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

I'm Trappist. That means 1 can't
talk except when it is absolutely nee
essary."
Betty laughed again. She had a pref
/ ty, frank laugh, and the monk began
to take a relish in his adventure and
to admire his own cleverness in re-
tort.
Very well, III do the talking. Isn't
it nice party?"
You do the talking?"
'Oh, yes Well, it is a nice party.
And fun. It's curious how much more
you find out about people when you
don't know who they are than you do
when VOC do"
That Wrs my idea, exactly"
Our everyday faces are masks and
the regulations our friends give us are
masks. and behind them our real selves
may be as different as-as you are
from what you seem TO be. That's
why our own families are always MAX
ing such plumbers about US"
DO you think SOP" asked the monk
with interest. He was recalling instan-
COS wherein his immediate friends and
relatives had shown themselves incom-
prehensibly blind to his real merits
when the lady's next words startled
him.
DO you know anything about Ed
wards uncle, Judge GriffinP''
More or less he said guardedIy.
We'll, he is an instance in point. He
brought Edward up, and yet he under
stood him so little that he thought Ed
would give up the girl he loved if he
was told to, and he was so angry at
Eds Obstinacy in marrying against his
wishes that he has never spoken to any
Of us since-as though that were not
the best example of obstinacy."
What nonsense" said the monk,
with husky energy.
"Of course it was nonsense. He is a
dry-as-dust old lawyer. and he wanted
Ed to be his partner in the dry-as-dust-
mess as well as in the law, and never,
never go off to playhouse with a little
girl. And. what's worse, he particu-
larly disapproved of the particular lit
tie girl Ed chose" She laughed again
in the light-hearted way he had thought
rather pleasant a few minutes before.
He said Ed married into a frivolous
family"
We'll, didn't hep" demanded the
monk. For the life of him he couldn't
help IL.
He says we are extravaganza
And aren't you?"
Haven't a chance to be under pres
ent conditions. And he thinks We
flirt."
''Well-don't your"
And altogether he thinks we are not
fitted for poor mems wives"
well, are you? Candidly now. are
you?"
The court lady laughed She had
taken off her mask and was flaming
her flushed face with it. 1t was an
face with a dancing eve and
a resolute little chin.
I'm not sure l could give myself
the sort of an Endorsement that Judge
Griffin would demand" she said de-
Il like better TO laugh than
TO weep when I'm in a fix, so maybe
I'm frivolous. And l like 10 talk to
intelligent men-he would probably
think | was flirting this minute, And
if he knew we were having party, and
really dancing and drinking the festive
lemonade. he would probably feel that
his worst apprehensions we're realized.
It's lucky he doesn't know"
Il dare say there are many things
he doesn't know" remarked the monk
gloomily.
That's true" said Betty cheerfully. |
we ought TO remember that in extern |
uation. He probably doesn't realize at /
all that he is very selfish and OBJ |
stinate old man."
The monk surgled inarticulately.
No one would ever tell him that to |