San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-12

my love into sudden intensity. made
the observations and did the work of
months Of acquaintance in those few
mind always acts quick. / seem always
to have been discussing my decisions
with myself, years before the subject of
decision comes to me. Whatever hap
pens falls ON me with the force of a
doom. / loved Miss Clitheroe's voice
the instant heard its brave tenderness
answering her father. loved her I'M
seen, and would have died for her thai
moment. When she appeared, and l
saw hr face and read her heart, knew
that twas the old dream-the old dream
that i never thought would be other
than dream. The ancient hope and
expectation, coeval with my life, was
fulfilled. She is the other self | have
been waiting for and seeking for"
Have you told her so:"
"Can a man stop the beating of his
heart? Can man not breathe? Not in
in words perhaps. | did not use the
lover words But she understood me.
She did not seem surprised. She recog-
nizes such a passion as her right and
desert"
"a great hearted woman can see how
man worthy of her can nullify time and
space, and meet her, soul to soul, in eter-
nifty from the first"
80 l meet her; but circumstances
here are stronger than love"
"Can she do nothing with her father"
Nothing. She failed in England
when this delusion first fell upon him."
''Did she know what it meant for her
and him:"
Hardly. She even fancied that they
would be happier in America than at
home, where she saw that his old
grandeur was always reproducing him"
'Did he conceal from her the goal and
object of his emigration?'.
''She knew he was, or supposed him
self to be, Mormon. But Mormonism
was little more than name to her. She
believed his perversion only transitory
folly. 1t is but recently, only since they
were away from succor, off in the desert,
that she has perceived her own risk. She
hoped that the voyage from England
would disenchant her father and that
she could keep him in the states. No; he
was committed; he was impracticable.
You have seen yourself how far his faith
is shaken. Just so far that his crazy
cheerfulness has given place to moping;
but he will hear nothing of reason"
"What does she anticipated"
''She says she only dares to endure.
Day by day they both wear away. Day
by day her fathers bright hope dwindles
away. Day by day she perceives the
moment of her own danger approaching.
She could not speak to me of it; but
could feel by her tone her disgust and
disdain of SizZum. Oh, how steady and
noble she is! All for her father! All to
guide him with the fewest pangs to that
desolate death she knows must come!
She gave me a few touches of their past
history, so that l could see how much
closer and tenderer than the common
bond of parent and child theirs had
been"
THAT l saw from the old gentlemans
story. Sorrow and poverty ennoble love"
"She thanked me and you so sweetly
for our society and the kind words we
had given them. She had not seen her
father so cheerful, so like himself, since
they had left England"
"What a weary pilgrimage they must
have had, poor Grant souls!"
ooh, Wade, Wade! how this tragedy
of theirs cures me forever of any re-
bellion against my own destiny. A
helpless womans tragedy is so much
bitterer than anything that can befall a
man."
"Must we say helpless, John?"
care we two an army, that we can
take them by force? She has definitely
closed any further communication on our
part. She said that could not have
failed to notice how Elder Sizzum dis
liked our presence. l must promise her
not to be seen with them in the morn
ing. Sizzum would find some means to
punish her father, and that would be
torture to her. 1t seems that villain
plays on the old mans religious super
stitions, and can terrify him almost to
madness"
"The villain! And yet how far back
of him lies the blame, that such terrors
can exist in any mans mind when God |
is love-"
81 promised her not to see her again
for you and myself; to see her no more.
That goodby was final Now let me
alone for awhile, my dear old boy; am
worn out and heartbroken."
He mummied himself in his blankets,
and lay on the grass, motionless as a
dead man. 1t was not his way to shirk
camp duties. Indeed, his volunteer