The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-18
TRANSPLANTED:
OR, BLOOD WILL TELL.


Il was the third day out, and the
old ocean was glouously blue and beau
tifUl. The great steamers decks were
crowded with her passengers, whom
the fine weather had brought 10 the
surface once more. after, in many
cases, enforced seciusion below decks.
Now smiles wrea4lhed even the palest
Of faces, eyes shOne, gay laughter and
chatter were heard on every side.
Long suffering, much enduring deck
Stewards ran nimbIy hfther and
thither, evidently feeling no surprise
TO find people Who were far too i'll, as
they said, 10 go down TO the saloon for
dinner, still demanding a little of at
least five courses and munching nuts
and radsins all day long
Up and down, back and forth, surged
the crowd of pedestrians from the vet
Gran voyager who, with a peiometer
carefully put ia his five miles q day
oisdaining the off-hand computation
thai five times around the ship would
make mile" the pretty girl with
open-work stockings, dainty Slippers
with the highest Of French heels, and
a dfdft Of white lace befrirnmed ,tkir4s
displayed in the 9rssn breeze; lovers
sober married folk, lone women and as
alone, men, women by twos and threes.
and men in the same order; to the tiny
toddler, coly just beginning to get his
land legs on, TO say nothing aboue
those pertaining 60 the sea-
No one attraoted more general atten-
ton than a tall, sitalwart young fellow.
most severely English in his dress and
manner. Over six feet in height, of
wonderfully perfect physique, he trod
the deck with a soringiness and ease
immaculate white canvass shoes
seemed literally unriring His dark.
aculhne face, If not decidedly hand
some, was most certainly very attract
I'VE and Interesting. Most distinguished
looking" was the universal feminine
verdict. Several went so far as TO be-
lieye him a lord in disguise. despdte the
plain Charles Blake known to be his
name on the passenger list. He was
often accompanied by a middle aged
man as Enthusiastically English as him
self.
mo mystery at all about him. said
the genial purser, the especial friend of
all the ladies. 'He and his father are
simply two rich Englishmen who have
been spending some years in your big
America. and are now returning to
England, where old Mr.. Blake has large
estates in Yorkshire. Do not get eX-
cited ladies and try to invent romances.
Young Blake is a fine looking, rather
sober sort OF fellow but as far as car
see. nothing as wonderful and 1nysteri-
Gus as you are trying to make out He
IS 50 dark. that if I did not know he
were English I should say that he had
some cOlored blood IN his veins
A burst Of indignant protest quenched
the pursuer's eloquence. and he went
away smiling. saying under his breath.
ulgaalanfly: What fools even the best
Of women are scmefimes.''
In this case. however the women had
the best Of tt after all. There was a |
mystery concerning young Mr.. Blake, |
and though net lord, ne could with |
truth have been called ore Of natures !
noblemen.7 But not one of the ships |
vast company dreamed for a moment
of the true explanation Of the intan- |
gible, indefinite something that per- |
picked SO many.
He was, as has been said. correctly, !
sedately, soberly English, in every way |
except, perhaps. a Slightly unfamiliar /
cast of countenance. What was it that
was puZzling? There is always so much |
idle talk on a steamer.
Not a great talker. but when warmed
IN on a subject, though this happened /
rarely, as he appeared TO have every
under supreme control, the
BoOd mantlsu IN his dark cheeks, and
his large black, deep-set eyes Flowed
with an intense though rather somber
fire. His English was stngularly unde-
filed for this slang-lovsng generation.
your son does not look much like
YOU" someone would say to ruddY.
senior Blake.
NO he is like his mothers people,"
Mr.. Blake would calmly reply, but not
continuing the conversation further in
that direction.
Like his mothers people," aye, and
Ike his father s, too. for. all unsuspect-
ID now, Charles Blake only seven
short years before. had roamed, a
'carce- blanketed savage, over the far
7estern wilds of North America A
member of one of the most savage
ribes of Indians, he had known what
/ was TO thirst for an enemys blood,
o join with the ardor and vigor of
roUth in the scalp dance. TO participate
With the untrarmeled freedom Of his
ace in many of the horrible orgies Spe-
.uliar to his tribe war whoop had
leen far more natural TO him then than
ne fine tenor solos he executed now
Without difficulty. He had been a brave
.mong the braves.