The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-02

lTlshman, touched his broad breast with
me ZIP or her brown finger, and said.
slgnlhcantIv. No room here7 20 She
Pecred INTO his bewildered face and
rrepeated' tapping his chest three times:
/ - 'No-room-herc? We Crees have q
word-a pretty saying which we say
TO all, even TO the tired stranger who
! peeps INTO our tent 'Peen-de.cain. pa-
ta-waugh, and II means, come in. plen
I " OF room, always room What is the
! word OF the white MANI she asked in
/ cree, which means no room7' -
inns was entirely too much for the
warm hearted lrishman. and he reached
! IHpu!siVeg Tor the Indian. With
en- snt movement of her supple body
shadow, from the room Ranniban
! recovering from his surprise, started 70
follow, calling to her to stop. but she
! gave no heed. He watched her as he
had Watched the others, until she dis
! appeared behind the bluff Then he
.L nlicd ms pipe sat down and began to
tnlnk, and think, and think The davs
came and went-the long, sunny. sum
mer days-and the more he tried 10
/ forget the more he remembered The In.
| dian girl. Naturally her flight only
made him all the more interested in her.
Ana thcn, too, her simplicity, her inno-
cencc and her blind, unoucstioninq
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beautiful and inspiring And she was
wise, too. not with the wisdom of The
| world. but she knew, without having
been taught, what love was, and knew
that If there was no room in the heart
there would be no room IN the home.
and so she had left it and him, leaving
HIM infinitely more lonely than she had
found him.
And where was the Sunbeam-Iittle
bya-what of her7 In his church once
married, always married, and while he
/ was not sure as to the binding Of the
Mormon ceremony, he would not take
the risk.
One day an Indian messenger came
running by with dispatches from Ors-
! dale, AT Edmonton, mostly for Smith.
! but one was for him, ordering him to
/ report TO the Silent One at Dunvogan.
This pleased him immensely, for he
could now see father also. the priest. at
! that post, and find out Just how matters
/ stood Father also told the frishman
/ that the Mormon ceremony was nil
and not to worry, but get married and
| try to convert the heathen at once, re.
minding him that, so far. there were
"Convert her!' repeated Bannihan,
and then, seeing the dark frown on the
fathers face. he covered. Yes, GER
tainly, father, certainly
1t was the moon of the golden leaf
when Bannihan called at the camp of
the Cree. "Come in, they said to
him; "there is plenty of room -; and
he went in and lodged with them, find,
ing his own blankets, of course, accord
ing to the law of the West The Bird
came in and greeted him as though they
! had parted but Yesterday. with scarce
| ly pcrceptible nod. He watched her as
| she moved about the lodge helping her
mother to prepare the evening meal, her
sad yet gentle, almost melancholy face
! showing no sign of interest in him.
which made him all The more anxious
! 10 know her to understand her silence.
In the twilight. shorter now than when
/ first they met she went out and sat
| by the bank Of little stream that
! tumbed ont of the wilderness and
spilled its crystal waters on the broad
! breast of the Athabasca. that caught IT
! and hushed it and smothered its glad
song into a hoarse whisper as, grand,
irresistible and awful. it swept onward
| down to the northern sea.
| And so had she been singing. her soul
/ attuned 10 the voice of the wild. when
/ this white man crossed her trail. She
| had rejoiced and gloried IN the mere
fact of being, and then the current OF
their lives famed together. For bret
moment she had been thrilled at sight
of him, and then when she gave him.
without his knowledge or consent. her
heart, when she was about TO throw
herself upon him as the laughing rlll
had thrown itself upon the mighty
river he had put her coolly aside, And
now he had come TO her, but not LOT
her No. she would not deceive herself
Uo had merely called, in passing, to rest
and sleep. For hours, down through the
deepening twilight she sat dreaming
out a long, osetintcd, sun Kissed might
have. been, until her youthful. unspoiled
heart woke her with its wild beating.
, Ills vory presence seemed TO swecten
and soften things The knowledge that
he was near was like the unexpected
touch of n soft. warm hand IN the darK'
Above her head waketul bird Walllhg
for night TO fall knocked his head and
sang short snatches OF the, only song
hn krcw, then tucked his head under
hi; wing aud tried TO make hliDseIl
believe it was really night
Now il was nearly midnight aud she
rose. drunken with love, that mysterious
;ntoyicant. and turned toward her tent,
Tndcr a tree near the lodge her muifled
foot touched something soft, ana
glnncjpp down the outline OF q blanket
he'd grew out of the dark, and presently
man s upturned face The moon
that had been hiding behind cloud
came out and showed the handsome
fare of her white god At sight OF him
tbcrs at her feet her heart leaped, her
head swan, her soul cried out to Wes;
a.ka-chack TO help her to hold him. And
- Ekn The cruel awakening from Il
sweet dream, came the killing recol-
lection that he had sent her from him.
Noiselessly as a cat guards, kitten ter
sbo sank beside him, knechng. She
nrnucbnd above him and absorbed him,
She hovered over and about him, caress'
ing him with her hungry eyes and md pour ,I
ing out to him the silence OF her r. soul
Now she began to coyet him Wes'a'
kn-chack had sent him to her to have
and to hold and she would hold him
Ah. even to die with him were sweet sweet!
Nv this time her wild blood was raging
SL. would hold out her hands to him
as % a mother reaches for her tottering
sld her 9sarSGod hear Ss a@osl asPg egns6ed GSgn hi:
s sea II" Sbo louged TO throw her trou
bIed fi self upon his quiet breast and
then She remembered that there was
= s"no room" there. o. why did Wes-a