The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-24

Z there vas a distressed. ratli5e look be
hind the gold eyeglasses.
All" said the journalist.
Yes, - answered PaSSavant. caught.
I The man looked from one TO the 9th
er and bit his lip. The cruel electric
/ light shOne down on his twitching gray
/ face.
But 1 will let you go" said Passa-
/ want, almost kindly. because it suits
/ my purpose. You have suited my pur-
/ post most eXceIlentIy all along"
! All, yes" said the journalist, with
/ sicllly smile. You think yourself very
| clever-you and Miss Burden"
1 There is no Miss Burden in this no.
I tel. There never has BEEN" said Pas
! savant
The German shrugged his shoulders
and looked at Miss Britten, who had
/ flushed suddenly He was about to
! say something. and had a spiteful air.
! BE careful" said Passavant. sharp
/ ~, and the other changed his mind.
( However" the German said, care
/ lessly, Lord Burden is i'll in that room,
SO your purpose is frustrated"
/ Pardon me- Lord Burden is now
/ travelling from Southampton to Vienna
| where he viii arrive on Monday morn
! ing. in time to attend the international
! conference.
But I saw him taking the air in his
/ bathchair."
/ Myself" explained Passavant. su-
avely: I am not strong He paused
and gave the conventional chest cough.
/ And Miss BTitten was kind enough to
/ speak to me in my-perambulatOr. You
/ cannot have seen very plainly through
your field glasses from the hillside"
And the conference was delayed"
by me- explained Passavant, bland
~
Il only issued bulletins of his lord
ships health on receipt of my daily tel
| egram from him in England. You sup
posed the rest-the local color. 1 think
/ you call it. Burden was really very un-
well-but not too i'll to travel, you un-
/ derstand.
You are very clever" muttered the
/ journalist, sarcastically.
/ Passavant bowed.
/ Considering that these rifIed draw
/ ers and disheveled bureaus do not look
| well. I would suggest that you take
! from your room such light luggage as
you may require. and-er-are called
suddenly away / will put this room
! tidy before the hotel servants see it,
| He went toward the door, from which
/ Miss BTitten now stood aside and
! opened it. The German passed out, and
| Passavant followed him.
by the way" ne said, at the head of
/ the stairs, with his sudden smile, shall
we agree to forget this little affair?
/ After all. il was with both of us merely
/ a matter of business. He held out his
hand. The German looked at il. and
/ then took the thin fingers in his great
| grasp, swallowing some obstruction in
mis- throat the while. They both turned
1 at the rustic of a dress and saw Miss
/ Britten pass upstairs to her room
! 1t being Sunday, the beer garden was
/ fuller than usual the next day, and
/ Miss Smale read at her open window a
/ book which could only have been devO-
/ tional. so stiff was her attitude. She
was obviously conscious of putting 10
shame the whole beer-drinking' Austri-
an nation. Miss Britten. with the intel
/ ligent and inquiring enterprise of her
/ generation, attended a Roman Catholic
service in the little church near the
! lake. 1t was glaringly hot. and there
are few warmer spots in Europe than
I Zel-am-Zee. Miss Britten retired to
her own room after luncheon, and AL
| gernon Augustus Passavant smoked
| cigarettes gloominly on the venanda.
After the table d'hote. which Miss
| Smale attended under visible compul-
sion and with a protestant appetite,
| the visitors sought the garden. Passa-
want took a walking-stick, called his
/
for walk. He turned back, however,
before he had been gone ten minutes.
and rather neatly caught Miss Britten
| in her favorite chair under the lilac
tree nearest to the lake. Night was
/ just falling, and a full moon sailing
amid fleecy clouds cast silver shaft
across the lake to the very wall of the,
hotel garden. Passavant brought
chair picked I'D in passing, and sat
/ uTJiaf7T- h0Sida Miss Rrirfpn
which set more than one head to wag.
/ Miss Britten had "a book In her hand,
but it was now too dark to read. She
however, after a side glance at her
| companion, opened the volume and
fixed her eyes upon the page.
Miss Britten."
Yes answered that young lady
without any encouragement in her
voice. If Passavant had made a jest
then-even a mild one-she would have
hated him. But Passavant was not in
cIined to be humorous at that mo-
ment.
I go to Vienna tomorrow morning .
he said.
/ OH
AT five-thirty."
Indeed"
And I am glad to have this oppor-
tunity of thanking you for your assist
ance We've tricked Europe, and that
is not so easily done as one would i'm
agine. This success may make a diff
] ference to my unimpOrtant career
She was sitting little in front of
him. and was conscious Of his steady
gaze. He spoke lightly. but there was
] a ring of anxiety IN his voice
IT was honest with you at any rate -
something that I have never done be-
fore f"