The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-28
CHAPTFR XIII-
In the Long Gallery


TILL. man with whom the fighters and
the doubters were concerned was
thinking very little about his
champions or his enemies. No fresh-
whispers Of danger. had come to Harry
,Tristram's ears He asnew nothing of
Need and eouel1 not think or that quiet.
Old gentleman as possible mehace
to his secret. he trusted Nina Zabriska
and relied on the influence which ne
had proved himself to possess over her.
be did not believe that DUplay would
stick 60 his game. and was not afraid
uf him 81 he did. The engagement was
accomplished, the big check or the
prospect Of ~, Iay ready to his hand
No voice as raised, NO murmur was
heard. against the right OF the new
.J-OTd TfiStram or sfent. The object
or an those long preparations which
had occupied bis mother ana himself
4fr 80 many years. was achieved. He
Sst in Addie Tristram' place. and none
said him nay.
tfiS mind was not much on these mat
ters ar all Even his eneaCenent .oe-
rupied him very little. JAMES letter
had arrived and had been read. it
cam at midday. and the evening found
II stIll unaclCnewledged. tt had broken
IN from OUTSIDE, as 1T avere. lntrudtflg
like something foreign into the ife
that he had begun p live on the even
lne before Addie Tristram was buried
TIE evening when for an instant he had
thought he saw her phantom by the
pool; n life -foreshadoSveti. BY the new
mood which Nina had noticed IN him
while Lacy Tristranl still lived. but
brought into reality by the presence
~ anothar- He had struggled against
q. rsayi-ig that the Monday morning
would see an end Of this uniooked-for
episode OF feei;nR and OF companion
ship. Accident stepped in CfainsDor4.
ough lay in bed a4tha chill aid cotls
necessity Of his remaining, not exactly
with pleasures rather with a sense that
S0Tnethings had begun to happen not
by his win. ssbt 5Shecting hifna deeply.
Addie Tristrarfs death faS moved
him strapgelys then came that hardly
natural. eerily fascinating reminiscence
no, IT. was mO-e rtasn thst--that re-
embodiment M res1rre ction 6 her in
the girl who moved and talked and
sat like her who had her ways tholssh
not her face. her eyes set in another
frame her voice renewed in youthful
richness, the very turns Of her head
even .her old trick OF sticking out her
foot He scCwled sometimes he was
surprised into laughter sometimes: at
another moment he would -rebef against
the malicious power that seemed to be
having a joke with him. for the most
part he looked and looked and looked
unwilling 70 miss a single one OF the
characteristics teaches which had sbeen-
AddiasIristraIn belongings. and which
h had never expected to- sec again
after her spirit had passeds away a nd
the outcome OF al his looking .tVas - I'll
the same as the eject of his .frsf i'm
preston on the evening before tl1e fII-
fperal--a sort OF despair. Aethine Nas
there wbich he did not know how to
deal with
And she was SO happy, so absurdlp
happy. she had soon found that he e,s-
pected no conventional sOlemnity. he
laughed himself at the idea of Addie
I'ristrana sFanting people TO. pun long
faces and keep them long wffe8 ptis.4d
because she bad laid her burden down