The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
Copyright 1909 by w, G.. Chapman)
Copyright In Great Britain.)

growing more keen and moro poignant
as the period Of bereavement length
ened and which spranG from con
sciouSness OF impcrfections and failures
for which no after achievement could
atone.
In some circumstances there is com
fort in dcathless memory, III the
recollection of Il presence that has
passed. There is solacc in the dream
touch of the vanished hand, in the
heart echo Of the voice that IS stilIed,
II, when the hand was warm and the
voice thrilled in the hollow of the ear,
nothing was done which could impair
tho sweetness and the purity of the
remembrance aGterward. But this man
had slain the thing he loved Guilt,
| rs of murderer, was upon his soul.
He could not throw it off.
Had he been less a man. he would
have sought oblivion by following the
path to death upon which he fancied
she had shown the way. When he
came TO his senses in the cabin Of the
| ship, weak, worn. wasted as one VINO
had gone through the very valley and
shadow of death itself and they had
told him, IN answer 10 hls eager qucs,
tions, the truth which he had OWNED
ere he had been stricken down, has
first conscious resolution was TO live
worthy of her remembrance. lie had
| failed awfnlly once and before he could
| make amends she had vanished. but
somewhere beyond the stars he be.
licvcd she knew his present purpose.
Unless men S hopes for the future
were all dream, unless their desires
and aspirations were like the baseless
fabric Of every other vision, he knew
that she would know. He would show
10 her and for her memory s sake that
he could he man. To die would
have been far better for him, but he
would live on, live on for her. He
would do things III the world and
couple her name with them. Men
should know what she had been
through him, he would cause her to be
remembered, and some day when he
had worked out his punishment, how
soever long it should please God TO
require it of him, he would be worthy
of her in that high place to which she
had gone.
1t was that, and that alone, which
! enabled him to endure the conscious
ness that he had killed her. the good
being he loved, the sweet being he
adored, the pure being whom he would
fain have cherished-too late, He
lashed himself with that thought as the
devotees of old scouraged their bodies
until the blood ran in some effort
thus TO purify their souls. AS it were
he wore next to his skin the hair shirt
of the ancient martyr allowing it to
chafe his very vitals. And yet he
lived to accomplish his purpose.
It had not been difficult TO establish
his rights. Whitaker and the chap.
lain. armed with the depositions had
taken the man across the continent
when the ship had been put ont of
commission at San Francisco, and pre-
sented him TO his uncle, the CharnocR
IN residence in that great house on the
| Nansemond shore that overlooked the
estuary of the James by Hampton
Roads The old man. childless and
alone. had welcomed him gladly. The
newcomer was of the Charnock blood
1t was strange moment for the is
lander when they took him into the
! great drawing room and showed him
the pictures of his father and Of his
mother. He was the living image of
the man, tempered with some of the
| likencss--indeed he was not unlike
his uncle as wcll-coupled with the
material proofs. the ring. the Bible.
the evidence of tho ship, together with
what was known. removed every linger.
ing doubt from the minds of those most
concerned
The family was reduced 10 those
two. tho uncle and the nephew. The
! old man formally and legally rccop.
nizcd the relationship and offered 10
| transfer the property rightfulv his,
which since tho discovery of coal had
increased enormously in value, to the
newcomer. but Charnock would have
none Of it then. He recognized his
unitness to deal with such things Tf
the older man would retain 1t, he could
give 1T to him at his death Mean
while no could teach and train him
| how to use 1t. Bercft Of his one guide.
his one inspiration in life. he would
need wise counsel and careful leading
indeed
In addition TO the formal recognition.
the older man legally adopted the
younger and constituted him the heir TO
ms own property. which was almost as
extensive and as valuable as that
| which rightly belonged 10 thc nepbew.
And then these formalities being com
! pieted, the lieutenant-commande and
| the chaplain summoned elsewhere by
their duties, bade the two farewell and
left them.
Charnock could not have fallen into
better hands Education was his first
requirement, and he applied himself
10 IT. with n fierce energy and a grim
determinations which presently, from
INC, splendid foundation which had been
land. enabled him to progress sufficient
ly. to take his place and hold his own
with men and women, II was imposs-
Die 10 Keep secret forever the details
OF such story as his, especially when
it was linked with a name so famous
and still remembered as that of kath-
erIne Brenton, and it had been decided
by Captain Ashley and Whitaker md
the man himself that such portions OF
1T as would suffice TO explain his own
presence and her fate should bo given
TO the world. Upon the foundation thus
lnlfordcd romance builded Charnock
immediately became Il marked man He
would have been n marked man in any
event from the financial power that he
possessed His uncle 5 management had
been wise and prudent. he had spent
little and had saved much. so thar
Nbarnock found himself the possrssor
of vast riches in the form Of available
capital.
Among the first things he learned
WAS the power OF money. Had he not
been stondied by the memory of the
woman, he would probably have learned
; IT TO his sorrow. As it was, be was
almost miserly, He spent little upon
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