The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

E.-r used To- q busy life since he left
..r-eee. and he had no intTOspection.
mars he way Agatha Fielding put it..
lls said I'm her pretty dictatorial way
nat me belonged by rights half a dozen
snffrfps baCk-at least. she said, her
ralr--fster. Miss Dean, said so. And
,r1rn Couyers said, with a sneer under
t-4- -u-tache that she might have said
tFar rs he believed the period lost its
-orreucv then. she caught il up and
-si5. "0h. we'll Perhaps il lowered
l71ra perfectly them" And though we
didn't catch on ourselves exactly where
,be point lay. we laughed like anything
because Conyers looked as If he had
Cine worst of it.
There wasn't a bit of doubt but that
o Agatha Fielding generally had the best
q everything. So pretty a girl couldn't
flt. anything but good time. She
sa- Jho only girl in the house except
r4- nsl5-sist,r Miss Dean, and she
wasn't i~ 81 with Agatha. Not at ALI
Tho FI.li.ns twins, Dick and Angus
t-s. kept open house every October. and
sometimes managed TO get most of the
.a-s uL 'gS for a. week or two.
There were eight of the old set count
H- the twins, and they did the best
thew jolly well knew to make us have
q good time but the best bit of the
whole business was The sister
S.. were all mad with the other fell
1a. Z She was nicer to him than to the
rest OF ms. And she mostly waste one
r. u.s. When my time came around /
llf q little too top-loftical for the
etEjn-
And then Greer came down. and. of
COURSE. wa stood by TO see him go into
Che trap. He had been living on
ranch UGt west. and 1 suppose the con-
.u was pretty strong. He looked at
Lr.Jra--I suppose If I can't call her
Dog her name / can write 1.-THE thought
she was too wonderful to be true. And
she was-tO an of uS-COnyers included.
He's a bit ahead of the rest of US in
braius-wrOte "a book once about his
travels I'm Persia. or Mongolia. or some
place l didn't fear any of the fellows
as much as ] did Conyers. That black
pointed beard of his makes him look
Ike the very devil-along with his big
black eyes. He's done most things, and
DE doesn't talk much.
C0uyors had been there before. when
Agatha was in short frOCkS. SO he had
some sort of acquaintance rights over
the rest of us, though she told him the
night he came that she had been too
busy learning French verbs when he
was there before to remember him.
Miss Dean was passing just as Con-
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tune To remember, even If she had for
gotten. and there was s. sort of smile
o1 her face as she esnCed at them.
She's tall for a woman. and looks as If
she had never opened her eyes. Ey cry
h0dys always awfully polite to her for
since Ler mother, Mrs. Fielding, died
she's hostess.
Miss Dean somehow seems very re-
served. and a good deal older than the
Agatha wasn't a side issue. She was
goal and stakes and everything gen
orally combined,
ANY body could see that Greer admired
Asatba-he'd have been blind if he
Eant-Dur that she should like him.
that's what shook US up a bit She
asked him to play golf that day-the
day he was hurt, and, Of course. he was
pleased as Punch, the beggar, Shed
never asked one Of US!
Wei. they went ahead to the links
and the rest of US loafed. Miss Dean
had gone to walk toward the head of
The lake, and Conyers followed he said
he wanted TO ask her something or
other, but. somehow. they came back
different ways. I don't suppose they
cuarreled. for they didn't ever seem in
innate enough for that Anyway, she
came back by the lower path by the
lake. and she heard a child scream. and
ran down TO the edge and there, right
iu front Of her one of the Jameses'
children. a little fellow in kits, was
going under for the second time. Con-
T0rS was coming around the lake to-
ward them and he saw the whole
thing, though he was too far of to be
sE- GOOD. Miss Dean, without a single
word. jumped into the water and caught
t1a boy as he came up. She could swim.
ai right. but with her heavy skirts ami
the bank right there as straight as q
tree. she couldn't get along. And that's
where Greer came in.
He'd heard the child scream, too, ran
down from the links and jumped in
right after Miss Dean. He tOwed them
en- d place where they could set ashore
lit was an rock and steep along that
s..e-8ud COnyers and Agatha got there
about that time. COnyers caught Miss
Dean and pulled her in, and Greer put
DDS hand on one Of the shelving rocks
rH hold on until COnyers could take the
..E from him. 7 suppose the rock had
been laosened- or broken. or something,
t.r just as Conyers caught the boys
sr" and drew him up, part Of 1t d.
F.aea and smashed down on Greer
SHOULDER, breaking his cOllarbOne, bruis-
Ing his arm and generally laying him
ulr.
Greer hated the fuss and said he
hadn't done anything beside Miss Dean.
.st nobody ever agreed with him. If
Greer hadn't come up at the identical
moment he did she and the boy would
have both drowned beyond a doubt.
'"-Eers said IT made him sick. He
looked like his ErandmOther's funeral
When he got there. but 1 guess it was
partly because he couldn't do anything
llf SELF a man when he sees such
Thing as chat wants awfully 10 take
band. att least I judge from the way we
felt
Greer didn't want to stay and play
tlg invalid but the twins turned the
Dean and Agatha simply turned the
house over for him-as much as he'd
.at them for after the doctor had
patched him up. and he'd spent few
Gays in his room. they put him on
couch in the hall, where we always sat,
So be wouldn't be lonely. He had a
sort Of levee every day. And Agatha
waited on him hand and foot. Miss
Dean was the proper person. we
thought 10 do that. as she was the one
Greer had saved; but she didn't seem
l7 think IL her duty. She was all there.
you know. sympathetic. and so on, but
there wasn't any of the ministering
angel about her We jolly well thought
She could have left Agatha free if she
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