The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-10

fortunes like burnt biscuits by an air
Of meek guilt However much she
disagreed when Ralph said such things
as that man who would wear tan
shoes in the evening would make good
gun food that after he heard "a per
son split his infinitive he never spoke
70 him again, and that good Roman
ticists were dead ROmanticists, she
would only smile and shake her head
fondly.
This was partly from her love OF
being oppressed, and partly because
she derived that delight from hearing
her brother damning right and left
without regard TO reason or truth. that
other mild natures derive nom melo-
drama and the dime novel.
As 20 her own bearing, it was one
of the almost caution and tentative
N IS. To her the world was made up
Of people Of superior sophisticatiOn go
ing about seeking whom they might
deVOuT. she often sat silent for whole
evenings from "a general vague fear
of committing some unfOrgeJtable out
rage before these persons. She spent
almost all her time I'm thinking about
such things as whether it would be
better form 10 wear her small hat
or 20 wear her large one to the Thomas
concerts.
This sensitiveness was not from any
misfortune in the girls personal APP
pearauce. She was a graceful little
creature, beautifully made, with large
faWn-like eyes. pale brown hair a
passionless expression, and very clear
white coloring.
The two orphans had a slight &C
quaintance with a girl named Regina
Won Heller, I'm whose presence Ellie
Il
cardinal flower.
Regina was "a girl of impulsive, hasty
manners and Austrian paTentage.
She had a mobile face. a flashing col
on. and "a curved. rather scOrnful mouth.
She carried mr Fgad high above her
beautiful shoulders and bust, and in
her most slingy and care-free mo-
ments preserved a certain erectness.
Madame Won Heller her mother. a
thin little nObleWOman with water
fau and a black silk apron, taught
German. French and penmanship in
schools and in private classes attended
by Ellie.
The poor lady had elOped in her SEN
timental middle age from Vienna with
her music master a tall Pole, with
dirty tigers. excited eyes and a dyed
purple mustache.
He supported her very i'll by tuition
at girls schools on the continent and
in New York where he lied.
In these various academies and con-
vents of her parents classes Regina
had been somewhat scrappily educated
tin her mother came 10 Chicago.
Here there had been offered TO Ma
dame Heller a position where she
taught the branches above mentioned
i'm a quiet, plausible, ladylike manner,
uniuumined by "a ray of INTEL igence.
She played accomplishments also and
gave q few music lessons in the same
harmless and dignified way.
By this means she managed to sup
port herself and her daughter, in
rooms of their own, on small, crooked
German street; 10 send Regina 10 one
OF the best masters IN the city for
singing. and 10 keep her at the school
where she herself offered instruction.
on a cold winter evening Regina
stopped for a few minutes at the Ran
kins' house TO deliver an exercise to
Ellie.
on this occasion Ralph came across
her m the hall.
'syVho is your friend. the grenadier?"
ne said TO Ellie afterward. Regina
had worn a small fur cap.
Her mother teaches that French
class Miss Vanderbank got up" said
Ellie
Heavens, heavens" said Ralph. "a
girl who viii wear a sealskin cap is
worse than impossible.
Ellie could not help knowing there
was more TO 2egina than the fact OF
her wearing a sealskin cap. But she
would not have dreamed OF uttering
:. word in opposition.
In this manner Ralph roamed deeper
and deeper into the jungle and might,