The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15
BY LLOYD osRoURNE,
Author "FOrty Years Between" etc.

might call perfect respect. you know,
and all that kind of thing
of course, I know that" she ex-
| claimed
captain.
Who for? For you or the young
lady or Bill?"
The captain tugged at his yellow
mustache.
Il must really beg your indulgence"
| ne said at last I am sure the very
last thing in the world l wish to do is
to offend you I had hoped, as I told
you, to discuss the matter first with
your father"
Wen just leave pa out" she said.
It's me that Bills in love with-not
pa"
still, it's very awkward" murmured
the captain. Very awkward -
SO you read Bills letters and got
quite discouraged" she said. smiling.
r He seemed on the verge of commit
ting an-er-iTrevOcable mistake" said
the captain.
rs that how you'd describe his mar
rying me?" she asked.
There was a pause
'Frankly-yes, said the captain
There are people here who think the
irrevOcable mistake might be the other
way she remarked.
Then, my dear young lady" he went
on briskly, the people here have your
true interests at heart. Believe me,
there can be no lasting happiness in
a union that involves a great inequal-
ity of station. It is currently said that
a man raises his wife to his own level,
but a knowledge Of the world teaches
US that only too often he-er-sinks
to hers"
Bill seems quite satisfied to sink
she returned. In fact. he's been in a
panic lest he wouldn't get the chance
THE Bill Of yesterday and the Bill
of today are two different men" said
the captain. He has now q great
place to fill. He becomes the head OF
one Of the proudest and most aristo-
cratic families I'm England. It would
be too unutterably sad If he failed in
the duty he owes both to his class and
to his rank"
His class and his rank never both
cred very much about him out here
she said. They seemed quite happy
in fact to be quit of him. He might
have starved to death for all they
cared"
4 know we lay ourselves open to
that imputation," went on the captain,
in a tone of depressed suavity. But,
as the dear duke said in the family
council we held at Holderton Abbey,
circumstances alter cases.
It's not Bill they're thinking about"
she said; its their noble and splendid
selves"
They cannot very well detach them
selves from the affair, even if they
would" continued the captain. Tran
toms disgrace is necessarily theirs
IF the dear duke doesn't want TO
know me, he needn't" she retorted,
with a heightened color. eff he doesn't
want to play in my yard he can always
have the aristOcratic privilege of stay
ing out"
Then there's the dowager Lady
TrantOn," said the captain; "BflT5
stepmOther."
"she. too. them said the girl.
She really feels it more than any,
body" sighed the captain. THE same
name. you know-the possibility Of
mistakes being made-the inevitable
confusion Of"
IT'S Just what you said before, cap
tain she exclaimed, mockingly. It's
too unutterably sad, isn't it?''
4 know 1 am expressing myself very
badly" he said 81 told them at the
time they ought to choose somebody
better fitted for the task than l. But
the dear duke was so peremptory, and
Lazy IIdntOn cried on my shoulder,
and the memory Of a lifelong obliga-
ton naturally turned the scale-and so
here / am, and making a terrible mess
of il, just as Whitcombe said 1 would"
1T was certainly a long way to coma
just to talk to a girl" she said.
And then do it so badly" added
the captain.
at can't see that it's any OF their
business" she exclaimed.
I was charged to Offer-induce-
ments," said the captain with embar-
rassment
inducements? What sort Of induce
ments?"
-Oh. / am almost ashamed 10 say
.er-of a monetary nature"
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