The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13

'Don Z tell anyone that / am here.
Let no one ever come back unless the
promptings of his heart and the lead.
ing Of God should bring him to me-
els this your final, absolute de-
cision9'
"My final and absolute decision.
Nothing can alter it, nothing, abso-
lutely nothing
so, Kate!
"Don I. - said the woman. CIT is use
less and only breaks your heart and
wrings mine. Now, you must go. No
one has seen YOU from the yacht. This
cave is sheltered from where she lies.
No one need know that You have found
me. Indeed. | want you TO give me
your word of honor, TO swear it by all
that you hold sacred that YOU will never
| tell anyone. much less him, that you
came back and found me alive.
Iou set me hard task. - faltered
the man.
"Bnt | am sure continued the
woman, cit is not too hard for you 10
accomplish. Come. you havc said you
wanted to make amends. That is all
past now. forgotten and forgiven. but
| If You really would make me happy,
| You viii promise what / say. -
NAud what is that again?n
On your word Of honor as gen
| tleman. by all that you hold sacred.
Non VIII never mention 20 q human
soul that YOU found me here alive
"On my word. by all that | DO hold
sacred, by my love for Won, Kate,
viii not speak unless in some way you
give me leave. -
$50 help you Cod" said the woman,
solemnly.
$50 help me Godn' replied the man,
with equal gravity.
And now You must go.'
- have one request to make Of you.
Kate. before l GO" said Langford.
II can grant it, you may be as
1T is very easy. VIII YOU stay in
this cave for two hours2''
81 have no watch. - said the woman.
. but | will guess at the time as best
"Thon, " said the man. ego down to
the beach. The yacht will he gone
" Valentine. said the woman. "you
don Z mean to stay here on the island ~
u would stay gladly returned the
other, ''if / thought that ] were wei
come, but ! know that cannot be
Il VIII wait, said the woman.
Good -bycl -
She extended her hand 10 him. He
seized II in his own trembling grasp
and kissed IL. He remained a moment
with his lips pressed TO her hand and
she laid her other hand upon his Bonded
head. He heard her lips murmuring
words OF prayer. He released her hand.
stopped lower, laid something at her
feet, turned and reSolutely marched out
into the sunlight.
The woman lifted her hand. the hand
he bad kissed. 1t was wet with tears.
The man had left her with breaking
heart. She sat down upon the sand
20 think her thoughts during her two
hours wait. Her bare foot touched
something metallic. She bent over and
picked 1t up. it was his watch He
had placed il there. The simple kind
ness, the spontaneous generosity of the
little action moved her as had not all
his pleas. aud she mingled her own
tears with his upon her hand.
1t was long wait, and yet he had
given her much 10 occupy her mind
! His visit had saddeued her. but more
than that. il had gladdcnca her There
was comfort, and any woman would
have taken il, in the thought that
Langford had come back 10 her. There
was comfort, mingled with apprchcn-
sion, in tho thought that in the still
hours of tho morning her companion
had come ashore, she OWNED. to sue her
for forgiveness There was more com
fort in the thought that he had not left
her voluntarily. but had been taken
away helpless. i'll. There was most
comfort in he thought that his belief
that he had lost her had almost killed
him.
There was dismav and sick apprehcn-
sion in the thought that hc was i'll and
she was not there. And yet. despite
herself. little CLEAN Of hope Sprang
mp in her heart. He could not die. haV-
ing been so preserved for, 10, these
many years. Some fate had been
marked out for him. some Providence
would watch over hum. and some day
he would come back over the sea- She
had guarded against any outside influ
ence. She had Laugford S word. his
solemn oath that under no circum-
stances would he tell any one that she
WAS alive. least Of all the man Of all
others she would fain have known it,.
But he would come back. He could
not live without once more visiting
the island. and when he came back, he
would find her waiting for him.
She looked at the watch after n while
and found that more than two hours
had elapsed, nearly three. The latter
part Of the time had fed swiftly in
| thoughts of him. She was hungry and
! thirsty, too II was noon. She wont
out on the sands. The yacht was no
where to he seen. She could not have
gotten below the horizon. She OWNED
that he had sailed around the island
and away in that direction.
| There was n pile Of boxes and things
on The sand above the high water
mark. She stepped toward il and
opened one Of the sea chests. il was
| filled with books and papers. a strange
collection. He had ransacked the yacht
for her. Another chest contained pro-
visions with which she had long been
unfamiliar. There were toilet articles,
pieces of cloth. writing paper, pencils,
n heaping profusion Of all that he fan
cied she might need that might afford
some solacc and companionship to her
and alleviate the loneliness Of those
hours. In her heart she thanked him
and lifting up her hands. she blessed
him again. He had made life possible
and tolerablc to her She could write
she could read. she could sew And all
this while she could hope and dream
CHAPTER XIII
A Great PurDOgp