The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21

looking at the girl with level earnest eyes To shan
don the personality of the speaker was far more
than the story. Her delicate figure, clad in plain
brown; her pathetic, tender face, in its frame of
black bonnet and dark ribbons tied under the chin
sent something like cry of pity through his great
body. Why should she subject herself to such pub
licity? Why should brutal people be permitted to
jeer at her? tipsy brakeman few feet from him
was interrUptng the speaker with loud remarks and
drunken gestures. Shandon reached in and pushed
him roughly from the crowd The girl paused, and
looked after them oddly, pityingly. The crowd
roared with laughter
Shandon looked down moment at the outline
OF the fallen man. Get up and go L your boardin'
house. he growled. Don't YOU disturb the-thc
meetin' again.. The girl stepped down from the box
and took her tambourine from the hand of her sis
ter worker, blonde young wearing the in
sigma of cadet, while the lieutenant mounted the
box and began speaking
The little brown captain drew toward Shandon
few steps and lifted her sOrrowful eyes Then she
came to him and put out her hand He took
it timidly, feeling himself suddenly touched with
kind of tembling The face of the girl sad though
family smiling, and the big appealing eyes looking
out of shadowy half circles that told of overwork
and shaken health, enthTalled him. Il want so much
10 thank you but shouldn't" she said 1T wasn't
right 10 use the man roughly TO take him away 1t
is such as he that Christ is seeking poor. blind
SOUL he is so much to be pitiedI" There was some
thing like tearsI in her voice
The big engineer grew confused q didn't know
II didn't understand-I'm-Tm sorry" he STAN
mered- But Miss with a sudden clinchiug of his
or insult yOu. I won't stand that; faint right and
proper"
The Savior didn't mind such things" she said
softly He loved the erring whens they maItreated
him he strove the more to help them. We try to
feel as he did"
well. I'm not-not religious; don't understand
the feeling; faint hardly human seems Z me- Any
how. mono man shall break up your meetings when
I'm round. he said, with fame in eyes and cheeks
She put out her hand again. and it chung mo-
ment in his while a gratitude she could not SUP
n her Tno7v OrrrU
meetings? God bless you" she said.
I don't know; maybe he stammeEed. and bur
ried away toward the rOundhOuse
When he had gone a hundred feet or more he
turned and listened an instant The lieutenant was
telling how, after years Of dissipation he had elect
ed 10 end all in suicide. when the Sslvationists
brought him TO know Gods love- aud that had freed
and saved him. ''HalleIujahl" came the voice OF the
little captain, and she and the cadet broke into peal
ing song.
.'HaiieIujah-Little Hallelujaho murmured Shan
don as he went onward, and again, Little HeIle-
lujah tenderly, wistfuly, as he crossed the main
track and saw his engine steaming down toward the
station.
Something wrong with Nat" muttered Ridley.
the fireman an hour later as they rolled away
through the mountains.
Shandons face grave, yet with kind of light
In II His grimy left hand. always on the throttle
lever. seemingly did its work Involuntary As they
rushed into the ecboing gorges. he aroused himself
and looked keenly ahead aud back at the swaying
string Of glowing coaches. But in the long open val
thing new had come into his heart he felt out could
not analyze tia holy kind of tenderness that had
the little captain and the seeming haTdships of her
life at the core of it.
When he pulled into Round Hill on the return
trip the following evening he had his mind made I'D
to let the little captain and her meetings alone But
he did not He found the Salvationists with larger
and somewhat more respectable audience Iaboring
at the point Of their first attempt Little Haelniab
was preaching. At the end Of ten minutes he shook
himself together and went onward. In the morning
with an odd throb Of dismay he found the little can
tain and the cadet seated opposite to him at the
breakfast table in the dining room of his boardfn9
house Later he learned that the SalTationists had
secured a small hall on Main street which vvas 70
constitute the barracks, and that the lieutenant like
true soldier. was bunking on the floor of the han
with no more easeful thing than blanket about
him. The lassies would camp there later in uttIe
room partitoned off in the rear They had come
to make campaign against sin in Round Hill The
fight promised TO be long When Shandon sat down
at table the little captain inclined her head 70 him
in recognition, but was quiet and reserved onlv
ar times her big brown eyes wandered 10 his face
leaving queer tremor at his heart
After that. events went quietly through four even
ings. Then a storm OF opposition broke upon the
heads of the Salvationists. The saloon men were in
rage; the meetings of the Salvationists drew the
drinkers from the Hired roughs began tn
pelt the girl warriors and the lieutenant with mud
and divers sorts Of offensive missiles Shsndon
fought two bloody battles in the streets OF Round
Hill in their defense Barrett discharged hin. but