The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

"No! No!1' she whispered. look o
terror coming into her face.
eyes, he said. Through YOU
know God, through YOU | know woman
You arc sacred 10 me. Never again
unless YOU give me leave, will / press
my lips to yours: never again, unless
you say ! may. Will | take you in my
arms; never again will I even touch
vour hand. Indeed. indeed ! cannot
do these things. And yet ! will love
YOU in ways of which you cannot dream
so long as | can draw the breath ot
life,
He rose 10 his feet as he spoke and
turned away from her and stood with
claspcd hands and bowed shoulders
In one moment the whole course of
their lives had changed. II had taken
an earthquake shock to do il, but so
terrific had been the submerged fires
| of mutual passions that a whisper op.
! portunely uttered would have effected
! the same revolution. She sat and
watched him, wondering what would
bc the end of il, She knew at Ia
what love was. not the pale philo-
sophie emotion she had experienced
in the cabin Of that Yacht. God. how
| she hated that recollection How she
| wished that it had never been. If un.
touched by man she could have been
cast upon that island Ia he given TO
this man who looked upon her as 4
goddess. She had told him somo Of
her history, but not Tho part which
was vital, II had been easy not 10
enIightcn him wholly ms to that, lie
knew nothing about conditions, He
had never seen a ship or boat within
his recollection and the story she had
settled upon and told him was one
that received instant acceptance from,
HIM. Indeed there was nothing that
she had told him. or could have told
him, that he would not implicitly have
accepted and believed. The king could
do no wrong. She was incarnatc truth.
And she would have 10 toll him all
now. She would have to put into thar
pure soul alive with passionate devo-
ton. admiration. respect. every feel
ing that can make up the sum of mighty
love, tins story Of OWL and shame.
There was no help for it. She would
have to tell him
Bu, she could not tell him now. not
on tins day. She would have few
perfect hours, She would stand for a
nttle whllc within the wales of Eden.
She would look for n little time
through the gates Of heaven, Tomor-
row; Today she would have and she
would ENJOY it. to the full She rose
softly to her feet as well and stenncd
closer to him. She laid her hand upon
his shoulder. She could see the mus
Gcles in his arms tighten as he clenchcd
ms hanuS the harder. She turned him
gently about and lifted her perfect lips
10 his. She kissed him again. Her
hand sought his; her fingers parted
his iron grasp. She drew his arm
about her and nestled against him.
II trust you, she said, ''as | love
you, ] shall be safe with YOU. You
shall npl 1rDp.
isolation; You have waited long for
kisses like this
And then the man spoke. The man in
him. ''" -
Woman he said, "yours resthe |
only lips that have been pressed upnn |
NINE, save perhaps my mothers as \
child Has any other man ever kissed
vou?'
She could not lie To him.
Don t ask me-, she said, the futile
The man had turned away with
groan. No happiness is unaloyed: no
Joy comes into our lives that some
pam does not dog its footsteps With
love came jealousy before the flood
50 At least, she said. pressing closer
to him, and he did not repulse her. ''I
have loved no man but You. -
nOh! he sand, taking her once more
, ''n'h MS atHls, lHat i might know
tor one moment what is out there. how
YOU have lived, who saw You, who fol-
owed You, who loved you'll
shall tell you said the woman.
- But YOU have told me-
" Not all. -
When the rest then9''
Tomorrow. Meanwhile let us en-
oy the day''-the old, old human
}rayer, let us enjoy the day despite
ne morrow let it suffice that | 1--we
iou; that ] never loved anyone else:
hat no kisses like yours have ever
?ecn n pressed upon my lips, no I be
leNe not upon the lips of mortal
Woman Let MS pass the day in hap
>lness together. Come, we must
breakfast. We must see what the
'artbquake has done to our island We
lave things to think about, things
o do. -
. have nothing TO think about but
'on; nothing TO do but to love YOU. -
HAND IN hand, they stepped across
ne sand TO the shade of the trees.
oyal and noble couple. the splendid
"oman nobly planned, fit mate for the
,odlike man, children of God and Ma
ure,, both of them in loose tunics
which she had woven from the lono
oft grass. which left neck and arms
'are and fell to knee and were beltcd
n at the waist. Unhampered by any
y the dcbasing or degrading garments
II CIVILIZATION, they were a pair IN
Xcitc the admiration and envy of fbo
,ods.