The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03

ing that strange imprisonment, and
that he cried almost with delight when
the door Of the cabin opened and be
saw the table Of the saloon set for
dinner, and light falling upon it, from
a handsome lamp below the skYlight.
During one delicious moment he
thought himself the victim Of a we'll.
meaning practical joker; the next his
limbs were limp as cloth, and he sank
upon n cushioned seat with groau
which must have been heard by til =
men above.
This scene has been so faithfully dc,
scribed 10 me that ] can see il as
clearly as though | myself stood
amongst the PLAYERS. On the one
hand, a pretty, little American girl,
with hands clasped and malicious
laughter about her rosy mouth; on the
other, shrinking, craven, abject shad-
ow of a man, covering upon the cush-
ions Of n sofa, in blank astonishment,
and hiding his view of her with bony
fingers. AT n glance you would have
said that the girl was not twenty-but
she was twentythrec, the picture of
youth. with the color of the ea-health
foam glistening in her rich brown hair.
She had upon her head little hat of
straw poised daintily; her dress was
of white serge with a scarf of Yacht
club coors at the throat; but her feet
were the tInlest in the world, and the
brown shoes which hid them not unfit
for an artist IS model And as she stood
her guest upon the Yacht, her atti-
tude would have made the fortune of
half the painters I'm Hampstead. The
two faced each other thus silently for
a few minutes. but she was the first TO
speak, her voice overtlowing with rip
ping laughter.
"Well," she said, 'I call this real
good of you, my lord to come on my
yacht, when you were lust off to the
other girl and your weddings fixed
for the 18th of July. My word. YOU re
tho kindest- hearted man in Europe. -
He looked up at her, some shame
marked in his eyes. and he said:
Evelyn, II never thought it was
"Then how pleased you must be
Oh, m right glad, tell you; m Just
as pleased as you are. To think that
we We never met since you left N'York
in such hurry that you hadu Z time
even to send me line: but of course
YOU men are so busy and so smart that
girls don Z count, and | knew you were
just dying 10 see me, and | sent the
boat off saying it was old Burrow-
how you love Burrow-and here YOU
She spoke laboring under a heavy
excitement, so that her sentences
flowed over one another. But he could
scarce find a coherent word. and be.
gan TO tremblc as she went on:
You II stay awhile, of course. and
why. you re AS pale as spectres, 7
guess. Now if YOU look like that |
shall begin to think that we re not the
old friends we were in n York year
ago, and walk right upstairs to Arthur,
You remember my brother Arthur, of
course you do He was your particular
friend WASH t he? But how You bows
quarrel They really told me two
months ago in the city that Arthur was
going in the shooting business with you.
Fancy that now, and at vour age
This sentence revealed what was
lacking in the character of the piri; il
showed that malicious, if rather low
and vulgar cunning which prompted
the whole of this adventure. and it
betrayed revenge which was worthy
of French woman. Maclaren had but
to hear the harsh ring of the voice TO
know that the girl who had threatened
him months ago in New York had met
her opportunity, and that she would
use II to the last possibility Every
word that she uttered with such mean.
ing vehemencc cut him like knife;
his hair glistened with the drops of
pcrspiration upon it; his right hand
was passed over his forehead as
though some heat was tormeutiug his