The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-16

I'll have to ask you TO help mo. It's a
string of letters written around picture
| in a locket-"
"a locket of yoursY' he asked, sur
prscd. r,
| She spoke hastily and tho undcrcurrent
! of excitement was growing stronger In
| her voice. -,
DO you want me 10 try II now" he
asked ''If you'll make light and show
mc the thing I'll sec what | can do
| "Pcrbaps you- won't need that she
said 'I can remember the letters. They
arc divided up into words, but I'm sure
tbcv arc no, any foreign language: they
arc in n code OF some sort.
She did not turn 10 look az MN, out
she felt him stir niue, Win sunacdliS
aroused attention, ana hcard MS prcd'H
| come "A little quicker.
'.'rhc first letter all by Itself, she
said trying TO keep her volSe ons SoSd stSspS came
THAT means a coward" he said;
His voice was unsteady and he ,,d G,9tcfied fnei
that his was trembling. SO she took 1t
In both of hers and held IL tight;
It's code" he said. "a b3yisn G"ne Gon,;
| time after / Invented IL | belicNed 1t 10
be utterly insoubic; yet it was cnllai,sin.g fi,si
simple il consists simply OF spn'ting
the alpha bet in two and using the last
half for the first. and vice versa, IL
mus, have occurred 10 hundreds OF boys:
at one time and ANOTHER and Eet~ a.,
ths, ths VUoSI Tou should have stumbled upon an
Other eSamplc of it"
The next word wns Or. o-r-g-e-n.i, 5ir-g
most Instantly :.WasUwas there any
more? 80
! "Onc little word, three letters. 'u-T-1.
| Bur j know already what they mean,
| Philip." There was a momcntary silence.
then she repeated the whole phrasc-A
coward BETRAYED him." She was trcm,,
! bling all over now herself al knew"
she said ~ knew l., was some thing like
| that" Then she dropped down beside
him and claspcd him tight in her arms.
picture an old picture OF you it must
nave been. which fell out OF your pocket
when I was undressing you that night
after your fight With RosGos ,ns,osod reeog 1n
My. hunters I had often seen II on his
watch fob. and it's engraved with his
initials"
''It fell out OF my pocket" said Philip,
incrcdu!ously.
Yes. she SAID mat puSzied me, 100
Tor while; ana hnaily inquired II out
You must have found Il 49,, :,
THAT night In Roscocs cave when
was waiting Tor MN mad iorSotlch
II until This moment.
Il knew It must be Ike tha'' sle
salu; something lke mat Ana WASH
IT, she began.
Hunters code as we'll as mino? Yes
we made IL UP together when we were
boys nc said, ''aud We used il OCCASION
ally even after we left the Point. We
wrote IN H., both OF Us, as easily as IN
Enghsh, ana read IL lhe same way.
lIer young arms sun held him last.
Philip ne must have been sorry,
long time-almost since 1T happened, IL 8
an old, old picture of YOU. dear. and the
INK on thc lettcrs IS faded. tic carried
! II with him ever since, as a reminder OF
the wrong he did YOU, and OF his cow
ardicc in letting you suffer under II"
.. suppose II was tnat from the nrst.
II don't believe he ever meant
she let inc sentence break OIL there, and
there was u long. long silence.
go. suppose tnaLs true. he said at last
just as might have saved him later
from Roscoc's dart. ! can think OF a
hundred ways that it might have hap
pened-tne accusation against me, l
mcan-"lthout his having any part in
Ii. Then he said rather abruptly, Fan
shaw told YOU the story. didn't hc?"
She assented, Most of IT, that is.
| Perhaps not quite all he knew
Il don't know II all mvsclf." he told
her, that is. / have filled il in with
Suesses | knew about the girl Hunter
was half mad about her and She
suppose. was in love With him ANY
way. he came, 10 mo onn ni-ht-tbc last
time ever talked with himSraSing with
eXcitempnt> Tho girls farther had found
OUT about him and meant. she said h,
xiii him, and perhaps her, too. ANYHOW
she had forbidden Hunters seeing her
again. We took drink or two. together.
before 7 started. and I supposo he must
have drunk himself half mad after that:
for he started our right on mv trsil and
did what you know. have aivaVs SUP
posed. until just now, that Inc had used
my name as his own with her to ecrccn
himself from Dossiblc troubIe, Eut rthat
may not have been the case lie NAV
simpIv havc .no,en of mo as bic S,,,rd
The girl was in love with him and
il would he natural for bn, io i've hcr
father my name Instead Of, lb,nter's and
make the acc,Isat ton against mc .nr-
pose he thought that / could nrobnh?y
clear myself easily enough u,i.houf ;S
yolying him and thai The whnIn rnu,
might blow over without doing anW ire,
nar.bIc d"n,o@a ~ III u"iiiS anS IRE,
then. when il didn't bIoN oVor"n,,or W. nitH ~
got worse and meant ruip for sor,nhadr
the fact that Inc HADN'T snoison a., e.,
would have made IL ION t,poS IL, ,',o. W ..
spcaIs at last i might have helped i'I him. :"
uudcr arrcst to scI, ir H..o,,,5 r. va, "a'
and I refused wa. 80 ''tIt,, TIL
! sncocb wns urnriu,,a5 49, L., Ills iils
and longer par,sns but SIN T.anno y,ait
cd -, rn - ,L M sliiI JsdHno Wait
own attiiude Then corrn,., tn.eSS a.. o, my
| ~, m,' @ @at'',uoo tnen' oorrcct is, perhaps,
81 hand IN "s',n ~, - ~, Mou'uH urn
been my ,ricnd aon"frors, ii,,. ,,,5n WHO iau
r..i or nj. ,if ~ al LYLE pu, tns
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