The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-25

city, and, keeping their own counsel
as to the estate, went sturdigy to work.
But with his twenty-first birthday
close at hand, Norman Holt was facing
more than one most serious problem.
WheH first he looked into the face or
Daisy Lane he had every. reason to be-
heve that from his mothers fortune
alone there would come to him enough
10 make him independent His father
mad SO assured him when he insisted
upon his withdrawal from West Point.
IT was then most assiduousIy watched
and cared for by Judge Mcintyre, as
it had been for many a long year. Now
as the winter began to Wane Norman
realized that the fortune was gone and
that his fathers wealth was mainly in
negroes, horses, dogs and -BeIleview,
property that consumed far more than
it produced. It fell upon him with al
most brutal force that besides an hon
Ored name he would have next TO moth
ing to offer the girl he loved, and love
Daisy Lane he knew he did with all
the strength of his heart. now torn
with Jealous dread and sore dismay,
Lane, too, had suffered through his
partners ill-StaTTed ventures and &
had made him silent, reserved, even at
times mOrOse. There was something
more than mere mismanagemen be-
hind it all, was Henry's reluctant ad-
mission Mcintyre, in the height Of
fame and fortune had taken Lane by
the hand, lifted him from the bottom
Tung Of the ladder well uD toward the
top, and though the latter fall had only
been a few feet it. counted more with
Lane against his broken benefactor
than the contemplation of the benefits
he had received at his hands. Indeed,
if Lane had not long begun to think
that 1t was his own brains and energy
that made the reputation of the firm,
he was a rank exception to the rule
He loved money. He had known what
it was to be poor and struggling. He
liked the doctors lads and liked them
well, but that was before 1t daWned
upon him that the firm must omen its
doors to both, and not as clients or
contributors. he was a good husband,
q fond father. a square" man and
citizen. a genial friend and companion,
too, when there was no especial tax
on that friendship, but Lane was one
OF the last men i'm his line of business
whom those keen students of human
nature, the woUld-be borrowers would
think TO ask for aid. He had watched
with jealous dread the growing as
tendency over his senior Of that up
start Malloy. He only vaguely dream
ed now deeply Mcintyre was enmesh-
ed. He never dreamed at all that
Hollis fortune could be involved and,
| disliktng young MaiIOv. even while
t impressed and Influenced by his
fathers wealth, he had seen with
I
Hollis regard for his precious child,
had shown him especial confidence and
cordially during the few brief days
at BeileVieW, and now felt it necessary
/ 70 be cOrreSpOndingly distant If not
/ indeed, cold and at times even reDel-
liant. This was the more difficult. be-
/ cause frankly enthusiastic about Nor
| man, and was forever talking of him z
/ table and would have had him per
/ petually IN the house, where indeed
/ NOrman's inclination would perpetual
/ ~ nave led him. but unerrinEly the lat
/ ter noted the fathers change Of man
/ ner, and although hurt and almost in
! dignant, he was an interpretive. SEN
! SItive fellow for his years, given to
/ self-eXamination and to studying both
J sides of a, question. He knew that
! having as yet offered nothing and hav-
! ing now nothing to offer he should not
J stand between her and those who might
/ come laden with love and gifts. More
! over, 1t was next TO impossible to 90
! there IN the evening and not find Nal
J iOy-MdllOy. whose manner conveyed
] too much of self COngra tuIatiou and
! obtrusive triumph not to be hateful TN
! a rivals sight And then. again. Henry
had spoken. He, too. had disIiked MAJ
J 10y. He had heard Kate Ray and her
mother refer to him in terms so guard
! ed that he felt there was something
J much amiss and Kate Ray was girl
! to win whose good opinion the elder
/ brother would have walked to Lexing-
ton often as ne lOnged to ride thither,
] which was every day Of the week
! Never doubt she knew it-had seen It
/ for year or more, but she had known
I him from her earliest childhood and
! girls seldom fall i'm love with men they
/ know so well. She used To visit Gin
/ cinnati for d few weeks every winter.
and now found reason to decline. She
1 had striVen to make him understand.
but he would not he daunted. She was
TangTy when he stole that kiss yet IT,
I was anger at herself only. She wished
him to know be should not
have sought II. she had thought
twice, thrice of telling her moth
er she ought not to go to
/ Be1lcview even 10 welcome Norman.
but the mother had set her heart upon
{ it. She had heard Of young Mali0y
/ while in Cincinnati. and heard Of assoc
/ Citations that made her marvel he could
/ set foot within the doors of BeIlevieW,
/ but here again was the kentucky code.
/ MaHOy was there and well accredited
/ He was the doctors guest and, even to
I Henry, who appealed to her. she shut
/ her lips as 10 anything she knew
J against him. From her and from 9TH
! ers whom he knew. in Cincinnati. Henry
! could learn nothing tangible To Nal
! 10y s disadvantage. save that he was
| his fathers son and had some time
! since been somewhat wild Now. with
/ abundant means. he was welcomed in
many houses He would have a lux
/ uriOUs home. He was an Undoubted
[ catch" for whom many mamaS were
/ angling. Why shouldn't Lane listen To
I him as a suitor for his daughter 5
/ hand2 Henry did not tell Norman
/ he himself was 'IasslOTn," but he
! gravely babe him look the situation in
/ the face and ask himself if it We're not
I 70 n 10
! prfsed when Norman. though with
l averted eyes. simply replied, Il have
CTO be COntinued.)