The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-22
HER ILLUSIONS SHATTERED,

well, I've done Europe" remarked
the girl who had come into money, "and
Asia and Africa-and I've done with them
What" cried the other girl. 81
thought your one desire was TO keep
travelling for the rest OF your life. You
said so when you came Into
'Oh. don't remind me of what | said.
exclaimed the rich one, bitterly 'and
don't remind me Of my dead dreams,
I'm wide awake now, anyhow.
Tell me all about 1t" urged the other
sympathetically.
"Of course / will 1 am dying to sob
it out on somebody's shoulder. You
know how / used to dream and dream
of seeing ROme-and the Coliseum? You
remember how l used to plan what /
should do when old Uncle William should
leave me my fortune. You recolIect how
J used TO keep pictures around my room
Of the Coliseum by moonlight, and of
the Sphinx and ST. Peters, and all that
Well / got 10 Rome, and the moment
| had unpacked my grip at one OF their
automatically comfortable hotels L
went down to the clerk and inquired
where / could get carriage to the
CoIiseum-and what do you think he
. SAID g
Il don't know" replied the other an
You'd better take a trolley, Miss.
That's what he said Fancy. y trolley
car running to the Coliseum! When L
had recovered from the shock com
forted myself with tho thought that l
might forget that trolley in the JOY OF
viewing that grand old ruin by moon
light; so did get on the changing thing
and went in it
and was il beautiful by moonlight:
II don't know, and l never shall know.
There was "a great big arc light hdng-
ing right in the middle OF nc, INNS
and If there was any moonlight you
couldn't see sign of il.
oh" breathed the other sadly.
But that wasn't the worst moane0
the girl who had been TO Europe L got
ont of Rome as soon as L could. ] was
afraid 60 go TO ST. Peters. my dear, Tor
lear his holiness should address
the congregation through mesa ~s
Ice. / had longed all my life 10 ride
in A gondOa on those ghost haunted
moonlit canals. My SOUL had sighed Tor
the sound Of a guitar tinklng in the dis
blue Venetian waters. | wanted 10 float
past Brownings palace ana the palaces
of all those dear old dead dukes ana
poets and painters. 1T was with nerves
tingling with anticipation that 1 arrived
In Venice--tO be met by Il launty. puf-
fling, fiendish little steam launch that
carried me all around the canals and, past
the palaces before I even mad time 20
think much less 10 dream, while a guide
with a Tnegaphone told us all about u il
n voice that should nave raised the royal
dead from their graves"
But the Sphinx," blended the other
girl. surely they hayea't mutiiated the
Sphinx"
girl YEARLY. by the time ! arrived in
Egypt / had lost my. appetite Tor 70
nance and I was perfectly calm when
they put me on a trolley car bound for
the SohinX And / never even bothered
TO climb Il. because the guide assured
lne thar I could do that much moro easily
2 year or so hence, when they finisned
building the electric elevator now being
constructed inside II.
And Mecca sighed the other hepe-
fully. Surely you went to Mecca as
you had planned
No" was the caustie rejoinder our
party decided not to 20 to Mecca this
time. They are building a steam railway
10 Mecca so that pilgrims 20 the tomb
may go quite comfortab bly, in q year or
so. Won't it be deligbtfuly
Il should have diedl' Ereaned the
other
so should I-right then ana there.
declared the disiiusipued one. but !
Mas afraid TO. ] Vas afraid somebody
saassBslssuggest that ought te wait until
they finished al. airship fine to heaNen!