The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01

There is lot of money in there, ="
she said.
Tons of it,"
mo need to quarrel about division.
There is enough for both of US"
quite enough. We can even spare
some for our friends
He took so readily to this definition
of their partnership that Iris sudden
ly became frigid. Then she saw the
ridiculous CLEAN of the tiny wick and
blew it out
Il mean" she said. stiffly. that if
you and I do agree to go shares we
will each be very rich"
Exactly. | applied your words to
the mine alone, of course
a slight thing will shatter a day
dream. This sufficed. The sailor re-
sumed his task of burying the stores.
Poor little lamp'" he thought.
When it came into the greater world
how soon it was snuffed out"
But Iris said to herself, What a
silly slip that was of mine. Enough for
both of US, indeed Does he expect me
to propose to him? I wonder what the
letter was about which he destroyed as
1 came back after my bath. 1t must
have been meant for me. Why did he
write it? Why did ne tear it uD?"
climbed TO the Summit Rock He
shouldered AK and rife and set forth.
Iris heard him rustling upwards
through the trees. She set some water
to boil for tea, and, whilst bringing a
fresh supply of fuel passed the spot
where the torn scraps of paper lit
tered the sand.
She was the soul of honor, for wo-
man, but there was never a woman yet
who could take her eyes off written
document which confronted her She
could not help seeing that one small
moTsel contained her own name.
Though mutilated it had clearly read
Dear Miss Deane."
$50 it was intended for meW she
cried. throwing down her bundle and
dropping to her knees. She secured
that particular slip and examined it
earnestly Not for worlds would she
pick up all the scraps and endeavOr TO
sort them. Yet they had a fascination
for her, and at this closer range she
saw another which bore the legend-"I
love youi"
Somehow the two seemed to fit to-
gether very nicely.
Yet a third carried the same words
II love your They were still quite
coherent. She did not want to look
any further. She did not even turn
over such of the torn pieces as had
fluttered to earth face downwards.
Opening the front of her bodice she
brought to light a small gold locket
containing miniatures of her father and
mother. Inside this receptacle she care
fully placed the three really material
portions of the sailors letter. When
jerks walked down the hill again he
heard her singing long before he caught
sight of her, sedulously tending the
fire.
AS he came near he perceived the re-
mains of his useless document. He
stopped and gathered them up, forth
with throwing them among the glowing
logs.
BY the way, what were you writing
whilst 1 had my bath?" inquired Iris,
demurely
some information about the mine
On second thoughts, however, l saw
that it was unnecessary"
"Oh, was that alp
Practically all.
"Then some part was impracticable? ."
He glanced sharply at her, but she
was merely talking at random.
"Well, you see," he explained, lone
can do so little without the requisite
plant This sort of ore requires a
crushing-mill. a smelling furnace. per-
haps big tanks filled with cyanide of
potassium
"And, of course. although you can do
wonders. you cannot provide all those
things, can yOu?"
jerks deemed this query to be I'M
answerable.
They were busy again until night
fell. Sitting down for little while be-
fore retiring to rest, they discussed,
for the hundredth time, the probabili