The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-04

his father was very angry about il. You
see, my husband was in the guards,
but depended on his father. He was N
debt. too. How could he help that? he
was 50 young. and his father allowed
him verv little. fer Robert was
younger son. His father cut of that
little when we married. Robert gam
bled q httle-they-they are tempted so,
You 4now2"
7 know. dear; know"
But he wasn't bad. Then ger
sua0ed him to meet his father at Lon
don club and make friends and-and
dreadful thing happened
Never mind that, dear"
oh, but I must tell you, because
Robert did not 90 IT. A gentleman was
robbed in the club. and it was discoV-
cred Immediately, and a dreadful wait
er sajd--I can't tell you, but the money
was found On-on my husband. his
father came in during the disturbance,
and-he gave Robert some money, and
and Cursed him and sent him away
And T."
Poor thing-pOOr thing!
Il believed il, and would not see
him--he Will never forgive me. The
waiter took it. The wretch confessed .
year ago. Now, I must ind my nus
band-and there are other things. lie
must have suffered horribly, but there
il happiness for him yet. His father Is
dead, and his brother The title and
estates are his, and everybody knows
OF his innocence. Oh, dO-dO help he 10
find him"
My, my, myI To think of itr' cried
the lamdlady, excited beyond measure.
''TO be sure we'll find him-dOn't you
fret, dear. And this is Ris boy; poor,
pretty boy! To be sure We'll find him.
But don't you know what name he
went by2'
I think-he was disheartened and
reckless, said the lady, crying, land
got into trouble. That was my blame,
poor fellow. No wonder he thought all
the world vas against him.
L think, in the misery and DESPAIR,
he did things, said the lady. crying,
land changed his name more than once.
We found that in Johannesburg he was
known as Lawrence. but he left there
suddenly, and We heard that he had
come in this direction"
''Iawrence?' said the woman. shak-
ing her head L know none of that
name"
"Oh, think, think, think,?' cried the
wife, rising in her anxiety and taking
both hands Of her new friends in her
own. Think! In a little place like
Vryburg you must see everybody VINO
%! o. Or
In rising she faced the fireplace, and
on the nantelpiece rested q pocketbOok,
neat morocco affair, which. as the
Iandlady had observed. had been left
by the new trooper on~the piano, in the
hurry of the raiders preparation 10
join Dr. Jameson.
The lady ran to it with a loud scream,
and opened it, crying:
1T is hist is Robert s. 1 gave 1t to
him myself
In her hurry her trembling fingers
fumbled over the clasp, and the DOCK,
opening suddenly, several papers fell
upon the floor. The lady's loud cry
brought in the landlord and the law
yer'S clerk and one other. In their con-
centrated observation of the unwonted
feminine, the hotel people had paid no
attention to the appearance of the otneT
arrival in a carriage from the train. he
was a solitary traveller, and had not
clamored for attention. Now he stood
coolly at the door, watching the IN
usual excitement within the parlor. No
body noticed his presence.
"AIr. Brown" cried the lacy to the
clerk, 1--WE have found him! Oh, how
glad I am! See, here is his pocketbook!
On, tell me, you kind woman, who lert
this?"
'aThat?" said the landiady. why,
that belonged to one Of the poor men
! who went out with DR.. jameson. He
had just come, and 1 didn't hear his
name. Ny. but--bUt-suTe, the boy here
is ike him.
ssWith-Dr-Jameson the lady
WHISPERED. very white. I'VE heard-on
the train-that the raiders were killed
and captured. Was-he-there2 Al
KrugeTsdorp2
Nobody was heard to speak. The man
at the door slipped quietly in and ex-
amined the papers on the floor unob-
served. For a moment the lady
/ tremblec1. then, taking her little be-
wildeTed sons hand, she said, steadily;
Mr.. Brown, will you order a carriage
and horses2 1 VITA go there at once.
My lady, where"
''TO the battlefield"
ct is late in the day, my lady, and
many miles.
She bit her lips.
please order the horses at Once, she
I said. mo doubt we can find fresh
ones somewhere if these fail US on the
read"
/ He looked at her and opened his lips
/ to protest, but booked at her again and
obeyed. The good woman Of the house
pitied. but had sufficient instructive tact
/ not to press the feveTishly agitated
wife to remain. The landlord BUSTED
about and himself saw to the guides
and horses.
/ In the meantime the lone Traveller
] took enc glass of beer and a sandwich
/ at thu bar, and, grabbing his valise,
/ made haste to catch a sOuthbound train
/ for Kimberley, after consulting for a
moment the time tables which explain
-z-H-s - Dr.,
/ toria in. the Transvaal.
! Wrapped in clOaks. the lawyers clerk
and the tired child slept htfUlly through
/ the night. as four horses ratified them
over the wide and lonely Veidt. But
/ the wife was sleepless, staring with
J anxious eyes into the continual Shad-
| Ows. ShapelesS shadows to the driver
! and guide shadows Of no meaning, they
| were animate for heT-fOTLns and faces
/ Of d future doubtful and dreaded Once
| or twice her fatigue overcame her anx-
( iety and she slept a little. The last
/ time she woke up with a cry for help
IN her dream she had seen q tail lad
/ der, resting in unseen depths Of black
ness. vet whose top was in sunlight
/ Her husband was falling, falling to the
+ ladders foot to dreadful darkness, but
! she and an old man were looking down
at him from above.
20 dear Cod" she sobbed, shudder-
/ ing. Whatever he is-whatever he has
/ done blame not him, but me! I pushed
him down. My God, I pushed hin
/ down."
III.
4 His friend WyviI and he had ridden
/ side by side. disarmed after the sur
/ render. Triumphant Beers, from Whose
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