The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28

, worked smoothly together. Each admired
and respected the other
My dear" Mrs. Van Dolscn would say.
without your good taste l should be a
horrid trump" And 10 the ladies' she
would gay, "Hctty II so good. She helps
me so with my shopping. She is so pa
I dent md sweet and has such good taste.
and then the ladies would smile and sigh
and say how sorry they were that dear
Miss Hetty would not let them do moro
for her. She was universal fayortte. so
thoughtful so good TO the sick. and re-
freshing 10 the well When they said she
did doubly as much for them as she
would permit them TO do for her. they
Every one said Il was really too bad
that tho death Of Yonks Van Dolsen
should come at the time IL did, right In
the midst OF the social season, but espe-
clally just before Miss Hetty's wedding.
Miss Hettys engagement was an import
ant event. She had never been married
before In oil her forty years. and had
else had expected It. People had come 10
look upon her Splnsterhood one OF the
lmmutable things. like the eternal hills
and taxes and her approaching marriage
had all the wonderful qualities Of the un
expected and the awesome.
No man In Wghamton would have had
the temeTity to ShnJfe good old customs
by marrying Miss Hetty IT would have
been sacrilegious- But the Wighamton
Mortgage and Trust company got into
difficulties and the Scotch investors sent
over Hector McGrcRor to look after their
interests. and like the rough blunder-
some Scot he was. he strode rclcntlessly
through customs and snatched up Miss
Hetty as II she was not destined by the
town Fates TO be an eternal spinstcr.
And then, lust three weeks before the
glad that Mrs. Van Dolscn would be such
help TO Miss Hetty In getting ready.
Nonks Van Dolsen upset everything and
Mrs Van Dolsen went In black and shut
up her house and went
Some-but they were outside the best
Get and consequently Jealous persons
said 1t was incosiderate and unnecessary
for Mrs. Van Dolsen to go In mourning
spoken before. The ladies of the best set
aid not say this. but they gently inti-
mated among themselves that, perhaps
Mrs. Van DolSen was carrying her fam
lily pride a little too far, Her very clos
est friends never had heard her speak
OF the late Hon. Yonks. and her mourning
was go excessively deep. Even her lin
gcrle, 1t was whispered, was edged with
black.
One or two who ventured to condole
With her. and who suggested kindly that
were kindly but firmly told that some
things were too sacred TO he told to even
ones dearest friends Miss Hetty herself
was told nothing, although she spent the
week aiding Mrs. Van Dolsen in the prep
aration OF her mourning She told those
who asked that Mrs. Van Dolsen was not
overwhelmed b? grlef, that she had not
shed tear. but that she seemed to wish
TO do Yonks Van Dolsen all the posthu-
nous honor possible, III came to be be
llcved that probably In her young wo-
manhood She had been wooed by Yonlfs
Van Dolsen and that through some com
plicntion she had wed Richard Van Dol
sen instead. That would account for her
silence regarding Yonks. 1t might &C.
count for Richard Van Dolsen's silence.
too.
When, some days after Mrs. Van Dol
sen left for the East. Richard Van Dolsen
nliShted from the train at the Wigham-
ton depot, IT was apparent that the death
OF his honored relative had not dmmed
his spirits. He had made a good trade
I'm the Missouri timber lands, and he
walked briskly up the street toward his
Office. whistlng.
At the corner OF Main street and Elm
avenue he met Tom Garrick, the City
Attorney. and they exchanged a hearty
handclasp Garrlck watched Van Dol
SENS face closely.
'Wen!" he exclaimed. "glad To see you
back. Dick, Deal go through all rIght7''
Fine" Van Dolsen replied. 81 think /
have n good thing in those lands Tom.
How's WighamtoE been since | left?"
"All right" said Garrick, "I suppose
you have heard all the news, Knew Miss
ATsdale was engaged"
mo, you don't tell me-" cried Van Dol