The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-25
CHAPTER XIV.
LOWERING SKIES.

The events of the morning gave Dorison
food for thought. After Cathcart had de-
parted be dawdled about the hotel as be en-
deavored to extract some intelligence from
these events serving to justify the conf
dence displayed by the old detective that
the end was in sight.
The result was not satisfactory. Every
thing was frsgmentary.
whether this is due" he said aloud, as
he sat and pondered, Ito the misery and
fragmentary manner in which Cathcart
deals out his information, or whether it is
the exact condition of the case, | am utterly
at q loss TO determine. l know, however,
1t is utterly unsatisfactory, and unless
something more positive turns up within
the next fortnight / will throw up my com
mission. So far as | am able to see, not one
step has been made, nor one single fact
gathered that brings US nearer to the end
the accom- lishment of which is the only
justification for my being involved in it at
all"
He got up and walked into the street. As
he went up Broadway he said:
What will 90 will be to see Mr. Nettle-
man and have talk with him. That much
is due him, and L have not seen him for two
weeks. pll do it this very afternoon. The
life am leading is unbeRrable.m
He did not go that afternoon, however,
Tor on reaching his rooms he found his
friend Eustace in possession.
al have been waiting SO long for you, he
cried, that | have come to believe these
apartments are mine. Do you know, / like
them better than my own'
Then perhaps you may obtain them, "
said Dorison.
"Whyl What does that mean!'
hot
gusted and contemplate creature before
you. am half persuaded to cut this life
end go back to Dubuque
something has gone wrong, ma chere.
The blues, cha l have them sometimes my
SELF
'tMy trouble is far greater than the
blues" said Dorison, throwing himself at
full length on the lounge, and looking at
Eustace tXedly for some time.
II wonder, Charley" he said ut length,
'if there will be time when you will
regard me with bitterness and contempt
when you will never be able to think of me
without loething and horror
"Wh6t condition of mind are you in to :
day."
The confessional. although shall make
no confession. Perhaps all these dark and
gloomy vapors will pass away, aud the
bright sunbeams play over US both.
Whether any sunlight, however, will ever
irradiate my life again l greatly doubt.
Charley, my boy, am a monomaniac. 1
have but one purpose in life, and to that
am bending MISUNDERSTANDING every
thing-home, comfort honor and friends.
Beware of mel l am not what seem on
the surface. During my life 1 have never
met any one of either sex to whom have
been so much attracted as l have been TO
yOu-no one of whom l have been so
fond. Yet, my boy, heed ne. If you
should run counter to this life purpose of
mine, so completely have 1 become its
slave believe l would sacrifice you. /
say again, beware Of mel Hold me of at
arms length. DO not give me a single ad-
vantage God knows that when l am in
the mood l am now pray fervently that
the friendship we have formed within the
past few days may ripen with our days,
strengthen with our years, and be still hale
when our heads are gray. But tell you,
old man." and he rose from the lounge In
his earDestness, 1.-THE day is coming when
that friendship will be put to as severe O
test as friendship ever was"
Eustace, who had regarded Dorison seri-
ously, said:
II think you are in a frame of mind
which either is the result of serious
physical arrangement, or great mental
trioulation. II it is the latter, and ap-
prehend it is, l advise you to take immedi-
ate steps toward remedy. And in such
cases l take it the best remedy is to pour
out your condolences to some friend you can
trust.n
There are some things that must be
borne Rlone,n replied Dorison with q sigh
Mine is one. For eight years 1 have borne
them''-
"And alone, nursing them" interrupted
Eustace. THAT is just it.n