The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-13
The First Customer and the
Florentine Dante.


back. i-hsEe an i'll enough maine al
ready, without desiring fresh scan
dal. Good night"
But may 1 say -----
Nothing, nothihgl" retortea Hagar.
pushing him out of the door %Goo6
night"
The door snapped to sharply. and
Lorn went out into the hot July night
with his heart beating and his blood
ahame. He had seen this girl only
twice, yet, with the inconsiderate rash
ness Of youth. he was already in love
with her. The beauty and kindness
and brilliant mind of Hagar attracted
him strongly, and she had shown him
such favor that he felt certain she
loved him in return. But a girl out of
paWnshop! He had neither birth nor
money, yet he drew back from mating
himself with such a one. True his
| mother was dead, and he was quite
alone in the wOrid-alone and Door
Stfll, II he found his uncle's fortune, he
would be rich enough to marry. Ha-
gar, did she aid him 10 get the money
might expect reward in the shape OF
marriage. And she was so beautiful,
so cleveri BY the time he reached his
poor lodging Eustace had put all scrup-
les out of his head, and had settled To
marry the gypsy as soon as the lost
treasure came into his possession In
no other way could he thank her for
the interest she was taking In him.
| This may seem a hasty decision, but
young blood is soon heated; young
and beauty drawn together are as
flint and finder to light the torch Of
Hymen. ---..-..
Punctual to the appointed hour.
Eustace, as smart as he could make
| himself with the poor means at his
| command, appeared at the door Of the
/ pawnshop. Hagar was already wait
| ing for him. with the Dante in her
! hand. She wore a black dress, a black
| cloak. and hat Of the same somber
/ hue-such clothes being the mourning
| she had worn, and was wearing, for
| Jacob. Averse as she was TO using
! Goliath's money, she thought he would
/ hardly Crude her these garments OF
/ woe for his father. Besides. as mana
| geress OF the shop, she deserved some
| salary. - e F. --
why are you taking the Dante?''
asked Eustace when they set out for
! Waterloo station.
1T may be useful to read the riddle
/ said Hagar.
/ Have you solved it?'-
/ Il don't know; I am not sure" she
! said meditatiyely. II tried by counting
J the lines on that page up and down
/ You observation-disclosures seven, twelve.
| thirty-eight; but the lines 1 lighted on
/ gave me no clew.
You didn't understand them?"
! Yes, I did" replied Hagar, coolly.
! Il got a second hand copy of a trans
| lat1on from the old bookseller in Car
| by'S Crescent, and by counting the lines
to correspond with those in the Flor
entine edition I arrived at the senses
And none Of them point to the sOlu-
| ton of the problem"
| Not one. TherEI tried by pages. I
/ counted twenty-seven pages, but could
find no clew; reclzoned twelve pages;
also thirty-eight; still the same result
Then took the twelfth, the twenty
seventh, and the thirty-eighth page by
numbers, but found nothing. The rid
die is hard to read
impossible, I should say said Eus-
taco in despair.
mo; I think I have found out the
meaning
How? how? Tell me ouick,''
mot now. I found a word. but is
seems nonsense as I Could not find
in the italian dictionary which boz
TUwed." ~
what is the w0rd?''
nm tell you when I have seen the
house,
In vain Eustace tried 10 move her
from this determination. Hacar was
stubborn vhen she took an idea into
her strong brain. 81 she simply de-
clined to explain until she arrived at
WokinE-at the house Of Uncle Ben.
Weak himself, Eustace could not IN
derstand how she could hold out so
long against his persuesions. Finally
he decided in his own mind that she
did not care about him In this he was
wrong HaEar liked hinl-loved him:
but she deemed 1T her duty to teach him
patiehce-a quality he lacked sadly.
Hence her closed mouth.
When they arrived at Working Eus-
tace led the way toward his late un-
cle's house, which was some distance
out Of the town. He addressed Ha-
gar. after a long silence, when thew
/ were crossing a piece of waste land and
saw the cottage in the distance
, .'If you find this money for me- he
said. abruptly. what service am I to
? do for you i'm return"
IT hare thought Of that" replied Ha-
| gar promptly. Find GOliath-other-
wise James Dix"
who is her asked Lorn. flushing.
Some one you are fond of2'
"Some one I hate with all my SOUL
!, ( she flashed out; but he is the son OF
my late master and heir to the pawn
shop. / look after it only because he
Is absent and on the day he returns I
shall walk out Of it and never set eyes
on it or him again.
"Why don't you advertiser
al have done so for months: so has
[ Vark. the lawyer, but Jimmy Dix new
er replies He was with my tribe in the
| New Forest, and Romany- Since then
he has gone away, and don't know
where ne is. Find him If you wish 10
thank me, and let me get away from
, the pawnshOp.'
'iVery good replied Eustace. quiet
ly II shall find him. In the meantime
here is the hermitage of my late un-
t cle.''
1t was a bare little cottage. small and
z shabby. set at the end of a square Of
= ground fenced IN from the barren moor.
Within the quadrangle there we're fruit
D trees-cherry. apple. plum and pear;
. also a large fig tree in the center Of the
3 rnshaven lawn facing the house All
wes desolate and neglected; the fruit
. trees were imprinted, the grass was
| growing in the paths, and the flowers
) were stra ggling here and there, rich
: masses OF ragged color. Desolate Ger
tainly, this deserted hermitage. but not
, lonely, for as Hagar and her com
: panion turned I'm at the little gate a