The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-19
A STORY OF TWO WOMEN.
Bread Cast Upon Boarding House
Waters Came Back In a Plum C,Le

| Waters Came Back In Plum Cake.
! 1t touches romance only incidentally
albeit romance began it. cynics viii
/ POUNDS two of their most fayorite con-
| tentions, to-wit, that women do not
consider other women, and that they
i Go not understand the meaning of the
word gratitude.
One OF the women was an outlander
II she had not been there would have
been no romance, and eventually no
story. She was a Portuguese. dark, al
most to swarthiness, but with the
charm of the south in her warln-coIored
face. She was loving, Ignorant, a 0e-
voice, first to her husband and after
him to the church. Her people were
wsil-to-do, and lived in a coast town.
That was how she was brought ac-
quainted with the man that won her
heart. United States naval officer, a
member of an old and proud southern
family.
So long as duty kept him aboard. all
went well. By ard by he was ordered
home, and came. bringing with him his
foreign wife. He had said nothing of
her to his people They utterly refused
to receive her, or in any way to coun-
tenance her. That mattered very little
to her until her husband fell i'll. and
died. It was bitterer than death 10
fird Herself put away from him then
rot even permitted to claim her place
as chief mourner behind his coffin, nor
to promise herself that in the end she
might sleep beside him.
1t did not gTieve her that he had left
her no money She had her pictures
pictures almost priceless. They were
heirlooms, ravished by some marauding
revolutionary ancestor from the walls
times. She would sell them and live at
ease, asking nothing of those who dis
owned her. But pretty soon she found
that the selling Was not so easy. Even
in Chicago, in Worlds fair times, pur-
chasers of old masters were less plenty
than blackberries.
So she came dejectedly back to her
husbands home city, Nashville, hardly
knowing what to do a good fate threw
her under the roof of the other woman,
who happened to be also a gentle
woman, and tender hearted, withal OBJ
servant. Pretty soon she came to know
that her foreign ledger was in straits
for money. The strange woman never
said So but the other could not be de-
ceived. So she fell into way of al
most forcing trifling loans upon her
loans in name only she meant them to
be, as she had no thought of ever re-
ceiving bask a cent.
Presently there came crisis. The
strange woman was wild. For the first
time she broke through her shell Of ST
lence, weeping, wringing her hands. and
sobbing out that she must go at once
to St. Louisiana she had not a cent to
pay for going there. The other woman
had not too much money, but she had a
friend in authority over railway. To
him she went, begging. for. a. pass, 1t
civ ct hn oil IN,
triumph 10 her lodger and sent her
rejoicing away.
There she thought the matter ended.
She was mistaken. Six weeks after
came a letter inclosing every cent due
her from the foreign woman. also
money for the clearinghouse keeper.
who had fed the exile without pay. Il
have sold a picture wrote madame
they had all fallen in the way of call
ing her medame-''it gives me pleasure
to pay the money l owe. Only the dear
good God can repay the Kindness
That was a SURPRISE but nothing to
with what came later. 1t
came in a lawyers letter. Madame was
dead, it said, dead with plenty of money
for her last needs. She had chosen her
burial place, she was buried, in fact
she had remembered her church to a
certain extent. but the bulk of all she
left behind, pictures. curios. carvings. /
she had willed to her ex-landlady.
This is how it happens that down in
the southern provincial capital there
is q soft-voiced elderly lady, Mrs Sarah
A. Gaut, of Nashville, who owns a gen
uine Rembrandt, life portrait of Mary
Stuart, and worries, and rocco carvings
to break the heart of a collector. Mad |
ame's legacy proved to be worth a great
many thousand dollars. Perhaps soma
day her legatee may bring herself to
try and find out exactly how many.