Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-06-27
A TALE OF TURGHUELA.

| "Turghueln, IurnhuelhI' ThAtHWhere
Maimis Rhodes lives, and that SETTLES the
question. III 20 aud chance H."
50 Geoffry Dascnt wrote Oh there and
then 10 the colonial Office, accepting tbs
munihocnt offer Of the post Of government
medical oilic,r In Turghucla at a salary of
$40 year.
II could surely bo only tho light Of
Mamie Rhodss' eyes that could attract n
man from England 10 Turghucla. seeing
what a remote. unknown scrap of place
/ Il l., compared with which the other West
Indian Islands arr great continents a~,ir
with the hubbub Of mighty ISSUES.
In fact, IL Il 20 small that Il Il not men
TONED BY name In Whitaker" nor l. IL
otherwise Indicated on map than by a
dot. surrounded by dots equally nancless,
but all bearing the general title q "fhc
Virgin lsland." for fertile lovellness "
h n garden u Eden. IT, miniature ranges
Of mountain. arc wooded up 10 the top
with tamarnda, cinnamons. silk cotton
trucs, aud ponia, Whose yellow blossoms
splash the sides In broad patches Of gold.
The air IL thick with the scent Of bananas.
enstArd apples sour aaps and manages
that grow round the little homcutcads. and
the fields % tall, green canes, on the sugar
estate tho island boasts Of. rustic pleasant.
/ ~ In the cool sea brccno. Tho people, too,
seem plctnrcsquely happy. the few whites
In their clean drill suits and straw hats,
the negro women with stately figures set
OF by the erect lpoi.e u their heads tied
round with hhndkcfchlcfs Of gaudy nsd
and yellow. and the little Niger children
running about WIN naked httle pohles
shininR m the SUI
Az o. these thinRa aroused ueohry "a
hent = dellkht ~ We hhu,d IN Iufshneh
and was shown round the place ~ tho
wee pi'a4heh' o. the lslAnd' versatile
grntluman eomb'hih. ths Offices OF stipcnd.
iAfy magistrate. registrar eominandaht OF
polioc ana srhefal u'alef IN nome anu colo
MAI pruauof VINO welcomed MN Niih
mo, slnocrr eiinslon, AMI pa, ~. house,
Ms servants anu ca'tle ~ tne serNioo OF 'he
new conner DAsent wa. IN such whlH
OF new sensations that u was some time
bctorr he iouna an opportunity Tor ihqn'r
ing after Miss Rhodes
Deaf mel ehaIaiinei NE new friend.
Iha Idea " showing any one hcrci !
suppose You mean NAiihe Rhodes that was.
she's married now You never heard Of
w man called ConWay-lueky bcggnr.
cAine over here year or two ago ~ over
scr on Mount Pleasant, married Mhimie,
and on The death o. her father, came into
POSSESSION " the whole eatate"
Daaon, scarcely heard tho latter part OF
tbs little speech Tue blue faded from the
sky aud The glory troin tho hilla Maimie
married. ANagne sense oi the futility OF
thinga came over Mn ana ho wished hin
scli back Va England. but IN IurHhuela
he was, and IN Turshueia he hal 20 70
main. and 10 learn tho quaint ways OF bis
duhky patients, aud 20 foroln,thcr with his
spiritual colleague hev. ". Jones, who
oihciated IN the unie.t little stone church
oosvted all over with The toll apple vine,
and 10 meet MAimie ~ " nothing had ever
pa..cd hstwegn them, and 10 dine ~ her
husbands table, and finally. 70 keep atm
upper lip willis wofking out like man the
lot he had Apportioned unto himself
surprise even inoro disngrceable than
tho ncwa Of Maimies marriage was his In
troduc'ion To her husband Mountains
meet sometimes, says the proverb, aud then
earthquake. follow. Thero was no earth.
quake In This ea-o nj Inrshucla, but tho
two men glhrod Tor a mousnt At each other.
until Conway put out hia hand. and with
an assumption OF rough geniality, said
Come, we mustn't b bad friends herr
Let bygono. b. hygonea."
And then Dasent had perforco 20 accept
$50 N'" ~ -""fN "
the gr,at tun gland hand, although no
felt the ashos Of an almost forgotten dis
gust bunt Into flame within him
Mamie received him with Glad well
come she hardly struve 20 hide. She was
stlll the same swt :, un-ophlstiuaici little
girl he had fallen la love with two years
before In England. In spite Of certain seri.
business Of mAtronly dignity which seemed
~ him quantity ineongrnoua.
What on earth made you come out %
this heaven for-aken plAoef sha asked ono
day. lie had been dining at Mount Pleas
ant, and II being crop time Conway had
rushed OH 20 the works. leaving the two
alone on the veranda
II don't quite think Il Il that" he 70.
piled, la1ily enjoying the moonlight and
the scent OF tho orange blossoms Ia the
garden. II had no Idea that TurghnclA
was such paradlse-as Tar "a God made
H."
"fou arc n bad A. \ woman. You at.
tack side issue. Instead of coming n the
point ! asked you Why you came out"
lie looked up quickly At her. Her head
wA- turned aide In critical contemplation
Of twig OF Jasmine she was twisting.
SIN he could not tell hor the exact truth.
"what makes men do ALLY thinga"
"fhen Il was simply YOUR own folly tina,
brought you heruP
AA u has turned out How have you
managed 70 beoome 40 arsumehtaiivol
Mlfu 1 know Yuu In England Won wen