The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

Unziar could no more be put off by the
little wiles and evasons q woman en-
ploys, who has nothing TO give to the
man who loves her but a definite an
swer. Two luxurious chairs stood ready
for occupants in the nook to which he
led her, but he had no thought to give
to conventionalities He stood before
her keen and white and desperate with
| doubt.
valerie. what does all this mean?"
Though only a girl in years, Valerie
was a woman in experience. Expert
ence, not gained altogether at first
| hand. be it understood, but such as a
| clever woman easily gathers from the
lives of those about her. AS the mother
less daughter of NJ. Selpdorf, she had
| had exceptional opportunities. Thrown
into the midst of a brilliant. but vic
| ious, society, her eyes had seen more
of the bare undertexture of life than
was perhaps desirable: she had looked
upon the shift and drift of things po-
| litical with an eVer-preSent knowledge
that there danger lurked and waited;
she had learned the uses of reserve,
and something of the art of resource;
and. above all, her womanly percep-
lions had taken on a strange edge of
sensitive power due to her fathers
quaint methods of pointing out to her
! the difference between the seeming and
the true BY reason of this premature
insight into the motives and stress of
human existence she gained in safety
and strength. as her father desired:
but on the other hand. she had lost the
sense of happy responsibility that
goes so far towards making up one of
the sweetest essentials of youth. Luck
lily there is one thing which can never
be quite destroyed at second hand
the romance and illusions that beguile
boyhood and girlhood, and the liability
to be so beguiled still lived in Valerie's
strong and vivid nature.
Shall ] swear that every word I
spoke to the duke just now is true?"
she asked coldly. although, of course
even that would not convince yOu.'
mo. / suppose not" he said. drear-
lily. You spoke openly of your hope
to be maid of honor to Madame de Sa-
gan when she became Duchess of Maa-
sau-which can only mean one thing.
Rallywood heard and told me exactly"
''You discussed me with Captain Raj
lywood?" she flashed out.
Unziar's glance darkened again with
Il new suspicion.
SHOULD you object?" he asked.
LAS it happens, I should, particu-
larly."
He. bit savagely at his moustache.
WAS it wrong with Rallywood?"
He is an Englishman. Besides, 1 do
not care to be discussed amongst the
men of the guard"
How like a woman you put me off,
I did not discuss you with Hollywood,
of course, as you very well know. l
asked him the simple question as to
what had actually been said 1 knew
he would not lie to me-"
THE guard keep their falsehoods for
outsiders, / SUPPOSE
Unfair liked this harping upon Raj \
lywood less and less. He moved irri-
tably.
But that is not all. You have ad-
mitted that you are going to marry
Elmur. That also signifies-something."
Whatever 1t signifies, it does not
signify that I am disloyal to Nassau"
You have seen for yourself that
there is a change here at Sagan," ar
gued Unfair. mo German has ever
been welcome here before. We can but
guess at treason
Hush, it cannot be that since my
father has knowledge of it,
This was an entirely unexpected de- |
veiopment of the difficulty. Unfair felt |
the check. and even in his turbulence |
he changed his venue
1t may be so--let that re-t; bat I
nothing can alter me in the belief that