The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-03


back TO claim me until he had as much
as pa. So then / promised TO wait for
him TO the end of time, and pledged
myself not TO marry any one else while
he lived. Why shouldn't we be mar
ried right away, then, said he, and
then viii feel sure OF you, and won't
claim to be your husband until come
back?' Well, we talked it over, and
he had fixed il all up so nicely, with a
| clergyman all ready in waiting, that
we just did it right there; and then
Frank went of to seek his fortune,
! and 1 went back to pa
THE next heard of Frank was that
/ he was in Montana, and then he went
prospecting In Arizona and then
heard of him from New Mexico. After
! that came a long newsI aTsc t3rg
about how a miners camp had been
attacked by Apache Indians, and there
was my Franks name among the killed.
/ tainted dead away, and / was very
sick for months after. Pa thought
/ had decline, and teok me to half the
/ doctors in Frisco. Not a word or
news came for year or more, so that
! l never doubted that Frank was really
/ dead. Then Lord st, Simon came to
Frisco. and we came. 10 London, and a
marriage was arranged, and pa was
very pleased, but / felt all the time
/ that no man on this earth would ever
/ take the place in my heart that had
been given to my poor Frank.
+ STILL II l had married Lord st.
| Simon, of course I'd have to do my
| duty by him. We can't command our
love, but we can our actions. I went to
/ the altar with him with the intention
! TO make him just as good wife as
! 1t was in me TO be. But you may inn
agine what l felt when, just as / came
/ TO the altar rails. glanced back and
/ saw Frank standing and looking at me
! out of the first pew. / thought 10 was
his ghost at first; but when / looked
again there he was still, with kind Of
question in his eyes az if to ask me
whether l were glad or sorry to see
| him. / wonder / didn't drop. l know
| that everything was turning round,
and the words of the clergyman were
just like the buzz of a bee in my ear
l didn't know what to do. Should
/ stop. the service and, make a scene in
/ the church? / glanced at him again
and he seemed TO know what / was
! thinking. for he raised his finger to
his lips to tell me TO be still Then
saw him scribble on piece Of paper.
| and / knew that he WAS writing me q
note. AS / passed his pew on the way
out I dropped my bouquet over to iiiTn,
| and he slipped the note into my hand
| when he returned ne the flowers. II
was only line asking me to Join him
when he made the sign TO me TO do
| so. Of course / never doubted for
moment that my first duty was now to
him, and I determined TO do just what
ever he might direct.
When / got back | told my maid
who had known me il California and
had always been his friend. / ordered
/ her 10 say nothing, but 10 get a few
things packed and my ulster ready.
know ] ought TO have spoken to Lord
1 st. Simon, but il was dreadfully hard
| before his mother and ali those great
! people. I just made 10 my mind 10
run away and explain afteTWard.
hadn't been at the table ten minutes
! before / saw Frank out of the window
at the other side OF the road. he
| beckOned to me and then began walk
/ ing into the park. ! slipped out, put
Oh my things and followed him. Some
woman came talking something or
other about Lord St. Simon TO me
/ seemed to me from the little l heard as
! if he had a little secret of his own BEFORE.
marriage alsO-but l managed to get
away from her, and soon overlook
! Frank. We got into a cab together and
away we drove TO some lodgings he
| had taken in Gordon Square. and that
was my true wedding after all those
! years of waiting. Frank had been a
| prisoner among the Apaches, had es-
capped, came on to Frisco, found that
| / had given him up for dead and had
gone to England, followed me there
| and had come upon me ar last on the
very morning of my second wedding
II saw it in a paper" explained the
American. TT gave the name and the
church, but not where the lady lived
Then we had a talk as TO what we
| should do, and Frank was all for OPEN
ness. but l was so ashamed Of it all
that I felt as if I should like to Vanish
away and never see any of them
| again-iust sending a line to pa. per
haps, to show him that / was alive. 1t
was awful to me to think of all those
! lords and ladies sitting round that
breakfast table and waiting for me TO
come back. So Frank TOOK my wedding
clothes and things and made a bundle
of Them so that l should not be traced,
and dropped them away somewhere
where no one could find them. 1t is
/ likely that we should have gone on TO
Paris tomorrow, only that this good
/ gentleman, Mr.. Holmes. came round To
US this evening, though how he found
us is more than l can think, and he
showed us very clearly and kindly that
/ was wrong and that Frank was right.
and that we should be putting our
selves in the wrong if We were so sec
ret Then he offered to give us d
| chance of talking 10 Lord st. Simon
alone and so we came right away
round to his rooms at once. Now -
Robert. you have heard it all and I am
very sorry if I have given you pain.
and | hope that you do not think very
meanly of me-"
Lord St. Simon had by no means re-
Taxed his rigid attitude. but had
listened with a frowning brow and
compressed lip 10 this long narrative.
Excuse me-" he said, but ii is not
nv custom to discuss my most intimate
personal affairs in this public manv
ner"
Then you won't forgive me? You
won't shake hands before l go?"
.Oh. certainly, if it would give you
/ any pleasure" He put out his hand
and coldly grasped that Which she eX-
tended to him.
i had hoped" suggested Holmes,
that you would have Joined us IN
friendly supper"
Il think that there YOU ask a, little
too much" responded his lordship. Il
may be forced to acquiesce in these
] recent developments, but / can hardly
be expected TO make merry over them.
l think that, with your permission, I
win now wish you all a very good
night" He included us all in a sweep
ing bow and stalked out Of the room.
"Then I trust that you at least viii
honor me with your company said
Sherlock Holmes. 1T is always a JOY
to meet an American, Mr. Moulton. for
I am one of those who believe that the
folly of monarch and the laundering
of a minister in fargone years will not
/ prevent our children from being some
day citizens of the same world wide
country under a flag which shall be d
| duarteTing of the Union Jack with the
Stars and Stripes,