The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15

There was my side of it, too she
said.
They both laughed and the captain
asked permission to take a chair. He
could be a very agreeable man when
he chose and it was plain that he was
choosing. His manner was almost too
ingratiating and Helen could not but
wonder inwardly what he was after.
My business-is rather with your
I father" he said.
He's at the Hot Springs, sick" she
said. I'm running the Winery for
him. Can't you make me do?"
You don't mean to say that you are
IL charge of this whole establishment? ?"
he exclaimed.
"Oh. yes, I'm the boss here she re-
turned though of course / have pa
on the wire, you know What can
do for you. captain? Well only be
too glad TO make an opening over. there
for our wines-that is, if your rating
is good and you represent responsible
people"
ooh, it isn't wine" said the captain,
hastily. It's something very differ
entr'
you can ring up pa in the next
ROOM she said helpfully. Call up
long distance and asked for Byron Hot
Springs"
1T isn't the kind of thing you can
very well telephone" said the captain.
'Then you'd better chase him up to
Byron" remarked the young lady.
But you're ir it, too" explained
Anstruther. It's really more you than
anybody. I've come from England just
to see your
Me- she said.
Yes, you" said the captain.
s"Tbpu what
she demanded.
81 thought it would be better to lay
it before him first" he returned.
You'd better begin with me- she
said. THAT is, if you want to get
anywhere. I have pa i'm my pocket, as
politicians say"
Haven't you a man employed here
called Gray?" he inquired. IAN Eng
lishman like myself-a gentleman
though he fills, I understand, rather a
subordinate position
ooh, yes" she said, "only he's mostly
called Bill. you know. 1 should say he
is here. Very much here indeedr'
His real name is William Charles
Hepworth st. John Gray" said the
captain impressively.
well all he's got left of that is his
glass eye" she said. That's why the
boys call him Glass-Eyed Bill, you
know"
1t took the captain a little time to
get over the shock
Il have particular reason to know
all about Mr.. Gray he said at last.
Such a reason might be friendly or
unfriendly," she said
The Englishman sprang from his
chair.
my dear young lady," he exclaimed,
Il wouldn't have you think for a mo-
ment that my interest could be for
anything but for his advantage I beg
you to believe that. 1t would be pre-
mature to explain why, but will YOU
not take ii on trust? Besides. 1t is
not as though 1 did not know the
whole miserable story of his decline
and virtual disappearance. All I ask
of you is to fill in the details"
She gave him very searching look.
The captain did not suffer from such
mute Interrogation and his straight
honest gaze treasured her. Something
about him was indefinitely reminiscent
of Bill.
You must be related to him." she
said
'That is why 1 am here" he re-
turned gravely. That is why | want
you to tell me everything"
when he first blew in here" said
the girl, he was the most forlOrn
hopeless, tattered thing you ever saw.
All Sue gave him something to eat on
the dOorstep-Ah Sue has a heart like
melted butter. you know-and I hap
pened to be passing through the kit
chen and saw him there Do YOU
know what he said to me, sticking his
eye-glass in his eye and speaking with
his mouth full of chicken tamale7 Said
he understood now why pigs souealed
when they atet If he hadn't said that
] suppose he'd have gone away and
that would have been the end of him.
But I couldn't resist a man like that.
could 1? Besides, it was awfully pitt
ful-he was so evidently the real thing
so handsome even in his terrible
clothes-a gentleman, you know"
The captain wriggled nervousiy on
his chair. These recollections seemed
to make him acutely uncomfortable. |