The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25

whether that confidence were warranted
or not because of him. Suppose he
should come III touch with the world
what would happen! Was he. too. ca
PaDIe OF breaking a woman S heart
Would he do it! Was hers the heart
! What would the soiling touch OF the sor-
did conditions under which life was
lived. as she had known it. do for him
Would he still be unspotted2 Would he
! think her the same! She had taught
! hum many things. But how should he
learn 10 fight temptations, temptations
with which he had no experience, which
never came to him, she fondly dreamed.
Yet she had confidence in him. She
| had confidence in God, and we cannot
have confidence in God without some
confidence in man. The converse, too,
! Is true. Therefore she believed. She
was confident that he would rise SUI
! premc IN the face of every test. She
wondered il the test would ever be ap-
| piled TO him, if she would he there TO
see She found herself praying for
Affirmation in both matters. Her be-
! lief in him would only be belief
founded upon hope until ne had been
tried There was a doubt about him
that must be resolved; she must re-
solve IL. She could never he satisfied.
in spite of her belief, until she had
done so. The very fact that she
, thought so kccnly upon the subject;
| that she was so interested and en-
crossed in the situation. was evidence
10 her that she cared more for the
man than she had dreamed il possible
Indeed, how could ii be otherwise
The primal instinct Of humanity by
and through which the race persists,
is 10 mate, and love is the motive of
the mating if it is to be real and ac-
tual and holy. ANY woman under such
circumstances might be expected to
draw toward any man; the much more
she to such man as he.
And so in her hours to herself she
dreamed Of hlm and Of some future
and of that great test some day to be
made. Alas, 1T was rushing toward
them with swiftncss beyond imagi~
nation of which she had not the faint
est idea. She had often thought that
ever; that there they might live and
die. And she had had, too, deeper.
stranger thoughts as to what might
be IN that contingency. Should they
live forever apart! Could there be no
marriage between them in thc sight
of heaven? Was life and all that it
held for men and women TO be for
ever denied? What would keep them
apart' And yet she had tramplcd
upon convention once with frightful
consequences, Because of that she
could not do it again. She was NOT
free. but fettcrcd by her past. She
would sit. not calmly but Of herself,
and arrange the future and her destiny,
forgetfnl Of the fact that she was no
longer the sole factor of determine
ton. She no longer thought much
about the yacht and the other man,
and yet she had wondered at first why
no search had been made for her. But
as the days and weeks and months sped
away and she remained uDdisturbed
in her ncw-found Elysium, she had
come to regard it as an accepted thing
that she had dropped out Of existence
and had been forgot. And so she loved
and hoped and dreamed
And what of him! For once her in.
tuition failed her. She wanted To see
blm tested and tried; she wanted to
see him tempted and triumph, but
he was all of that in those very hours
IN which she fancied him so unthink-
ing. 1t never occurred TO her that he
might entertain an earthly passion for |
her. She still, from ancient habit. be- |
llcved herself so far above him that !
such an ambition would have been lit !
tie less than sacrllege 10 him. She |
lullcd herself to sleep with that idea. |.
She believed she knew, of course. |
that all that was needed was sug. |
gestion from her, To love is the lot |
of man. This man had seen no other |
than her. If she said the word, 1t !
would be accomplished. She held !
the only key 10 his heart; her hand !
could unlock If on The instant. She !
forgot the master key and the Master |
Hand.
He had controlled that strange |
trembling that used TO take him when
ever he touched her. but she could |
feel his pulse beat and throb when by |
chance there was any contact even |
times he had asked her strange qucs-
tions which she had put by, aud some
times she caught him looking at her in
strange ways that sent the blood to
her skin. and sometimes turned her
pale. Yet she lived in the fool s Para.
disc. She did not awake TO the posi-
bilitics of that which she had made
him because her apprehension of him
had not kept pace with his apprehen-
sion Of her. To her he was still in
some degree the creature that lie had
been. and sometimes she thought upon
her growing love for him with feel
ing of shame, as If il were condc-
sccnslon. "A derogatiou.
She did not know what blood was
caping in the Veins Of the man and
how he taught himself, because she
had instillcd in him honor and de-
ccncy and ChristIike sclf-control, 10
rcprcss these things. She did not
know how much faster he had learned
certain things than she had intended.
She did not know how instinctively
he had lcapcd TO conclusions which
she imagined were still latent in his
mind. This was good man, this
was an honest man. this was gentle
man, this WAS Christian man. There
was no question about his faith. It
was as simple and abiding as it was
sincere. The early Christians who
had been brought in personal touch
with the Master and His mon were
not more faithful, acceptaut and de.
voted. Yet this was a very human
man in spite Of all these things, man
IF splendid vigor and health, with all
mans impulses, hopes, dreams and
aspirations. And he loved her.
He. too. sat upon the white sands