The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-23

sort of Il sea happening. OF long voy
age with woman and some kind OF
an animal in an open boat, OF borrlple
sufferings, of few words of prayer;
that is all -
"I think that this man, then
child resumed the woman. land MS
mother must in some way have oeen
involved in "A shipwrcck, and that she
and her son and dog must nave peen
cast away on this island; that inc "o-
man died and the child survived. There
is nothing here that would IN any way
harm him and his life and growth un-
der such circumstances and conditions
are quite possible. He had probably
seen his mother read that Bible. lie
carried 1t with him, put II IN that cave
and forgot il with the flint ard steel
i'll the silver box Of which nc would
have no knowledge and which he could
not use, The dog probably lived some
time and when he died crawled back TO
where his mistress lay and gave UP bIs
licvc this man 8 name to be John Revell
Charnock, that he is an American, and
that he came from Virginia, | know
him TO be a Christian and gentleman.
In all the days that we have been TO"
gethcr on this island he has done me
no wrong. lie has been Genteness,
kindness, docility itself, and despite
other. Until yesterday we, did not
know it, Now it is for him to say
what we Will do
"Katc. Kate cried Langford,
''you cannot let this nntutored saw
age
- Not that, SAID the woman, for |
have taught him all | know and all l
believe. -
"You cannot let him decide this
question: continued the man, passing
over her interruption.
Yes, said the woman, he must
decide, but whatever he decides, what
ever the relationship between this man
and this woman is TO be, can never
he anything on earth to YOU,
- Don I say that said Whitaker,
Think, my dear lady, what you do,
what this man offers you, the position
in which-God forgive mc!-you
staud,''
Sir" said the woman, addressing
| the lieutenant commander. tins man
wrongcd me grIcvously. terribly. He
deceived me. He broke my heart. IIe
killed ambition, aspiration and respect
for my own kind within my soul
know him through and through. The
fact that he failed quickcned his
passion: the fact that men say [ am
beautiful made him the more eager;
the fact that he was away and that he
could not lay his hands upon me made
| him the more insistent; the fact that
| had Haunted him and said him nay
and struck him down made him the
more determined
| God you wrong me- interrupted Lang
| ford
'And indeed, madam, / believe you
! do. ~ commented Whitaker,
"Lct her speak on said the man OF
tine island
- il may be that you are right, =" con
! tinued the woman. cit may he thai
| he is higher, ncblcr. truer than | have
/ fancied. | should be glad to be ablc
! view of if, his assertion of it, but
do not love him. Should / marry him
! | would bring to him heart, soul
a body that turns to some one else
| He could never be anything to me. AS
! ! am a Christian woman, a lover of my
God and a follower Of his Son, | can
not see but that | would be adding on,
wrong to another 10 come to this mar
| i'm compliance with any suggestion OF
the world. following any dictate of so
| cicty, subscrvient to any convention.
cannot see hut that | would be doing
as great wrong as | did in flaunt
! ing all Of these forces. | have learned
I what love is and what marriage shoulc
! he. | will not give my hand and YIELD
/ up my person where ] cannot yield my
! heart. And there is no eXpiatlon ol
| rcparation that require 1T of me. nc
voice that can coercc me into It, | vii
not marry YOU. Valentine Langford,
| Will accept your expressions as eVl
denccd by your words. by your presence
here, as testimony TO your regret. In
| deed, ! realize that your confession was
itself great humiliation to man likt
| you. And perhaps | have spoken harsh
| ly Of it, But the bare fact remains
| do not lovc you, ! could not love you
/ don Z even want TO love you. My
heart, my soul goes TO this man. she
turned 10 her companion of the island
"whom up to today ] have made and
fashioned aud taught and trained until
these hours when he has broken away
from me. / love this man who stands
silent who thinks of me as a thing
spotted, polluted, damned, Him | love
though he slay me, yet viii ] love him
Him I trust, though ne disbelieve me
yet will ! love him, Him | will serve
though he east me off. yet will | love
him, And with this in my heart in
which | glory and which | confess as
openly and with as little hesitation as
you confessed your shame, ! give you
my final, absolute, utterly Irrevocable
| decision, | VIII not marry you, | Will
not go back with you. No, not for any
reason that you can urge, will ] come
TO you when in my soul | belong 10 an
other. There may he no end to this but
my despair. This man may east mC
off This man may trample me under
foot The spots upon my soul may loom
larger in his view and hide what else
is there. l know J have been forgiven
! hv God. / will not be forgiven by men
! but | tell You here and now, again and
again, that ! viii not be your wife.
! will he his wife or no man 8. -
Langford turned away and hid his
| face in his hands. Whitaker stepped
forward and laid his hand upon the
shoulder OF the man of tho island. He
! shook for a moment,
You stand immobile - he cried
| sharply, LATTER such Il confession as
! that, after such an appeal' What have
you to say, mnn2 You ought to get
| down on your knees and thank God for
the love of such woman.
"Aye, aye, burst out the deep tones
of the old coxswain of the cutter. $50
| III