The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-13

telling thee tales of witchcraft Are
We not bound to each other by a tie
that could not be strengthened by
the friar nor broken by the faces of
they dreams? Think of the little child,
my Jesucita, and forget the dreams.
.'And if l should not like TO look
upon its little fair face, promise me. my
soul, that the fair one of my dreams
never shall have aught of mine, but all
you will keep for the little one
~ promise it, Jesucita Mai, and he
seals the promise with a kiss
Thaida paused in her recital and
Clarke spoke:
Follow the bracelet closely where it
touches the lives of those who have
handled it. What next do you seq"
Il see darkened room in which
many candies are burning. Upon a
bier of bamboo lies the body of a
young girl. The bracelet is on her
arm. BY her side lies the corpse of
newborn child. On Bonded knees a
man in khaki uniform sobs as only a
strong man can sob. Until the morn
ing he is shaken with his grief. A
distant bugle sounds. He rises and UNI
clasping from the pallid arm the brace
let he presses it to his lips and places
it within his blouse next his heart"
Again Thaida paused. while we sat
silent and breathless. but under
Clarke's gentle urging she began once
more.
Il see fair-haired girl in a beautiful
richly-furnished home. She is opening
box and from it she takes the brace
let She is speaking. l listen.
"'Oh, mamma she says. see what
Lieutenant Robinson has sent me- and
she holds the bracelet before the eyes
" 1T is beautiful, but I hope you will
not be as careless with it as you have
been with everything else he has sent
you says this woman
Again the cadenced voice stopped
and again Clarke gently commanded.
Il see the bracelet now upon the arm
of the young woman. She is alighting
from an automobile and as she puts
her hand out upon the tonneau door a
figure steps from out the darkness. II
is the native girl who once wore the
bracelet. No. that cannot be. She lay
dead in a white house in a tropical
moves, despite its fastenings, the brace
let from it's outstretched arm"
1.-THE bracelet, Thaida: follow it,"
Il next see 1t upon the arm of a
fair-haired girl. 1t is not the one who
is in the automobile. Wait, I know
her. | saw her today in this room. !
see her now in a dingy shop. She is
matching medaliions from a tray held
by cringing Japanese with those of
the bracelet. She finds one that is the
exact duplicate and she takes off the
bracelet and hands ii to the Japanese.
1t has left her. I can see no more
But how did she possess it. Thaida
Answer me-"
"I cannot see"
You must Thaida.'
"I cannot. Wake me, Carlton. ] am
tired unto death"
With look of disappointment
Clarke brought Thaida back to the
normal state and she lay back in her
chair and closed her eyes in complete
exhaustion. Clarke turned TO the
chief.
What do you think of it?" he asked.
Think of it," blurted Ship. What
is the use OF thinking? It's all rank
fol de rol, of course. but recover the
goods for Miss Atwell and I'll-well.
I'll concede nothing. but I'll take off
my hat to you. Now, how do you ex-
plain ali this?"
Professor Denton has given all the
explanation possible in his admirable