The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

made him had sent him forth among
his fellows. She had sacrificed her,
self, buried herself alive for him. She
/ felt ms mother might who expert
cnces birth pangs and knows that
with every throb of tearing anguish her
own life GIBBS away, passes into the
new life which she ushers into the
world and gives to men.
She had long hours for thought in
those. two days in that cave whose
mouth the waters hid She had
schoolcd herself to face light and life
without him when she emerged from
her cunning hiding place, She had
waited the long period in order to make
absolutely certain that they would be
gone And yet despite herself little
CLEAN of hope, a bare possibility that
he might be there still, had fingered in
her soul and leavened the awfulness of
her grief, Now it was gone, 1t had
sunk beneath the horizon even rs the
ships had disappeared. She had been
bitter against him. Her soul had re-
volted because he had failed. She had
told herself that be was not worthy of
her, She forgot these things in that
profound and desolate moment. She
knew only that she loved him. When she
could think of other things than he.
the mere bodily presence of the man,
me look of hIm. the sound Of his voice,
the pressure Of his lips, the clasp Of his
arms, she began to realize that as he
grew older, unless she was so abso.
lutely mistaken in him as to make all
estimate of him a mockery, he would
realize the falsity of his view, the lit.
tleness of his action, and If he were IN
truth the man whom she could rightly
love, his years would be one long re-
gret that he had failed. What would
happen when he realized that. wheH
he came TO the knowledge that she was
indeed all that she had seemed and that
he had been nothing that he should? She
knew. as she had written, that the man
would never. could never. forget her;
that wherever he went and whatever he
did, she would be present with him
that She had stamped herself too in
dehbly upon his heart for any attrition
with humanity. however close and per
sistent. To erase the image, He would
come back perhaps,
go God! - she knclt down and
stretched out her arms, "bring him
back, she prayed-a few short brol.
er words, lacking the eloquence of
long and studied petition, the appeal
OF the heart every throb of which is
prayer" bring him back to mol"
She thought that she would have
had HIM back on any terms. She said
that she had been mad, a fool, not to
have taken him. not 10 have gone to
him, not TO have married him in any
way. with any conditions, with any
circumstances. All her thoughts were
merged in one great passionate long
ing to be with him.
For the first time in her life the
pangs of jealousy tore her breast. She
thought Of him in the world with other
men, with other women, young, hand,
some, perfect godlike form and face
of man. rich, the widest romance with
its charm and mystery to attract, His
story could not be hid, neither could
hers, The man would be courtcd
sought after, made much over. beloved.
II would be enough TO turn the head
Of saint. How would he stand it 4?
Would The recollection Of her make
him strong7 Would that God in whom
he and she both had trusted until the
crisis came. lead him in the straight
path? Would her purity, her sweet
ness-stopl would he think her thus
lowered and possessed' Not now Ger.
tninly, but every hour that took him
farther from her would add TO his
knowledge and would tell him the truth
and these would help him.
Another thought came into her mind.
His story would be known and hers as
we'll The world was filled with ad-
yenturous mon Would NOT some Of