The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-20

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Solomon. I'll place a bank account at
your disposal. and 1 want you to do the
thing right. In the meantime, ring that
bell. please When the boy comes go
with him and pick out a room TO suit
you. Make yourself comfortable. You've
come half around the world to oblige
Inc. and I want you to feel at home IL
you serve me well Stubs, you win
never regret it-and here's my hand
on IT. And don't mind my American
ways"
Stubs regarded him with a pair OF
honest bovine eyes for moment Then
the man in him rose TO meet the man in
Gaylord, and they shook hands vigor-
ously in sign of compact. This cere-
mony over, Stubs became instantly the
valet, and was never for an instant af-
terward anything else.
A week after this Vernon Harcourt
Beresford gave a dinner, and the guest
of honor was ThaddeUs Gaylord, who,
in the most conventional attire, told
Vociferous stories with a gusto all his
own. There were any number of peo-
pie present who were glod to make the
acquaintance of a coed story teller. be-
cause they gave dinners themselves.
and when the evening was over the new
aspirant for social favors found him
self in the possession of a number of
pleasant invita- lions. He went home
exultant. It was now only matter of
a few days before he could meet Miss
Lowman on an equal footing. Gay
lord pushed his business interests ex-
citedly. For the first time the knowl-
edge of his wealth. present and to
come. filed him with joy. He entered
with avidity into his new pleasures.
Stubs had made him the best dressed
man in Denver. Beresford not excepted
and almost before the week was out
Gaylord had won the reputation of be-
ing brilliant, though Mrs. Drexel. who
had a sharp tongue, gave out the sub
tie suggestion that he was merely vo-
ciferous.
The first time Gaylord met Miss Low
man was at a dancing party given by
Mrs. Thurlow Green. Miss Lowman
wore a severe frock of white, out of
which arose her gi-lish neck, delicate
as alabaster. Her face still bore a look
of innocent hauteur. and her sweet
voice was tuned to a minor key. The
young gentlemen of Denver had already
dubbed her the ice maiden, but Mr.
ThaddeUs Gaylord was a chinook wind,
as he himself might have said had he
undertaken a simile, and her frigidity
did not even arrest his attention. He
had danced till morning many time in
the mining camps, and he knew his
steps perfectly well. Miss Lowman had
the feet and the airy motions of fay,
and in the embrace of the strapping
depending upon his
strength and magnificent momentum,
the pair swept all things before them
and had the right of way wherever they
went.
The next day Gaylord called. The
next day after that he sent flowers.
When he met her at dinner at Mrs.
Drexels she was wearing SEINE Of them
in her drab hair. After that he always
sent flowers-every day. Her father
might we'll have inquired into this de-
votion had it been her fathers nature
to inquire into anything. But he was
a distract sort of man, who appeared to |
speculate absent mindedly, and who |
seemed vaguely and largely successful /
His interests were reported to be very
great. 1t was commonly thought his in I
vestments in the east furnished the /
base of his income. But he was un- /
communicative and dour, and confided I
in none. His business apartments were !
furnished in mahogany and bronzes- /
and that was rather convincing to I
Denver-for Denver is still young and 1
,redulous It was said everywhere in 4
the city that Heth LOwman was an /
and the daughter of million /
lire-but they speak that word glibly /
out there.
SluDDS saw the JuplOSIdpll VI d gil /
IN his patrons dressing table, and
lrew his own especially af-
-er he found it one morning under his
yentlemans pillow. In. the course of
line a delicately painted miniature re-
placed the photograph Stubs was able
% observe certain marked changes in
lis patron, also. When he had first en-
cred into Mr. Gaylord's life-if it is
correct to speak in terms so emotional
the associations of a man
md his valet-Gaylotd had writhed un-
Ter his ministl ations. Now, he sat like
| lamb while Stubs arrayed him, and
lad even, to his Wallets secret delight,
sharply reprimanded him for lack of
attention to some small detail. Under
his treatment Stubs began to feel
quite at home, and is he had enter
aimed any secret apprehension about
he gentility of his patron they now DIS
One day, however, a cloud appeared
N Stubs horizon. 1t may or may not
AVE been bigger than a mans hand;
;ubbs was not in a position to say.
because for some time he paid no at
ention to it whatever. The first thing
e noticed was that every morning Mr..
gaylord was avid for his paper, and
hat he turned to the Washington news
nd read it feverishly. Later on the
-aiet observed that a strange anxiety
ly upon the whole city. Excited groups
alked and gesticulated together on the
treet corners. Men fingered long in
he barber shops, haranguing. The hotel
otundas were thronged at night, and,
pparently, not for purposes OF pleas
re. Miners thronged the city by the
thousands, fresh from the camps. Bull
etins were eagerly read in the clubs
nd the newspaper windows. The rooms
f the mining exchange hummed like q
i've of men.
One morning the papers printed the
ews that India had suspended the
ninage of silver. That day there were
lree suicides at Rico and two at GU ..
ay-and perhaps some others, else
here, of which no one took note. The
II was electric with presage of dis
ster. Gaylord ate nothing all day, and :,
lat evening he stayed in his roon-a
ling he had not done since he re-
lrned from Chicago. About this time
dorado began to make new fashions
" itself. Beresford invited his friends /
dine with him under the auspices of
erry old FOUNDERS, and drank good |
inc under the nose OF the sheriff-who |
rank as much as anybody. In fact. !
rs. BeresfOrd, in her corn-eolored sat /
, held aloft an iridescent goblet of q
visited glass in her hand. and cried: !
ITO the sheriff." and the company I
aimed the amber liquid to him, while :
: came in from an ante-room to bow {
s acknowledgements. q
Up in the camps haTd-luck dinners I
ecame the rage. One dinner was G
ven at Rico to which ten penniless I
en- sat down, who had been million q
res. or well on the way TO be such. n
e week before. The food they ate
as obtained on credit. and they sent il
1t a telegram asking for passes to a