The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-26
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Dan BellairS and Liza Bel
liars had done a very foolish
thing-they had fallen in love; they
had done an awful thing-they had
married. And married on the strength
of unlimited credit on the bank OF
love, and almost total blank on thai
of Threadneedle street. The checks OF
the former are not negotiable in q
matter-of- fact world. Then Dan and
Liza, scouting the maxim that two is
company and three is none, smiled well
come on baby. All this took place in
due chronological order when Dan was
at the responsible age of 81.
When he took the train Gust after
his marriage) down to Lessinger hall
to inform his father of the event, his
stern parent told him to go to the
devil, whereupon Dan replied, with
oversanguine and rash cheerfulness,
that he had come to lis father, follow
ing his advice in advance. Mr.. Bel
liars did not see the joke Git was never
his way to perceive any sort of joke)
and then Dan got riled and both men
got cross (Which was a PITY and used
naughty words (Which was worse), and
each generously gave rather more than
he took, and Dan proved himself chip
of the old block-much to the old
blocks indignation, the upshot of it
being that Mr.. Belliars informed his
son by letter that he had cut him off
with shilling, and that if he chose
TO apply for the sum the family solicit
ors were authorized to honor his check
TO that amount.
Luckily Dan had s12O a year indie
pendent of his father, so, by aid of
hitherto undreamed-of economies, the
first two years passed, though it took
Liza some six months to learn that sal
mon and grouse are not the cheapest
fare to live on.
Dan had passed out of Sandhurst
and had been gazetted to a Bengal
cavalry regiment stationed somewhere
in Oudh, but the troopship in which
he was to sail did not start for six
weeks. One day he burst into LAS
little sitting-room (''three pair back')
saying:
What do you think I've stumbled
against, Liza? You remember Jeryois,
don't you? Jervois of my company
tall chap with a baldish head. Well,
I'd just turned into Vigo street when
fellow came knocking up against me.
] growled out something about the
dickens, don't you know, and he turned
round, and by Jovei it was Jervoisr'
How strange" echoed Liza, as if it
were a freak of nature TO meet ones
friends in London.
''Jervois had no end of tin, lucky fell
low"
Liza sighed dismally.
I'VE got talking of horses, and he
said he hoped we would let him drive
US down on his coach for the 14th.
What do you say, Liza? 1t would be a
regular fling for once in a way. He
gave me no end of tip about Adke-
mar; swears he must win at canter,
and he advised me to lay all I had
on him. Isn't it hard, now, that 1
can't?"
How much?'' begins Liza with hest
tation.
He answered by routing out q
shilling piece from his trousers pocket
and spinning it in the air. Heads or
tails? Heads? Heads it is. You've
won. Next remittance doesn't turn up
until day after tomorrow says this
husband and father soberly, after a
pause. He goes to the window and
looks out with straight brows and firm
closed lips, and succeeds in looking
grown-up.
The 18th smiled on an anxious world
which had feared frowning, fearful
sky.
Arriving at the course Dan and Jer-
vols went off by themselves. The lat
ter was a good deal excited. He had
only lately come into his money, and
bit intoxicating. Dan followed no less
off his head. There was chance of
doing something, of achieving a host CT
things, inclusive of the reconciliation
with the old block. With the money
that he should win on Adkemar he
would first buy no end of lovely things
for Liza. She was bewitching enough
as she was; but Liza in beautiful gar
ments would melt the north oole. Yes,
n do oil In1
of other things, including some awful,
swapping bills. hanging like so many
sledge hammers over their youthful,
inconSeQuent heads.
So Dan, having about as much weight
on his boys shoulders as would have
sunk a grown man, followed his
friends lead, and knowing very little
even of the technicalities of what he
was doing, struck out blindly in his
new course: shut his ewes like most
young swimmers and consequently saw
nothing of the breakers ahead. In fact,
the rush swept him clean off his feet.
1t is true he felt bit sobered when he
climbed uD by unconscious LAS side
at luncheon time.
One or two men looked rather cur
iously at the young couple; they did
not look as If the loss of money were
of no consequence to them. and yet
career, which would mean something
very serious if the horse he had backed
did not win.
The race did not come off for an hour
after and, by that time Dan had cooled
rather, and he turned very white as he
glanced at his notebook.
''And have you managed a bet or
two. dear?" asked insouciante Liza.
Yes, one or"
T,,cf +g,or, nc tho e11o1ff-
off," Liza looked the more excited of
the two, but then no one saw Dams
hands as they tore nervously at the
lining of his pockets.
Adkemar and Scotia led throughout,
and the game evidently lay between
.hese two. Yes, and the game was
played out, when Scotia shot ahead
md won by half length.
Liza turned round in sympathy for
Dams disappointment, but Dan had |
slipped down off the coach, and was
Nowhere to be seen.
Il say, old chap, you're looking
leuced glum-Adkemar's downfall, |
h ?" and Jervois clapped him on the /