The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14

, but now rs he sat beside his son there
was dawning In his eyes Il new look OF
terror. -
My boy" he said at last unsteadily,
| I'm going 10 ask you TO make me a
promise, a solemn promise upon your
honor
er's eyes, He made no answer at all.
bur he palcd little.
The old gentleman tried TO say some
thing more, but great sob escaped his
lips before he could speak again. Don |
think that l don't understand my boy:
that l don't know how intolerable thv
agon"' is. It's hard enough Tor me-all
/ can bcar-and l know it's worse Tor
you. l know you loved her. know you
hoped that some day she would become
your wlfe-and-wcll / understand. But,
Tom. 1 saw the look that came into your
eyes when Warner, UP there on the
bridge. said-said that 1t cocld be done
less painfully with n revolver. That was
rhetoric with him. Men shouldn't use
rhetoric In times like this Tom, want
your word of honor that you won't DO II.
You don't know what you're asking.
his son answered brokcnly. IF she had
died, only that, could have faced the
loss like man. as you have asked me
TO do. could go on living upon my mem,
olres of her, But, dad. I've murdered
her; that's what II comes to- IL was 10
no Idle caprice that she left the yacht
last night. I drove her away!-Oh. OF
course, i didn't know that at the time.
began making love to her end l showed
her. not the man she had always known
she was afraid Of: until, at last. she told
mo that I seemed TO be trying to XII
even the old love which she had always
had for me.-Sihe left the yacht because
she wanted TO get away. because she was
afraid OF mel That's the memory I've
got 20 live on, and l tell you | won't
Tho terror died out OF his fathers face.
II was stern; the face OF q Judge, when
Tom Ton finished s rs ., there no one 1i IA TT, the
you say Is true. if you are responsible toi
taking my daughter away from me-she
was my daughter; was loved like a
you now propose to take my son away
too, and leave me childless. Is that youI
idea of an atoncment? Would IL be hei
idea, do you think? Or will she see tha'
1t was the act OF n coward-of man
! who fled his post OF duty in the world
because it was hard ono to kecp?
His voice changed there, suddenly; the
sternness was gone, the tenderness came
back. Tom. my boy, you Will see II
that way some day for yourself, You are
not coward; but until you see II, want
your bare promise"
Slowly the tears gathered In the boys
eyes. filed them fun and oyerilowed
twitch; then. holding out his hand. %
promise" he said.
Then his unsteady lips widened into a
sGTs SS 9f me grin Sd G s% A sgsas Gag
ley knave and n murderer-Cayleyi'
His composure broke down there com
plele!y; lie rolleu over on ms lace, puIleo
IL in the crook OF his arm his shoulders
heaving with smothered sobs.
Tho old gentleman closed his eyes and
waited. He could not watch: he could
not go away and. for q long while. he
could not speak, Finally, when he could
command his voice. he began talking
quietly of something else.
It's strange to me-" he said. that we
ever recovered possession of this yacht at
all. let alone that we were able TO recover
II costing us the life of n single man.
This gang must have had q leader, and
n clever one. The way he maneuyered
his men to keep them out Of sight while
he drew away first one party and then the
other from the yacht was n piece Of mas
terly strategy. He worked IT out per-
fectly in every detail He got possession
of tho yacht without losing q man. with
ont even firing q shot that might give
the alarm. And even with the warning