The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1891-06-19

THERE WAS RAPID COLLECTION or VAL.
uABLEs. -
taken off, and book, TO which She had
chung unconsciously through all the con
fusion None of her belongings were
touched or looked at.
THE Pine Valley coach will be along
before morning. We can only say wa
are sorry for the bunder,' and with q
courteous gesture of farewell 20 Helen,
the party rode away.
Both leaders lay dead in their tracks.
Clearly there was nothing TO do but to
wait for the Pine Valley coach Helen
was made comfortable with shawls and
wraps on a bed of pine boughs, and
fell asleep quietly under the stars. Sha
did not wake even when the coach came
up.
"Now. Helen" voice said, and she
opened her eyes TO find Harry standing
beside her, ana with hun a tall figure
dark In the starlight.
Another road agcntP" she said, half
asleep.
Harry laughed. eve don't know what
lle may develop into. AT present he tx
| Frank Bronson
Helen rose 90 her feet, broad awake
Mt once.
You've had stirring introduction TO
your new lifc," pleasant voice said,
and popular report makes You ont a
heroine"
Helen flushed little resentfully. He
might have been talking to girl of six
teen in that voice of easy patronage
She was silent. Harry, used to that pc
cularity, did not notice.
Frank Bronson began again: I'm
afraid you'll be inconveniently crowded,
Miss Tryon"
81 beg your pardon" in her slow,
cold way. ~ am Mrs Morse"
They came out just then into the
glare of the lamps Bronson looked az
her curiously.
Harry did not tell me-" he said, with
a sudden air of constrained bashfulness.
At the journeys end the passenger
whose pocket book she had saved took
| a great solitaire diamond of lis little
finger. "a memento, madam, simply a
memento. The ring was In the wallet
You saved me fifteen thousand dollars
last night by your presence Of mind.
She would not take It, 6ut few
weeks later there came 10 her through
the post-oflice the stone reset in another
ring heavy enough for an armlet. She
smiled, slipping il over her slender
finger. Then she met Bronson's eyes
watching her
MY good deeds pursue me. am the
heroine of Pine Gulch.' Would you
have suspected it2 And there Is no adj
dress" She dropped the ring into his
hand and walked away.
They were settled now in their new
home. \ very sketohy sort Of home it
was, but enough for the needs of eli
mate where house is not needed much
more or much oftener than am umbrella.
They had camped with the luXuries of
wall tents, while the young men did
their own building A sitting-room, two
sleeping-rooms and lSitchen-that was
all and the canvas of the tents made
an awning under which a. hammock
might be swung. The new pine boards
were aromatic in the hot sunshine, the
conventional requirements of living
were reduced TO their very simplest
form.
II was solitary enough life for a
woman One of Harrys experimental
gang of Chinese workers had been de
tailed TO kitchen duties, and the peace
of the house was profound But Helen
liked it. Dreamy and silent she was
still, but somehow little by little she
seemed 10 come back toward human
sympathies and interests. Half un-
consciously her black garments were
laid aside as oppressive in the heat of
the long, bright days, The young men
coming home at night found white
draped presence awaiting them. Harry
thought without spoken comment that
something Of her Eirlhood as he remem-
bered her was coming back into her
face and into the rounding outline II
her figure. Once or twice he heard go
echo Of the old imperious infections CO..
| speech, when something went wrong in
! the simple programme ~ their house
keeping; once or twice she laughed
aloud at some of Sam Lees achieve
ments. At least, the old, monotonous
calm was broken; she had fits OF de
preston, felt keenly in the sensitive
household atmosphere.
II was the evening aftcr-the coming
Of the ring. llclen found herself al the
very bottom Of her register OF feeling.
They were all out Of doors in the large
| starred, dewloss Southwestern night.
The two men outstletched on their
blankets lay silently smoking. Helen,
| swinging in her hammock, was speech-
less, too. by and 10y Harry asked her
some trivial question, and the voice
that answered him was hoarse with
tears. He took no notice, and minute
after she went into the house Harry
followed her and came back after
awhile, his own voice not over steady
That girl has broken down at last
It's the first time in years, and not easy
years either doubt IL any one has
seen her cry since she came home
Mrs Morse2'
"Who clse2' testify "How | hntc
the haIpe ] never even think OF IL 1T /
can help it, WOW don't know the
story31
II have gues6od-that is, mean /
couldn't help knowing there was some.
J thkhb phlhiui. Mlh MOTIF" Is young 'n
be widow"
"She is twenty busquelv
"Ilelen always would have her own
way She had it when she was seven.
teen, md married scoundrel, lie got
o life sentence for train robbery, and
was killed trying 10 make his escape
from prison. She got the news the day
her only child was buried
Bronson gave a half-groan, a sound