The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-18
CHAPTER v.
Voices of the Past.

Voices of the Past.
1t rained hard during most of tn
night. The woman slept lightly an,
whenever she woke she could hea
outside of her sanctuary the roar o.
the storm. The man. as usual. slep
the long hours through as undisturbcC
by the commotion as a child. 1t wa:
apparent to her that he had absolutely
no fear. Whether this WAS due TO ig
norance or temperament she could
not say. Was fear. after all, under the
conditions in which his life had been
lived a purely artificial quality. or was
it natural and inherent? He had
avoidances, abhorrences, antipathies
as the skeletons in the coppice which
she had buried. Was that avoidance
fear or was it something else? Was
il instinct or did it arise from recol.
lection7 She rather fancied the last.
If SO, it was evident that the man had
been on the island n long time. 1t
would have taken years for the metal
that must have been about the wo.
man s person to rust away, for the steel
clasps of the dogs collar entirely to
disappear.
Upon that faint memory that he
cherished, upon that prayer that he
prayed, she could build the foundation
Of his education. She had been so sue
ing him. in influencing him and sway
ing him so far that she had abundant
confidence in her ability 10 do so
TO the end. i was quite evident that
life would be easily supported under the
conditions in which il must be lived
on that island. She need have no
physical concern as 10 her material
well being or comfort and here was
mental education and stimulus which
l. +pn
the rest of the world.
Indeed, she thought bitterly, as she
lay awake during the long watches
OF the night, that the rest of the world
was nothing to her and that she hated
it. She, therefore, not only was be
coming resigned TO her station, but
was rejoicing in it. She would teach
this man all she knew. She would
teach him to think, TO reflect, to rea-
Since she had a book, albeit sorry
one. she would teach him to read.
1t was evident that the island was |
an unknown one. At least no one
could have landed upon it from any |
passing ship since this man had come |
there. No one could have sailed near |
enough TO it to have espied him. She |
that on the Yacht she !
had sought her lonely and untre-
uuepted seas and had gained her wish;
fhe most unhappy people IN the world
usually are those TO whom wishes are
granted. She had Just escaped that
because of the presence
,f this man on the island. And yet
when she landed on that island, she
,ad escaped other things she thought |
infinitely more traught. with
horrible and revolving possibilities
han anything else that could occur TO
Ter or which she could imagine to be
leld in waiting for her by malign fate.
low had her philosophy broken down
before she reached that island. How
.bhorrent to think on had been her
,nlv attempt 10 put it in practice.
She would think of none of these
hings. She would put them out OF her
mind as they had gone of her sight.
She was lost to her world. 10 any world
With which she had been familiar. She
would create a new world Of her own,
e and she together Her thoughts
ook strange leaps forward IN the dark
ess. He would be hers. the product
Z her ability. She would teach him
he stopped. Would he teach her?
hat question came again and again.
ike Banouo s ghost it would not down.
he was woman and he 2 Tan. What
7ere the possibilities Of that situation'
he belonged TO the sex called the
yeaker, to the sex characterized by de-
endeuce She resented these things as
he ever had. and yet she could not blind
er eyes to the truth in them. Her
esentment against things which ought i,
OF to be could in no wise alter condi-
ions Physically this man was the
iost perfect of his species. She had an
rtist s eye for the symmetry and per
ection Of his proportions. II his brain
orresponded, what then? What would
G teach her? What did Adam teach
I'VE. and what did Eve teach Adam?
The names of the ancient myth. the
a que personalities associated with it :
rought back the book that lay upon :
be ledge by her side. She reached her :
and out in the darkness and laid it |
pom the volume. How strange that it
lone of all the literature that the
Iorld held should have been thrown at I
er feet. In her enlightenment, with s
er superior knowledge the book that ;
he disdained from its spiritual side,
Though she regarded it with certain '
mount Of interest rchaeologically. was i
II she had Of the world S writings Yet
he did not take her hand away from ,
hat book. Somehow, although She did 5
OF reason about il or understand il. /
ossibly even admit it in her heart Ger, !