The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-18

q ms mental attitude, which was that oi
!. such complete and entire alteration
| mingled with timidity and hesitation
that no transient change apparently
, was able 10 modify it. He looked upon
hcr as he might have looked upon a
god, she thought, had he known what
} a god was and had there been such a
thing to look at.
There was also the pnir of scissors,
together with the little housewife with
needles and thread. Mirror. hairpins.
scissors, sewing materials, comb--wom-
an S gear and the Bible, "A woman s
book. she reflected with "A certain bit.
tcrneSs' unconscious of the truth of
her thought book for children, old
women, and womcn-led meu Well,
that philosophy upon which she prided
herself must come TO her assistance
now and she could not afford to dis,
dain the volume which was all that the
world OF many books offered TO her
for her purpose, because she did not
believe in it. The truth was in her
and she could tell him what it was,
despite the assertion Of the printed
I pages
In the leather bag there was abso.
iutely nothing except broken glass and
/ scratched bottle tops OF silver and the
bag itself was ruined. She separated
! the pieces of metal and the metal fit
t!ngs of the bag which were also Of
| silver, and filling the rotting leather
with sand she presently sank it in the
lagoon.
Last of all she examined what she
had brought from the other shore OF
the island the night before. The sill
yer was tarnished, but by rubbing ii in
the sand she soon frightened it. 1t
! was heavily engraved and she had no
difficulty in making out the words
John Revell Charnock-His Dog
After that was date "July %.
1879 John Rovell Charnock then
would be 81 years old, assuming that
this was he and that the dog had been
given him when he was born. It was
more probable, however, that he was
from three TO five years old before he
became the owner of a dog, which
would make him about %.
The man before her looked Younger
to her scrutiny than that. Care and
trouble had passed him by. With moth
ing 10 vex him he might have been
any age He would probably look Just
as he was for twenty years or more
Still fancifully adjusting external rela
tions to internal relations, which, after
all. she realized was the secret of life
according TO her favoritc philosopher |
she concluded that the man was %, |
three years older than she at that |
moment, a proper difference in. their |
ages for Her face famed. |
She scarcely know why, and she turned |
10 an inspection of the rings.
The first was a diamond, n solitaire, |
of rare beauty, she judged. Although |
she WAS not especially expert In such !
matters, she deemed II must be of great !
value. There was no inscription of any |
sort within the narrow hoop Of gold,
although she searched keenly the inner
surface. The diamond was curiously |
M
a little coat-of arms on either side Of
the setting, done i'll miniature but with
a skill TO marvel at, too small even for
her brilliant vision to decipher in de
tail
The other she recognized with a sneer
as one of those fetters of convention
a wedding ring. 1t was heavier hoop
of gold much engraved within. She
washed it In the stream and rubbed it
in the sand until she could make it out.
81 r. c., - she read ''to NJ. Z. To-
There was date after, September 10,
1869, and then these cabalistic words
I'll Cor kills which she presently
OWNED 10 be n reference to some text
in the bible fit source from which to Sc
ect. the '''posy, of a ring" agreeable
TO those who submit TO such ancient fol
lies as the well named bonds of matri-
mony.
She reached for the bible and with
fingers searched through it
until she found the place: 81 will very
gladly spend and be spent for you;
.hough the more abundantly 1 love you,
he less / be loved. ~ The beauty of the
phrase caught her fancy. She read with
strange new interest the chapter in
which these words were epshrined The
ouch of human passion came 10 her
across the long years and with the ring
sparkling IN her own white hand she en- /
bodied its tradition in personality and
he woman who had been so loved stood
before her. Her eyes fell again upon
he man and the dream was broken.
She pieced together now all that she
lad of him, smiling as she did so at the
,hought of certain strange stories she
lad read wherein men of marvellous de- ,
1uctive powers had brought to solu- !
ion problems which appeared as i'm
possible of detection as this presented
o her.
John Revell Charnock, evidently tho I
'ather of the man of the island. had |
married one NJ. P. r. on the 10th of [
September. 1869. Perhaps within
,ear afterward this John Revell Char
lock, assuming him, as was likely, to t
,avo borne his father name. was born. &
Jbarnock was an old English name. {
Tbe best English stock in the colony I
we're Massachusetts and Virginia. The '
torn niece of tha hoat bnre fha now,