The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-01-06


test Of propinQuty to a. woman of Ju-
dlth Rodney's compelling personality,
other things being equal. it would be
difficult to hazard n guess. The com
ing of Judith from the convent in
creased the perspective into which
Kitty was retreating. With the vivid
plainSwOman in the foreground. the
pale haired writer of verse dwinded
almost to rcminiscence. But the rev
crence for the usual, that made up the
underlying motive for so much of Ham
iltOn's conduct, presented barriers
alongside of which his previous guam
Diary regarding Miss Colebrookes sen
iority shrank TO inslgnifcance. lie
might marry woman older than him
self and swallow the grlmace of il.
but by no conceivable system of argu-
ment could he persuade himself to
marry into n family like that of the
Rodneys-the girl herself. for all her
beauty and rare womanliness. n quar-
ter Indian; her father the synonym
! for obloquy, her brother a cattle thief
When Peter went east he had expect
ed to find Kitty worn by the pursuit
of enIthets bauutod b,. tho nbonton, 90
II career, resigned TO the slngs and ar
rows of remorseful splnsterhood. An
obvious regret, or, at least, resignation
tempered with remembrance yos tbo
unguent ne anticipnted at tbe hands of
Kittv. But alas for sapctuories huiIt
to refuge wounded pride! He found
| Kitty the nivot of an adorino coter,e
tho mogazjnaa aow,ng with tho min,
and bonov NJ bor voroo .ond sho Io,L
ing vounger ~ nossihIa thar whom no
had irst known ber
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telegrom rocolled him to tho r,nob
and nrevented n Anal leave ,ol,l,, ,,i,b
Miss CoIebrool,e Uo mazda his odio,s
nv letter and tbev wore frankly ro
grctful Miss Colebroole,s renIv min
| plcd sorrow I'm norting from an o,d
| friend with Ioy in having found him
Her letter masterniece of nhrnse
| spinning, presented to Peter the one
significant fact that she would moi he
avcrsc to the renewal of his suit. I'm
reading her letter he made no allow
ance for the fact that the lady had
made Il fine art of saying things and
that her joy and regret at their meet
ing and parting might have been rem.
iniScent of the printed passion that
was 50 prominent II feature of maya.
! zinedom. Her lctters-the like of them
he had never seen outside printed vol
umes OF letters that had achieved the
distinction of eliminated in
me one That Judith had zen him that
morning announcing that unexpected
~ She had decided to JOIN the Wetmore
girls ana would be glad to see him mt
inc rahch'
That he had flown at her bidding Ju-
dith knew. What she would least have
suspected was that Miss Colebrookc
had received her visitor as if his break
neck ride across the desert had been
in the nature of an afternoon call. If
Judith, knowing what she did of this
long drawn out romance, could have
known likewise OF her knights chagrin,
would she have pitied himI
Ignorant of the recent anticlimaN
and with burden of many heavy
thoughts, Judith was penetrating a
world of unleavcncd dcsoation. BE.
meath the scourgc of the MONDAY sun
the desert lay stripped of every illu.
sion. Vegetation had almost ceased.
Nothing but sun scorchcd, dust chokcd
sagrbruSh could spring from such ste
rillty. The fruit of desolatlOn, IT gave
back TO dosolatlon a quality more mel
anrhoy than utter barrcnness.
The trail that she must take to inns
camp IN the mountain was known to