The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13

mate men. lie recognized vcry early
IL the undertaking the futility of argu
ment, and though he tried finessc in
tho presence Of the wittiest, the clever
.st and most beautiful women Of Vir
sinia and elsewhere, for the two tray
| eled throughout the United States, vol
coined everywhere. his efforts were all
unavaiGng. There was more than one
woman who would have been glad 10
have accepted the man g suit whom. if
ho had woocd ever so slightly, he could
have won, but he was friendly with
cvery one and in love with none.
AT the end Of two years society gave
! him up as confirmed in his isolation and
! loneliness. He was not the less vel
come, but he was no longer n matri-
monial possibility. nor was he any more
the wonder that he had been. New
world presently took Charnock rs he
would fain have it take him, as mnt'
ter of course.
He did things slowly, not because
that was his nature, but from an in
vinciblc determination TO do things
right. He made his plans deliberately
and had formulated an enterprise SO
comprehensive in It's scope, so vast IN
its outlay and with such infinite pos.
sibilitics of help TO the poor, the
wrctchcd, the down-trod den classes of
society, that when the foreshadowings
of it were announced. people stood
amazed. An undertaking so great was
not within the power even of Char
mock. His resources were utterly un'
equal TO ii, but he had enough TO make
n magnificent beginning. and by dc.
estate, and the estate itself after he
died, gradually the enterprise would be
achieved.
There was no necessity for secrecy
about it. Indeed, with that simplicity
and candor so unsual and so unconven-
tloual, which touch with the world had
never been able TO alter, he had spok.
en- of his plans without reserve and
he had declared with equal frankness
that what he was doing was in memory
of the uoblest and the truest Of women
TO whom he owed it, that be was hu-
man being and not an animal.
Whitaker. Of whose judgement he
thought highly and with desert. was
called from the naval service to be the
executive head of the great undertak,
ing. The spiritual work was TO be placed
in the hands of the chaplain who had
so endeared himself TO the promoter
and deviser of it all. ChaTnock real
lied that these men who had known
( Katherine Brenton would enter more
sympathetically into his views and
could be depended upon TO carry them
out in case anything happened 10 hlm.
He and his uncle and one or two others
of excellent Judgment whom he had met.
were associated with the two mentioned
to carry out all the founders plans.
Now, this thing was not done In
| corner Tho news Of 1T was carried
over the United States and spread even
to foreign lands. The world read 1t
and marvelcd again. \ newspaper car
rving an account Of it fell under the
| r l.. ,V Sun
who had lust returned from long yoy-
age in northern seas. The name g Char
mock caught his eye first; and then
! Ianpford saw the name Of the woman
he loved. He read with aViditr. appre-
ciatinp az none could better do than
he from his trained business acumen,
the scope and vet the feasibility OF tho
undertaking He had wondered Gym
callv what would be the career OF the
man in the United States lie knew
the value. as did every business man,
especially every man with large trans
nortation interests like his, OF the Char,
mock estate. He would have wagered
| that Charnock would lose his head as
niuct nine men out OF hundred Wonla
have done. and that intoxicated by inc
sudden touch Of the material world
which was at his feet. he would have
conc the usual pace; and he would nave
won his wager had il not been Tor the
immortal memory of the woman theY
both loved. he felt bitterly enough. lie
had not followed Charnock s career.
Committing his own large business
interests to those upon whose ludg-
ment and integrity he could rely nc
in tho Southern Cross, seeking pY
change to drown his own sorrow,
which was rs deep as, even deeper
| than. Cbarnock's because he knew
tbaf the woman he loved lived. lie
had TO face the possibility that at any
time others might know that fact and
that Charnoci among the rest would
learn it, and then IL was tnat
! Thought that drove him on, 1T was that
thought that broke him down, lie was
sick man, almost dying man, as
he steamed through the Golden Gate
and landed from the Yacht that spring
morning. He did not care, he had
nothing for which to live. His love
for the woman had grown and grown
until ii had possessed him and trans,
formed him. His expiatlon was indeed
fearful one, for there was no end TO
! il but his death, and he felt that would
! be welcome.
He had to set his affairs in order
or he would have stayed at sea and
let his life 90 out there directing that
his BODY should be sunk in the great
waters which washed the distant
shores where her foot trod, Indeed,
when he was on the Pacific, he seemed
somehow to be in touch with her "A
hundred times the order to steer
southwark 10 that gcmlike island had
trembled upon his lips. but he had
held it back. He knew what that
woman was; that her "Yea, yea and
her "Nay nay could not be changed
by any power that he could WELD, and
so he had stayed away. And now he
came back to San Francisco sick
man and about to die.
He sat alone in his Office in the great
building and pondered over tho ac-
count in the paper. He had been mis-
taken in the man. He was really worth
while He had amounted to some
thing. He was worthy of the woman.
IF he had not sworn an oath. given
his word.--iIe besitatcd, smiling bit
icrly. The woman alone could release