The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-18
CHAPTER XIV.
IN Hides CHAMBER.

: When Hide was carried to the house
} on the rampartS, Inconsistencies had
already succeeded her brief delirium.
Yolette's first transports at sight of
Hide and Bourke were followed by
. days of terror and agonieS of doubt
Hide was very i'll, so i'll that Bourke
brought Sister of Mercy to the house
in the first days of November, and
spent his money, almost to the last
franc. for the neceSsaries that meant,
perhaps. life to Hide.
But now the good Sister of Mercy
had gone to the hospitals again, and
/ Yolette sat all day long at Hides bed
slde, watching her sister grow better
and stronger.
The scar on her forehead healed,
promising to show, however, as a tiny
white crescent; the reaction from the
( horror OF that October night left moth
ing of nervousness or fear behind AS
she grew stronger her beauty. too, re-
turned: the hOllows in temple and
cheek disappeared. the scarlet came
back to her lips, exquisite whiteRess
to neck and brow. But in the dark
eyes Bourke saw that the last sparkle
of childhood had died out forever; only
the sadness Of woman remained-the
tenderness, the usefulness, the sweet
ness OF a woman who loves, who fears
and who waits.
When, in the last weeks of Novem-
Der, she was we'll enough, she told
Bourke how Speyer and his carbineers
had forced her into an ambulance, how
Flourens had met Speyer and his de-
tachment and had ordered him to place
Hide and Red Riding Hood in the
fortified church, where already dozen
frightened gray nuns had been i'm
priSoned-
What fate F1ourens designed for the
gray nuns Bourke could not conjec-
ture: What fate had been reserved for
Hide he dared not imagine. He told
her nothing Of the murder of Speyer
except that he was dead: he never
spoke Of the fate of Mon Oncle or of
Bib. nor did she ever mention il. al
though both Hide and Red Riding
Hood had seen the killing of those
eminent rUffians.
Bourke read in the newspapers that
the government troops were hunting
for Flourens and Buckhurst. and that
for the moment the carbineers had
skunk off and mixed in with their
equally ferocious fellow citizens of
Bellevue. The Undertakers' club, how
ever. continued, and, as this was really
the head and heart of Flourens' bat
talions of bandits, and the government
weakly permitted its doors to remain
open, it was clearly only a question of
time when Flourens and his carbineers
should. once more reappear on the
scene and raise the red flag of revolt
Buckhurst, II was known. in company
with creature named Sapia and the
veteran Blanqui, was already deep in
a mysterious secret society that pre-
tended TO represent the entire ma
tional guard, and called itself the
Central committee. Naturally. il was
a revolutionary group. an obscure band
of cutthroats, VINO sat like buzzards
watching the agonized city until their
moment should arrive to fatten on its
ruins.
When, in the early days OF October
Bourke's foresight had provided tins
Of preserved meat and vegetables as a
reserve in time CT famine, Hide and
YOlette had laughed at such precau-
tions. But now these cans and tins of
provisions had become the only food
of the little household. Even while