The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-20
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o. the w dDaSH Win Lieutenant sever
ley under one arm and Father Beret
under the bother, both men apparently
dead
Bring them TO my house immedi
ately." NJ. RoussiIlon ordered. as soon
as they were restored 10 consciousness;
and he shook himself. as a big wet ami
NAL sometimes does, covering every
body near him with muddy water.
Then he led the way with melodramatic
strides
In justice to historical accuracy there
must be a trifiing reform of what ap-
peared on the face of things to be grand
ly true. Gaspard Roussillen actually
dragged Father Bere1 and Lieut.. Bev-
erley one at a time out of the eddy
water and up the steep river bank.
That was truly a great feat; but the
hero never explained. When men ar
rived he was standing between the col
lapsed forms, painting and dripping
Doubtless he looked just as if he had
dropped them from under his arms, and
why shouldn't he have the benefit or
great implications
I've saved them BOTH he roared;
from which. of course, the ready Gre
ole imagination inferred the extreme
OF possible heroic performance.
Bring them to my house immediate
ly." and it was accordingly done.
The procession, headed by NJ. Rous-
sillon, moved noisily. for the French
tongue must shake off what comes to it
on the thrill Of every exciting moment
The only silent Frenchman is the dead
one.
! Father Beret was not only well-nigh
drowned. but seriously hurt. He lay
for a week on a bed in M. Roussillon's
house before he could sit up. Alice
hung over him night and day, scarcely
sleeping or eating until he WIS past all
danger. AS for Beverley, he shook on
all the effects of his struggle in a little
while Next day he was out, as well
and strong as ever. busy with the af-
fairs of his Office. Nor was he less
happy on account of what the little
adventure had cast into his experience.
1t is good to feel that one has done an
unselfish deed, and no young mans
heart repels the freshness of what
comes to him when a beautiful girl
| first enters his life.
Naturally enough. Alice had sane
| thoughts of Beverley while she was so
attentively caring for Father Beret
She had never before seen man like
him, nor had she read of one. Com
pared with Rene de Ronville, the best
| youth of her acquaintance, he was IN
every way superior; this was too eyi-
dent for analysis; but referred to the
romantic standard taken out OF the
novels she had read, he somehow
failed; and yet he doomed bravely in
! her vision, not exactly knight of the
class she had most admired, still I'M
questionabIy a hero of large proper
tions.
| Beverley stepped in for a few minutes
every day to see Father Beret. involun-
! tarily lengthening his visit by sliding
| ratio as he became better acquainted
He began to enjoy the priests CONVEX
sation, with its sly worldly wisdom
cropping up through ferVid religious
sentiments and quaint humor. Alice
must have interested him more than
he was aware of; for his eyes followed
her, as she came and went. with a Curl
Gus criticism of her half-savage cos
tune and her springy, DFyad-like sup
pleness, which reminded him of the shy
est and gracefulest wild birds; and yet
/ a touch of refinement, the subtlest and
best, showed in all her ways. He
| studied her, as he would have studied
strange, snowy and originally fra
grant flower. or a bird of oddly at
| tractive plumage. While she said little
to him or to anyone else in his presence,
] he became aware of the willfulneSs and
| joyous lightnesS which played on her
natures changeable surface. He Won
dered at her influence over Father Be
ret, whom she controlled apparently
| without effort. But in due time he be-
gan to feel a deeper character, a
broader intelligence, behind her super
| fetal sauvagerie; and he found that
she really had no mean smattering OF
/ books in the lighter vein.
/ A little thing happened which fur
Their opened his eyes and increased the
| interest that her beauty and elementary
charm of style aroused in him gradu-
ally, apace with their advancing &C
| quaintanceship.
Father Beret had got well and re-
| turned to his hut and his round OF
spiritual duties; but Beverley came to
| Roussillon place every day all the
same. For a wonder Madame Rous-
sillon liked him, and at most times held
| the ScOlding side of her tongue when
he was present Jean. too. made
| friendly adyices whenever opportunity
afforded of course Alice gave him
just the frank cordiality of hospita Bile
welcome demanded by frontier condi-
lions. She scarcely knew whether she
liked him or not: but he had a treas
ury of information from which he was
enriching her with liberal carelessness
day by day. The hungriest part of heI
mind was being SumptuousIy banquet
ed at his expense. Mere intellectual
greediness drew her TO him.
| naturally they soon threw off such
troubling formaiitieS as at first rose be.
tween them. and began to disclose tC
each other their true characteristics
Alice found in Beverley a large target
for the missiles of her clever and tan
talizing perversity. He, in turn. prac.
ticed a native dignity and an acquired
superiority of manner to excellent eff.
feet. 1t was a meeting of Greek witt
Greek in a new Arcadia. To him here
was Diana, strong, strange, simple
even crude almost to naturalness. vet
admirably pure in spirit and irnbuec
with highest womanly aspirations. I'd
her Beverley represented the great ont.
side area of life. He came to her from
wonderland. beyond the wide circle o.
hOuseless woods and praises He rep
resented gorgeous cities teeTning park,
of fashion, boulevards. salons. halls o
social splendor, the theatre. the worIe
of womans dreams
Now. there is an antagonisna. vaeu
yet powerful, generated between IA
lures thus cast together from the Oh
poslte poles of experience and educa
ton: an antagonism practically equiv
afent TO the most vigorous attraction
What one knows the other is but ha 4
aware of; neither knowledge nor ig
norance being mutual, there is a scin
tiilation of exchange. from opposin,
vantage grounds. followed BY harm
less snaps of thunder Culture an,
I refinement take on airs-it is tn
deepest artificial instinct of enIishten
ment to pOSe-in the presence of natu
ralness; and there is a certain style O
| ignorance which atfitudinizes hefor