The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-06

Her narrative was full of pauSeS, hest
tations and difficulty. But when she
would master this repugnance she
went on quickly and her speech was
not only fluent but full of feeling The
young man respectfully waited in 81
lence till she should recover her con-
troll, though considerably affected by
her emotion.
I know him better than any one liv-
ing, she resumed. IF he were to find
out what have done, even if I re-
turned with the box OF documents,
showed the hateful sDecious grounds
Tor my suspicious. confessed my fault
and plead for forgiveness, he would
drive me from him, and never look at
or speak 10 me again. He is one Of
those stern, unyielding men who can
not forgive an injustice too good to
forgive a fault.
Here is where you can be of greater
assistance TO me than I ever dreamed
mortal could. If I can get that box
back to the very place from which l
took 1t before he returns tonight, he
VIII never know that it has been
touched. Tomorrow, I come back after
this visit, apparently to my sister, and
all will go on as before. He has no
idea that I ever entertained a doubt
Of him. l dare not take it back nv
self for fear in some way he should
discover what I have done. If his dis
trust were aroused in the slightest de-
gree, he would get the whole thing out
of me, despite myself. And this worry
and DrOstratiOn from the heat would
make me afraid TO attempt it, lest /
should be overcome again. ! am not
strong, and this strain has quite IN
nerved me. You must see with what
effort l am letting You know the stu
alton. After ruin has fallen On him,
meant TO declare myself, his wronged
wife q
Gus wrong You must desDiSe me al
most as much as I deSpiSe myself. The
only excuse is that it was the mad act
of a woman who loved her husband to
distraction and felt that she he'd been
cruelty wrOnged by him. But, as I say,
you can make this dreadful state OF
things right once more. You can pre-
vent my life from being one Of con-
slant misery. And viii you do this2
Heaven has thrown you in my way, as
if for this very purpose. I assure you
solemnly, it involves no peril to you.
VIII you save me?"
She spoke the words with intense
feeling. turning her brilliant, greenish
eyes on him with the look of a hunted
fawn. The young man felt the grasp
of their magnetic intensity.
If I can do anything 10 relieve YOU,
1 certainly will" he replied. a little
nervously. But YOU must see that I
cannot promise aDSOlulelN Ilit Know
what you wish me TO do
Simply this" returned the young
woman quickly. but in low, excited
tones. Take back that box for me.
Listen, He will not return before 10
this evening. We live on the top floor
Of No. - East -- street. My hus-
bands name is Wheeler-William
Wheeler. There is no one else in the
house, at present The care-taker comes
Z IN he and laaz-ac . 4 in The
evening. when the private Waterman
comes on duty. 1t is only the fear that
somebody might see me with the box,
and it would reach his ears. that keeps
me from going. 1 viii give you my
latch-key. Go there at s. open the
rooms. In his bedroom is q tall, uD
right. folding bed. Take the box-you
Will have to get in a chair to do it
and put it on the shelf made by the
foot of the bed when il is turned up.
about two feet from the right hand
side and with the lock turned to the
wall. That is exactly where it was
taken from, and it was placed in that
way. If you knew how keen an OBJ
server my husband is you would IN
derstand why l an so particular about
these petty details. 1t Will not take you
ten minutes TO do it. Then bring me
back the key. There is no danger. To
secure you perfectly against even the
remote possibility Of it. ! viii give YOU
a letter saying I asked you to under
take an important commission for me
to my husband; but if you can go at
the time I say, it is the unlikeliest
time in the world that there win be
any need of it.
'-Oh. l know what a favor I am ask
ing of a perfect stranger" exclaimed
the young wife. with great feeling. but
7 So
and you are securing it for me, if you
have the noble generosity to aid me in
this way If you refuse, you who
could pity a strange woman who was
only suffering from sun stroke, to
whom can I look for help? 1 do not
want TO appeal to anything but your
heart. but ] swear to you that if you
refuse I viii kill myself rather than
face the consequence of my own reck-
less act. On, will you not do this, for
the love Of heaven, for helpless, dis
tracted woman
She bent her eyes imploringly upon
him-grave. clear eyes; strange, COM
polling. fascinating eyes. It was the
absurdity of the thing which the young
man had most in his mind. But the
woman's precautions would secure him.
if worst came TO worst. It seemed
cruel nor to render the assistance to a
frail. sweet woman, nervous to the
brink Of prostratiOn over the impending
loss of her life's happiness. The final
threat Of elf-destTuctiOn, moreover,
had such a ring of determined purpose
that il decided him to accept this
strange commission at any cost.
y viii do it," he said, with a de-
liberation that argued better for the
accomplishment Of the task than a
prompter, more enthusiastic assent.
Then if you viii tell the cabman to
drive to No. -, Lexington avenue, l
can tell you anything else on the way
she said. with deep sigh of relief. L
cannot repay you for your kindness,
but God may"
on their way to the number indicated
she asked the young man TO call at the
Lexington avenue house at 7:45 that
evening and she would have the latch
key. the letter and the box ready for
him. It was the residence, she ex-
planned, OF one of her most intimate
woman friends. Before they arrived at
the house, which proved TO be one of
the respectable, non-committed brick
ones Astounding in that section of Lex
ington avenue. she slipped a five-dOllar
bill into his hand TO pay the cabman
with when he had set him down where
he wished to go. She also begged him
TO give this address TO the cabman
before they arrived at the house, and
to bid him drive on at once as soon as
She got out since her friend knew all
of her men acquaintances and might
make curious inquiries if she saw her
drive I'D with a stranger. OF course,
her coming back in 2 hanson would