The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-15

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his course and order his life, knowing
nothing of his wife, | yielded to MS
pleadings. | thought 1t was NOBLE
and splendid opportunity vouchsated
me and in a measure, vouchsafed him
| to show the world that we did really
believe what we said. Had believed
In God then | should have said his
meeting with me, his conversion to
my theories. his passion for me, his |
Willingness to abide by my decision |
we're Providental | was glad to con-
secrate my life to the truth, with his
aid to take the final step In attesta-
ton of my belief, to convince the
world that one woman at least had
the courage of her convictions. 1t was
mistake, frightful mistake, an IT.
/ reparable mistake, for which / sup
/ pose that must suffer to the end OF
time"
mo" cried Langford, II am here
to repair the blunder."
|, There is no power on earth, said
$ the woman, passionately, that can
r put me where was that can give me
back that have lost"
y Nate, Nate! CEltu bah5iOiut 49,
II don't understand"
81 understand too well. Why con-
/ tinue the sorry story? Mr.. Whitaker,
s. and you that are men beyond, that
o have wives and children and sweet
4 hearts, that have been taught to love
l God, to believe in him, and to observe
u his laws, that have submitted your
selves gladly to the conventions OF SO
N ciety-or If any be among you VINO
% have outraged these and gone against
them, taken the law into your own
hands-you will understand sooner OF
later what came to me. l discovered
that there was nothing high or holy
in this mans regard for me; that M
persuaded himself that he believed al
| simply to get possession OF me.
awoke to q dreaded realization, alon'
with him on that yacht. He was no
kind to me. He acted according t
his lights"
81 will confess It," said Langforc
. 81 was brute to her. l drank; ] az
knowledged that l had wife; sal
she was in my power; l called he
vile names"
n There was low growl, muttere
roar from the men behind Whittake
4 Even Langford's own men, in his ow
I pay. shrank back from him. The ma
was frightfully pale, yet he went c
- resolutely, Whitaker stilling the I
- multi with appraised hand.
mo one" he cried, "can think mo
hatefully of human being than
think of myself now. have n
learned her philosophy; have learn
n another and better. In some sc
~ of way at least | know that l q
N never be happy until have made n
happy. know that love her M
as I should have loved her the
that have hunted these seas for b
without ceasing since she left me
drunken stupor one night
Left you how?" asked the lieut.
ant commander.
81 am not quite clear | must ha
descended very low" said Langfo
II remember some sort of scene
supper, and when | awoke In
morning. or I didn't wake for
months, they found me in the mo
II ing with q fractured skull on the
IN in floor, and they took me back to
TIN United States. 1t was year or m
NJ before | could begin the search
" her"
n "He said things to me that nigl
n said the woman, that no woman co
. endure or forgive. He came tow
wv me. / threw him from me with s
force and Violence am strong
man--that he lay senseless In
cabin. The motor launch had b
got overheard for trial and
W trailing astern. got in 1t, drii
away, started the motor and RAJ
the until the gasoline was gone. | brot
nder- food and water from the cabin ia
I lived a week in the boat, bea
aker. southwark all the time by means
been a sail which improvised from a
5, or cloak. One night there
par a storm. At the height of 1t
n, the thrown upon this island. The"
Ihey- 81 hoped said Langford, taking
lhe the tale, that that might be the
iland. ter hot end in view I
sltua' searched the Pacific. ] have lal
upon many uncharted islands.
eXDlOrGu OUTFITS ilhliS, IL SfSi' va
THIS praying to God that she nigh
alive. that | might find her and
I'd. reparation, and now have found
Stand, at last when / had given up all
ander abandoned all expectation. Al
= men stand here confessing my fault b.
Y told men, ready to do anything and e
thing that a man can do to
emark amends for the past"
expe- But you have wife, said w
'essed ker, coldly.
odlike NO she's dead these two }
by the thank God. | never loved her
steiner was boyish infatuation for
I'd he signing adventures who want'
e as hold upon my fathers money.
of au- free, free to make her my wife.
I'd the her, | beg her to take me, to
me a chance to show that feel
at the have done, to devote my life
le' patton"
." said He stopped, wiped the mo