The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25

which some day he must speak or die.
lie was not versed in the ways of
women. lie had no store Of knowl-
1 edge, no lesson of experience TO fall
back upon. He knew but one woman.
lie could not predicate from any petty
maxim, or from any ancient aphorism.
or from any wornont philosophy. what
she would or would not do under GER
tain conditions. Indeed. he only
thought that he loved her and he must
tell her or die in the concealment.
And so matters ran on aud on. Ii
needed but spark TO ignite the
powder, 1t would have seemed. and yet
vast eataclysm of nature only
brought abont the explosion. He had
never touched her except to take her
hand. Her person had been as in
violate TO him as If she had been n
star above his head. And she had
been careful under no circumstances
TO allow more than that. Their hands
bad clasped often. Indeed, with every
good night and ''good morning. -
the circuit of touch was made and
broken. but that was all. They usually
parted at night on the sands where she
had first been thrown ashore. He wonld
stand and watch her as she Clided
away from him in the darkness toward
the cave that was her home. She
had impressed upon him now she
trusted him, the absolute assurance,
the entire confidence that she had
between them and he womld have died
rather than have transgressed the law,
stepped over that imaginary barrier,
as potent as the circle of Richelicn
which Kept them apart
And yet she would never know what
horrible constraint he put upon
himself. How he stood with clenchcd
hands and quivcring body and stared
after her, long after she had gone She
would never know how that intensity
of longing grew and grew until some
times lie felt that he could not over
master il. She would never know how
he plunged away staggering through
the woods and threw himself down upon
the sands on his side Of the island dis
daining even the rude shelter of the
cave which was his home, and fought
1t out. Sometimes she saw evidences
of internal conflict iu his soul the next
morning. The calm serenity. the ndif~
ference, the animallikc satisfaction
with which he had faced life when she
first knew him had long since disap.
peared. There were deepening lines
upon his face which told of thought. of
struggle, and Of character thus dcvel-
opcd by these two potent factors in
shaping human destiny.
Anu hc cOuIu never KNOW Wn3t was
IN her mind, either. He never dreamed
that she could love him. She was so
far above him. so supreme in his eyes
that the possibility never occurred TO
HIM, If he had known for moment
how she thought of him, the great pas.
sion in both hearts would have over
leaped every obstacle and in a moment
he would havo had her in his arms.
Well, indeed. it is that the power to
read human hearts is reserved for the
mind which towers above human pas.
sionS because it Is divine.
And so these two while drawing TO-
gether as inevitably and as irrcsisti-
bly, as the tide comes in were still kept |
apart, Their feelings were in solution !
as it were. a prccipitant must be |
thrown into the atmosphere in which |
they moved and lived and had their be,
ing TO disclose them TO each other
On one certain balmy night, they
parted as usual. Was the hand clasp |
longer, was the glance with which he |
pcered at her under the moonlight more |
self revealing than usual? Did some
thing in his own breast call TO the sur
face that which beat around her heart7 |
At any rate, If was with a great effort
that she tore herself away at last and
for the first time in his life, although
She knew it not. he followed after her
with few noiselcss steps only to stop,
MS face white in the moonlight, drops
IF sweat beading his brow in the VIC.
cnce of his effort, Having transgrcssed
wen to that degree the law, he turned
instantly, without waiting, to watch
Ter disappear around the iutting craG
hat marked the little amphitbeater
where she slept, and went to his own
side of the island rcsolutely without
S hesitation or delay.
Continued next Sunday.)