The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-15
ACT I.

and love and lneXperience-she added
a worldlymnded mother, and he the
very smallest thing that could pos
slbly he called an income. Also
they heaped the measure of their
joint unhappucss with such trincs
rs unfailing obedience to the maternal
voice, reliance that was child.
like on the maternal wisdom, a
sclf-deprccating fear of hurting be-
loved object, and all sorts of maidenly
and gentlemanly scruples behind the
age but not by any means less fresh
and. sweet for that. They hadn't the
suspicion of vice, selfish thought
between them, and they were so OBJ
viously, ana entirely made for each
other that It was, from the first, quite
inevitable that they should be parted.
They proved, indeed, only too easy
to part. Even the world-minded
mother would have been better salts
fed with a victory not so quickly won.
Her daughters tears hardly moved her
more than the young mans gentle,
sad-faced reasonableness, and together
they almost persuaded her to overlook
the microscopic income though neither
made any but the most passive efforts
to achieve that so desired end
But she hastily summoned her world
-mindedness, and by its aid decided,
once for all, that 1t would be pity
to disturb their angelic resignation for
the sake of poor and preposterously
commonplace marriage. And she urged
the man to accept post that had been
offered him In India with voice so
tenderly like her daughters that he very
nearly refused to comply--he missed
from 1t the sting, goading to sacrifice,
which he had lately come to associate
with himself and Fate.
However, he did comply. The offered
work held out hores of Advancement
of moderate but sufficient wealth. in
the vague middle distance Of life. And
who can tell what other mad hopes
were bred of that solitary hope.
welded TO desire, in the mind of man
very young. very inexperienced, very
much in love? But lie did not say any.
thing to the girl about waiting for him
and his future fortunes. He had prom
ised her mother not to- and he was the
very pattern of an honorable youth.
And thus the girl. while he was away,
was hurried into n marriage which she
told herself would break her broken
heart afresh. At any rate, it broke her
spirit. But. then, she had never been
conspicuously spirited. ~
~ ACT Ii. 1870.
Herein lies story often told already.
So many times written so many times
read, that the greatest Indulgence of
reader and writer a'ike are surely
crayed for II. She. tricked by a MS
taken idea into marriage much
against her inclination, TO become n
self-effacing But never Interesting wife,
the pale mothcrof pale children. He.
ignorant for years of the full extent of
the barrier dividing them. lured by a
forlorn hope across half a lonely life
time. .'-'H' .l
His figure had lost Its old boy.shness,
his hair was thickly flecked With gray,
but his pockets We're comfortably lined
and his position assured. when. quite
NtS"bhH, hN iNdihNi siiil Wv Noiuun
whose fidelity he had chung TO through
all their separation and silence had
failed him within twelve months OF
their parting.
He told himself that every dividing
year, every Woodworking cay, every
long. GREATNESS nj ht had bullt his
old love more firmly into the fabric
NJ hig In lao np1,,
knowing her TO he false, he might have
put her image from him and lived to
be no less ultimately happy fol' the
healed wound. But. coming now, so
late, after SO long, it unnamed him.
He told himself again that he was
hearIbroken, and, absorbed In that
sex, betrayed by single individual.
belief, forgot to rail mt The whole false
which is the acknowledged panacea of
the broken.heartcd.
The news had reached him not only
tardily, but with n singular lack
detall-iust the bare fact of her mar
rage at that far-off date, and nothing
more. No doubt, he might have col
lected further Information from the
same source but he slranls nervously
from doing so. TO know what man
ner Of man had suppanted hlm-what
good could that do him? That any
man had been allowed to appropriate
what he bad so long looked upon as
his own seemed in itself d sorrow dense
enough to darken the,remainder OF his
days. Habit chained him for time
A., 1. Il. IL
and his health began seriously to fail.
How much that was due to continuous
residence IN n, trying climate. how
much 70 Tie blow, it.would beydiiicult
to determine. lle,fat any rate, exon:
Grated the climate. ........
But for all that, he was forced 10
leave II. His friends carried him, too