The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1891-06-26

son ranch, and with the rest Helen's
Bebecca. But the third day afterward
Rcbccca was found in the morning tied
before the door with as handsome a
bride and lady's saddle as the country
afforded, and with card appended:
Captain Gordon's compliments TO
Helen Tryon."
"Ic ought 10 have said to the heroine
of Pine Gulch, Harry said, with deep
disgust.
Perhaps Mrs. Morse is in it, too"
Bronson suggested, slyly. You're
quite sure that Captain Gordon isn't
friend of yours2 Appearances are
against you. First the diamond" and
he stopped short as the tears rose in
lIelen's eyes.
Il didn't mean any thing" he ex-
planned humbly TO Harry nfterward,
Whoever supposed you did2 Do you
imagine you are ever going TO under
stand what woman finds TO cry
about2' he said, wrathfully. They
don't know themselves half the time"
But. after all, IL was not Helen at
whom he was storming. An extra
meeting of the Horse-Thief League was
summoned No results followed, and a
month wore away peaceably.
Time did not stand still for Helen and
Hclons lover He did not again refer
in words TO that declaration of his, but
not an hour spent in her society did not
plead his cause He took IL completely
for granted that his love for her was a
thing complete of itself without hope of
return Perhaps that attitude was his
strongest plea. Something in his pa
tiencc seemed wonderful to her She
could as soon have built the pyramids
She was one of those positive people to
whom no halfway measure is possible.
That q man should make such an avow-
al as that, and then should let the days
20 on Ia such commonplace, cheerful,
, unmarked fashion, reused new won
dcring interest in her mind.
Little by little, unconscious Of the
/ pr. Iations of feeling, herwholc mental
/ attitude changed She owned now with
| a shudder that II Payne Morse were To
cross her path for the first time she
would probably be repealed rather than
/ attracted She had fallen in love with
an ideal, and the living, breathing facts
/ did not bear ont the fancy And the
next shock was % realize that she had
not vet done with ideals, and to'day's
hero was in no wise like yesterdays.
II gave her dreadful feeling of UNI
reliance in herself. That she, who for
years had lived in dead calm OF uneX-
pectant exhaustion of emotion, should
/ AGAIN be allowing herself TO dream OF
sunshine. She made amends TO herself
by never acknowledging that Frank
Bronson had amy thing to do with such
fanaies.
Clearly Helen Morse's days of passive
suffering we're over She was silent
IdDl. but her silence was dreamy, in
stead Of ooldly hopeless And most un
wontcd bursts Of petulancc stirred the
even tenor Of tie days.
"What has happened 10 Helen?'
| Harry asked wonderingly one day
''Wcn. any thing is better than seeing
her So about Ike a galvanized corpse
as we did for three years
but Harry was too much absorbed II
devising schemes whereby Captain Cor
dons band might come to grief TO heeC
such email bits of melodrama MS falling
lin love. hoaelcssly or otherwise.
One night 1t came to pass that afte
1no Of the brief, tremendous storms o
Y.ul and rain peculiar TO the latitude
Helen answered her brother hail iron
thc outer darkness, and opened thu
door 70 and him and one of the herdcr
holding between them o mouonlc5
lead weight, and recognized the whit
face as Frank Bronsons.
"Is he doad3' she asked, quietly
# don't know; only stunned, | fancy
1 Set Sam Lee 90 heating water and rum
maciug our aanuel5 A tree tell as W
INcro coming through the timber an
lmockcd him ont Of his saddle VIVA
"a mercy YOU are not OF the screaming
fainting l,iudN
Harry was giving explanations an
orders in sort Of running accompan
s mont that barely vailed his own an'
iety. Helen pale, silent and helptu
1bcvcl implicitly. When Bronso
opened his eyes at last, her face was ia
frat he saw as his swimming visio
stoadiad itself lie put ont his han
and she laid hers within it There WI
3, q good deal IN the act-she was not
!. woman .reodigal of such expression
The heavy blue eyes opened with cage
inquiry.
r You must be very quiet she sal
' with q smile. She did not withdra
her hand, and with long sigh of r
&, lief he turned toward her and f.
- a5lcop.
lie was ont and about his busine
next day, though in rather shal
fashion An day Helen went abo
with a half guilty, half happy strain
ceiling on her heart As the time car
Ion Ms return She went and stood
core her l,aa5, for the first time, p'
haps. in years. with "a critical aud an
q .ous lIo., ai the reelection theron 3
J sea ial pale; sorrow and loss had l
ler face SCARED with their trace.
va4t had she 90 do with love- Tho
g el-Gis,rlal l1fta t,cmor in hor N,
4.l tl1t oven Harry noticed
'N II believe YOU are living back agail
he said AT this rate, Helen, you'll
70 h1olgil again before you know
.. Her lips quivered IN a painful n
10 smiln. he plunged on.
al ibid you ever see any one change
FRANKIE No. YOU are not living ba'
VI YOU are going 20 begin over again,
eirl, aud he stopped and kissed her,