The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-30
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
THE LAND OF REGENERATION
Copyright. 1909. by w. c. Chanman1
Copyright In Great Brittany

tho world would sec no possibility of
sweetness and light in her; that its
mockcry and scorn would be hurled
upon her; that its cry would be Away
with heri'
But she had believed that he would
be different; that he would see that
she had been sinned against rather than
SHINING; that she had been led astray
by false philosophy for which In large
measure her training and heredity had
been responsible; that the step She had
taken involved no moral turpitude and
made him. she and God together. in
him she believed. She had spoken of
a test, but in last analysis she would
have taken him without the test, con
| fldcnt IN his love and in his acquittal
of her if her cause should ever be plead
before the bar of his judgment
He and the world, the one 10 sus:
! believed, and in both instances she had
i been grievously mistaken. If Whit
takcr and his men represented the voice
| of the world-and there was no reason
why she should believe that they did
not--thc world would withhold denun-
citation; it would extend pity. Pity was
not particularly agreeable TO a proud
woman such as she was, but at least
1T was not bitter censure and scorn,
which was. after all. what She had re-
ceivcd from the man in whom She
trusted
She did not make any allowance for
the man at that moment, 1t might have
been thought strange that she had de-
veloped such a deep, pervading passion
for him. She had loved not merely his
actualltics, but his potentialities, which.
with prescient eye, she had OWNED.
She knew, or thought she knew. of
what this man was capable. And now,
In the first moment of trial, he had
shown himself unworthy, 1t is true he
still wanted to marry her; he was still
willing to do so, But as she had re-
fused Langford g offer. which ninety
nine women in hundred in her position
would have jumped at, because she
would not give a man her hand where
her heart did not go; she could not,
as she said see that that which she
would regard as crime could make any
thing else that had transpired right.
Neither would she accept anything from
her island companion which did not
carry his whole heart, She would be
nothing TO the one man unless She loved
him, and the other man should be moth
ing to her unless she seemed to him the
supremest thing in this world.
She had had many hours to herself
in that long island sojourn, and the
sweetest thought that had come to her
had been the relationship in which she
stood to this man, She had gloried in
the position in which he Ind placed
her She bad stood at ease and happy
throned her. And now TO be toppled
over 10 be thrown at his feet as it were,
TO receive the charity of his considcra
tlon rather than tho uprush of his adora.
tion-shc could not stand it,
Her crushing disappointment at his
failure TO rise to the measure of her
ideal of him, the total end Of her dream
of happiness. the breaking of all her
hopes, the closing Of all her ambitions, |
strings whelmed her in agony. She |
had thought that never could humau-
tY experience moro than the pain su-
perinduced by the horror Of her posi- |
tion upon the ship, but that pain to |
the present was like "A caress For to !
all that old horror was added new |
sense Of loss, of disappointment and
despair, She had not loved before;
now she did. and the sorrow and an
guish were measured by the depth and
power of her passion. The period on
The yacht had been an episode This
was life, eternal life or death, she
thought. And it shows the power of |
The episode that it had coIored and
would color-was it darkly o-all the
future.
That Christian philosophy which she
nad fondly believed she had acquired,
md in whch-O fatal crror,-she had
somehow taken pride, fell from her
Ike every other quality, good or bad.
hat is developed alone 1t had lacked
exercise She, too. had submitted 10
10 tests since she had como to the
sland. She had surmounted no temp.
ations, She had tonight no battles.
She had not become veteran by con
!uest- She had not perfected her OF.
'cnsive and defensive weapons by 4
cries of smaller conflicts which would
.lvc her confidence and courage to
ight the great and final battle. Like
elijah Of old, dismavcd, disheartcncd
broken, she prayed that she might die
here on the sands.