The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-21

out to buy one That Is why am mere,
and l should not stand talking to you
but must go back at once"
But, l say Miss Sartwell,' pro-
tested Barney, IF you break a rule
merely to buy paper surely you will
the same one. when YOU know how
much pleasure il will give me to take
you Cor = little drive"
"Oh, couldn't think of such thing,
Mr.. Hope-I couldn't indeed, and you
must not ask mel 1 wanted the paper
to see if there was ANYTHING more
about the fire. should never have
known about it had not my father sent
me a short telegram that gave no par
ticulars I suppose he did not have
time to write
What fire.
1.-The fire at the works.
BLESS me, Has there been a fire."
Didn't you know? There has been a
terrible fire; the east wing is destroyed
and Two men have lost their lives
two of the workmen. There would have
been a frightful loss of life had it not
been for one of the men who is dead
1t is supposed, so the papers say, that
in trying to save the life of the other
he lost his own
Dear me: How perfectly awful l
wonder why Mr. Sartwell didn't wire
me, as neither father nor Monkton is
there You see, l never read the papers
myself-never have any interest in tim.
If a fellow could only know when there
is to be something in them worth
while it wouldn't be so bad; but one
can't go on buying them every day in
the hope there Will be something in
them some time. don't YOU know. Be
sides, people generally tell me all the
news, so 1 don't need to read. l hear
even more than 1 want to hear with
out looking at the papers; but, you see,
1 l.aow nobody down here, and so am
slightly behind in the news of the
day."
Il must go now" repeated Edna,
who had listened to his remarks with
ill-disguised uneasiness.
:Oh. but that's just what you must
not dor cried Barney, with great
eagerness. Have pity, if not on my
loneliness, at least on my hopeless ig-
norance, don't YOU know, in a matter
that 7, Of all others, ought to be inter
ested-vitally interested-in. You see
there may be no insurance, and per-
haps I'm beggar-may have to sell
my tandem. don't you know sacrifice
my pictures, and all that sort of thing.
/ must hear about the fire, and all
about it. It's of more importance even
than the condition of the workingman,
to me at least, dear as that subject is
-all-interwoven-as l might say,
with my ery-ah-being-th work
ingman. don't you know
But" protested his anxious listener.
Il know nothing about the insurance
nothing whatever. You should go at
once to London by the very first train.
There has been an inquest, and L ex-
pect to find a report OF it in this paper.
| You can buy a paper at the station,
-
is TO be known until you reach Lon
/ dom
II sa--. Miss Sartwell.'' said Barney,
in an injured tone, you surely can't
expect me to understand what's in the
paper. l never could, don't you know.
They seem to me to. print such rub
Dish. Now. YOU can explain it all to
me in a very short time-you always
make everything so clear. If you will
just step into this cart of mine, I'll
drive out of town and around behind
the school; then no one will see us, and
! you can reach there much more quickly
than if you walked, don't you know"
The girl frowned, and Barney saw
with surprise that she perhaps had,
after all, some other fathers impa-
! thence. He felt thatThe was not pro-
crossing quite as favorably as he could
wish; but few words would put that
right, if he could get her to go with
him Cor drive.
Mr.. Hope she said, severely, you
will pardon me if l say that, under the
| circumstances. you should be busy in
London rather than idling at East
bourne. An unexpected calamity has
happened; the business is deranged,
| and men are out of work just now
when they need it most; yet here you
stand idly talking of tandems and driv-
| ing"
Barney opened his eyes wide with
establishment. Here actually was CEN
sure, plain and undisguised. He had
/ never encountered it before from any
! lady, except perhaps from his mother,
and she did not count, for. as he knew,
she would be the first to resent blame
placed upon him by anyone else.
'But-what can I do?' stammered
the unfortunate young man, with
strong emphasis on the personal pro-
noun.
Il, of course, don't know; but that
| is what 1 should find out if l were in
your place"
Nobody pays the least attention to
what l say; they never did, and it's
not likely. they're going TO begin now.
Your father didn't even take the
trouble TO telegraph, although he knows
I'm here"
He knows you are here?"
"Of course He was coming with
me, and both of us were going to cali
upon you; but. uEluckily for me. he
couldn't come, and here 1 am stranded
and l. must say, when you talk like
that, 1 think fate is a little hard on
me-"
AS the girl looked at him her ex-
preston softened. She felt she had
been unfair to him, and she had a
keen sense of justice.
L had no intention of saying any
thing harsh" she replied. Il merely
told you what I thought anyone in
your position would do. Don't you
agree with me?"
Il always agree with you, Miss Sart-
well. I'm rather a blockhead, at best,
don't you know; but L usually recog-
nize the right thing when someone
points it out to me. That's one great
fault 1 find with myself. 1 don't see
things till after everyone else has seen
/ them; then they all seem so plain that
l wonder l didn't notice them before
People are so impatient with fellow
/ like me, that sometimes l feel for my
self give you my word l do. II
they would take a little pains-but
/ then, of course, no one ever cares
whether fellow goes right or wrong.
"Oh, yes, they do cried the girl
quickly. I'm sure 1 care very much. "
,"You think you do cried Barney
dejectedly, but you won't even risk
( a slight scolding at school to give me
tho advice I need the time I need