Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-19

It's JOYS ana bOriuWH comes to muluens un
dor southern sun.
She silently loft the room md thought.
fully pursued her way to her home, Her
few simple dutits over she crcpt to her
he'd, still with this now secret warming
her heart and opening out a new vista Of
happiness IN her life
Mother sho had none. Her father, a
rough, uncouth fisherman, was seldom Mt
home except TO sleep or some drunken
orgy 1t was strange that ~ lovely
flower could hovo sprung from such n
parent, hut 1t was said That the mother
had been Of gentle birth, had married tho
handsome rollicking daredevil and bro.
ken her heart when she came to realize his
utter wortblossncss.
Some time IN the night Ninettc was
awakened from deep sleep by hearing
voices outside the hut, and soon distin
guishcl her fathers and those Of some NJ
his cronics. As she listened shu grew cold
us with sudden chin as she heard them
plan TO wnylny and rob some one, and she
held her breath to catch the name All,
heaven, could il he that she heard nrightl
"1be plcturo follow they said "ho has
plenty Of money and jewels worth tax
Ing" She must save him, he who had
caressed her sn fondly, her dear friend, for
even TO herself she scarcely dared call him
by any fondor name yet. She would listen
TO all their plans and perhaps she could
warn him.
"Io will lie coming home nlong the cliff
road from tho chateau that holds bis sweet
heart, said hor father g voice. "They will
think he fell over, " no added, with iiund-
ish chucklc,
Hist" said another, "thc girl may
wnkc."
She could hear no more, for they moved
away, but the iron had entered her soul,
md jealousy had n.ado woman Of the
girl Of yesterday. "Ovor the cliff to see
his sweetheart" Then she could never he
anything to him. She was only child to
nmuse him Then all her passionate ma
turc rose in revolt. No one else should
have his love, she thought. They might
throw him from theolin She would have
the remembrance Of that kiss Of yesterday.
She covered her head in the hedclothes
md shiyGred and wept until morning.
Then with the bright sun cnmO better
thoughts, and she remembered the grand
picture that was to go out into the world
-shu must snve him or 1t would not DO
finished. She would go along tho cliff
road at evening and warn hun Of his dan
ger, So, alternating between love and
jealousy, she srent all the day, and when
tho sun sank to rest behind the hills she
was on her way over the rocks and up on to
the elf, where she could hide herself and
watch for his approach.
IL grew dark and the moon WIS hidden
behind black clouds. A storm was coming
up stu she did not stir Tho thunder
rolled and lightning lit mp the heavens
With 1tful finishes. Perhaps hu would not
return tonight, and she prayed ho might
not, although 1t was agony to picture to
herself the lady at the chateau pleading
with him not to go out into the night,
Hark, TINT was bis voice surely. singing
softly to himself, and in one Of the flashes
[ she saw coming from the chateau road tho
form of him she loved. In ono swift mo.
[ ment she cxultcd that he had left his Indy
| In spite Of pleading, but the feeling was
| brief, for from the other direction she
/ heard voices and realized that tho evil deed
/ planned In darkness the night before
/ would DO executed unless she could pre-.
| vent IL. Nearer and nearer they come un-
| til thoy nre almost opposite her hiding
/ place.
Holy mother, what can she doY There Is
no time to warn him, az he comes jnuntily
| ON 10 his doom, and she sees like "a flash
his mnnRled form on the rocks below to b,
wnshed out with tho cruel waves in th'
morning, Then tho picture rises befor,
her In NIL its divine beauty, her brain il
bursting with excitement Unknowingly
she PUSHES out OF her conconlment, anC
the ruiliBns, seeing the form In the dark
moss, think their victim is in their power
In hor frenzy she has gone too far. One
false step and she falls over the cliff. A
lightning flash lit up the sky and Their,
WINS one shrek as OF lost soul as she went
over the edge, The men turn and flee fol
dcnr life, thinking in their superstitious
fear that evil spirits are pursuing them
In an instant all was over, and unable e
find the causo Of the disturbance, the art
list kept on his way home.
The next morning the village rang witt
excitement, for the frightened men hat
confessed NIL, and the body of the girl wa
found In the surf.
The mniden had sacrificed her life fol-
her friend and although he never realizet
tint his thoughtless kiss had cost her he
life, ho undertook the simple burial ant
placed white cross at her head, and h,
and his beautiful wife make yearly pill
grimages to the little grave Of her VIII
gave her lilo for his.-Boston Herald.