Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-20

and Killed each other lilH mad AMI
mails, she was always cool aud uncS
cited. The wilder tho crowd, the
worse the men who composed it. an
plrcntly the moro she enjoyed Il
Her beauty was so great that many
mon. oven among the Americans,
offered to mako hCr wife. but she
only miled and refused all with
pcntlcncss that made them wonder
that one in her position could display
It. when slc was at the height %,
her popularity She disappeared. No
enc know whittier, although some
said she had left TO ioin a b1ulXi
dctpcradop3 u0or the Arizona line.
Wherever 1t was, nothing WIS soon
Of hen for months, aud thcn one dny
sho returned homie, but only
shadow OF her former self At first
her father would not permit her To
enter Che house, while her mother
cried and embraced her us II sh1 hul
returned fiom the dead. Then the
fuihcr, too. rclntrd. Perhaps, he
thought, IL would after all bc for but
a short time, and il would be better
that ~ )ull die at homo than ~
an oulyng. She seemed impassiyc
and indifferent to all. When night
came she went 20 the little grave.
yard and prayed over the grave that
still WIS the newest
Whore She had spent the months
Of her absence she never told IT,
all questions she gave an cynsivc an
swcI. Il was said by some that hor
return homo wus due TO the breaking
up and scattering by the authorities
OF the baud ut dcspciudocs viii
whom 1t was Imorul she had con.
sorted Stung by the rumor, her
mother had ono day asked her To
dcny 1t, bat ,hc girl had only dropped
her head on her mothur5 breast aud
sobbpd as she had never done since
the day she had seen Clancy's body
consigned 20 the earth
Several times she had received
mes ages. but from whom no one
, know. Even 10 her mother, who
donc spoke to her, she declined 10
tall. Ono day she received one OF
these mc.uges, aud that night after
che hrd goD, 10 her lovers grave she
went 10 tho house OF the sheriff,
who was thc'ouly officer that dared
to follow flancy's murderer When
she rcuufcd lac was with her, and
passing through the dtmly lighted
pntio she led him TO her room and
placed him where he could not be
secn in the darkness, and then she
las down in her bed ard waited in
the darkness as the hours passed
until there was tap ut the window.
The house was 80 quiet thatitseemCd
10 echo like a pistol shot, hut she
arose, usd going 70 the window
opened II and lot mdn enter, who
b threw his arms about hor and kissed
her iassiunatcly and spoke regret
fully Of the time they had been scpa'
rated.
The room was very dark, md ns
she led him from the window toward
the bed whore the other man crouch
cd hid she could almost feel her hear.
| beat. Tho man whose arm wa,
around her waist noticed her from
BE and drew her more closely e
him. When they reached the bed
she drew herself gently from his arm
and lay down. She fancicd that she
could hear the man who was con
cculcd breathing Us she lay between
him and the man who had just en-
tered. Tho air of tho room seemed
10 stillc her, as it laden with death.
Ti.cn she turned and spoke to tn,
man who hud entered, telling him 1,
light o match, so that he would moi
make any noise by striking the fur
nitme, md when he dcmurrcl tha
IL might not he sufo She answered
him That rs the village was asleep u,
one could sec him. For II mmnon
he hcsinted, aud then no struck ,
match and the tiny spark grow int,
a blaze, showing the room plain an,
distinct. Only for an instant, though
for then there lcapcd out across In
bed on which the girl lay u jet o
fire, aud the man who held thomatol
fell 10 the ground without a groan.
Tho air OF tho room grew thicl
with tho smell OF powder AN,
through the house could DO hem
voices calling in alright, but in tn,
room no one stirred or uttered
word The girl was wondering /
the man who had fallen was dcat
or only wounded and the man VIII,
had shot him remained quiet, fca'in,
that after all his shot might havI
failed him. II was only when th
door of the room was opened frpu
without and the light showed dea,
outstrctched figure ON the grounl
that he came forth, and then tn
girl rose from the bed and gRze,
cDolly down ON the body OF tho MAJ
who had murdered her lover, san
Francisco Argonaut.
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Observations inado TO determine tn
longitude Of Montreal show that TN
transmission Of the electric currun
gcroas tho ocean and back occupied
tribe over one second, tho distance DO
ing 5000 miles.
Tho nero fact that chance has direct