The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-13

viii have TO marry you; there will be
nothing else for her 10 do"
l heard no more until they passed
again.
she's too proud to think of making
an explanation" Dan was saying.
''and that snob. Gordon. is too proud
to ask for one II will work like a
charm and ] am the boy TO do it,
This was all / heard, for at this
juncture the secretary had unbosoned
himself TO the president and that great
official arose and came towards me.
followed him into the conservatory and
noticed that Lady Clare and Dan were
shaking hands as if upon some COM
pact. They glided out ahead of the
president and, in fact. do not think
they realized our presence, SO absorbed
were they in the plot which they were
sealing.
The affair broke up in a few minutes
and / saw the president safely within
the portals of the White House and
was free until morning. l went at once
to Montrose, where Gordon had his
apartments, and. an hour later, when
he came jauntily into the lobby, l
hailed him and told him that / had
something important to tell him. /
had thought the matter out fully and
decided that there was no way to pro-
1 knew that the plot of which I had
heard such scant fragments had 10 do
with her. l was in the dark as 10 its
details and knew no other direction in
which might End aid
l went up to Gordon's room. over a
bottle of excellent sherry. fo. l had
formed my besetting taste even then
and Gordon knew about il, I told him
of what l had heard and what l sus-
pected. He was an Englishnan and
as imperturbable as any of his race.
but he was greatly agitated by what I
said to him. We talked until nearly 3
O'Clock, when 1 left him. much dis
turbed and with as high d regard for
him as l can have for any man. He
was thoroughbred and 10 mistake.
He took me into his confidence fully
and told me that he had not yet spok-
en- of his love to Miss Maynard. This
] complicated matters, as, under the cir
eumstances. it was out of the question
to speak of the suspected plot to her.
He loved her. There was no installing
that, and he told me, with the cantor
of lover that while he sometimes
thought that she cared for him. he
was not sure Of his ground, and had
/ never been able to get his courage up
to the point of speaking to Ter about
/ it. / didn't tell him so, of course, but
1 was as sure that Miss Maynard cared
for him with all the ardor that her
sunny nature possessed as ! was that
the sun would come peeping up behind
the dome of the capitol the next morn
| ing.
| 1t was a peculiar situation. There
was mischief afoot; danger threatened
the young lady. but the nature of il
and when or how it was TO develop
was utterly unknown. Gordon had told
me something of the history of Lady
Glare, and while he was guarded in
what he said of her. 1 gathered enough
TO have my doubt of her fully con-
| firmed.
| / had suggested to Gordon that !
take the supreme justice, Miss May
nards step-father, into my confidence
but Gordon would not submit to il,
and l respected him the more for the
delicacy of his feeling on this point.
thought of trying to intercept a note
between Lady Clare and Dan Ham
mond, but, on reflection, | knew that
| the tigress, for so l had come tn call
her in my own mind. was too crafty
| to compromise herself by putting pen