The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09

| excuse for his indecision, that he had
undertaken to walk, but had found his
strength inadequate to The exertion
Ile was looking very pale, and trem-
bied 50 that the landlord, who took his
order, asked him if he were i'll. But
Mr.. Sutherland insisted that lie WIS
quite we'll, only in a hurry, and showed
tile greatest imDdtience till he was
again started uoon the road.
For the first half-miie he sat per-
fectly silent. The moon was now Up,
and the road stretched before them
flooded with light. As long as 10 ole
was to be seen on this road, or Oh the
path running beside it, Mr.. Sutherland
held himself erect, his eyes fixed be-
fore him. IN an attitude of anxious in
curry. But as soon as any sound came
to break the silence, or there appeared
in the distance ahead of them the
least appearance of a plodding way
farer, he drew back, and hid himself
in the recesseS of the vehicle. This
happened several times. Then his whole
manner changed. They had just passed
Frederick, walking with bowed head,
toward Sutherlandtown.
But he was net the only person on the
read ait this time. A few minutes pre-
vlously they had passed another man
walking in the same direction. As Mr.
Sutherland unused over this he found
pSGlIli5 lllIOuSn Tie SIllsill W Ill
dow at the back of the buggy striving
to catch another glimpse of the two
men plodding behind him. He could see
them both, his sons form throwing its
long shadow over the moonlit road, fol-
lowed only too closely by that other
whose unsainly shape he feared to ac
knowledge to himself was growing only
too familiar in his eyes.
Falling into troubled reverie, he be-
nd he
great trees under whose shadow he
had grown from youth to manhood, fit
by him like phantoEns in a dream. But
suddenly one house and one place drew
his attention with a force that startled
him again into an erect attitude, and
Selling with one hand the arm of the
driver he pointed with the other at the
door of the cottage they were passing,
saying in choked tones:
''Seei seei Something dreadful has
happened since we passed by here this
morning. That is Grape, Samuel, Grape
hanging from the doorpost yonder!"
Yes, it is GRAPE" answered the
driver, jumping out and running up the
path to look. philemon must be dead;
the good Philemon"
Here was a fresh blow. Mr.. Sut4ler-
land bowed before it for a moment, then
he rose hurriedly and stepped down into
the road beside the driver.
Get in again" said he, land drive on.
Ride half mile, then come back for
me, musE see the widow Jones'"
The driver, awed both by the occa-
SION and the feeling it had called up in
Mr.. Sutherland, did as he was bid and
drove away. Mr.. Sutherland, With
glance back at the road he had just
traNersed, walked painfully UP the path
to Mrs. Jones' door.
A roOT1pr1t'c pOnunn,co fiOp +In
woman who answered his summons
proved the drivers suggestions to be
correct. Philemon had passed away He
had never rallied from the shock he had
received. He had joined his beloved
Agatha on the day of her burial, and
the long tragedy of their mutual life
was over.
ut is mercy that no inheritor of
their misfortune remains" quoth the
good woman, as she saw the affection
her tidings caused in this much re-
Vered friend.
The assent Mr.. Sutherland gave was
mechanical. He was anXiously studying
the road leading toward Portchester.
Suddenly he stepped hastily in
WIFI you be so good as to let me sit
down in your parlCr for a few mo-
ments?" he asked. 81 would like to rest
there for an instant alone. This fina
blow has upset me-
The good woman bowed. Mr.. Suther-
lands word was law in that town. She
did not even dare to protest against the
alone which he had so pointedly en-
pflasized. but left him. after making
him, as she said, comfortable and went
back to her duties in the room above
1t was fortunate she was so amen
able to his wishes, for no sooner had
her steps ceased to be heard than Mr..
Sutherland arose from fha eaev ob1 IN. IL, |
which he had been seated, and, putting
out the lamp widow Jones had insisted |
on lighting, passed directly to the win
dow, through which he began to peer
with looks of the deepest anxiety
(To Be Continued)