Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-27

ON. which would do terrible ex.
eoution in the hand Of a desperate
man.
"Ahl this is ono Of tho most pre-.
cious hoirlooms of my family. This
knife is hundreds Of years old. 1t
was given to Macnegor by Doug.
las himself, and there is a tradition
that when onoof ourname Is betrayed
"a love he can regain the affections
of the maidon Of his heart IL he can
manage to draw blood from her
bosom with This knife
What a yhlainous ideal I nm
afraid that in this prosaic age such "A
proceeding would result in II very
unromantic charge of fclonious as.
sault and battery instead Of a fond
reunion Of two loving hearts re-
marked. WINS that heathenish dag.
ger launched into existence with
that mission and no other"
mo. a weapon Of this kind IL
part Of every Highland warriors
equipment. Itiscallcd the slicne.dhu
black knife When the owner WIS
hard pressed In combat. and could
no longer use his sword. he drew hie
skcne dhu from his stocking and
tried TO turn the tide Of battle by
plunging tho blade into his adver
sary."
VERY convenient"
1.-THE skene.dhu was also uscl
sometimes to give the fallen foe his
coup dc grace, and in the hunt it
was employed to cut the throat Of q
stag which had been brought down
by bolt from q Crussbow.'
Arthur Macgrcgor turned the dag
ger over in his hands ailcctionntely,
rs lac described. its uses, and then re-
turned It to it's nest in his stocking,
whore the white butt ON tho black
handle looked like the evil eye Of n
Cyclopean imp In ambush.
An hour later Arthur and / en-.
tered tho hall where the bali was In
progress. ! saw him look swiftly
around, and then he marched TO the
upper end of the largo room, where
the stage, u mass of flags and over.
greens, was occupied by the orchcs.
ira. Around the hall were the slIllsm
which fancy articles had boon offered
for sale during the past two weeks.
Their contents had all removed,
and the stalls themselves converted
into arbors, where, amid cool looking
palms and artistically disposed flow
crs, the most delightful tcte-a.tctcs
could be enjoyed by the tired dane
ers. Into one Of these Arthur made
his way, and there he sat, in solitary
grandeur, glowering around the
room and looking, | knew, for Miss
Helen Jamison.
/ had fallen in with n group Of ac-
quaintanccs and was talking tine
usual conventionalities about tho
tasty decoration Of the hall, the pros
poets Of large attendance, the
merits OF the charity, the financial
results of the fair and So ON. Then
n certain young lady sailed through
the doorway with her brother and
MS 1 had the best Of feeling toward
this came brother | took his sister
of his hands and joined in tho grand
march just then forming As we
paroded slowly around the great
hall 20 the strains of q selection
from 'Lohengrin, b" / looked at every
couple rs they passed US IN the mazes
Of thomnrch TO sec If Helen Jamison
were there.
AT last! Yes, there she is, and
leaning on the arm of sam Bangs.
But where was Arthur Not IN the
arbor near tho stage, where / had
ast seen himl Notnmong theprCm'
onadersl NOtstanding in that group
of young mon near the door-most
of thom in evening dress watching
the Kaleidoscope effect of the marcn,
wherein the quaint costumes of tn,
gentlemen and the rich party drcssc-
Of the ladies seemed in every in
stance 50 well matched Not IN the
gallery, where many who did moi
care to dance Ind bctaken them
selves 30 enjoy a full view Of tn,
proceedings bclowl Where was he
"Do you zee hcrN muttcred {
hoarso voice in my ear, as | wa
bending my head to speak TO tn,
lady onmy arm through the music.
turned with start.
There at my elbow, his mighty
frame trembling with passion as Ii,
kept step in tho march, his fnc'
flushed, and his strong, white tceti
sayagely biting ut his blond mus
tache, was Arthur Macgrogor.
"Do you SEQ horp ho repeated
, "And himn
AS he spoke the black feather il
his bonnet vibratcd in sympath,
with tho trcmor of hate that wen
, through him like an electric current
and saw the nervous fingers stcu
down toward the black hilt of III
skcne-dhu which, tony imagination
/ seemed to actually wink lawless or
, couNgCmcnt with it's white eye.
| Don't he q fool, Arthur was m
= response, but he was gone.
, As Helcn Jamison passed and I,
/ passed me in thomarch was Obligc
+ to admit that there was some eNcus
Cor Arthur Macgrcgor's mad love fO
!. her, A decided brunette, with th
4 soft brown eyes that will play TN
r deuce with an impressionable youn
/. mans hcart-especially when III
i young man has Gaelic blood in HI