The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09

full years and day of such happiness
as falls to the lot of few of the chill
drcn of sorrow. Perhaps that was
all that she was destined to look back
upon of JOY. Perhaps the future held
for her only expiation. Perhaps she
bility. She ought to he glad of such
an opportunity, indeed. But she was
q woman. and by and by she hid her
face III her hands and wept.
In all their intercourse he had never
seen her weep. Tears were entirely
forign 20 his experience. He knew
what sorrow was, what sadness was,
what sympathy was, for his heart had
been tore whom she had read to him
the story of the Man of Sorrows and
his sufferings. A child of nature, the
pathetic in the Old Covenant and the
New had appealed TO him profoundly,
but his were not easy tears. He had
never shed any. lie had never seen
any He was appalled,, therefore, when
approaching noisclessly he laid his hand
upon her shoulder and saw and heard
the evidence of her grief. He dropped
the box TO the sod and knelt beside her.
"Has the sight of the ship made you
weepl' he said. softly. 81 wish that
| had never como to tell You it was
J there. -
''Wc have been so happy together,
| YOU and r. said tho woman. ''This
island has been my world, my haven.
] my heaven, rather, and you have been
7 humanity to me, but now the earth
opens before you; You will have other
hopes, other ambitions, perhaps
vchemcntly. 81 shall have nothing,
nothing, but You anywhere, every
| where, and. besides, nothing is changed
See. the smoke grows fainter; the ship
moro dim. She passes beyond. Things
shall be as they were. We shall live
on. and love on,'
Her desolation. her sorrow appealed
TO him profoundly, He took her in
his arms. He laid her head gently
upon his shoulder. There was protec-
tion and tenderness as well as passion
in his touch.
"Together, he whispered, patting
her hair softly, ''alonc. YOU and I,'
For one delicious moment with closed
eyes she let herself be so soothed and
comforted. But her better nature woke
on the instant, AS il were.
"No, she said. drawing away from
him gently, sit would not be right. We
belong in the world of men, Men and
women are not men and women until
they have lived among their fellows.
until they have fought down the temp.
tatlons OF which we know nothing here,
and have conquered them-out here.
Give mo the flint and steel I must
call back the ship!'
He stopped as she spoke and picked
mp the little silver box. He extended
his hand toward her, and then sud
denly drew it back.
You cannot light the beacon he
said.
Cannot she cried
No, for / will not give You the flint
and STEEL
..You must give it to me-
Will not. | am the stronger, and
you cannot take it from me- he re-
Piled, with growing firmncss
II was the first time in all their in
tercourse that be had disobeyed a COM
mand. She looked at him amazed, her
heart, nevertheless, throbbing at the
mastery 1u his tone, at the thought
that he was willing to throw away the
world for her. 1t is true he had had
no experience Of that nc was giving
up, but he was not entirely ignorant of
the possibility, for she had told him of
what lay beyond the horizon, and she
had presented 1t in such a way that ii
glowed with color and life and charm.
The evil, the sordid and the wretched
nad been lightly alluded to, just def
nItely enough TO shade the picture and
bring out the higher lights OF civiliza-
ton. His was not the decision. there
Tore, of an untutored. inexperienced
savage, not the abandonment of a toy
by child; there was some reality in
IT and the reality measured his af-
fcctlon. Her heart leaned in her breast
at the thought. For one fieeting mo-
ment she acquiesced. Things would 90
on IN the old way; But things could
not go ON in the old way. For dav
and night, in spite of the great
change that had come 10 their feelings.
Iltc had flowed on as usual. but there
was a limit 10 human power. 1t was
better, whatever beiide. that they
should 90 back to civilization. The
woman stared at him long and ear.
nestly, her lip trembling, her face pale
her eyes shining. They stood speech
less at gaze for moment, and then
she spoke.
You are right, she said. "my pow.
er over You has gone. / can no. longer
command. Mine has ceased TO he The
supreme will, but | beg you. / entreat
you, L pray you, give me The flint and
steel. See, on my knees / ask you.'
She sank down before him in an at
utude which he knew TO he that of
prayer. They had eften read the
prayers together ON the sand or be
meath The trees since she, too. in the
solitude had seen God and believed.
~ cannot, | will not, - he answered.
hoarsely, stepping nearer TO her.
mo, - she said, ''you must not touch
me, YOU shall not touch me- ! shall be
to you rs a stranger, unless you take
me by force, if YOU will not let me
light that bcason.'i
No. said the man. dorpcdly.
- When the world touches our shores.
IT brings you unhappincss, Let ii
pass
l.isten." she said. 'I have tried
10 tell You something about honor and
duty My honor SAYS that that shin
must be called. My duty bids me cali
her, You said that You love me- -
Said!' exclaimed the man.
You do love me, then" returned
the woman, "aud you, but that love
must be tested, tried in the world. ]
can never believe In it, in You, until.
the trial has been made. We must
call back the Ship
But ] can believe in you without
any test,
i ann different. have been out
fherc i know what il is. j have seen
other men,
She looked Gxcdly al him. He bent
1I. to