The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
CHAPTER X.
WHAT THE DAWN BROUGHT.

w lAI LIZA w IN
The man rose from his seat at the foo
OF the bunk and. with restless strides. be-
gan pacing back and forth In the narrow
limits OF the little hut. The girl lay still
but her eyes followed him. Her thoughts
were keeping step with his.
There's not much falth in the world.
that's true she said presently. And
yet. that's not exactly the worlds fault
When people haven't anything else TO
walk by. they have To walk by sight
she hostated little there. feeling for
the words she wanted. "lt was SO easy,
she went on at last, ito clear you OF
the thing they thought you did yesterday
Couldn't you give them n chance TO be-
ljeve the truth about the other thing.
TOO? There must be something you could
reveal about that old charge that would
wash out the stain OF it-something that
would make Tom see the falsity OF It as
clearly as l do
NO" he said. that was never pos
sibe. It's less possible than ever now"
That involuntary admission told her
much. II the. thing she suggested
been before. then. somehow or other. the
indication must have rested in Perry
Hunters hands. But the finality of his
voice and the dumb agony she saw in his
face. as he paced back and forth from be-
side her. prevented her from following
up The admission, or urging him any
She lay still and waited.
AL last his face cleared. What gave
iood you that faith OF Xoprs in me-? he 9ues
man: how could YOU he sure. without any
proof, that l hadn't done it?''
49,, WhyJi suppose IL was !S,i your wings,
me. or, rather, what you let me see OF
The soul of a man who could live In the
sky as you do It's such a crawling thing
Venge. One who lives UP above the
world couldn't stoop to do it-any more
than an angel could"
Il while. You're right" he said a last,
partly right. didn't want revenge.
wouldn't have stopped to take it If had
either and ] might have done that at
least IL would have come about that way
II | hadn't checked my human instinct
TO go down among them. hadn't stayed
aloft too long. watching them as though
they were picture"
book which he had laid down THAT
narrative has humbed me some way he
suid You were quite right. It has made
norance. about the men who risk ana lose
their their liyes M trying to reach the pole. What What
was the man who lived that story-set-
ting it down on these pages as he lived
it-wns worth-was worth a whole para
though | didn't know YOU were until you
said IT,. in telling me that l had a con-
temp, for the world. did have; be
OF the yacht: with the ignorance and
ycbemence Of school boy. But this
journal Of your fathers. and your-your
base metal 1t was made of"
He pulled himself up sharply there and
look, looked at his watch: 'It win be day
Il comes Wen signal 10 the yatcht. and
they'll send for you and take you away
you and this precious find you've made.
You hardly slept at ali while was read
ing.
turn out 20 be al dream, and I'd find
myself back in my state-room on The
yacht She was speaking half in mock
cry. but there an undertone OF Sc
robustness in her voice. Think how un-
likely II is that all this can have hap
pened, she went on. You said this |
! watched you go. How can 1t be. any
thing but n dream that you were hang |
ing ,aloft there in the sky, above the fog
cried out for help?"
II told YOU once" he said not very
steadily. that one OF us might be dream
Ing. but that one was not you
You will promise" she asked, "that !
II / go to sleep. I'll wake up here and
not on the yacht. and that you won't
have disappeared"
II PROMISE" he said seriously.
He seated himself once more at her |
feet. switched Oft the fading light from
the buil's-eye and drew the sleeves of her |
coat across his shoulders. Good night"
he said
She answered drowsIly.
He had meant 20 indulge in the luxury |
OF doze himself, for he had not slept |
since the first light of the day before, |
and then for only two or three hours. |
But the train OF thought which her last |
words had set going In his mind were |
quite enough TO Danish sleep