The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-20
CHAPTER XXI
The Rifed Room.

DRoM end to end of the little apartment there
II havoc and overturning The stood
4 wide, though Honor had left them closed when
she in the afternoon. Through them
the light of the gas jet the staircase streamed
upon such wild confusion that it If
lunatic had been making ruin within. Drawers were
drawn out and sticking by their further rims to the
frame, while the lower end rested floor.
contents were flung in disordered heaps
end of the little rooms. the doors of wardrobes and
cupboards stood swinging open. and frocks had been
torn from the nails and tossed the carpet among the
other debris
The little writing table had some locked places-a
drawer or two space with tiny doors These
Honor kept fastened always, because them she
put Mrs Montressors jewelry valuables till
the daughter should to claim them. She
another little sharp when she that these safe
places had been broken with the rest-the little
doors wrenched apart by force of sharp ustru-
ment for the lock hung shattered from the inlaid
wood.
All the things of value that would be sacred to
Mrs. Montressors children! they stolen? What
should she do? She sprang to see On the shelf of
the writing table where the embroidered bloter lay,
was spread tumbled array of brooches rings
lockets and chains They scattered from side to
side. as If some hasty hand had swept and divided
them. searching for something among them that made
them valueess by comparison.
''The saints Heaveni The good God! The holy
Mother CALCULATIONS came from the gasping porters
wife behind like explosive bullets what is this
evil thing? Who has broken into apartment
house most respectable? Who dared to about
the signorina's things? It the devil himself GER
tanly. No could leave a decent apartment IN
this abomaable messl 1t is not robbery they would
never have left all that beautiful ewelry!
mailman or some with demon of black spite"
She stopped down and began to pick up Honors
frocks from the floor bewailing tumbled
wrath. Aye. di me! the evil hour Never, never did
now! We are undone! she kept repeating shaking t
her head from side to side.
and confusedly counting them. She to remember
with its long. thin. gold chain for wearing
bracelets with curb Chains and padloeks db tsocke
that held childs fluffy fair hair There seemed Moth
lection Surely ali We're herei Then Why Why had
Gd edss thief to 6EsSk into the little
The marauer had not been disturbed in the middle Of
his work He could not have fed in such haste that
the work of an instant to stuff the things of any
coming: And now that She remembered, the man on
coming ham lying beoaSse she Go came waiting lot Aer
As the thought passed through her mind there came
more more The man on the stairs had only wanted ring
Sa a % ef o6m 6S Hsd II for for that he
over into the keeping Of Princess Fiavia When all
wayay her the stairs That ring Always that
IS the eonyiction with Thank Ss@yen
she was free from Il NOW " a 9T sRe fa
Of TGs om that he a the tngs S she had gath
ac S @ into the one remaining drawer whose
open l and : She turned {hs key w 49,.
have s the he, wretches got clear away ,with?"
ing aeP me tn u al aa see that S fs
places and shall soon know We Cannot tell while
little hand mrfe Se R we're ths FasS Gf
has gone 5hat taone IN dne bedroom But nothing
Only the furniture is hurt and spoiled
said the porters wife devOutiy crossing herself Fit
n ess fo ShG S an o be broken into # II
world poor little signorina: YOU are SO obgfne and
so good Yet this is only the kind spite that
Jaws ache stil with the cloth those accursed rough
by accident wei-a-day this = night to 1--WE
IN ones remembrance! shall never forget it while
ts She gters Sa and while
II was business that took some time Honor slowed
than she had been take before for this
the ornaments the tables They went into hiding
till the. the rooms were left bare and unadorned
demanded the porters VIE curiousy The piaeo
9sRs ssafS stay with
want the ng sps ar 6acf be eSr a at a m
fan hand them over to the people who have right
.Alack # not to looked that the gracious
sh Bat oh she N w sy nofn she n 6a nsq
what has S tier oe viii be silent
and there viii be letting aPsrtsnss
sap EeGR Rss E and would 3 ruined s
much TO ask; the sgnorina is sucn little angel She
viii! surely keep silent tongue tonighs work.
Honor: unless to people who would not repeat But
TIE dusk and leave the place unprOtected When a
thing like this has happened may come again.
ana yes you may sleep hare, pleaseI should 1t.
tnaeed l am not coward generally but this
frightened me rather. don't left"
50 the porter's wife slept the bed the outer
ROOM and the night tranquil enough. The porter
with scared face heard the attempted
ROBBERY when he came singing back from the cafe,
ana ms wires VOluble e1oquence drenched him like
stream he TOO, was eager that the police should
get TO near Ire house would be ruined ruined and
honest peoples business Honor had to reterate
her promises not to make the matter public After
ward she was bitterly regret.
1t was with heart that felt thrill of relief that
she packed her box in the morning,
her own belongings that to be left in
the apartment The rooms had always been full of
gloom, and surrounded with sorrowful associations,
since she came to live in them Now they had gained
an added shadow from the horror of last night She
was thankful TO say goodbye to them-thankful
Leel that she was to come back She packed
her box ana left II at the lodge till the
ssnger Princess Flavia had promised to send for it
should come TO fetch 1t. Then, she had
little purchases to make before she went the