The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-01

crack in the yard. / went to Win
dow and looked out, and could just
barely see that something like big
building had grown up during the
night. Then l watched it and watched
it, until 1 made out it was a whole
house, and after that it was not long
before 1 guessed what had happened.
1t seemed a simpler thing to me, you
know, than it did TO you, because L
had often thought about it, and proba-
bly, you never had"
You are right there" said earn
estly. 'It would have been impossible
for me to imagine such a thing"
AT first 1 thought there was nobody
in the house, said she; but when
heard someone moving about, came
down TO tell whoever had arrived, not
to make a noise. 1 see, she added,
with another of her smiles, that you
think l am very strange person not
to be more Hurried by what has nap
pened. but really I cannot think of
anything else just now except what
mother will say and do when she
comes down and finds you and your
house here at the back door. 1 am
very sure she will not like 1t.
Like it.' I exclaimed. who on
earth could like it?'
please SPEAK more gently, she SAID
Mother is always little irritable
when her nights rest has been broken,
and l would not like to have her wax
ened up suddenly now; but really, Mr..
Warren. | haven't the least idea ii
the world how she will take this thingN
l must go in and be with her when she
wakes. so that / can explain just what
has happened
"One moment" 1 said. You know
my name?
zoe T II, CHI 10
answered Gould that house be up
there on the hillside for more than a
it,"
With this she went indoors. 1 could
not help smiling when 1 thought of
the young lady regretting that there
was no man in the house who might
help me do something. What could
anybody do in a case like this? l
turned and went into the house. l en-
tered the various rooms on the lower
floor and saw no signs of any particu-
lar damage except that everything
movable in each room was jumbled
together against the front wall, but
when 1 looked out of the back door, 1
found that the porch there was a good
deal wrecked, which 1 had not noticed
before.
1 went upstairs and found everything
pretty much as it was below. Nothing
seemed to have been injured except
the chimney and the porches. thanked
my stars that l had used hard wood
instead of mortar for the ceilings of
my rooms.
l was about to go into my bedroom
when l heard woman scream, and of
course l hurried to the front. There on
the back porch of her house stood Mrs
Carson. She was woman of middle
age, and, as l glanced at her, saw
where her daughter got her good looks,
but the Dlacidity and cheerfulneSS of
the younger face was entirely wanting
in the mother. Her eyes sparkled, her
cheeks were red, her mouth was partly
opened, and it seemed to me that
could almost see that her breath was
hot.
rs this your house?" she cried, the
moment her eyes fell upon me; land
what is it doing here?"
1 did not Immediately answer. I
looked at the angry woman, and behind
her l saw, through the open door, the
daughter crossing the hallway; it was
plain that she had decided to let me
have it out with her mother without
interference. As briefly and as clearly
as l could, l explained what had hap
Dened.
What is all that to me?" she
screamed. 1T doesn't matter to me how
your house got there. There have been
storms ever since the beginning of the
world, and l never heard of any of
them taking a house into a persons
back yard. You ought not to have
built your house where any such thing
could happen; but all this is nothing to
me- 1 don't understand now how your
house did get there, and 1 don't want