The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30

He bent forward and looked in her eyes,
There must have been in them some speak
ing light, revealing what her womsn's
tongue refused to tell.
"Olympiai'' he cried, in q voice too
weighted with emotion to be loud, "you
know me-you have made fool of me-but
you love me!n
His arms closed about her, and fire of
new life seemed to flame up in his heart as
he felt her soft pressure against him. 1t
went glowing through his veins, and
images of ecstacy trembled in his brain.
Across what gulf OF darkness had he
passed since he had held her thus! But
peace and JOY were only here. They kissed
each other with slow, deep kiss, full of
memories OF pain that was past, and of a
present delight so exquisite that they nalf
feared to move their lips, lest all should
prove dream and they should awake.
Such happiness comes in moments only.
yet when 1t comes the soul recognizes it
as its true estate-a glimpse Of the eternity
In which 1t was meant to dwell forever.
NO dream is half so fair as this brief
reality, whose intensity makes all the rest
OF life seem dreamlike. In such a
moment lovers live in heaven and are the
peers of angels.
'Oh, Keppel, why have you denied your
self so long.' sighed Olympia at last. II
should have known you at first if l could
have brought myself to believe that you
would hide from me So"
"a disguise like mine is something more
than cloak that can be thrown off and
resumed at will,'' he replied. From the
first have been as strange to myself as 1
have appeared to others. But for you I
should never have found my real self agsin.
With that change came so many changes l
began to forget that had ever been Keep
pei Darke, and all my youth and what be-
longed to IL seemed never to have been;
but was as il born middle aged, with no
youth or kindly associations TO harmonic
me. If It had not been for you should
have lived on so. and at last died SO, if
man without childhood and soul can be
said to die"
Yes, you are yourself again now!" muir
INJURED Olympia. II have felt wall be-
tween US all this while; | know, in some
secret place Of my heart, that you were on
the other side: but yet l did not outwardly
know it until the last day or two. 1t was
like the fairy tales, when the prince is en-
chanted, and the princess cannot recog-
nlze him; but at last the spell is dissolved,
and then they know each other. L am not
afraid OF you now; l can see through your
beard, your hair, and your eyeglasses; you
are only Keppel!i' and she drew down his
face and kissed him.
u feel as If [ were nothing but mere
child, ~ said he, laughing too. II want to
do nothing but sit here with you and love
you, and talk to you and hear you talk and
be silly-that is, really wise. My heart
feels SO light Does your's!n
My heart sings like bird-and 1 am
the song And the song says: 4 love
keppel Darke! l am glad he is alive, and
that the Count de Lisle has vanished?n
II hate that stiff, conventional phantom,
too. But he has his uses, and we will
make him be useful to US. He is rich, and
he is devoted to your
do you wish to give me up to him, sirl"
told"
And you will let him marry me if only
promise to love you. But tell me, Keep
pei, why were you such fool, dears Why
didn't you come to me- at once The next
time you delay so L shan't wait for you?n
how could | know that you would want
me! Dead people coming back to life are
sometimes very much in the way. thought
1t wiser, for your sake, to send some one to
ind out how the land lay''
For my sake! For yours, I Think"
They both laughed again.
How did you come to find me out?n he
asked. You had accepted the Count de
Lisle so long that the last thing [ expected
was an inquiry for me.n
There is something mysterious about
that replied Olympia, turning grave.
when that strange man of yours-Garcia
has put ME into the magnetic sleep,
which Is not sleep at all, but deeper
waking, that makes ordinary waking seem
sleep In comparison-in that state, what
ever 1t is, l can see my own thoughts.
just as one sees things with ones bodily
eyes. And see things that have happened
TO me- not as they seemed at the time. but
as they really were. So began to have
Impressions of you, and at first could not
understand them, for there was no reason
that knew OF why you should appear to
me- But at last | noticed that the meet
lngs between US lin my visions) were the
tunes OF my meeting the Count de Isle.
and from that was not long in solving the
puzzle. When the count came this after
noon was so angry with him for having
deceived me that was almost ready to let
MN so on and take you with himi If you
hau not looked through his eyes at the last
moment, and so given anew turn to things.
you would have been nicely punished-and
should have died"
This terrible picture called for consola-
ton on both sides, aud the two lovers ad-
mustered 1t to each other They were
sitting in the embrasure of the window. a
deep, weil-cushioned divan, protected from
the room by the piano and pot eff ferns,
Wnlle the light of the western sky now
golaeE with the setting sun, came softly
through the semi-transparens silken win
dow shades. They had put one cushion
up on the window sill, and both their heads
were upon 1t; keppers arm was around
Olympla's waist, and the hand of that arm
held In 1t her hand. By turning his face
only little keppel's lips would come in
contact with a white and alluring region
Just beneath Olympia's ear; but if she han
pened TO be turning toward him at the
same time, as might easily happen in con-
Versalon, IL was no longer the place under
her ear, but her mouth that advanced into
the proximity with Keppel's. This ar
rangement was convenient enough. one
would think, to satisfy even two lovers:
but they had improved even upon this by
system OF signals, which could be felt
but not seen.
Whenever keppel wanted OLYMPIA to
turn her face toward him he pressed the
hand that has already been mentioned sc
held in his, and he did this so frequently
that 1T might have been regarded as re-
Election upon Olympia's profile. only her
profile was too ravlshingly beautiful TO he
liable to reflection, except in a mir, mr.
RaVlshlng though 1t was, however, the full
face was not thereby prevented from being
more lovely still; not because it mora
nearly approached classical perfection. hut
because 1t carried with it the grace of her
dark, deep-gazing eyes and the full curve
OF her mouth and the faint fragrance of
her breath. Either way it was a choice of
felicities for heppel, who could not have
been better of unless he had both the full
face and the profile at the same time; and a
casuist might have called even that cues
ton.
But" said keppel after while. sdo Won
remember everything that happens to Won
while you are in q trance!n
Nothing that my body does,n she said
but l remember what my mind does and
sees. | see other minds, though I DOM
always know whom they belong to- soma
are beautiful, like lovely landscapes: some