The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-30

thread OF bitterness OF grier. or resent
, ment, of shame, that his auditors, a
/ ings, listened to him with amazemen
, and could scarcely realize or compre
: hend. He told the story Of tho tw,
lives up to the sighting of the ship up
, on the island, and then, his heart fail
, ing him, he turned TO Whitaker an,
bade him take up the relation,
II was n delicate matter of which t.
, speak, but the simplicity with which
, the first part Of the tale had been pre-
sented gave the officer his Glow. HI
was man of retentive memory, OF
quick apprehensive power. and with &
nice sense of discrimination, rare
man, indeed And he told the rest o1
the tale with subtle sympathy fol
the situation and the actors that en-
abled him so to present it to the inter
estcd little group of officers that he al
most made them see ii as it tranepired
"And what asked the captain
when the final word Ind been said. 6 do
YOU propose to do now, Mr. Charnock?
II was the first time that he had been
addressed and the man started. He had
heard Mr. Whittaker's words ms one in
dreadful scene on the sands. His
heart was lacerated and torn again.
He was blind to everything but the
past He saw her face dimly IN the
present. He could see nothing Of hap
piness in the future.
81 don It know, - he answered.
"But surely this has not made any
difference in your feelings7"
~ can't tell The difference is In
hor. not in me.
''Shc made frightful mistake,
said the captain, impressively, "but she
has nobly atoDed, and
"She s not what | thought she was, -
said the man, 'and 1 love her, love
her now not because, but in spite of
! what she is. and there is difference.
"Miss Brcntou." intcrposed Whit
taker at this juncture, "has settled the
! matter herself. She says that she will
have no man s pity, no man s contempt,
that no man shall marry her on suf-
ferance, and that
Right said the surgeon, who was
a man of very few words and generally
good ones.
"My young friend,n broke in the
chaplain, eff / might advise
But this" returned the islander,
with ferccness. els not 81 matter for
advice. / don't know the world or its
customs. But | take it that a man S
choice of a wife, a man. settlement of
his future is not a thing that he brooks
Come with me, " said the chaplain;
we will talk it over l have lived in
the world, - he went on, gently. "Per
haps ! can help you. Have we your
permission to WITHDRAW, Captain Ash
by7"
''Certainly,' said the captain.
Pardon me a moment, chaplain, in
terposed Whitaker; 'but the young
lady has asked that some of us go
ashore to take her deposition as TO the
matters that have peen alleged con-
cerning our friend here. Captain Ashby,
will you?,'
And if you will accompany me. doctor,
and you, chaplain, / shall be glad. Mr..
Whitaker, You are a notary public and
can administer the necessary oaths.'
VERY good, sir returned Mr. Whit !
taker. The other gentlemen bowed
their acquicscence. "The lady said she
would like to be updisturbed until
AT two bells in the second dog
watch then have the cutter called
away returned the captain.
Beg pardon, captain, y said the sur
geon, but do you or any of YOU know |
this lady. to be Miss Brentoua''
No. said the captain, 81 don It !
know her, Do you. Mr., Whitaker, or
We'll, them said the surgeon, as
both the officers shook their heals, 'it
VIII be necessary TO have some one
ashore who does know her in order to
swear to her identity to make her de-
position worth anything
There is Langford," said Whit
taker, ''he knows her.
send boat over TO the yacht aud pre-.
sent my compliments TO Mr.. Langford.
Ask him if he will meet us ashore at
o:l5 o clock Say to him also that |
should be glad to have him dine with me
tonight at Z. Chaplain, will you and
NJ Cbarnock take luncheon with me
Now, to go back TO the island The
woman stood on the strand proudly,
resolufely, sternly erect. without a
sign, OF .unbending until the boats
reached the sides of the two ships.
Even then she kept herself in tbe
bonds of a control of steel. She turned
slowly, walked up the beach, entered
the grove of palms, mechanically found
the path and plodded along it, still
erect and unbending, until the wind
ngs of the trail and the thickeninp of
The grove hid her from any chance
watchers on the ship.
Then came the moment of yielding.
AS If the tension had been suddeuiv
released, she reeled, staggered: her
heart almost stopped Her instinct
was 10 throw ncrselt prone upon the
grass, but she recovered herself in
line and. with the natural inclination
If the troubled toward the place, how
'ver rude and humble it NAV be. that
S called home, she summoned her
strength and dragged herself on
trough the trees over the hill
whence backward glance would have
gwen her n sight of the ships, but. she
,cver took it-down the other slope
'cross the beach and to the cave which
lad been her haven for these three
icars,
Then and not until then did she give
way completely. She threw herself
iown upon the sand in the cool shadow
" the great rocks in what to her
'ad suddenly become weary land.
md ontstretched her arms as if TO !
lasp the earth TO her breast in default
If The man she had dreamed of and
rusted, she had loved and lived for.
md lay there silent, shuddering.
vretched figure.
She was conscious. never more so.
II her own entire innocence, of her
'wn purity of soul Into her heart had J
inferred nothing that had defled her.
md out uf IL NOT HIM 49, .,I