The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-20
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lifting of the fringed lids from time 10
time as though in response to eager
question or appeal? Heavensl would
that train never come?
AS the train came rumbling finally
into the station she saw him once more
clasp her sisters hand; then, with one
long look into the sweet face that was
hidden from her jealous eyes, he raised
his forage cap and stepped quickly back
to where his horse was held. Her hus-
band fastened to her side:
''Kate, must speak to him. don't
care how he may take it. 1 cannot 90
without it,
They all watched the tall captain as
he strobe across the platform. Every
man in uniform seemed to know instinct
lively that Rayner at last was seeking
to make open reparation for the bitter
wrong he had done. One or two strove
to begin a general chat and affect an in
terest in something else for Mrs. Rayner,s
benefit, but she, with trembling lips, stood
gazing after her husband and seemed to
beg for silence. Then all abandoned
other occupation, and every man stood
still and watched them. Hayne had
quickly swung into saddle, and had
turned for one more look, when he saw
his captain with ashen face stridine
towards him, and heard him call his
name.
SPY Jove!' muttered Ross, "what
command that fellow has over himselfr'
for, scrupulously observant of military
etiquette, Mr.. Hayne on being addressed
by his superior officer had instantly dis
mounted, and now stood silently facing
him. Even at the distance, there were
some who thought they could see his
features twitching; but his blue ewes
were calm and steady-far clearer than
they had been but moment agone when
gazing good-by into the sweet face thew
worshiped. None could hear what
passed between them. The talk was
very brief; but Ross almost gasped with
amaze, other officers looked at one an.
other in utter astonishment, and Mrs.
Rayner fairly sobbed with excitement
and emotion, when Mr. Hayne was seen
to hold forth his hand, and Rayner.
grasping it eagerly in both of his own.
shook it once, then strobe hastily away
towards the rear of the train. His ewes
were filled with tears he could not repress
and could not bear to show.
That evening as the train wound steadi-
ly eastward into the shadows of the night.
and they looked out in farewell upon the
slopes they had last seen when O wintry
gale swept fiercely over the frozen sur
face and the shallow ravines were streak
ed with snow, Kate Rayner, after q long
talk with her husband, and abandoning
her boy to the sole guardianship of his
nurse, settled herself by Nellie's side, and
Nellie knew that she either sought conf
dences or had them to impart. Some
thing of the old, quizzical look was play
ing about the corner of her pretty mouth
as her elder sister, with feminine indi.
rectness, began her verbal skirmishing
with the subject. 1t was some time be-
fore the question wasreached which led
to her real objective:
did he-did Mr.. Haynetell you much
about Clancy?'
Not much. There was no time"
Oo iisbN AulA1 ICiA l. LII sure,
1t seemed even longer"
''Four by the clock, Kate"
''Well, four, then. He must have had
something of greater interest"
Noanswer. Cheeks reddening, though.
Didn't heY-persistently
81 will tell you what he told me Of
Clancy, Kate. Mrs. Clancy had utterly
6ooaiyoJ 1,OY, r. ,x,bo+ LII -
had she not?'
Utterly" And now it was Mrs. Ray
ners turn to color painfully,
''Mr. Hayne tells me that Clancy's con-
feSsion really explained how Capt. Raw.
ner was mistaken. 1t was not so much
the captains fault, after ALL"
$50 Mr.. Hayne told him. You knew
they-you saw Mr.. Hayne offer him his
hand, didn't your"
II did not see: I knew he would"
More vivid color, and much hesitation
now.
''Knew he would! Why, Nellie, what
do you mean? He didn't tell you that
he was to see Capt. Rayner. He couldn't
have known"
''But l knew, Kate; and I told him
how the captain had suffered"
''But how could you know that he
would shake hands with him?"
''He promised me-"
The silence was unbroken for a mo-
ment. Nellie Travers could hear the
beating of her own heart as she nestled
closer to her sister and stole hand into
hers. Mrs. Rayner was trying hard to-
be dutiful, stern, unbending, to keep her
faith with the distant lover in the east,
whether Nell was true or no; but she had
been so hunbled, SO changed, so shaken.
by the events of the past few weeks, that
she felt all her old spirit of guardianship
ebbing away. "Must give you up, Nella
and must he, too?-Mr. Van Antwerp
''He has not answered my last letter.,
Kate. 1t is nearly a week since = have
heard from him."
''What did you write, Nellie?"
'What l had done twice before-thaA
he ought to release me-"
"And-is Clancy's the only confession
you have heard today?'
''The only one" A pause, then: s'I
know what you mean, Kate; but he is
not the man toto offer his love to girl
he knows is pledged to another"
'But if you were free, Nellie? Tell
me-"
II have no right to say, Kate; but,
and two big tears were yelling up into
her brave eyes, as she clasped her hands
and stretched them yearningly before