The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19

Tess. | do not think there is anything
IN my life which would really go be.
! yond forgiveness. At the same time ]
should rather have YOU see my faults
and still love me--forgivc me for
something, and still love me.
! The color surged back To his face.
81 love you beyond the possibility of
| forgiveness, Whatever YOU do is right.
To speak Of my foraiving you is some.
thing like sacrlcgc -
| She leaned back in the hammock and
| closed her eyes 10 hide n sudden cush
! Of nervous tears
Then Just must take my chances, -
She murnlured, with trcmulous smile
4 But surely YOU don t want me 10
hold You less perfect he protested in
bewildcrment, "Nirginia Look at
mel
She started up with Il quick little
i laugh, and n book which had lain be-
side her in the hammock slipped 10
the floor, As il opened n photograph
fell out, and lay, face upward, before
Norton. He picked it up with an ex-
clanIatiou
"Burton Warwick! However did
you come TO have his photograph 80
Why, did yuu know him?' asked
Virginia. Her voice was shaken with
sudden surprise.
lie was the dearest friend ever
had y Norton said. He was still look
ing at thc pictured face with self for
gettul emotion. ''Whcre did ii come
from?"
"lt belongs to me- Virginia an
swered quickly, Looking mp he saw
mat her face Was crimson to tho line
of her soft dark hair. and that her flut-
tcring oyelids dropped low over startled
eyes.
There are crises when words beiray
their fundamental inadcquacy. His
eyes held hers in "A questioning so press
,rE, so passionate, that she shranll under
1t as under definite arraienmcnt.
Why did You never tell me?' he
asked Slowly.
81 didn Z know you knew him.
do not remember that he ever men
toned YOUR name
And | never guessed. [ suppose he
must have mentioned yours in his first
letters, but ! did not take note of it
then. Afterwards it was ALWAYS some
fauciful name Of loye-tilI that short
note came, written III his heart S blood,
SAYING that his fools dream of happi.
ness was over. All that wear IN tho
Philippines he never referred TO what
had happened, but T knew what his
silence meant And when his body came
back for burial-ah!i he caught his
breath sharply, it was the photograph
IN his pocketbook-the photograph that
buried with him, as he had asked me
TO dot was that that made your face
SO familiar that first day! And I
thought"
lie had spoken steadily, with cold
sclt-control, hut now he flashed upon
her look of passionate scurn. as
though she were some stranger aud de-
spised. 1T brought out an answering
fash in her dark eyes that wiped out
her shamcd embarrassment as with a
flame, She caught her breath hard and
lifted her dropping head
''Well!' she said slowly.
lie dropped into the chair and let his
head sink upon his hand.
>'That it should be YOU, And /
thought yort-oh, how could youlH he
groancd.
Virginia Jackson looked down at his
bent head and her first quick flush Of
resentment yielded at sight Of his pain.
Richard, she said. There was an
unconscious appeal in her voice, bnt
he did not answer it. When she spoke
again her voice was steadicr and colder
- You are blaming me without know
ing the whole story. It was an unhappy
story, but there was no Intentional
wrong in il. -
~ knew him. - he said bitterly,
~" nI''N' .hC - u'H HNdlb tudJ tN ct
beat You let him love you, and then
because You tired Of him, You threw
him over. That was what sent him to
the Philippines. You cannot even un-
dcrstand what he was And all this wear
] have been hating the woman who
could so wreck the beautiful promise of
his life-who sent him TO his dcath!'
'His death-hjs heartbrcak, - she
cried sharply. You think only Of his
part. If girl finds she has made 4
mistake in thinking that she loves
man should she 90 on i'll that mistake
when she comes to know the truth about
her own hearth
'FMistakc!' he cried impaticntly
"Cau woman play with n man s feel
iugs. encourage him to love her as long
as it amuses her. ruin his life and send