must part.
Godfrey. And now let US 90 in. There is
nothing more to say except this: If you wish
to bid me good-by, a last good-by, dear
Geoffrey, will meet you tomorrow morning
on the beach"
II shall leave at half-past s." he said
hoarsely.
"Then we will meet at 4" Beatrice said,
and led the way into the house
Elizabeth and Mr.. Granger were already
seated at supper. They supped at on Sun
day nights; it was just half-past.
Dear me,n said the old gentleman, 1--WE
began to think that you two must have been
out canoeing and got yourselves drowned in
aar hot hos TO-
doing!n
1--WE have had a long walk" answered
Godfrey; Il did not know that it was so
late"
Zone wants to be pleased with ones COM
pany to walk far on such night as this, -
put in Elizabeth maliciously
And so we were-at least | was.n Geof-
frey answered with perfect truth, s.and the
night is not so bad as you might think, at
least under the lee of the cliffs. 1t will be
worse by and byl"
Then they sat down and made desperate
snow of eating supper. Elizabeth, the keen
eyed, noticed that Geoffrey's hand was shak-
ing. Now what, she wondered, would make
the hand of a strong man shake like leaf?
Deep emotion might do it, and Elizabeth
thought that she detected other signs of emo
shaking hand. The plot was working well
but could it be brought to climax? Oh, if
he would only throw prudence to the winds
and run away with Beatrice, so that she
might be rid of her, and free to fight for her
own hand.
Shortly after supper both Elizabeth and
Beatrice went to bed. leaving their father
with Geoffrev.
"Well,n said Mr.. Granger, Ibid you get
word with Beatrice! 1t was very kind of you
TO go that long tramp on purpose Gracious,
how it blows. We shall have the house down
presently. Lightning, too, declare"
Yes" answered Godfrey, II did,
And nope You tod her that there was
no need for her to give UP hope OF him yet
of Mr. Davies, | means'
Eyes, l told her that-that is, if the greater
includes the less" he added to himself
And how did she take ts''
VERY badly said Godfrey; ''she seemed
to think that had no right to interfere"
Indeed, that is strange. But it doesn't
mean anything. She's grateful enough TO
You at heart. depend upon it she is, only she
did not like to say SO. Dear HE, how it
blows; we shall have night of it, a regular
gale, declare So you are going away to-
morrow morning Well, the best of friends
must part. | hope til st you will often come
and see us. Good-by."
Once more sense of the irony of the posi-
ton overcame Godfrey, and he smiled
grimly as he lit his candle and wen. to bed.
At the back Of the house was long passage.
which terminated at one end in the room
where he slept, and at the other in that oc-
cupied by Elizabeth and Beatrice. This pas
sage was lit by two windows, and built out
of IL were two more rooms--that of Mr..
Granger, and another which had been Efie's.
The windows of the passage, like most of the
Others in the vicarage, were innocent shutters.
and Godfrey stood for moment at one of
them, watching the lightning illunine the
broad breast of the mountain behind Then
looking towards the door of Beatrice's room.
he gazed at il with the peculiar reverence
that sometimes afiicts people who are very
much in love, and, with a sigh, turned and
sought his own.
He could not sleep, it was impossible. For
nearly two hours he lay turning from side to
side, and thinking till his brain seemed like
TO burst. Tomorrow he must leave her. leave
her forever, and go back to his coarse I'M
profitable struggle with the world, where
there would be no Beatrice to make him happy
through it ali. And she, what of herr
The storm Ind lulled little; now it came
back il strength, heralded by the lightning.
de rose, threw on dressing gown and sat by
the window watching il. Its tuni,Ilt and fury
peemed TO ease his heart of some little pain; in
that dark hour quiet night would have mad
aened him.
In eight hours-eight short hours-this mat
YER would be ended SO far as concerned their
ictual intercourse. 1t would be a secret
oched forever in their two breasts, n secret