The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-24
u,pTER xXlv.--contlnued.

s,rbor ] saw Mowbray Lang
indolence at anchor. I glanced
!, steuben Point--where his
the Vivians, lived-and
N recognized his launch at
dor We saluted the Incidence;
,dolence saluted us. My launch
lined away and took me ashore.
Islpd along the path that wound
|, ,he base of the hill toward the
Il At the crossing of the path
rom the house, / paused and
va on the glimpse of one Of the
I, towers of the great SNOWY
u was muttering something
f,ued to myself. 1t was: "Mul-
,,a Mrs. Mulholland and the four
Mulhollands." And I felt like
sug aloud, such joke was it
/ should be envying a policeman
,,tsto patch and his fat wife and
hur brats, and that he should be
POSITION to pity me.
b may be imagining that, through
Anita had been dominating my
That is the way 1t is in the
nces: but not in life. No doubt
are men who brood upon the
cssble. and moon and maunder
h their lives over the grave of a
love; no doubt there are people
will say that, because | did not
n Langdon or her, or myself, or
"a desert or pose in the crowded
8s Of the world as the last scene
tragedy, / therefore cared little
h her. | offer them this sugges-
A man strong enough to give
zw worth a woman's while is
Srg enough to live on without her
b he finds he may not live with
b | stood there that summer day
hing toward the crest of the hill
be hooking mausoleum of my dead
An, realized what the incessant
lie Of the street had meant to me
sere Is peace for me only in the
m" said |. But, thank God, there
pace for me somewhere"
irOugh the foliage l had glimpses
Nue one coming slowly down the
Fis path. Presently. at one of the
pings halfway up the hill, appeared
REtray Langdon. "What is he do
here thought 7, scarcely able to
sye my eyes. Here of all places"
\ then | forgot the strangeness of
being at Dawn Hill in the strange
p Of his expression. For it was APP
fslt even at the distance which
|aTated US, that he was suffering
4 some great and recent blow. He
led old and haggard; he walked
man who neither knows nor
b where he is going.
Y mad not seen me, and my i'm
f was to avoid him by continuing
OWard the kennels. ] had no es-
pa Telling against him; | had not
Anita because she cared for him
Fei Tor her, but because she did not
lot me-simply that to meet
10 be awkward, disagreeable for
'O'h' AT the slight noise of my
eaent to go on, he halted, glanced
"a eagerly, as If he hoped the
n mad been made by some one he
ied TO see. His glance fell on me.
|S'opped short, was for an instant
|'acerted; then his face lighted up
deyllish Joy. "You!" he cried.
the mani" And he descended
I rapidly.
arSt could make nothing of this
INK But as he drew nearer and
~ and his ugly mood became
\ apparent, felt that he was look
onward to provoking me into CIV
llm distraction from whatever
ormenting him. / waited. A few
''es and we were face to face, ]
|adly calm, but my anger slowly
Jug up as he deliberately applied
'le torch of his insolent eyes. He
wearing his old familiar air of
al assurance. Evidently, with
covered fortune, he had recov-
us conviction of his great SUI
Fly TO the rest of the human
'ne child had climbed back on
,ualr that made it tall and had
['eh It's tumble. And | was won
i again that /, so short a time
. mad been crude enough to be
iS'ed and fooled by those tawdry
50 and pretenses. For the man,
uOw saw him, was obviously shall
|'uu vain, a slave to those poor
|O.'he'world" passlons-ostenta-
nu cynlcism and skill at vices old
|anKlhd and tedious as a tread
'ne commonplace routine of the
anu foolish and purposeless. A
handsome fellow, but the more
that he was by nature above
'eS TO which he PROSECUTED him
'ought hard to keep his eyes stead
nine; but they would waver and
Not however, before | had
ueep Down in them the begin
Vi lear. You see, you were
Aeh, said |. you have nothing
10 me-or to you"
anew | had looked straight to the
u OF his real self, and had seen
|Oward that is in every man who
|'eeh bred to appearances only,
|CSe his vanity, the towards sub
|e for co,,,u