The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-16

the old mans attitude. His long smOul-
dering ambition, nursed and fed of late,
/ had now famed into regnant passion,
and the cooler, more wary, unscrupu-
/ lousness of the younger man looked
with repugnance upon the blind fury
! of the duke that was TO be.
| In no great space of time the sight
of that impressive, high shouldered fig
/ ure, sitting calmly by, imposed grow
ing sense of restraint upon the count.
| What do you think of our chances
now that Gustave'S suspicious have
been set on the alert?" he asked at last,
coming to a stop in front of Elmur.
That fool of a wife of mine has blab-
| bed to SelpdorfS daughter, and she in
her turn blabs all before the world
Elmur sat still and dumb. His face
enraged Sagan once more.
But 1 am master of Sagan. The girl
must be got rid of, There are a hun
bred dangers in our mountains and
marshes. Do you not understand
Baron Won Elmur stood up. He bore
his most dignified air, and there was
something in his whole aspect that
made the count pause.
| In the first place, her death under
! the circumstances would look strange.
In the second, we have nothing to gain
from it, he said.
Sagans red eyes twinkled cunningly.
near DldIl ali iiOI 81 SiUcetili-
/ ish as you thin blooded moderns, or at
least as you pretend to be,' He placed
his finger on the minister's breast, and
drew back a little, the better to enjoy
. the appreciation he expected to read in
the others face. I'VE will say that the
girl fell i'll, and l. in my anxiety, sent
Nine. Sagan-my own wife, mark you
to accompany ner to Revonde- If both
should happen to be killed by an acct
I Il chnr1ld "a Uall rid of fhan1-
and what could the world say?"
Eimur drew away from the insistive
finger with an unmistakable movement.
He bowed stiffiy and moved toward the
door.
II do not know what the world might
do or say. but L can answer for Lud-
wig Won Elmur My master does not
deal in murder, my lord, and so I beg
your leave to withdraw"
"What?"- sneered the other. ''he does
not deal in murder? Rather, you would
say, he prefers to deal in murder whole
sale, What of your wars and annexa-
tions? What of the Germans in West
Africa? Take care, Elmur, that you
are not acting over hastily. For my
part. 1 don't believe that life or so
would weigh too heavy in the balance
as against a province, even in your
masters judgment. / take my world
as | find il. my good baron"
Pardon me, my lord, you take the
world as your ancestors found it, You
may be all your fathers We're. but how
ever time goes at Sagan, the rest of
the world has not stood still since the
middle ages. And the world is on my
side today. Besides" he added, more
suavely, I'VE should gain nothing. We
should ALLEVIATE Selpdorf, who is useful,
and who knows too much. AS for the
duke, after such an affair he could
never be eased of his suspicious
Il don't ask to ease him, / mean to
cure him. retorted Sagan, meaningly.
II am certain Madame de Sagan has
been silent. The speech of Mile. Selp-
dorf was the indignant outburst of a
girl who thought her friend discour-
teously treated"
''Discourteously treated? Isolde rude
ly treated? BY whom?'
Forgive me once more, my lord but,
in the first place, by yourself
Sagan laughed aloud; his ill-temper
vanishing before the humor of the no.
ton that any one could take exception
10 a mans rudeness towards his own
wife.
Pooh, the girl is a bigger idiot than
thought her. Let us hope she'll never
meet with worse at the hands of her
own husband"
II Join in the hone. my, lord, since /