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


the most unlucl1y devil alive, and there's
no use talking about it, he declared
despairingly
"Oh, Ed if you can be married what
greater happiness could there be- said
his sister, with suppressed sigh for her
own unimportant misery.
Exactly, but we can't"
'Oh, you cani Who says not? Don't
ever let anything prevent your Reatri-
exclaimed with great energy. There IS
sometimes bitter consolation in urging
upon others conduct which we would
fain embrace ourselves. ''If you love h
person everything is right and wise, ex-
cept to let yourself be parted from them.
But that is almost wickedv'
What must be mustl" responded Ed
in a still more hopeless Tone but not
without secret hope that some method
might be devised to escape the inevitable
Beatrix paused, thinking intently. and
with increasing agitation.
II believe / know what vou mean"
she said at last, with a deep undertone
of sad affection in her voice. You think
you ought not to marry her because L
( am your sister-that is, because have
wronged her. Oh, Ed, teat is it, You
can't deny it, dear. You would sacrifice
all your happiness SO as not to seem to
take her part against me. l might have
known that it could be nothing less no.
bic than that; but it shall not be-you
must not dream of It'll When she knows
how sorry l am-and she shall know
everybody shall know it, I'll tell you
how it shall be-" she cont@ ued, spring
ing up from the sofa on which they were
sitting together, and pacing up and
down, passing the fingers of one hand at
intervals over her forehead and hair. At
length she stopped in front of him.
Tomorrow evening is my last per-
formance," she said. after it is over
will ask Gen. lingo to tell the audience,
or perhaps it would be better if 1 went
out and told them myself, all the whole
story, how ] came to take ker place, and
who really am, and ALL After that she
will forgive me; I'll make her forgive
me for your sake; and then, Ed, dear"
she concluded with a misty smile and a
} tremor Of the lip, you need not be
afraid to make her my sister"
Its splendid of you to think of such
! thing, dear little sisr' exclaimed her
brother, drawing her down TO him and
kissing her. "But it would never Go to
go to work in that way; in the first place
it might knock all your popularity ON the
head. The public doesn't understand
| generous and elevated conduct as l do
''No matter if they don't understand
it. have already made 1p my mind to
one thing, shall never sing ON the stage
, after tomorrow"
/ ''What a notionl See if you DON'T
/ mo, indeed. had decided ON that
before-before knew anything about
1 your affairs, you dear boy! The debts
2 are paid, and papa and can live in the
l old house again, and that is all 1 ever
9 meant to do Being on the stage is not
| pleasant in some ways, and besides
S well, at any rate I'm determined, and
when l am determined 1 never change;
: and I will tell the audience so tomorrow
= night"
r No, no! 1 tell you" cried Ed, becom-
ing lively again, eff singing won't do
? for you ON the stage speechifying's ont
/ of the question. You'd be like these
4 women's rights geese There's no neces-
: sity for it, either. If Vera knew that
9 you wouldn't feel hurt at my marrying
r her ! dare say she'd come round all
9 right. The only difficulty then would
: be that should seem to be, in certain
e way, dependent on her. But have been
y thinking the last few days that I'd go
n into some profession engineering, or
t architecture, or something of that kind
T and then 1 guess 1 could be making
e money enough in a year or two to take
# the edge OF the thing. I'm not fool,
It sis, though maybe hasD acted rather
g like one"
7 ''You are the dearest and best brother
: in the world" said .Beatrix, with the
gentleness of profound conviction; and
} On the heels of this moderate statement
It Wallie Dinsmore came into the room
n and invited Edward to sit down to q
t cold lunch with him. ''The ladies would
|, not wait for us" he observed, ''and it
( would be foolhardy for US to wait for
d dinner. OF course Miss Randolph and
70 Mrs. Dinsmore will pour out our beer
s. for u.s."
n Edward assented; but Beatrix, after a
Y moments hesitation, excused herself on
II some feminine plea, and, refusing any
y escort or offer of a carriage, set out on
ID foot toward her home, as she had accus-
L toned herself to call it. The evening
N was now at hand. though it lacked
s. something of o'clock. The sidewalks
s. were covered with drifting layer of
II white, and the flakes still swirled and
le dangled downward from the obscure
le blanknesS overhead. Ass Beatrix, walk
IS ing briskly, approached Madison square
~ the frigid glare of the electric lamp,
from the summit of its immense mast.
I'd marked itself out on the storm like q
IN gigantic tent of light.
at Warmly wrapped in her fur lined
d, cloak Beatrix did not mind the snow
10 and wind; they gave her kind of pleas
ly ure; she felt strengthened and heart
Id ened by the robust pungency of the at
i mosphere. 1t reminded her Of her win
e, tiers in the old place far up the Hudson
u the days of frozen forests and gigantic
n snowballs, and the long icicles hanging
IN from the caves on the southwest corner
So Well her work was all but done, anG
d, she might begsa that life again as soor
NJ as she pleased But could that life eve1
~ begin again for her? After all the events
nd and experiences of this season could she
at in a momeet, become Beatrix Randolph
is, once more? Had not the name of Ma
ad rona carrind Soma sDaI1 with II who's