The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-14


going through to Berlin tomorrow; stay
here till then and travel with me
shall know you're out Of mischief
them"
Il should like it but-well, the fact Is
you see, I shan't be travelling alone
He laughed drily las bad as that,
eh?"
Yes, if you call it bad. don't"
Are your papers in order. Your pass
ports?"
I shook my head: My own is but
not the rest"
How do you want it worded?" he
asked with another grin.
"Oh, the usual way, whatever that is"
l said a little sheepishly.
Robert Anstruther and"
Laugh away. Can you help me2"
Give it me. Even / don't know how
man carries his .mother-in-iaw on his
own passport"
1t is bit awkward, but don't want
a hitch now"
Look here, boy. I'll stretch a point
for you. I'll go by way Of CTacow aud
will pick you up at Solden tomorrow.
I'm travelling special, and you shall all
go through in my saloon" and scarcely
waiting to listen to my thanks he hur-
secretary with me to make sure that
no difficulties were raised about my de-
parture.
At Solden l found Volna in a sleigh
waiting for me. Her face lighted aud
she welcomed me with a glad smile.
You wonder TO see me, but ] was so
anxious l could not stay at Kervatje,'
4 have very little news"
do you think it was only the news?'
What eles?"
"BObr
You're getting quite pat with that
name. now"
Peggy had to learn it, you see"
And VOlna?"
''Volna felt like rushing off to War
saw when that train was SO late,' she
replied earnestly.
4 like that answer. but there was no
cause for anxiety, I'm glad to say. Our
troubles are over. Tomorrow afternoon
we shall be in Craccw."
Il had a brother once who used to
say that" she said, with laugh and
glance.
Are you sorry you've lost him?"
She answered by slipping her hand
into my arm and Nesting a little closer
to me. We sat for a time in the SYM
pathetic silence Of mutual happiness
and perfect understanding, listening TO
the rhythmic music of the sleigh bells
as the three horses glided rapidly over
the snow.
Then 1 told her Of my old friends
promise to see US safely to CracOw in
his saloon.
will there be any one else there?"
Il don't know. Some of his staff,
| perhaps"
ct win be a little trying" she said,
with a show Of dismay.
"Why?"
"As if You didn't know. Think Of the
/ ordeal for me-"
you've faced much worse things
| bravely enough. Besides you won't be
/ alone. You'll have your"
! Bob" she interposed quickly, with
/ a lovely blush.
your mother with you. Mayn't 1
say that?"
you were not going to say that
What was 1 going to say?"
''VOlna has all Peggy's instincts, re-
member"
"Well, I challenge you to say what
you think I meant"
I'm not in a fighting mood to ac-
| cept challenges"
4 dare you to say it. then"
! Don't be a coward. Bob"
TN say it then. You'll have your
! Bob
ITS quite true. If you keep your
promise of two days ago. and Father
Ambrose does his duty tomorrow
shall be-
There's the way to Cracow. Do YOU
recognize it?" she cried quickly, as we
reached the forked roads of which
| Father Ambrose had told US.
That's the way a brother and sister
went, but this one tomorrow a man
and his"
How lucky we were not to have the
snow that time, weren't weY' she broke
in again.
That wasn't the real luck in my eyes.
Ny luck was when / lost my sister and
found in her place my
She held up her hand. laughing and
blushing vividly. IF you do, I'll"
Then ri wait until Father Ambrose
has said it,"
Il shan't mind then. Oh. Bob, won't
II be lovelyi" and she laughed and
| squeezed my arm, and pressed her head
against my shoulder.
( All Of which no doubt sounds very
much like fOolishness. It goes to show
that We were very young, Of course
very really in love. and very happy
after our strenuous time. AS happy, in
! deed, as any Two young people could
| wish to be who were to be made man
and wife within a few hours. In those
hours a deal Of happiness is just so
much fOOlishness.
In one thing VOina was wrong. 10
was no ordeal that awaited her on the
Journey with the general 10 CracOw.
At her first glance ne fell before her
and b. the time we reacher Cracow he
was almost as much I'm love with her as
I was
Dun the journey he showed such
tact. Too He devoted most oS his time
20 Volna's mother: and having told hcl
ne had learnt that Katinlka and Pau
had left Warsaw and gone to Vienna
he kept her talking most Of the time ir
one corner of the saloon, while VOlna
and were alone IN another.
When we parted at Cracow be tOok
Volna's two hands and pressed them
and smiled as he said tenderly, and
very earnestly: Il can understand Boil
now that I've seen you. You were Just
made to be loved as ! know he loves
you my dear.
And to me- drawing me aside. Il tod
you yesterday your luck wouldn't last
boy. I take that back. / pray God II
may: and that you may always b,
worthy of it, Goodbye. boy.
CThc Enid
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