The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-06

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STUFFED canary she had gone to Frau
lem, who had burst into tears but who
| insisted chat she had not broken the
| bottle And now an awful thing was
going to happen: after four years of
service as nursery-governess to Emmy.
fraulcin was leaving in rage at being
considered untruthful. only love for hcr
charge would make her remain until the
end of her month, two weeks off
On, how fully Susy now understood il
all! Now she knew why the bottle
had seemed dirty, and why it had been
elected to place of honor. Now she
knew that Emmy, who was aware of its
FaJuc, would not have touched il for the
world. Now she knew that there was
but ono right thing 10 do-eo al once
| to Mrs Woods and tell the truth. But
this confession had in its train such
mysterious and perhaps painful conse-
ducnces to herself that the thought
made her actually i'll. Sho convinced
herself that, had the green bottle been
IN reality the common thing it had
seemed, she would have hurried down
and surrendered herself. But the fact
that 1T was IN incomprehensible treas.
Mrc. brought from n strange land by
Emmy's great.unclo, frightened her.
This Uncle Roger was the most forbid
ding person Susy had ever seen-old.
so oidl-with snow white hair and face
all brown and wrinklcd She had al
ways feared him. and now recalled how
on certain day when she and Emmy
were playing near his chair, he had
erred IN Swapping voice:
On, this driyel about the delight TO
he found in childrcp Confounded lit
tlc pests, they drive me frauticl King
Herod 3 example might be followed oc
casionally with good results
Susy knew her Bible well-King
Hcrod had killed children.
No-she could not fell-sho could
not-she could not! So began her double
life.
During several days following. she
had TO listen TO much about the green
bottle and Fraulein. Her mother and
Father spoke of the matter frequently
In Susy's heart the consciousness Of
her guilt dcepened hourly. She felt
sorrY for Fraulein, but not sorry enough
TO confess, for she excused herself by
saying that she had known how preci.
ous tho bottle was, she would not have
touched il.
But an experience that left It's mark
upon her happened on Wednesday after
noon. This was n chance meeting with
Emmy and Fraulcin in Washington
square. Fraulcin was sitting quietly
beside Emmy, who seemed to have no
heart to play. How sad she was. poor
Fraulcinl How she kept patiing En-
my mittcn while her eyes looked far
away, But oh, the unguessed Goals
Of fire, when Fraulein had beckoned TO
her-to Her, the secret cnemy-and
tried to push into the pockets OF her
coat more than dozen peanuts quite
hot Without speaking Susy refused
this gift. She pushed the peanuts back
into Frauleln's lap and walked very
quickly away, her vision dimmod
This occurrence destroyed her argu.
ment for self-eScuse aud left her con.
science smarting. Her guilt began to
haunt her. as with an uplisteniug air
she sat among people at homo and at
school, A persistent ache that tickcd
like clock somewhere inside of her,
gave her no peace, and little. little
voice kept speaking to her after this
fashion:
''Poor Fraulein was always good to
YOU, Susy, How lovely she was when
she took YOU and Emma 10 Central
park, She never bothered, didn T. keep
saying, Don't do that and Come
here Then that day when she took
elevated train And have you for
gotten the Eden muscc, and the lovely
tea she gave you afterward7'
But though tormentcd IN this WAY,
Susy persisted IN her deception and
guarded her secret, Unhappy, with lips
sealed, she mingled with the innocent
and light hearted,
Friday was STORYTELLING dav at
school. a day usually much loved by.
her. but this week sho was not in
mood TO enjoy anything. She scarcely
listened. until a phrase from an old leg
end read aloud by her teacher aroused
her, This was about Young prince,
who though beautiful to look upon. had
done many and secret dark deeds. One
l. 4 L.
almost plunged him over n cliff a girl
as fair as IN angel had risen in the road
and by a magic word had quieted the
ANIMAL Through love for her the re-
generation of the wicked prince was
begun but he did not feel himself
worthy even 10 touch her hand until by
remuneration and sclf-chastisement dur
ing a long, lonely year in his sca-en-
circlcd castle he had purgcd his soul
of sin,
Susy asked many questions about the
self-immolation Of the prince by which
he was purified and made happy. Aft
or reflection the matter was summed up
10 her intelligence IN one fact: that
by doing none of the things ono liked.
and only doing those which one could
not possibly care about, one might feel
happy and good again She could not
live OH bitter herbs as the prince had
done; she was afraid to cut off her hair
she had no damp dungeon TO sit it,.
she had never seen hair shirt, and
had no money TO 20 shopping for one
However. she would do what she could,
BY luncheon fho next day she had quite
made up her mind,
Her aversion to soft boiled eggs as
"mcssy' was family tradition. On
this day there were soft eggs for Gene
We've, but big, baked potato with
plenty of butter. pepper and salt had
boen prepared for Susy. She had never
loved this flaky, steamIng dainty moro
than an she pushed il from her, and said
in a trembling voice:
''T want some soft eggs. please -
Mrs Gilvarry, who had listened mys
ti6ed. shook her head.
g want them SOFT Susy insisted
"Thc messy kind, like Gcpevieve s.
''What has happened to Susy, do You
supposc1' Mrs. Gilvsrry asked Mar
garet later.
Miss Susy' s had a strange look for
days, ma am. Margaret answered.
"Shc g been going about on her toes
as il she stopped on egg shells, jumping