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

| De dreaming himself. TOT httte Wniie sne
still looked ct him in the same absent manner,
then suddenly started up, the red blood
streaming to her brow.
'.Why, Mr. Bingham" she said, sit really
youl What was it that l saida Oh, pray
forgive me, whatever it was. / have been
asleep, dreaming such curious dream and
talking in my Sleep
do not alarm yourself, Miss Granger" he
answered, recovering himself with jerk;
''you did not say anything dreadful. only
that yor. were glad to see me. What were
you dreaming about?n She looked at him
doubtfully, perhaps his words did not ring
quite true.
81 think that 1 had better tell you, as l
have said so much,N size answered. BE
sides, it was very curious dream, and if l
believed in dreams it would rather brighten
. me, only fortunately do not Sit down and
, will tell it to you before 1 forget it. 1t is
= not very longn
He took the chair to which she pointed,
| and she began, speaking in the voice of one
yet laden with the memories of sleep.
, 81 dreamed that I stood in space. Far to
my right was great globe of light, and to
my left was another globe, and L knew that
the globes were named Life and Death. From
the globe on the right to the globe on the left
, and back again, golden shuttle, in which
two flaming eyes were set, was shot continn-
ally, and knew also that this was the shuttle
i, of Destiny, weaving the web of Fate. Pres
emily the shuttle flew, leaving behind it a long
, silver thread, and the eyes in the shuttle were
, such as your eyes. Again the shuttle sped
a through space and this time its eyes were
like my eyes, and the thread it left behind it
was twisted from woman's hair. Half way
, between the globes of Life and Death my
thread of life was broken, but the shuttle
f flew on and vanished. For moment the
thread hung in air, then a wind rose and
: blew it, so that it fioated away like spiders
f web till it struck upon your silver thread of
i life and began to twist round and round it.
As it twisted it grew larger and heavier till
v at last it was thick as great tress of hair,
n and the silver line bent beneath the weight
r so that l saw it soon must break. Then, while
4 l wondered what would happen, a white hand
4 holding a knife slid slowly down the silver
a line, and with the knife, severed the wrap
:. pings of woman's hair, which fell and floated
+ slowly away, like a little cloud touched with
O sunlight, till they were lost in darkness. But
I the thread of silver that was your line of life
II sprang up quivering and making sound like
" signs, till at last it sighed itself to silence.
n ''Then / seemed to Sleep and when l woke
# 1 was floating upon such misty we
4 saw last night l had lost all sight of land,
"a and | could not remember what the stars
:, were like nor how had been taught to steer,
" nor understand where l must go. l called
= to the sea, and asked it of the stars, and the
"a sea answered me thus:
"'Hope has rent her raiment, and the stars
II are SET
, 81 called again, and asked of the land
~ where l should go, and the land did not an
n swer but the sea answered me second time:
10 "Child of the mist, wander in the mist,
II and in darkness seek for light
''rhen 1 wept because Hope had rent her
&c starry garment and in darkness l must seek
,t for light. And while l still wept, you rose
10 out of the sea and sat before me in the boat.
o. l had never seen you before, and still l felt
4. that l had known you always. You did not
speak, and 1 did not speak, but you looked
&c into my heart and its trouble. Then
', looked into your heart, and read what was
o. written. And this was written:
N y 4" woman whom L knew before the Past
~ began, and whom l shall know when the Flu
r. ture is ended, why do you weepF
''And my heart answered: i weep because
am lost upon the waters of the earth, be-
cause Hope has rent her starry robes, and
that is not Then your heart said: 4 will
show you light and bending forward you
touched me on the breast.
'And suddenly an agony shook me like the
agonies of birth and DEATH and the sky wa
, full Of great winged angels, who rolled up the
Z. mist as cloth and drewsveils from the eye
4 of night, and there, her feet upon the globe
+ and her star set head piercing the irmamen
I of heaven, stood Hope breathing peace ant
z beauty. She looked north and south and cas-
n and west, then she looked upward through
a the arching vaults of heaven, and whereve
N she set her eyes, bright with holy tears, tn
L. darkness Shriveled and sorrow ceased, ant
n from corruption arose the Incorruptible.
Z gazed and worshiped and as l did so, agail
: the sea spoke unquestioned:
z ""In darkness thou hast found light, il
; Death seek for wisdom
Z ''Then once more Hope: rent her starr
9 robes, and the angels drew down veil owe
the eyes of Night, and the sea swallowed me
and 1 sank till reached the deep founda
tions of mortal death. And there, in Halls G
Death sat for ages upon ages, till at last
nj saw you come, and on your lips was the wor
of wisdom that makes all things clear, bu
the what it was l cannot remember. Then
The stretched out my hand to greet you, an
esq WOKE and that Is all my dream.
till She ceased, her gray eyes set wide, 6
&C. though they still strove to trace their spiri
ual vision upon the air of earth, her breas
I'd; heaving, and her lips apart.
CHI "Great heavenln he said, what an in
,rd agination you must have to dream such
md dream as that
) a ''Imagination!n che answered, returnin
ee- to her natural manner. 81 have none, N
Wv Bingham. l used to have, but lost it wine
ish Ilost-cverything else. Can you interprt
my dream? OF course you cannot; it
,ed nothing but nonsense-such stuff as dream
ow are made of, that is all. ="
ar. ''It may be nonsense, but it is beautif
He nonsense" he answered. Il wish ladies h;
he'd more of such stuff to give the world.'
lad 'Ah, well, dreams may be wiser than wa
ON. ings, and nonsense than learned talk, for {
its we know. But there's an end of it. don
ped know why repeated it to you. l am sorry
nile did repeat it, but it seemed SO real it shot
md me out of myself This is what comes
air breaking in upon the routine of life by beil
llor three parts drowned. Ono finds queer thin
ar), at tho bottom of the sea, YOU know. BY t
One way, l hope that you are recovering. l
to not think that you viii care to go canoeil
of again with me, Mr. Bingham"
her There was an opening for complime
iful here, but Godfrey felt that it would be t
and much in earnest if spoken, so he resisted t
ii a temptation.
his ''What, Miss Granger" he said, ''should
pom man say to a lady who bat last night sav
: .. his life Mt tbe 1.sl--indeed almost at the CT