The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25

later dashes back bringing the portion
of the epistle.
Barnes seizes it. Both men attempt
to read it.
AS they try to decipher its cramped
foreign hand. Lady Chartris, coming
out wildly from her chamber, for now
she fears she will be abducted herself,
and is half crazy with fright, suddenly
looking over their shoulder, cries. half
shrieking: "Oh, Heavens, Cipriano's
writing"
You are sure?"
Il fear, 1 fear! I've got three love
notes from him-this looks quite Ike
his hand"
And the astounded and dismayed
widow wrings her hands, her face pal
lid with jealous chagrin.
Suddenly she cries: Away, Maud!
These men are talking of things chill
dren should not hear" and drags her
offspring with her to the seclusion of
her chamber.
For the bereft husbands words are
these:
This is the most crafty, subtle and
Satanic plot against your married hap
| piness, Edwin" whispers Barnes las
near as / can make out. this devilish
missive says that Marina must desert
you, her accused English husband;
then they will spare your life. If she
remains with you, your fate will be
hers. Your safety from death is Of
fered as bribe to your young wife if
she deserts your bed and leaves her
self open to the stilIetos of these devils.
If she stays with you and clings to you,
you will be assassinated, even in her
arms
Then the wife of my heart has left
me fearing as the attack upon my sis
ter's liberty has been successful their
efforts against my life viii be equally
So shudders Edwin; next cries out
almost angrily: "She was mad not to
trust me-"
Marina knew you wouldn't let her
go if she did, suggests Burton more
calmly.
But the other breaks in: She is
helpless in that devils hands, who's
tricked us both. This man means to
kill her."
Not as you fear" mutters Barnes
"CfpTiano doubtless came here, in his
mind some Infamous plot against your
life and hers, but now I think the
same crazy passion for Marina that
was in his brother has entered him.
Never did your wife look more lovely
than when she so nobly offered to go
to Corsica to try and bring your sister
back"
Bring my sister back? That's why
she's gone" asserts Anstruther. do
you suppose any other consideration
would have induced her to leave me?
She thinks her word is potent among
the friends of her childhood in Bocog-
nano. She-she's gone to Corsica on
that generous Grand That's what she
always did-sacTiflced herself. In the
Egyptian hospitals she was the angel
Of mercy" Then his voice is strident
with determination. Marina is going
to Corsica. Barnes. and 1 go with you.
The vessel is there-come!" Anstru-
theirs rapid strides are carrying him to
the door of the hallway, but the Amer
leans voice stays him.
"she will never get to Corsica" says
Barnes, sadly.
why not?'
why not? Danella longs for her
Couldn't you see his uncanny passion
gradually growing as he looked upon
her loveliness? No. she will not be
permitted to get very far away from
him. Don't you suppose his emissaries
are alert now-the man with the scar
over his eye that delivered this das-
tard note to herr" Then the tone Of
the American changes; he says very
I'solmenly: And yet. think you can
thank God that the passion of the lover
has entered the DEVILS heart and taken
the passion of the assassin from It; for
otherwise, with his thugs about her,
your wife would now be dead"
The naval officer clasps his hands to
his brow in horror.
You stay here and try and find Mar
ina. As for me. my duty is to go to
that island and If she is living, to
bring back my bride-if she is dead,
avenge her!" continues Burton.
That is my duty here. rescue or
avenge Marina!'' cries the English
man.
Barnes leaves his brother-in-law arm
ing himself and making ready to go out
of the villa in pursuit of the loved one
he has lost, and hurries down the path
to the water. The darkness is now so
great he can scarce discern the lit
tie fishing vessel still tied I'D to the
landing stage. He rapidly springs over
her low freeboard and calls: "Get un-
der way" The alert Graham is al
ready at her helm; her big lateen sails
are hoisted tapping in the soft air, and
a moment later under smart breeze
the little craft is gliding towards the
entrance of the Bay of Villefranche.
The twinkling lights of the naval
station are soon behind them. Then as
to these are added the Nominations of
the more distant Nice.
That devil Cipriano is there-can
he have Edwin's wandering wife al
ready i'm his ciuthes?" Barnes thinks
modify as his eyes rest on the myriad
lights of the great watering place
Would that ] had killed Satanis to-
night. but his supreme tact and his ire
mendous nerve to remain there calm
as an iceberg. for the moment tricked
me into thinking him innocent"
The illumination of Nice fade away
| in the darkness of the night to the
American upon the deck of the fishing
vessel, which now. under a fresh and
increasing breeze. is bounding through
| the water.
Graham is still at the wheel, Barnes
pacing the little deck of the silent craft
His steely eyes peer into the gloomy
blank ahead of him. His life seems
blank also. Tonight he had expected
the love-lit eyes of his fairy bride to