The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-09

turned away. a sigh that speaks Of
duty nobIv done? Even toward Rob
ert's caprices, even to the Oldest peo-
pie. Lady Flora prided herself on q
becoming bearing. And in the end TINS
little Madame Zabrisza had rather
amused her; she was funny with ner
air Of ownership about Harry Iris
tram
Well, poor Nina understood All tnat
the enemy thought was leg1Dle 10 ner; !
all the misery that keen perceptions
can sometimes bring was sure TO he
hers She had spent the most notable
evening of her life, and she got into
her cab a miserable woman.
When she reached home there was
nothing to change her mood. She found
Cecily in q melancholy so sympathetic
as to invite an immediate OuIpourlnS
of the Heart Cecily was beautiful that
evening, in her black lrOcks Win hef
fair hair, her pale face. and her eyes
full of tragedy. She had been writing,
it appeared; ink and paper We're on the
table. She was very quiet. hut, Nina
thought, with the stiffness that follows
a storm. Unasked, the Imp sketched
the dinner party. especially Harry 3
share in it. Her despair was laced with
vitriOl, and she avoided a kind word
/ about anybody.
Those people have got hold of him.
! We've lost him. That's the end OF II,
/ she cried.
Cecily had nothing to say; she leaned
/ back in a slack drearineSS while Nina
expatiated on this doleful text. Lack
/ ing the reinforcement of discussion, the
stream Of NIina's lamentation begun 10
/ run dry.
"Oh, it's no use talking" she ended
I'm going back TO Blent tomorrow
/ said Cecily suddenly,
1t was no more than Nina had ex-
pected. Yes, we may as well, she
{ nc I'D al a
Cecily rose and began to walk ABOUT
/ Her air caught Mina's attention again;
on this, the evening before she returned
| to Blent, she had something OF that
I suppressed passion which had marked
her manner on the night when she de-
I termined to leave it. She came TO
/ stand opposite Nina
/ i've made UP nay mind From tins
moment, Nina, Blent is mine. Up 70
now I've held it for Harry Now II s
mine. I shall go back and begin every
thing there tomorrow.
Nina felt the tragedy; the inevitable
4 was being accepted.
i've written to Cousin Harry. I've
/ told him what mean tOrdO. he must
I think it right; it's the only thing ne
left me to do. But I've told him 1 can
4 do it only on one condition. Hen nave
! my letter tomorrow.
con one condition? What"
ST said to him that he gave me Blent
/ because was there, because ne saw
true. If I'd stayed here would he ever
/ have told his secret? Never! he
/ wouldn't so much as come 10 see me,
/ he'd never have thought Of me, ne 4
+ have forgotten, all about me- It was
] seeing me there"
Wei, seeing you anyhow"
Seeing. me there-there at Blent,
she insisted, now almost angrily. so
he'll understand what I mean by the
thing I've asked Of him. And ne must
obey" Her voice became imperiOus
eve told him that I'm going back, go
ing to stay there, and live there, but
that he must never, never come there.
Nina started, her eyes wide open in
surprise at this heroic measure.
Never see himi Never have him at
/ Blent!" Nina was trying to sort out
the state of things which would result.
1T was pretty plain what had hap
pered: Cecily had felt the need of doing
something, here it was. MInaS Synpa-
fthies, quick to move, darted out to
Harry think what it'll mean to him
never to see BlentI" she cried.
ITO him2 Nothing, nothing Why,
YOU yourself came home just now say
ing that we We're nothing to him!
BIent's nothing to him now. It's Tor
my own sake that I've said he mustn
come
You've begged him not to Gomez"
i've told him not to come" said Ce-
ely haHghtily If it's his let him take
it, If it's mine can choose who shall
come there Don't you see, don't you
Z see9- How can I ever cheat myself into
thinking it's mine by right if see
Harry there?" She paused a moment.
land if you'd thrown yourself at a
mans head and he'd refused you,
would you want to have him aboUt?"
Mo" said Nina, but rather hest
$50 I've ended it; I've ended every
thing. I posted my letter just before
you came in, and he'll get It tomorrow
Ill
Blent" She threw herself into an arm
chair, leaning back in a sudden Wearl-
( ness after the excited emotion with
/ which she had declared her resolve
Nina saS on the other side OF the table.
looking at her, and after moment S
looking, suddenly began to sob
Its too miserable, she declared, in
wrathful woe. why couldn't we have
said nothing about it and just married
yOu2 Oh, hate it all, because love
you both I know people think I'm in
love with him. but I'm not. It's both
of you; it's the whole thing; and now
it never can go straight. If he got
back Blent now by a miracle, it would
of you"
A scornfuI smile was Cecily's only
but sufficient answer.
And YOU love him" Mfna's sorrow
made her forget all fear. She said in
this moment what she had never before
dared to say. "Oh, of course you do, on
you'd never have told him he mustn't
come to BIent. But he won't under
stand that-and it would make no diff
ference If he did, I suppose! On, you
> Tristrams,"
yes I love him. said Cecily. THAI
evening in the long gallery-the even
ing when he gave me Blent-do vol
know what 1 thOUght2" She spoke Low
and quickly. lying back quite still. il
/ the attitude that Addie Tristram had
once made her own. It watched hin
and I saw that he had Something K
say and yet wouldn't say it. I saw HI
was struggling. And / watched, how
/, I watched! He was engaged to Jani
: Iver-he had told me that. But IA
/ didn't love her-yes, he told me that
too. But there was something else.
saw it. I had come to love him theI
already-Oh, I think as soon as say
him at BIent. And 1 waited for il
= Did you ever do that, Mina-dO yo1
i remember
Nina was silent; her memories CAV
her no such thing as that.
I waited. waited. I couldn't believ
{ All, yes, but ] did believe. I though
e he felt bound in honor and L hoped
g yes, I hOped-he would break his W0E
s and throw away his honor. / saw
III coming and my heart seemed to burs
as [ waited for it. You'd know if
- had ever happened to you like tha'
n And at last I saw he would speak