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

lev ~ '"' "'"' 'ored man, Mr.. Bill.
Mcknight had the sense -
inc conversation and save my rcrIsp r.,Ip ln'
ncy say good Pittsburpc,p
Atlantic City when they die t;s'S 3 70 4
:, Ho-we are reasonably certain tS. ns so
'lcmah ana not 90 TO the seashora ~
me meal vas over at Inst any
IN 'hH drawing room il was pa eTa. oad
Aung heayy on the hostess q hands uIsaF y
~ SO hard TO get people for hr;d.
osptrmber' she walled. "Ths-sse
absolutely Z a'l,f nobody, in town. Sir Sire !;
IT 5 good poker numbe, >,
husband suggested. b
inc matter settled itself, bowo,,-
was hopeless, save AS dunmr, &,
west Shld ii was zoo hot for ca,S, ~!
went out on balcony that ovarIs.t st1
the Mall: With obvious reliei lii;'0Gss1 ~
DALLAS had the card-table brouebt 5fS
! was lace TO face with the m;,ns oa0'
had dreaded aud hoped for for I,Oele uu
Now 1t had come, it was mo,o "esk 3:
ticult than | had anticipated. IL I
Know ~ there was moon. hul a.
was the urban substitute for Z, 'as''
are light Il threw the shadow & =, q
balcony railing. IN long black
against her white gown, and ~.
swung sometimes her face Was ;r
light: drew n chair close 50 t..
could watch her. Nhss
Do You know ! said. VIM,
made no effort al speech. "that ,a wan ~
much more formidable person io,iIs1 ,vd ~
In that gown. than You were tha ya' (.
time i saw youI' ~
The light SWING Oh hcr face, sb.
smiling family. 1A'
''The hat with the green r;bb,..,,
She said. q must take (: bsek. Vt, T I,
almost forgotten.
~ have not forgotten-anv,h;,.
pulled myself UP short. Tbi.
hardly loyalty to Richey. His w.
came through tho window lust then =;
perhaps ] was wrong, but / tbouoSs j.
raised her head to listen.
% Look at this hand" he was avn.
Regular pianola; you could plnv
with your feet
""Hc's dear. ism t he?'' Alison "a
unexpectedly. "Ao matter how how i i
pressed and downhearted 7 am | I,
ways cheer up when 7 see Rcacy y
% Hes moro than that, - relurr,
warmly. ''He is the most hoDozb,,' |
fellow | know. If he WASH 4 So sT,i
that WAY. he would have career =
fore him. He wanted 10 put an Il.
| doors Of our offices, BIakoloy ( II.
Knight, 7. i. H., which is Poor B-
! Honest,
From my comparative poverty 10 ~
wealth of the girl beside ma ym
| single mental leap. From that Vesl'|
to the grandfather who was respopsl,
/ for it was another.
''I wonder il YOU know that ~
been TO Pittsburg to see your eab,j
father when I met you! US said. Z !:
"6ou,'' She was surprised ID
gator bag that | told YOU MAS cxchauri
for the one you cut OF my arml' 81
nodded expectantly. swell, in Id
valise were she forged Andy BrcuE.
notes, and Mr. Gilmore's depodtia>|)
that they were forged. y n
She was on her feet in an irssais
HIu that bag.D she cried. "0h' ul7|:
didn t YOU fell me that beforcl Oh
it's so ridiculous, 500 hopeless. VII
[ could
She stopped suddenly and ga; iaT
again. ''G do not know that I am yrr
after all. - she said after pause. ~,
Bronson was friend of my fathaM
II suppose it was a bad thing fof - 4
losing the papers2" L
''Well, Il was not good iti.l
/ T conceded. 'SWhile we are
the subject Of losing things. Z
YOU remember-do you know that / 81.
have Your gold purse!h ~
She did not reply at once. The snadq
Of column was over Der face, BAL
guessed that she was staring at ne y
you have il, she almost Har
pered.
81 picked it up in the street ssl
| said, with a cheerfulness ava
feel "It looks like a very op1l'' y
littlc purse. - '
Why didn't she sneak about
necklaces For Just a careless NS7d Y
make me sane again. R'
"You!'' she repeated. houors'nfi y
en-, And then / produced the puTs -
held ii out on my palm. ,s2g
II SHOULD have sent IT TO You pEIe. y
! suppose. but. as You know. l pay
been laid up since the wreck. IL
We both saw Mcknight at me ~ Z
moment. He had pulled the curun
aside and was standing looking ~ tr
The tablcau Of give and take was vl1s
taxable: tho gold purse. her ouisih'e,. Il
hand, my own attitude. II was
in second: then he came Ou'
loungcd on the BALCONY railIng !
'They re mad at me in there Ia
said airily. $50 ] came ou, suE :
ihe reason they call it bridge IS .tS DsS'
so many people get cross over II, n
The heat broke mp the card gIoap n
after. and they all came out M
night breeze. | had no more !,
alone with Alison. a.as
went back to the Incubator ~. sl
night. We said almost nothing =. ~,
WAY home; there was constr1,n. l..
tween MS for the first time tha' - Q
remember. lt was TOO cary im IA;
and so we smoked in the lSils'sss :
and tried to talk OF trivial th,ngS "a
or II time even those fal,es, ,a ~ h. ~
SAT silent. Ii was McKp'gh' WpV III
ly broached the subicc u,,tz.
"And SO she WASH Z at oea' ''''' n,
"No. - mi "
''Do YOU know where she was'i"" wa, 81
:" Somewhere near Cresson' "a,
And that was the purSe-eg, e.,l 2
with the broken necklace N w h. -,
Yes, il was. You Underslenqs' =. Z 3
you. Rich. that. having gwen n' .
word, couldh { tell you:
~ understand lo' o. tp'Dss ~
said, without bitterness, soaS.
We sat for some time ana ss c,h
Then Richcv gat mp and siIelrnr'a ~
SELF. ~ IN Of TO bed, old NAV !, eu
said. 8, Need any help WIN 'n'' "a
arm Of yours *
No, thanks, | rc'ufhuu, and
/ heard him go into bus lpou for =