The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-16
THE ISL AND OF REGENERATION

lie had no experience by aud Ihrousl
which to cmbody her vague hints inc
something real and tangible. He knew
that he was terribly grievcd, and but
that he had no way To describe tho
| pain of jealousy, he would have said
that he was racking with that unhappy
emotion,
"Tell me nothing" he repeated
again. ''if it greves you.
care You afraid OF the test?' she
asked, swiftly.
~ am afraid of nothing, except los
Ing, you:' ., ,.o,, ), n,.,,ru =,
the woman, ''as | told you. but if you
will still have me. if you will take me
| when / have said what ] must say,
and when the world has said what it
! will say. then | shall be yours as long
as / live.
sit is we'll. said the man. ''f wait
the ship now eagerly that ! may show
you that what | have said is true,
"Thc vessel is neaiCI now, she SAID
ut last rising from where they had hccn
seated together upon the grass absorbed
in each other, and pointing seawar5
Yes, he answered. II eau even
see figures unon the deck.
Your brother mn
"Wiil there be scms women on the
ship? ;.
quickly, cit isn't likely. Do you
wish to see other womcn?'
"None,' was the instant answer.
81 wondered If my brothers would
bring you sisters. That was all. -
There was absolutely no dissimula.
ton about the man. There had been
no coquetry about her. lie would
simply have failed entirely to under
stand what IT. was. lie was as honest.
as straightforward, as absolute sim
plicity and sincerity must ever be and
Sic had mey him exactly on his own
grand. il w"s unpossib'e, therefore.
for her to missapprehend his mere cas-.
ual interest
She stood quietly studying the ap-
preaching vessel As she did so, it
came TO her mind that there was some
thing strangely familiar about the
oncoming ship. She stared longer. and
the conviction grew upon her. When
her heart with sudden gasp and turned
a white face upon him. He was all
soicitude in an instant.
"What is the matter!' he cried.
. Your face Is white; you look so
strangely
"It is a sudden PAIN she gasped,
terror and dismay constructing her
throat.
She waycred. He thought she was
and pnt his arm about her
:" No, mol she said. repulsing.
1t was the first command she had
given him in those bygonc days when
he had stood dumbly before her.
No, no" " she pushed him away. 81
shall be all right
And has the approach of men de-
Prived me of the privilege of touch
ing you:1 he asked, wistfully. "What
is the matter?'
Dou [ ask me now. she answered.
explain
The vessel was nearer now, and n
she sta, cd it came to a stop and SWING
broaGside 10 the reef. There was nc
mistallirg it. II was the Southern
Cross size knew it as well as she knew
her own face. The thing which she aa6
droaded so when she fed from that YES
sci in the launch, which she had dread
cd for a time in the first period OF
her soiouru on the island, had come to
pass. 1t was the very yacht from which
she had escaped. Undoubtedly it bore
the man from whom she had fed. He
had come TO claim her. OF all the
teeming millions which the world held
this was he whom she would fain have
avoided. Rather any one and every
one mad come TO her IMAM he! what
would happen when these men met :
The story that she would have told
him today in her own way had the
ship not appeared, the story that she
would have told him on her decks,
had that ship been other than it was.
he must now learn by the brutal force
Of circumstances, through some COM
pc!liug necessity which she could not
in any way influence or alter. She
loathcd tE MN WAC was coming to
aid her. Her Christianity trcmbled in
Tie balapce She would FAM fave called
:nvectIves down upon his head. and for
:he mcmcnt she swept tho whole sex
together IN cuc unreasoning hatred and
resentment IN wrtca the man Of the
islani participated. Wi,%' sorry Jest
Ia / blind f. TlSvcd uTc7. lcT.
She moved farther away from her
companion under the coustraint of
these thoughts, and when he would
have approached her nearer. she
flamed upon him in sudden anger that
left him appalled,. But under the in.
flucnce Of it he kept his distance, She
saw the way of the yacht checked She
saw the boat dropped from the davits
and manned by the men. She saw a
figure, too far off to recognize, but
which she OWNED must be his. de-
scend the battens from the gangway,