The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-18
THE ISLAND OF REGENERATION

hanJs. She could hear him outside
chuciljnp to himself and by the cllnk
OF bottle and glass evidently drinking
doeTer She feared him desperately
whca he was IN his cups. Thrn ne
was another man, losing all resemblance
to the being for whom she had fatu-
ously thought she cared Therefore
She would wait until he drank him.
self into insensibility as he had once
or twice. or went ZIP on deck, and then
she would 90 out and go to her own
cabin. although it would merely mean
changing from one prison to another.
What could she do by temporizlng any
way, tcmporizing and warding off as
best she might until she was face TO
compliance. freedom in the beyond
whose existence was so vague and in
definite 10 her, or a slavery so base that
ANYTHING were preferable TO 1t?
AS She sat, her eyes fell on a chest
Of drawers screwed against the bulk
head. The top contained various toilet
articles of silver. Among them was
picture. the picture of woman 1t
was not her picture. Moved by what
impulse she did not stop to analyze,
she rose and picked il up. The face
she looked at was nen'ably vulgar and
common. Across the bottom was writ
ten in a scrawly uniformed hand, "Your
devoted wife, There was date sew
eral years before that hour. Your de-
voted wife! She had been in that
statcroom before, she had never seen
that picture He had only brought it
out since the rupture between them.
And so while entering into this re-
laiionship with her, in compliance
with principles and ideas which she
at least regarded as sacred and holy,
he had not been a free man! There
was another woman to whom he had
been bound. On. not by the marriage
tic that she dsdained, but by the
honor which was supposed to exist
should exist among philosophers. And
such woman! A cold fury filed her
mind as she looked at. the picture.
The last completing touch had been
piyen. To contempt and pity for him
was added hatred. The combination
transformed her. Instead of avoiding,
she would seek him.
He was still in the cabin. She could
hear him muttcring thickly TO himself.
turned the key in the lock, threw it
open and entered tho brilliantly
lighted luxurious cabin. He had dis
missed the attendants some time since
with orders not 10 reappear unless he
summoned them. and they were alone.
There was no likelihood of any inter.
ruptiop whatsoever. The man, who was
leaning back in hls chair. bent forward
when She opened the door. He laughed
yiciously. If she had reflected, she
wonId have marvclcd at the change that
few weeks had wrought in one whom
she had hitherto deemed worthy of her
affection. but she had eyes and thought
for nothing except the business lii
hand
$50 YOU We come out, have you7" he
stammercd triumphantly. "Come of
your own free will, You We found out,
have you, that | am master and YOU
are coming TO heed?'
He whistlcd TO her dcrisively, whis-
tied as il TO n dog.
"'Who is this?" asked the woman
! in a voice carefully suppressed, yet
which shook with wrath.
She held the photograph in its heavy
silver frame up before him.
"That's my wife, ne said cquably,
with no surprise or CONSERVATION. ''Wo
| haven Il lived together for some years, -