The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-17

ton. His eyes are so blue, his hair
and mustache so nearly golden, his
[ locks 50 perfectly curled, I never saw
/ a hair misplaced. No one ever detected
a sDeck of dust about him.
he was small and painfully slender
/ de was scarcely 80 and yet the man
/ who walked down street behind him
would guess that ne were an old man.
1 he walked with his shoulders 50 FAR
forward and his head down SO low be-
tween them. He looked like one who
/ was always cold. He had an habit
ually sullen expression, but when his
! face frightened it was for a moment
I bOylShly handsome His face had a
curious withered look and the rotund
I StOmached club man who deSpiSeC, but
4 who didn't take the trouble to dislike
4 him. dismissed him with the phrase,
/ the old young man.
4 He scOwled at the fire and Continued
( rubbing the blue and white hands that
! somehow always seemed cruel hands
I to me, although they were so weak [
! wondered how Rose could love this
! man of mean person and anaemic SOUL
! Rose OF all women, but knew she did
! She had told me so with moist, troubled
! eyes and trembling lips that were none
the less ELOQUENT, because they framed
] no word. ! could fancy her leaning
/ over him with that attitude of moth
{ erly grace she had toward AL who were
{ i'll, or in trouble, although she was so
] young. / could even fancy her rounded
/ ones. and the sight Gained the disQuiet
I his presence always awakened
( There was never a time since my
/ partners only child pluclSed vigorously
I at my mustaChe and called me
/ ''NUnc" that 7 did not love her. That
! my love was hopeless robbed it of no
1 whit of its intensity. BecauSe 7 loved
Rose I exercised tolerance toward her
n1anikin.
! Il suppose you viii go to NIaurice's
| baH?" said Harold Day, leaning back,
his small figure almost lost in the big
chair
In half an hour" I .assented.
Would Rose be changed? A year and
a half in Europe did much to Tipen a
lovely woman. Day was looking at me
narrowly and repeating a. question.
Been there since you returned from
MexicO2''
Just back two hours, man. No"
The fatigue of a hurried business
trip and tae sight of Day had made
me testy. But remembered Rose and
made an apologize remark about be-
ing a bit off my feed"
Guess I'll drop in with you. Moth
ing particular to do" he drawled.
May I flick the dust off a bit?'' he
} said. and when I nodded, disappeared
behind the portieres of nay dressing
/ room. 1 heard him brush zealously
/ The rotund- stomached man said that
was the only thing he had ever seen
him do with energy. He pulled the
the contents with mild approval
glanced at my new pajamas, surveyed
himself fore and aft in the mirror, and
returned.
He nodded
II was goodNjo from Clinton Place
to Central Park West and that drive
brought me the UnWelcome gift of the
manikins confidence.
i've had melancholy week. Beer
! feeling badly treated" he vouchsafed
? Has Vanderberg stopped payment2 p
] thought remembering the club story
: that the manuzin lived chiefly bs
:. coaching western milHonaires son.
in the customs polite.
IT'S a deuced disappointing world
It isn't your fault that you're borT
the son of q minister instead of tn
/ son of a millionaire, but poverty
5 dogs you as though it were
No answer. wondered why Tilton
the broker, found Day SO entertaining
that he paid him SO a week for th'
sake Of an occasional game Of billiard.
and a smoke. I have never known
! supreme egotist who was entertaining
Men are fearless and women arr
, exacting, the small Great ure dilateS
in his corner of the carriage. II neve
( would submit to the exactions CT NO
4. men"
1 I looked at him non-committally. III
1 chose TO construe it interrogatively.
! Their questions as to where you ar
going, why you are going and Whert
. you have been, and what you inten,
. to. do are exasDerating-"
s The manikin swelled almost to til
I / stature of a. man.
II never would stand it. ne said
with his Irritating drawl. "Now I ha'
a mother that I a-dOr-ed, - the elOcU
ttonary flourish on. the "adOred" wa
effective. bat when 1 was 16 I mad
/ her understand that there were to b
no more questions about my going
and comings or II there were the,
would not be answered"
The questions you regard as asper
Z siOns p I asked.
Doesn't every man2'
I did not choose to answer HaroI