The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-04
THE SOMETHING
OF SOMEBODY
Continued from Page II

out mace Ills way ~ AlA6 I4Dd6h OoltAf
and reckoning a maid. asked for the
young lady who is-ah-"
Pretty bad, sir" said the woman,
shaking her head. It'll be some time
before
With a groan he fed. He tried 10 rest
upon a veIvet-cOvered settee and col
Iect himself, but rose quickly and strobe
about the hall. He heard some one call
his name, and was conscious Of IA
miIiar face, but he hurried on, unheed-
ing. The band seemed to grow more
noisy: his head felt like g sounding
board. Picking up a paper he tried TO
read, but the type blurred before his
eyes. All ne could do was to think in
a diTuse sort Of way and mutter over
and over: Poor little sOulr' and
What am 1 70 do?" Once he went to
the telephone and looked up the num-
Der of the Kings Court, but did not
call IL. What would Kate and Howard
think? Kate i'll, too, It would break
Mans heart II they found out. Her hui
initiation would be enough, heaven
knew. without that. Clearly he must
not telephone He wondered II she
might be better now. He'd go again
and ask On his way to the cloakrOom
door he met the head waiter who had
given him first news Of the disaster
In a voice as sympathetic as a moth
er's. the man now asked II dinner
should wait indefinitely To the fren-
zied host this question seemed no less
than an affTOnt-
Dinner he cried. There won't be
any dinneri Put IL on my bill-do
anything but talk to me about it." In
his Indignation he forgot where he was
going, and presently he found that he
was in the bar Here ne gulped a high
ball: then he hurried TO the psrlor door
again only TO hear. 1.-The lady's feeling
very bad-no change" The word
change" may have suggested some
thing. for he gave the maid a bill be-
fore returning Wild-eyed TO the bar,
where he found a seat I'm a quiet corner
and flung himself into it. the picture OF
abjectest misery.
Reports were brought occasionally by
the concerned head waiter. but they
were not comforting in character. Cor
don sank deeper and deeper into the
mire Of despair. His energy was spent;
he merely sat like a melancholia pa
tent because there was nothing 10 do
anyway excepting wait for the iudg-
ment trump to blow. Life was a mock
eryi Existence was q tortured Then
his fidus Achates reappeared, this time
with first good news. The lady was
distinctly better.
After a time the man soothed,
when she feels much more well, sir.
we shall take her out, so quiet, to car
riage-yOu weeth me. sir; ve-ery quiet,
so that no one shall see"
Gordon nodded gloomily, feeling in
his heart that no such time would ever
come. The dinner tables in the other
room had been deserted, one by one,
Taa ne nv 80
was something 20 be thankful for, If
there was a gIimmer Of truth in the
head walters last report. He would
make inquiries Of the maid For the
| thouSandth time. IL seemed TO him. he
made his way 10 the little curtained
| doorway.
The maid, helping a departing diner
/ into wraps, nodded TO him encoursg-
! ingly. When she had done the service
4 she told Gordon that in little while
/ he might come IN and see the lady
/ BLACK coffee sure does the work, -
| she added in her best professional man.
ner
| Gordon sent a boy FOR his hat and
/ coat put on the coat mechanically and
/ waited dismally With one lobe Of his
brain ne prayed that she might-hC
| shuddered at the expression-Iuight
! come around quickly But fighting
with this hope was 2 dread Of seems
/ her. Poor little thing, He could not
| Danish a mental picture OF her as she
/ would look. She was sure 90 cry
I she'd CITY her very heart out. gOine
/ horneI What could he do2 He rscket
his brains for consultations. It was al
| his fault. no one would ever know Of
| what had happened; the whole thins
! was a joke--a trifiei And all the tim,
he knew there was not the shadow Of
a hope that be could make her thinl
( so.
As ne stood there. immersed in gloom
| his mind ran over her chatter ~ IN.
cab. Oh. II he could only have real
/ ized-have fOreseeE, How he voult
have sheltered her from such expert
eDce, A wave Of tenderness swept owe
[ him: he thought OF Nan rs OF a chill
! whom he'd hurt Internationally. Nov
/ ne vearned TO take her in his arm.
and rock her. Ike g child, and say
u didn't mean 70 % it,.
Then the maid came out again an.
put him in a sudden panic.
You might come FL. sir" she lnvit
ed. 'Itu likely brace the lady Up E.
see ,-ou." she held the curtain aside
and Gordon, dragging himself togethe
with a mental Jerk. Eulped and stepped
in.
! On a leGtli4 upilOi5AtLS Gu cCAcl- De
side which stood a table Uttered 0itl
coffee cups and glasses. he saw Nan
Her hat was on and nothing about he.
was awry. as he had imagined it w0ult
be.
OH she sighed I'm 50 GLAD you'vt
come"
| Gordon stopped dead. HIS han.
clutched out behind him for the por.
there. His dazed eyes stared blanEiy
shifting from Nan to another woman.
The Other woman was older-older =
many ways. Her face was very whit.
excepting for two round csrmine spot
upon the cheeks-spots Ike the decora
tons Of q piebald rocking horse. Sb'
lay full length upon the couch, her eye