The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-05
Continued from Pace 6.

CONTINUED from rage o.
jerks made her go to sleep. by pillow
ing her head against his shoulder and
smoothing her tangled tresses with his
hand. The wine, too. was helpful. In
few minutes her voice became
dreamy; soon she was sleeping like a
tired child
He managed 10 lay her on COM
Portable pile of ragged clothing and
then resumed his vigil. Mir Jan offered
TO mount guard beneath, but jerks
bade him go within the cave and re-
main there. for the dawn would soon
be upon them.
Left alone with his thoughts, he
wondered what the rising sun would
orlng in its train. He reviewed the
events of the last twenty-four hours
Iris and he-Miss Deane, Mr. jerks, to
each other-were then undiscovered in
their refuge, the Dyaks were gathered
around roaring fire in the valley, and
Mir Jan was keen in the hunt as the
keenest among them. Now, Iris was
his affianced bride, over twenty of the
enemy were killed and many wounded,
and Mir Jan, a devoted adherent, was
seated beside the skeleton in the gloom
OF the cavern.
What a tOpsy-turvy world il was, to
he sure! What alterations between
despair and hope, What rebound from
the gates of Death to the threshold of
Eden. How untrue, after all, was the
nebulous philosophy of Omar the Tent
maker. Surely in the happenings of
the bygone day there was more than
the purposeless
Magic ShadOw-shOw,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the
sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures
come and go"
He had, indeed. cause to be humbly
thankful Was there not one who
marked the fan of a sparrow. who
clothed the lilies, who knew the needs
of his creatures? There. in the solemn
temple of the night, he gave thanks
for the protection vouchsafed to Iris
and himself, and prayed that il might
be continued. He deplored the useless
DloOdshed, the horror of mangIed limbs
ana restoring bodies, that converted
lhls talr island into a reeking slaugh-
ter house Were il possible, by any
personal sacrifice, 10 divert the untu-
tored savages from their deadly quest.
he would gladly condone their mis-
deeds and endeavor TO assuage the tor
ments of the wounded.
But he was utterly helpless, a pawn
on that tiny chessboard where the
game was being played between civil
ization and barbarism The fight must
go on to the bite, d; he must either
Vanquish or be ,-nquished There
were other threads being woven into
Inc garment of his life at that moment
but he knew not of them Sufficient
Tor the day was the evil, and the good
thereof. or both he had received fun
measure.
period OF such reflection could
hardly pass without a speculative dive
fuf T-;s
rescued, what would happen when they
went forth once more into the busy
world? Not for one instant did he
doubt her faith. She was true as steel,
Knit to him now by bonds of triple
brass. But, what would Sir Arthur
Deane think of his daughters mar
riage to discredited and cashiered Of
hcerF What was it that poor Mir Jan
called himself?-''a disgraced man.
Yes, that was it. Could that stain be
removed? Mir Jan was doing it. Why
not he2-by other means. for his good
name rested on the word of a perjured /
woman Wealth was potent, but not
ail-poWerful. He would ask Iris to
wait until he came To her unsOiled by
SANDER, purged of this odium cast
upon him unmerited.
And all this goes to show that he. a
man wise beyond his fellows, had not
Vet learned the unWlSdOm of striving {
To lift the veil of tomorrow, behind /
whose mystic curtain what is to be |
ever jostles out of place what is hoped |
for.
Iris, smiling i'm her dreams. was as /
sailed by no torturing doubts Robert /
loved her-that was enough Love suf- /
fees for a woman. a man asks for 4
honor reputation, an unbIemished rec (
ord
To awake her he kissed her: he knew /
not, perchance it might be their last
kiss on earth. Not yet dawn, there /
was morning in the air. for the first I
faint shafts of light were not visible |
nom their eyre owing 10 its position /
But there was much 10 be done If the /
Dyaks carried out the plan described 4
by Mir Jan, he had "A good many prep
aratiOns To make
The canvas awning was rolled back |
and the stores built into a barricade
Intended 10 shelter Iris.
What is that for2" she asked when
she discovered its nature. He told her
She definitely refused TO avail herself {
of any such protection.