The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-06

toned seats silent, voorhees, hardly stirring but to
gesture whisper furtively each otheT-and to
listen. listen, it seemed, endlessly What there
hear but the song Of the flying wheels on the
metals the of echoing walls they raced
through some narrow tunnel and sprang out with
leap relief that almost animate more into
eyelids completely. It would have needed nerve of
iron to have closed her with those two mys-
teTiOUsly menacing figures there on the floor. To
betay her fear might be to rouse them TO turn upon
her To try make them speak useless. To
guess the meaning of their entry of their presence
past all power She could only sit and wait ex-
pectant wondering what to follow next 1t
seemed to her, after half hour Of this
silent, weird strain, that they have been going
for years, for ages-sO they might on till the
world to its end
She could move her fixed gaze from the crouch
ing fgures-she dared not move it. To relax her
watch for one moment might be her death. She sat
there drawn back into her corner her feet unGer to
was nearest her. She stared at the brown, pointed
moods ana the coarse new serge Of the haDSi Sa9
round of the brown rosary beads as they cnlIed and
began to set her fears little rest Surely if they
carry out their Work: robbers ala not enter fhird
class carriages to steal from palpably girls It
might be the rule Of their order TO travel in this ODD
the vigilance of the officials. At all events they
Of Iunatcs breaking from cir keepers dismissed
ana il Was not likely that two monks would be men
tally afflicted in the same monastery, 49, 7,o
young monk. who scrambled actively and silently to
the window, peering with face dropped close
TO the pane and shielding his with his hand They
mad run on for hours and hours, it seemed to Honor
her weird companions entered the train me
young monk dropped the curtain and turned with
significant his older companion, Once more
Honor felt her blood chill in her veins. Had it come
after ALL the moment OF danger? Was she threatened!
gathered her resolution and glanced quickly
the danger signal above the opposite seat If they
sprang her she would make least agonlZed
dash at the handle-she would stop the tTain-help
might come in time The fat monk scrambled heavily
helping himself with labor by the beside him
ana putting though scant of breath. They stood
together in The space of carpet. Honor
noticed how tall the younger looked beside his com
panion; noticed even in that moment of fear. In
stinctively knew that his slender strength
to be dreaded than the bulk of the older
She caught her breath and her teeth
the distance between her and the signal with swift
look.
But instead of attacking her they had moved
together the window, and stood pressed together
side, waiting and listening, it seemed,
sound some event they expected. They did
not try to peer again from the window; it seemed
they need. AS they stood
suddenly Honor felt the speed of the train
spring and of the flying wheels, begin
There the quick, grating grind of brakes put
abruptly; with every yard their slackenng
They must be nearing station. If the did
into another. She could not stand this strain of
nerves and fear any longer. It might be absurd but
she could not Quicker and quicker came the slow
ing down. They We're almost at a standstill With a
key from the folds of his brown frOck unlocked
the door, still with that strange silence caution
He turned the handle, and the train drew O a
stand he had flung the door open and the
habit caught in the crack between the hinge
He uttered snort that half alarm half wrath.
Quick as lightning the younger monk reached
and shook and dragged at the stuff almost savagey he