Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-19
THAT GAIT MATTER.

For this talo offer neither explanation
nor apology Judge % By your own stand
ard
Naomi Fullurfori the daughter u
wealthy Trcssgi fniiingiorl Of Lippentun
Manor. received the attentions OF Mir Les.
lie Gait
One night there were stolen from Miss
Naomi's sleeping apartment. after aho bad
retired and during night when she was
onsh TO che yniuc ct 10000. TO acquire
this piuudera huge family safe bad been
opened a heavy mahogany chinuuuier
was rauglckrd and the very mattresses
whereun Miss llliiugford lay wcrc plum.
dtrcd. The thief escaped.
Subsequently Miss Naomi had falling
ont with Mr. Gait. and she saw 90 more
Of him for several years. 1herJbbery took
place iu 1870.
lu 1884 rrcasel Fallingfdrd was dead.
and Miss Naomi was living alone. attend.
ell by servants, Ia The manor house. ON
cold November evening Mr.. Leslie Calf
was seen to alight from tAc mail train no
iippeu'lu. Il was about shutdown. lie
was seen TO takc the road 90 The manor
house. He was seen TO reach Co. He was
seen 90 mount the porch, FROM which
view could be had into the sitting room,
where Miss Naomi rtclincd before "a crag.
King nro. HawHs seen 10 sit there Tor Uu
hour. AZ O'Clock he was still ON The
porch. AZ ,.O5 "a knock upon Che door
brought the butler who reported 20 Miss
Naomi that gentleman, who would not
give his name. desired TO see h.r.
"Nuu have never arcn me before, mad
ANN The visitor was nn entire stranger
"Ncvcr. Co my knowledge answered
Miss Naomi, looking full in the mans
face as be- stood beneath the chandelier
"You were robbed Ia this house IA
1897"
~ was
"You offered % reward and no questions
asked 10 the property was rctuncdf"
81 did,
"HurIt is,m1dam, " and the man placed
thc plundgr intact upon the table before
Miss Naomi.
pamcrsby saw her standing By the table.
with Nlr. Leslie Gait opposite her.
"Whoto did you get these, sirin ex.
claimed che delighted woman
"Hcmcuhcr, madam, you were not 60
ak any questions. My reward, please
Miss Naomi touched boil. The but
Ter entered. She sent for her money. When
be brought %, she counted out the reward
and passed II 90 tho stranger. MADAM.
will you uhligc me hy rNprnding this mon.
ey upon the deserving poor In your parish
church, ! do not need it, lilo laid tho
notes ON the table. Tho next day Miss
Naomi caused IL to DO known she had re-
coycrul her ynluablcs. Every one congrnt
ulntrd her, aud also spoke Of the pleasure
- LaU ia as.
Leslie Calf
Miss Naomi denied having seen Mr.
Gait Ia eight years. Then pcoplea how'll
dcrcd brains began 90 couple the unmo OF
leslie Gait with the original robbery Of
the fnlIiugford yalunbles. This was very
hard for Naomi TO hear, hut she could not
account Tor Mr. Gnlt'h not calling % ha
had BEEN Ia town. People told her they
saw him on bor porch NJ O'Clock Tho
strange mHn restored tho ynluablcs 10
later. Ten minute. after Mr.
Gnlt had disappeared frum the porch. A.
he was again sosu at the station. hut
the strange rpatorcr of the vnlunhloa had
been seen by no one IA Lippcntop, snvc
BY Miss Naomi and her butler. Both de
clnrUd thcy never saw him before.
In 1850, one very dark night Ia Noyem-
Der, hr. Leslie Gait called upon Miss Mao.
MI fnlhugtupl and was cordially received.
Mr. Gait stated that be had been for
the last few years Ia Australia.
This brought up the rumor Of his visit
20 Lippenton, current i've years before.
aud they both laughed over e.
Mr.. Calf renewed bis suit. was accept.
ed. and be and Naomi were married In
The parish church at Lippcnton.
Among the donations Mr. Gait made on
bis wedding day was large sum Of mon.
cy for the poor Of the parish The rector,
In accepting 10, remarked that the bcqucst
was very oppoTtune, a. they were just NJ
the end Of the last donation received Of "a
similar amount
In bis cNubcraneo and joyousness Mt
Gait exclnimcdi
"oh, yes In issil Hush money Re
ward ] rCmemhorN'
When people heard what he had said
they looked scrutiniEinRly at him, but
i've years IL = long time, aud memory un
dOrgocs great strains.
Naomi hvaul what her husband had
said.
But she remembered exactly how the
stranger looked when ho called Co restore
the yaluablcs. She compared the rrsom
bluncc. u was too remote for possibility.
Mr. Leslie Gait sat out on the porch
good drll People passing said 90 one an.
other That h tho way | saw him back
IN 1851
one thing f. very strange Mr., Gait has
always disupproyed Of his wifc'a putting
yalunble- between mattresses, or of pluo.
ting Jewels Ia ohInouuior. or Of keeping
bulky safes IN the house.
Mr. Gait clnlms hc can exercise such hn
effect upon one by magnetism ho POSSESSES
that you would pass him on the street and
not recognize him. lilo occasionally gives
exhibitions Of this power
have never been present.
Neither has Mrs, Galt,-ENchangc