The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-27

partnership sadly since his wife had sick
ened ana died-a prey To- The universal e sal
when man and wife are not society for
each other. This pair had never been.
He had married her for her wealth, but
ne got no COMPROMISING; for though a
good woman, her mind was weak and
uncuItivated. His library was nothing
TO her, nor his conversation, when II
was above her range. God help the man
and wife who have no common interests
to bind them together, yet are doomed to
pass their Lives thrown upon themselves
for society,"
untitled for, and Mary was his pride, his
joy, his all. as he grew older. Need it
be said he grew anxious about her mar
IyinS and leaving him alone some day?
And yet he was coTnforted by noting that,
while she was pleasant and kind to all,
NO bright, particular star seemed to
rise over her horizon: no one more than
another of the youth of Dulltown re
ceived favor at her hands. And the old
millionaire wondered at this not little.
She was young, healthy, fair, and his des-
tined h6ireSS. And yet she was entering
her 18th year with a heart as Indifferent
as when a. schoolgirl, to those attractions
which mean SO much to young girls gem
orally.
But one day his eyes were opened, for
he had sharp eyes where his interests
were touched. For one day Johnny
Brown came home from New York to
visit his mother and the scenes of his
{ :
lad; he came back a, handsome, manly
youth of past 20, with the marks of toll
and success plainly to be read on his
person and in his air. Those hands had
been intimate with hammer and wrench,
bar and lever. His eye had the mechanl-
cal cast soon acquired by the worker in
metals; his arms, the muscles OF the
athlete He was a fine specimen of the
intellectual American machfniSt; and nc
mother could have taken back to her
arms a manlfer or a more welcome wan
, n Ar.e1- fvg7r fle off 1iC
Well, john stayed ait home a. few
weeks, visiting his friends, and welcomed
by all, as a relief from the monotony of
DulltoWn, and from the really friendly
feeling with which every community wei
comes back those who go out into the
world, and play a manly part therein.
And there was no more appreciative or
cIosely-observant acquaintance than the
eX-banker, Mr. Van Gould. His Judgment
of men was shrewd and unerTing. He
took pains to engage John in conVer5a-
ness, of observation, of principle, of opin-
iOn-in fact, in his quiet way, he mad
thoroughly 'sized up" our hero before
the latter nistrusted that it was he, in
stead of his; news, Mr.. Van Gold was
weighing. And after John had gone back
to his duties in New York, to take up
again his life's work. nobody in Dull
town ever suspected that the shrewd old
man had inyentoried him and laid him
away labelled for future reference.
But of the hereafter. John and Mary
/ few weeks. And, as it is not in our
plan to give details OF Iove-making,
which you can get from any Well-Con-
structed modern novel, | will only say
that before they parted they were sworn
/ lovers, and Ills desp te the fact that there
were million or 50 dollars between
them.
! be better not to let their enga cement be
] known They dreaded the opposition of
/ her father they knew the barrier fate
/ had placed between them, and knew, also,
that many years must elapse before
young Brown could hope, with the hes
luck, to win means enough to demand
/ the milli0naires daughter, with any pros
! poet of success.
I SO it was a sad parting, but courageous
on beth sides Yet hope deferred max
eth the heart sick" It was not manH
months before the keen eyes of the father
| noted a. careWoTn look on his daughter
pretty face, and the fact that this look be
| came more marked after the advent o.
the mails. lie took the precaution, also t
step to the postoffice himself for his fami
! ~ mail, which his daughter had generally
! brought, and noticed that when letters
/ bearing the New York postmark were re
ceived by, her, they were succeeded 10y.
! nervous depression she took much pain
! &c hide.
/ SO he proceeds to take his measure:
with a diaboMcal cunning worthy of {
MalVOliO. He first makes an GRAND t.
the Widow Browns cottage. He con
tracts for the making of some articles oi
Clothing, and as he is about leaving, asks
( "Ah, by the way, do you hear anything
! from your SON John lately, MADAME He
I is surprised 20 see the widow burst into
tears, and to hear her tell that a fire il
! his employers factory had destroyed The
plant, and all his own investment as {
part owner of the stock therein, leaving
I John broken up as well as thrown out o,
! employment. And the good lady was sur
prlsed to see a hard smile pass over thu
I nillionaire's stern face, a smile Of graft
fled malice, she was sure; and could bt
/ sworn she heard a laugh as he stumblec
downstairs, and a remark that cit served
| them right, trying to deceive her old gray
haired fatheri''
And here the Romance of Dulltown'
properly commences. and we win warran
/ it to be the first and only" romance O
the kind ever recorded, so far as our re
| searches in the much trodden fields of fic
ton reveal For what does that inhuma1
parent do? He seizeS her next letter
| breaks the seal, reads the direction, and
I shame to say it, the contents. which
were as follows:
Dearest Mary:
Since I wrote you last week, my affair: