The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-23

/ out of the house, but maybe she comes
downstairs. Frances" Mrs. Simonds in
! quired, opening the door into the next
! room, do you know whether Miss Letitia
I has come downstairs YETI"
She came down yesterday for the first
time. Mrs. SimOnds closed the door and
/ returned to her chair. Her brother found
there was no use in trying to lead up to
/ the subject. He was obliged to plunge
/ directly in. You never heard, did you.
/ he began, confidentially that Letitia
| had anything to do with breaking up that
old affair between Lucy and Alec?'
Il don't know anything about it. ]
have never been intimate with Letitia.
/ have lived next door to Letitia Wyatt
/ ever since we moved into this house, and
/ that was twenty-six years ago. have
] lived next door to her for twenty-six
/ years, and have never learned to know
ner any better than the day we moved
| in. She has a grand air about her that
/ keeps one at a distance. Deborah and
/ Lucy are so different.
| L am very fond of Letitia; I always
| was L don't think it is fair to call a
woman selfish merely because she has
/ her own way. She is the oldest. and has
] good way. 1 am sure the doctor has his
way in this house, not that I grudge it
TO him, but someone has to have the
casting vote in every household. Letitia
and 1 always get on beautifully together.
/ only L can never seem to get close to
| her"
When Mr.. Hollis made his call at the
| W NdllS ne was disappointed 10 llllu ludl
] Letitia was not well enough to see him.
/ Deborah was out. and Lucy brought
/ down an invitation to him from Letitia
/ to take tea with them at O'Clock the
| Il am so glad to see you, Mr. Hollis -
Lucy said. with her half shy, but wholly
i-sincere manner.
! Lucy always liked boys. gray-haired or
/ otherwise, and felt wonderfully at ease
with her sisters old lover. while ne. on
J his side. was charmed with her. They
es.fT nd
hood gossip for a time. In those days
/ when he had first fallen in love with
] I.etitia. Lucy had been a tiny girl, a
very captivating child. who had insisted
| that he should hold her on his knee and
( tell her stories. At last they began TO
talk of those far-away times.
you used to tell me delightful stories
I of what YOU did when you were little
boy.
/ did I? It seems like a fairy tale now
! to think that l ever was little boy.
/ Youth is a good thing. 1 wish when we
| had It we ever knew how good a thing
Il wish so. too. with all my heart"
Alec was so strongly present in Lucy S
/ mind that it was only by an effort that
! she could prevent herself from saying his
name. She hastily changed the subject
and spoke of Frances Simonds and OF
| her desire to be a trained nurse.
II can't tell you how strongly I feel
| on the subject of girls asserting their
! he looked at the gentle woman before
him who had never in her whole life as
| serted hers.
| Il wish you had felt like that when you
/ were 90" he burst out.
Sometimes / think the sin of not daring
! TO do. the sin of quiescence, is the great
/ est sin Of all in the Lord eyes, she re-
turned impulsively.
! The barriers of convenhonality were
/ down. You must not feel that You
I have nothing to reproach yourself with,
/ ne said hastily, his past condemnation
/ wholly forgotten
/ Il reproach myself for not having been
/ true to the best that was in me.
You were so young, you naturally took
/ the advice of others older and wiser than
That does not clear me from response
4 other people. L have grown to know this
\ lately. / gave up a friend because
hadn't the courage to be loyal TO him,
Poor Aleci He hadn't the strength OF
/ will to be true to you, but ne always
! loved you dearly"
They were interrupted by the ringing of
/ n bell. That bell seemed to Lucy Ike
| the symbol of her whole life. She started
/ TO her feet; Bridget was out and Letltia
II must 90 20 Letitia." she said.
] at thought he never would leave,
/ Letitia complained as Lucy entered the
/ room. ut seems ne doesn't know when
4 to 90 any better than he used 10. he
/ has been here forty minutes by the clock.
4 i''I stdr,t sIfnnose he would stay when he
! found I couldn't see him. / ought to nave
/ mad my egg-nog at 4 and ii is twenty
/ minutes past / would not have rung Tor
/ YOU but / began to feel really faint and
} hopeless as to his ever going. Well, run
along now, and make me my egg-ness'