The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
New york Recorder.l

without misgivings That her slralI-lseeu
family allowed her to visit her ricn IA
Gle and aunt in LonGon. But they coul
not well refuse the invitation. Even
Puritan people know how ITO value theA
moneyed relatives.
Dolly had been in London only one
short week, and she was bewitched wit
everything she saw. She loved her I'M
Gle and aunt, both of whom displayed
strong affection fer her in freedom
she had never tast before. Sac was
delighted with the substantial Old house
WITH It's large 70 ms. big fireplaces am
comfortable furniture. More than all,
she admired LonJon itself. The busy
streets, with their palatial shops; The
colossal buildings-Sl5. Pauls, the Alb
hey, the Houses of Parliament, the
broad. quiet squares, which seemed TO
have been dropped down at random
among the wildern SIS of houses; the gay
restaurants, and the brilliant, fascinat-
ing theatres. She particularly ked it
at night, when illunlined by countless
lights, whose reflections glittered on th5
pavement; and when the black dark
ness of the sky, unaccompanied by the
death.y silence thai it brought in the
country. seemed rather to enhance the
noise and hustle of the prodigal streets
mere WIS SUIllC lIllIi5 IOlildAi ~ '~AI~eNe -
all. 1t thrilled her, she knew not way
Her heart beat fas .er, her pulses o0und-
ed more quickly, She felt more allVe
than she had ever felt before.
There was ano ther source of pleasure
Never before had she been thrown into
the company of so engaging young
gentleman as her cousin Toms the only
child OF her uncle and aunt. He was
DolIy's senior by some ha-f dozen years
Had D0lly's parents suspected what
manner OF young man he was, they
would have made a special journey tc
London to bring their daughter nome.
Fortunately. they were ignorant There
WAS nothing really bad about the lad.
He had a very god heart, but ne want
ed Sleadying a little. He was exactly
the sort of daShing, reckless, free-hand-
ed young Englishman that handsome,
manly fellow becomes when placed in
circumstances of wealth and freedom
The first time he saw his cousin Dolly
he decided that she was very pretty
girl. but shy, and that it would b
worth while 10 draw her out.
He found ii not easy, and that, not
wf5hatanding the fact, had he known it,
that there was in Doliy's heart an in
tense. willingness to be drawn out by
cousin Tom. But that shyness of hers
was q formidable barrier. she could no.
chatter; the thing. was Impossible. He
silence had been inbred so long that
had become a part OF her anatomical
structure; and Tom. in spite of all his
conversational talents and social pol
ish, frequently found himself reduced
by Ii to a corresponding state. On thl
other hand. if Dolly could not speak
she could look. She had extremely elo
uuent eyes, eyes that spoke far more
than he lips. Tom soon began TO watch
those eyes, and TO love them. He no
longer attempted to make his cousin
talk; her eyes rendered conversation un
necessary.
. one afternoon in the frs weak in jan
\ g2ry. he sauntered into mis- mothers
sitting room, and there discovered Dol
~ sitting. like the historic Miss NIuf-
fir. on buffet in front Of the fire. Her
fingers were busy with some crochet
I5ork. Tom drew a chair TO the fire.
& Are you going out tonight, Dolly?"
7 She lifted her eyes from her needle.
''Not tonight"
s'Noc Are you sorry '?'''''' - -
No"
I suppose you're getting rather tired
of it, You've been out pretty nearly
every night lately, haven't you?"
Yes I'm not tired of it though; l
like IT, But AuEtie and 1 are gong to
have d quiet evening tonight and /
snail like that Just as well.
VI -
Are you sure you will like it just as
waI?''
I beg your pardon?' said Dolly.
He moved on his chair. Well he
said, 4 want you to come out with ne
to-T2yht if you Will. 8"
She looked. at him in amazement.
"Ou1 with YOU? Why, where TOT"
The theatre he responded.
Pleasure shone in her face. She
gasped with delight. oh, you are kind!
But do you think aunty viii allow me?'
IN ask her" said naughty Tom 1t
was really very wrong of him, for Dol
Tvs parents would have ben scandal
ized at the idea. OF their daughter being
seen i'm a theatre. However, they were
rot there TO see. 1t never occurred TO
Dolly that il could he wrong for her TO
so after Tom had proposed 1t, and so;
5 Toms parents raised no objections,
they started in due course. The condi-
ton imposed on them (and the sequei
proved it sound one) was to wrap up
vel, which they did.
How Dolly enjoyed the performance
il is unnecessary to relate in detail.
She did enjoy il immensely; and she
frequently turned to Tom and thanked
him so earnestly for his kindness in
having brought her. that Tom begun to
feel the ecstacy that follows virtuous
conduct. Her enjoyment robbed her,
for the first time, of her shyness. Her
B face glowed with an unusual animation.
There was a color in her cheek and a
sparkle in her eyes that had not been
there before. When a shy maiden does
wake up to animation she is ten times
more dangerously attractive than her
ViVacious sisters, who sparkle all day
long. Tom thought his cousins face
more seductively sweet than he mag
jned it could be. He warmed toward
her. He no longer wanted to draw her
out, 10 f1irt with her. He was in love
now. all the way.
They made no haste out of the thea
ire with the result that, when they
reached the street, there was not an
available hanson.
Wed better walk on a bit" said
Tom. We shah come to one present
ly.'
There had been 4. heavy fall of snow
during the performance, and the pave
ment of the Strand was all slushy and
sloppy.
res rather unpleasant under foot,
Dolly" said Tom You'd better take
my arm
She did as she was bid, and immed!-
stely experienced q curious sense of
being owned 1t seemed to her that she
belonged to her cousin. While, as for
Tom, the soft touch of those small
gloved fingers on his coat-sleeve gave
\ him more pleasure than all his previous
amorous adventures rolled into one.
When they came to Trafalgar square
Dolly. gave a little scream, of delight
oh" she cried, 'thow pretty
1t was pretty. The whole square
fountains, statues. and all, wherever
the snow could find lodging-lay
draped in white. The portions that
we're free from snow looked doubly
black by contrast. 1t was a study in
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