The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-01


repugnant in it. She might
have prevented herself from definitely
realizing the fact had stranger to her.
self been involved; but Marana!-she
had lived under her name and occupied
her place so long as to make her feel
that she was in some way personally
mixed up in the catastrophe
In few moments Ed turned round
and saw his sister.
The personal magnetism of eye to eye
with those who are really dear to each
other overcomes, for the time being, all
scruples and recoilings. When, there
fore, her brother gave glad start, and
stepped toward Beatrix with an inarticu-
late exclamation of affection, she forgot
everything except that he was her
brother, with whom she had spent her
childhood, who had cut his initials on
the banister of the old staircase, whose
white roses she had worn on her bosom
until within the last few months, by
whose side she had ridden, and in whose
company she had ransacked the woods;
she found herself with her arms round
his neck, kissing him, smiling with wet
cheeks, and murmuring: Dear Ed! dear,
darling boy! Oh, am SO glad to have
you again.
How well you are looking, sisr' he
said at length, taking her by the elbows
and looking at her She was, indeed,
beautifully dressed, and her face was
rosy with the emotion Of the moment,
and, passion aside, he cared More for her
than for any one else, but he had not
the eyes to discern the traces of fatigue
and anxiety ON her face; it takes lover
to do that. When man looks at his sis
ter he thinks Of the past; when he looks
at his mistress he thinks of the present
and the future.
''Why, but you're great swell now,
aren't your Ed continued laughingly.
His temperament varied quickly, and
without any moral reason, between ex-
tremes of depression and joviality. II
had no idea my little sis was going to
come out on the top of the heap this way.
I always said nobody could beat you
singing, though, and nobody can, though
Vera is perfect in her way, too"
Vera she repeated, glancing up
quickly.
''That's her name-Vera Mariana. All
my dear. I've got heap to tell you about
her! BY the way" he said, laughing
people here, l suppose, think you know
more about Mariana than any one else,
Well, you do look little like her
that's what first made me look at her
But l want you to know her; I'm certain
you'd take to each other She's the dear,
est woman in the world. and as gener
Gus and good as she is lovely"
"Good?" repeated Beatrix, whose face
during this speech had run through &
gamut of expressions and now rested il
bewilderment
''Goodl | should think so. Do yor
imagine I'd want you TO know her if SHE
wasn't everything lady should be, ant
great deal more? You ought to have
heard the way sailed into poor old dat
just now for calling her names. l CUES
he won't do it again!''
Beatrix clapped her hands together un
der her chin with cry of almost hys
teric joy, and instantly embraced ne
brother again with all the addec
ardor that can be given to affection b,
remorse. She had wickedly wronget
him by allowing herself to imagine, ever
for a moment, that he or anybody con
nected with him could ever be anythin!
but patterns of honesty and virtue. Fo
fear Of making bad worse she forbor
to explain to him the cause Of her sud
den demonstrativeness; he should b
made conscious of her repentance onl,
by the tenderness and observance whicl
she would lavish upon him. The though
came into her mind also that, by he
love for her brother, she could in som
degree compensate herself for the loss @
her other love-for she told herself tina
it was lost, and had been repeating til
statement with tenfold diligence eve
since learning that Godfrey had re
turned to New York.
Ed, who was never particularly OF
servant of the feelings Of others, excep
when his own feelings were bound up i
them, passed over all this little tumul
of emotion without any suspicious, anC
in response to his sisters eagerly e.
pressed interest in the subject, talke
about himself and his affairs to tn
hearts content of both speaker and Iii
tener. He no longer felt the humiiatio
and helplessness Of his position so keenl
as an hour ago. The companionship {
this sister, whom he had so recklesSl
impoverished, and to whose energy an
genius he was under such weighly obi
cations, insensibly began to put him
better humor with himself and his pro:
poets. 1t is not difficult to take a rea
surfing view of our conduct when OF
natural bias thereto is stimulated by I'll
sympathy of one who emphasizes I'll
significance of all the favorable feature
: and brushes out of sight all the ungainl
ones.
Ed gave his sister picturesque ar
stirring account of his first meeting wit
Mariana, their mutual captivation, VIII:
she had said, what he had answers
:. what she had answered, and what
had said. He made it appear plain
e that his spending a hundred thousar
; dollars was proceeding rather merton
y GUS and self-sacriicing than otherwis
e inasmuch as it would have been u
d worthy Randolph not to make a sple
IS did appearance in the eyes of the WON:
J. rs loved, and amidst such rivals as tho
h with whom he had to contend; an
l. moreover (as he truly obseryed), he hil
y self was the worst off of any of the fan
n lily when the money was gone. ''Al
10 of course" he added, 81 had no idea
t what rate was going it; declare, S
E nn,-a,. ,rras more fn0red than when d