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

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it with my life, He may make quit
sure l meant all said TO him yes
|. terday."
Hollywood stood silent. The passion
of her voice and speech echoed in he
own ears and suddenly seemed al
excessive and uncalled for; blush
half anger. half shame-rushed owe
her face. bringing tears to her eyes
Why was it decreed that she should al
ways. in some small, foolish way, ap
pear to disadvantage before thi
wretched Englishman.
Il will tell him. said Rallywood a
last, though 1 cannot understand
No, you cannot understand, You
are so cold, so self-centered that tn,
feelings and tumults which trouble
most of us appear as weaknesses to you
Since you cannot understand us, vol
should not judge Us, we others, who
in our own spasmodic way, love oul
country as you serve yours-steadily
and with whole heart
Now, John Rallywood was perpleXed
He longed to set himself right with
her. Her very accusations, her readi-
ness to find fault, which might have
made matters clear to some men, only
disheartened him with a renewed sense
of her dislike.
You hate my nation" he said. after
pause of consideration, therefore you
condemn me, not because of anything
! | have done, but on general grounds
putting the worst construction on-on
everything. l wonder why you judge
me so hardly?"
Valerie laughed, her red lip finely
edged with scorn.
ON the contrary, you judge u.s. Who
made you judge over us? You regard
us-you English-with that straight,
steady look. l suppose you feel what
futile creatures we others are, with our
shifting moods and passions, our little
furies and desperations, Do you re-
member the night you joined the guard
the night in the cloister at st. An
thony? How / trembled and feared for
| you, I'-She laughed again-"I even
wanted to help you. How absurd il all
| seemed to you, didn't it? l remember
you were very cool and quiet, and
suppose you thought it very foolish
one of those unnecessary, extravagant
! emotions in which we inferior races are
apt to INDULGE"
Stop" Hollywood cut her short
with peremptory word, II will not al
low you to say such things of yourself
nor-of mel"
Valerie threw back her head with the
slight naughty lift he knew so well.
You are rather too certain of your
own power" she said.
not so we'll as 1 do, You think 1 am
very sure of myself. And yet l have
been mistaken on points that touch me
close. l thought that night when /
knew l might never see the morning.
dared to fancy that we-you and I'm
derstood each other-a little" He wait
ed, but Valerie had turned away; her
profile looked exquisite, but cold,
against the dark shutter as she watch
8 l.
fool after all, you see" he ended lame
ly.
According to the immemorial fashion
of love, they understood and misunder-
stood each other alternatively, playing
high and low at every other moment
upon the wide gamut of feeling touch
ing faint sweet notes that would echo
forever.
Rallywood's self-control was giving
way little. and she instinctively felt
her power and used it.
Il wonder what YOU really think of
us behind that quiet alertnesS of
yours" she said. lightly. 81 believe 1
did imagine understood you a little
that night; but L imagine it no longer,
Perhaps 1 misjudge you now. but it
cannot matter; you told me once you
knew how TO wait. and, of course, you
are certain that all unfair opinions of
you must come right in the end
But Hollywood passed over her many
sentences to seize the central idea that
appealed to him.
Yes, l have learned to wait l told
you that everything comes to him who
waits. Unfortunately proverb is true
often, not always. One thing can never
come to me- however long | wait. For
me there is no hope
Il don't know what you hope for"
replied the girl. slowly. as if she were
choosing her words; but she hardly
knew what she said. she was lost in a
multitude of dreams, and her words
but filled in the rare crevices between
them. Il thought that every man car
ried his own fate in his own hand"
A man can fight the tangible. but no
man can struggle against the ordinary
conventional methods. but even in Re-
vOnde there are some which must be
yielded to-"
Il don't think" said Valerie. I'VE
yield to many in RevOnde."
Rallywood saw a group of people ad-
vancing toward them. Valerie. with her
changes of mood and manner. distract
ed him and drove him TO say what he
had resolved never to be tempted into
saying.
Il am a soldier-only soldier: 1 gain
a livelihood, but no more. I have no
luck and no genius. To make a for
tune or name is beyond me. And with
out fortune many desirable things are
Valerie turned upon him a bewilder-
ing smile.
Il shall know for the future, Captain
Hollywood, what you are thinking of
You will be thinking for all those
grave eyes of yours, of the fortune you
cannot make
Not quite that, madamoiselle." he
answered. Il shall be thinking of the
girl cannot win"
Valerie found herself drawn away
from him by the passing group. She
was aware of a warm throb at her
heart, she was trembling a little. and
the fear of the morning had Temporal
rily vanished. For no definite reason
which she could afterward discover. she !
felt suddenly happy.
By evening the tsa had blown away |
the snow clouds for the time. and a |
thin moon cleaned fitfully over the |
vide eXpanses of white. Remote, muf- /
led in leagues of snow. and alive with |
hungry passions and INSCRIPTIONS |
strength, the castle of Sagan did not |
IN that wild January night. offer a de-
;irable housing to the Grand Duke of |
Nassau. He had yet some thirty hours
% spend as his cousins guest before i
lie could return to his capital without |
showing suspicion or giving offense.
hundred times he wished himself back
n his great palace by the river bank,
where the squadrons of the guard lay
within call. But he bore himself well.
and although. ON the
,lea of chill and fatigue. he kept to his
ooms more than usual. his short ap-
)earances in public left in one sense