The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-12

Whlrrlns past at such a rate that an
effort TO catch it would have diSCOur-
aged any individual other than one to
whom making that particular car was
matter Of life or death. Kortright
did not attempt TO explain it. He only
swung himself on the rear platform,
and pushing open the door with some
temper, dropped into a seat
1t was them that he saw her. She
sat IN the corner opposite. Whether
there were other passengers KOrtright
has never been able To tell. He was
conscious merely of staring with an
Uncurable fascination at the most
radiant creature he L2d ever beheId in
the thirty years VI D s life.
Her eyes rested upon him for a mo-
ment. Ihey We're bidck-Iringed, Won
derful eyes, bluer than sapphires, with
an expression OF amused tolerance that
remained after they had turned from
kortright to q contemplation of flying
street lamps KOrtTight did not take
his eyes from her and She did not look
at him again. She affected him like a
stimulant. He had q queer feeling that
his heart had begun to beat for the
first time, and that mis- veins were
running a race with one another. She
was of medium height, with beautiful
shoulders and a throat as white as a,
snow apple, a singular mobile face, full
of depth and color. KOrtrtght noted
vaguely that she was simply, almost
Shabbily dressed, and that a small
gray-glOved hand rested on a we'll
worn travelling bag beside her covered
with the labels of the White Star line
Kortright'5 S. apparent trance was in
terrupted by the conductor Fares,
he remarked. The girl opposite handed
him q coin. I wish to stop at WASH
ingtOn Square, North" she said, in a
low, rich voice, with the taInteSt touch
of a delicious brogue. The man in blue
SCrutinized the silver piece incredulOu5-
ly. and handed il back. cit don't go
here he said. There was q slight look
Of dismay in the sapphire eyes. OH
she exclaimed, half rising, Il quite for
got about exchanging it on the boat
The conductor turned, with his hand
on the bell rope. "NeYer mind that.
said KOrtrlg'ht, quietly, handing him
two fares The girl turned a face suf-
fused with pink. You are very kind, -
I she faltered. lit was most stupid OF
me-" KOrJright raised his hat and
/ mUrmured something about 1t being a
I pleasure. With q grave little smile in
/ her eyes she held cut the rejected Shil-
ling. You viii take it, she said. Il
have no way of paying you, and En-
gliSh money is redeemable anywhere, ]
fancy" Kortright met the smile in
her eyes with a somewhat needlessly
long look from his own None better, y
ne replied, with formal pOliteness, and
held out his hand. The gray-glOVed
fingers touched his for an instant and
the transfer was made.
As Il EELElSlu14As LOLAAA - IL 4 GA ctLAASNA
from taking advantage Of this Incl
dent by looking again at the sapphire
eyes When the girlF got out, KOrt-
right waited decOrOusly. watched her
hesitate a moment and start across
the park. Then Kortright dropped on
the car He walked slowly keeping
his eyes fixed upon the slim figure
s receding in the mist BY the arch as
the girl turned east a double row OF
carriages waiting for guests at some
entertainment separated them, and
when KOrtright had made his way
past them the girl had disappeared
KOrtright stopped and said something
between his teeth. Then he hailed q
cab and went to his own rooms.
That night Kortright sent a tele-
gram 10 the steamship people telling
them TO dispose of his passage for tht
following Saturday. He also wrote 4
note to his aunt, Mrs. Innis, saying hS
wasn't sailing after al. and that hC
might want her to help him on LITTLE
matter about which he would see hel
al once. Mrs. Innis lived near Wash
ingtOn arch. I've seen the woman
tonight I mean to marry he saiC
aloud to himself And that was al
the explanation Kortright made u
Kortright OF his subsequent extraordi
nary conduct.
He Iunehed with Mrs. Innis the fol
{ lowing day and told her frankly al
about IT. She is stopping somewhere
in this block he concluded plaintive
I ~, "and you are to help me find her.
Mrs. Innis smiled. But my dear boy!
she cried, "she may have been a maid
you know, arriving in that singula
manner" She was a lady, my dea
Aunt Therese,'' said Kortright rattle
| hOtIy. There must have been SOM
! misunderstanding about meeting her
Besides, if she were a maid, While j
would make it more difficult for m
to meet her, I would, ia the end, an
marry her just the. same"
a peculiar gleain came into Mrs
. Innis eyes Her favorite nephew,
Darti in every sense of the word. whom
the world had run after all his life
to threaten to haphazard misalliance
The situation required tact. las ] un
derstand it, SCHUYLER" she said pleas
antly, you are going to be agreeabl