The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-14

he is BRUTE and I didn't happen like that
sort of man."
him"
'T don't think now that did. 1 explained that
while ago"
why have you changed your mind?"
IT knew a many questions"
But before he left her he knew.
Edith anticipated pleasurably the
engagement would make. but did not announce it
She had certain feminine secretiveness which
made her doubly enjoy happiness undiluted by pub
Hcity; moreover. some further Difference due
Carnath. She very happy. the she had
believed until short while ago that her strong tenn
peramental possibilities vaulted
little churchyard Our hearts after love like
dead she thought they sleep until the hour of
resurrection" Hedworth dominated her. taken
love rather it. and although he
jealous and exacting. by
traditions of mans mutability. studied
sources it had occurred to her study
before. She found that the outer envelopes
personality could shift with Kaleidoscope
brilliancy and except when Hedworth needed repose
she had much tact-she treated him these many
moods 1t is possible that she added to her
fascination but having him without effort she
might have rested on her laurels- He deeply in
with her. worried himself with
of what might happen before would consent to
the wedding day: being children worldly
wisdom. however. they harlequined their misgivngs
happy when together
Fortunately for both she heavy-laden with
femininity. give receive the
little in the of his life inherited
particles has offer She satisfied adored
desired mentally appreciated If his ego was always
paramount spiritual mperious that
he appropriated the full measure sympathy and
comprehension that nature has let loose for
woman, caring know anything of her beyond
the fact that she was the woman in the world
whom he saw no fault, she was Statistic to have it
She a clever but not clever. and their
chances of happiness good.
And then strange thing happened t her
Hedworth called Switzerland by his mother,
who fell I'LL His parting with Edith occupied several
hours and during the three four days following
protested that inconso1able But his
letters frequent and characteristic and she
to enjoy the phase of their intercourse; the
excitement of waiting the post, delight
the first glimpse of the envelope her breakfast tray
gave her, the novelty of receiving fragment Of him
daily, which her Imagination could expand into his
hourly life and thoughts The season was over and
had little else to She expected him back at
any moment. and preferred to await his arrival in
One evening she sitting bedroom think
ing OF him. The night hot windows were
1t late She staring down
the dark of treetops the Park recapitu-
lating, phase by phase, the growth feeling for
Hedworth Suddenly it occurred that 1t bore
strong racial resemblance to her first passion and
being too intelligent to have escaped the habit of
analysis she dug UP the dissected it, It
had been better preserved than she would have
thought, for it did sense and she gave
hour the office. went back to her first
tn, hero of her trag-
edy galvanized the thrill she had felt entered
her her restlessness jealousy
when he away appeared o neglect her; the
recognition that she grasp of a passion
in which she had little faith; and terror
Of it, the keen delight in the OF danger. There
had been weeks of companionship before he had
fined their position it had occurred to her
he had managed her with skill and GOODNESS of
man who understood women and could keep his head
while quickened with that ne inspired She
also recalled, lips curling cynical grim that
she had felt the promptings for spiritual aban-
Comment of high desire help this where he was
weak to restore of his ideals to replace
them with better: the weeds which she
recognized in his nature. and bulbs
Of those fair flowers which may have been there
fore he and the world knew each other
she relived the days nights when he
had walked the floor wringing hands, barely eat
ing and sleeping She recalled that she
the walls and flung herself against them.
The procession startlingly familiar fresh
of lineament; the moments of rapture, whose
memory is fade. the tful had
found. in those last days imagining what might
She got UP and walked about the room half
amused. half appalled, What does it mean?'
thought rs it that there is INCAPABLE entity in
this world for and that part of it one man
and part in another? is the man who has the larger
the I really love? the explanation
loving a second time? certainly is very like
ridicuously like"
She turned her thoughts to Hedworth. they
swung aside and pointed straight to the man.
She half expected to his ghost framed
window, he seemed close She found living
again and again, instinct sensations
He had had much in his life to and harrow and
cid sympathy and tenderness aloud and
little of tune She wondered what had become of
him, what he doing the She did not
believe that any since he had
exhausted his capacity for loving he met