The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-05

fore, and she had given him cause to
hope and all that, and was there an
other?
Miss Barbara Elwell was a very pref
ty girl of breezy. fresh western brand
of prettiness, and SWANS of Lemont
and of the neighboring big metropolis
had told her so in terms of varying
frankness. Finishing school ideas still
/ floated through her brain, and she
looked upon worldly matters from the
! standpoint of a 10-year-old novel-read-
ing girl. To her the good clothes of a
man were the index of his worthiness,
or at least such sentiment did, in some
degree, at this period in her life, mold
her opinions of the other sex.
She put ii this way TO Imrie: Marry
a man whose duties require him TO as
sociate with those dreadful canal men?
Oh, really, l could not think of il. And
then your work is so-so-well. dirty,
you know. Besides, Mr.. Imrie, I'm sure
! | do not love you" The last sentence
was uttered with a marked effort to
bring it out in a tone that would carry
conviction with it.
Crushed and sore i'm heart the unSuc-
cessfui sutton left her and wendell his
way TO his lonesome and cherries room
IN the hotel there to make himself
more miserable with bitter thoughts.
But do not allow yourself to become
prejudieed against her, for she is the
heroine of this story, and is a brave
little girl.
So Imrie was furnished with one wo-
mans view of his calling, and spent
many minutes in the following days in
wondering whether he had been wrong
in liking a trade that built railroads
and canals and such mean things and
required him to mix up with able-bod-
led, strong men who wore overalls ten
: hnr arrr Of ftea
the only business he was conversant
with. and as he had been fairly sue
cessful at it for man of his age he
did not contemplate a change in his
line of work, but the next day he did
write to the home office asking to be
transferred TO another job preferably
the Memphis work, where the climate
would not be as severe on his health
Such was the reason he offered and
nobody knew that he wanted to get
away from the vicinity of Lemont be-
cause 1t was the scene of his disap-
polntment in woman he had inStated
in his heart as an idol fit for his wor-
ship. He wanted to obliterate all rec
objection of her entirely, to forget her
as though she had not been always in
his thought ever since his advent on
the canal. He wanted to forget the
solitary walks, the buggy rides alone
together over shady roads of that part
of the unchaperoned west which he
could not do while he was obliged to
pass her house four times a day to and
from the hotel where he stopped.
With a cold, stiff lifting of his hat
ne greeted her when she happened to
be in the garden when he passed. aud
in the same spirit was his salutation re-
turned. In her innermost heart how
ever, she lonSed for him to stop and
speak. and yet that same heart was
all a-fiutter with fear lest he should do
so as his steps brought him nearer the
gate. Her eyes, when his back was
turned, looked shyly out from under
their lashes. and. wistful and pleading.
they followed him down the graveled
walk. Could he on that evening, have
been induced TO subdue his mental up
braiding of all womankind and look
back, he might have seen her standing
on the porch with an arm encircling
the post, looking longingly in his direc-
ton. For a moment, then, his name was
on her tongue to call him back but it
remained unuttered until his figure was
lost in the gathering darkness. For a
while she stood there. and then with a
little sigh, turned and went into the
house.
During the next two weeks there was
continued the homage due the prettiest
girl in the village, and so her thoughts
were diverted more easily from the oc-
currence of that night than were I'M
rie's. One there was, a young man of
the family of Arson, who, wounded
more deeply than the rest, came down
the thirty odd miles from the city of
Sunday TO spend the afternoon and
evening in her company. He was
nice young man, take it all in all, and
was possessed of admirable assurance
in ladies' society. and more wonderful
collars. On the last occasion of his J
weekly trip he had contrived to carry /
his visit over the succeeding Monday.
which was a holiday. and this Monday |
was the pay day on McDonalds section |
with which this story has to do. About |
3 o'clock that night they sat upon the |