The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-11-02

81 do not understand. ! have al
ways, on the other hand, looked for
ward to time when, somehow or
other, my character should be set right
again-if only TO disappoint my brother,
who is prig."
"He who was then young man like
| yourself, with his future all before him,
is now a man who has succeeded. He
has won distinction and reputation. He
| has n wife aud children-children Jack
If you ruin him-as you may-as you
Canyon ruin the children and you de-
stroy the wife"
IL see" he replied. "This is what
you wanted TO say to me9 10 be sure |
hadn't considered that"
when we landed he saw you on the
port and recognized you. lie said moth
ing to meat the time, hut perceived
that he was anxious and unhappy. II
is three months. and during the whole
time he has been in an agony of terror
and rcmorse. few days ago he heard
the old story told again-thc story that
he thought forgotten was repeated 10
him. attached TO your name. IL is com
mon property-thc talk of his secrcta-
ries. lie is wcll-nigh mad with the rec
objection and the hideousness of It,"
"Confouud the story. That's my
brothers doing"
~ told him should see you. lie has
gone TO church this morning-to church
knowing that am to meet you here.
What am to tell him?"
"Why," said Jack, considering II is
three months since he came. and that
a., Il 10, t.,L4 tab
IL for granted that ! am not going To
move or TO speak. ! don't deny, Eva.
that when heard he was coming ! was
n good bit shaken. ! thought that 1!
might send him copy of the confcs-
sion. and ask him what he proposed
doing say that this temptation did
assail me, | am ashamed To Town that
IL did"
Jack" she interrupted him quickly,
there is no safety possible for us so
long as that paper remains In your
hands. Consider-you may die: YOU
may fall i'll; you may even, God forgive
me for saying so, fall away and bctray
us. The noblest inheritance of my
children Is their fathers honor. II lies
at the mercy of an accident. Ills
honor! think of what ~ n 10 him-to
me-to all of us. Do not leave that 10
chance. There is but one person In
the world that knows the truth--it is
yourself. There is but one proof Of the
truth-it is that paper"
lie made no reply. She went on
again more passiOnatcly:
Put it beyond your own power
most loyal OF men, TO betray and ruin
US. Leave To my children their fathers
honor; leave him TO follow out his
career 10 the end. viii you do this
for me--for my children--in memory of
the paste"
Then Jack spoke slowly because h,
was anxious to speak for oncc and SO I,
have done with II.
"Whcn read In the paper that h,
was coming, | heard his voice plaii
and clear saying: Take my confession
Do what YOU like with II. IL yo,
suffer from the consequences. reveal IL
II In the future. you can advance your
self by means of this paper use it--yo'
have the right 10 use 1T could no
use his confession. How could use it
Could threaten with it--demand pro
motion with it-extort money with Il
Then learned by accident, the othe
day. how his private secretary told hin
the story and how he said in his grand
~ anstcre way that some things car
, never be forgotten, that they cling TO
man through life and hinder him
, Now do think, making every allow
ancc for official purity, that was carry
ing virtue To an extreme. But IL mad
mo deliberate what TO do next. And
have found out the way. 1t is all clea
To me at last"
"What way? In the name Of pity
| what way?"
"If I had been the governor and h
/ had been the junior clerk should hav
tried 10 make up to him quietly AM
without explanation for all these year
, by such advancement as lay in IN,
! power. I should have done this 70
him in order TO let him know that tn
past was buried, but the sense of tn
sacrifice was left"
a "lIe does not do IL In order TO lie
, you know that the past cannot be fol
gotten"
o Eyes. and out of his fears lest Tn
man who knows IL should have becom
a cad"
10 not nc tOo blttcI, Jdck'
He might have played the part G
Providence. He has preferred TO pln
the part of the Judge. Well, my way
plain. have brought the papers
Here they are. will give them TO YOU
Lady Dunkeld, ON one condition"
ANY condition-all conditions"
"Nay-this is very simple condition
II is that during the whole OF his o
> fetal residence here he will leave m
, absolutely alone. Let him never int
ferc with me- Let him never hay
J speech with me. Let him never offC
: me any promotion. He must not, q
the other hand. cause that story To l
q spread about. He must compass neithC
: good nor harm for me. You promis
this, Eva-for your husband9"
\. "Ycs-yes-I promise upon my-upo
his-honor which now nothing ca
81 touch Oh! now breathe again. Coz
&c ditions? Ask the whole OF my forum
You shall have II so long as have th
paper You are certain that there is I
- copy?"
N There is no copy You are qui
nc safe IL were To proclaim the who
4,