The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-10

Tell me- she said suddenly.
It's this. / don't know how long
the performance lasted, but while 1t
was going on | forgot you were close
beside me. You might just as well
not have been there It's the first
time since / ever knew you that I've
been near you without thinking about
you all the time, and hadn't realized
II Till | was sitting there by myself. l
nope you don't mind my telling you?"
1t only makes me more glad that
brought you Margaret said quietly.
Thank you" he answered. but he
was quite sure that the same thing
could not happen again during the
second part
Nevertheless. ii ippened For a
little while, they wtse man and wom-
an, sitting side by side and very near.
TWO in silent multitude of other
men and women; but before long he
was quite motionless, his eyes were
liked again and he had forgotten her.
She saw it and wondered, for she
knew how her presence moved him.
and as his hands lay folded on his
knee. mischievous girlish impulse
! almost made her, the great artist, for
| get that she was listening to the
| greatest music in the world and near
ly made her lay her hand on his, just
to see what he would do. She was
ashamed of it, and a little disguised
| with herself. The part of her that
] MnpnnrAt T.I. A
the part that was Cordova felt the
shame, and each side of ner nature
was restrained at a critical moment
Yet when the Good Friday" music
began, she was thinking of Van Torp
ana he was unconscious of her pres
ence.
1t could not last, and soon she. too,
was taken up into the artificial para
disc of the master-musician and borne
along in the gale of golden wings, and
there was no passing of time till the
very end; and the people rose in ST.
fence and went out under the summer
stars; and all those whom nature had
gifted to hear rightly, took with them
memories that years would scarcely
dim
The two walked slowly back to the
town as the crowd scattered on foot
and in carriages, 1t was warm, and
there was no moon, and one could
smell the dust, for many people were
moving in the same direction, though
some stopped at almost every house
and went it, and most of them were
beginning to talk in quiet tones.
4 Margaret stepped aside from the
road and entered narrow lane, and
Van Torp followed her in silence
This leads out to the fields" she
said. Il must breath the fresh air.
Do you mind?"
'On the contrary"
He said nothing more, and she did
not speak but walked on without
haste, dilating her nostrils to the
sweet smell of grass that reached her
already. In little while they had
left the houses behind them, and they
came to gate that led into a field.
Van Torp was going to undo the
fastening, for there was no lock
NO. she said, I'VE won't go
She rested her crossed arms on the
upper rail and Van Torp did the
same, careful that his elbow should
not touch hers, and they both stared
2 into the dim, sweet-scented meadow
He felt her presence now and it al
most hurt him; he could hear his
slow pulse in his ears, hard and regu
lN,,t I'll.
was so still that he could hear her
breathing, and at last he could not
bear the warm silence any longer.
What were you thinking about?'
he asked, trying to speak lightly.
She waited, or hestated, before she
answered him.
You" she said, after time.
He moved involuntarily, and then
drew little further away from her
as he might have withdrawn a foot
from the edge of a precipice, out OF
common caution. She was aware OF
his slight change of position without
turning her eyes
What made you say what you did
to Mrs. Rushmore yesterday after
/ lppH' sue dAhtu
about YOU"
Yes"
she asked me, point-blank, what
| thought of Logotheti," Van Torp an
swered. 81 told her that | couldnt
give her an unbiased opinion of the
man you meant to marry, because
had always hoped to marry you my
self"
"Oh-was that the way it hap
pened?'
Mrs Rushmore could hardly have
misunderstood me-" said Van Torp
gathering the reins of himself, so t
say, for anything that might happen
mo But it sounds differently wher
you say it yourself"
That was just what I said, any
how answered Van Torp Il ddn'
think she'd go and tell you right away
but since she has, don't regret hav
ing said that much"
1T was straightforward, at al
eyents-if 1t was all true!" There was
the faintest laugh in her tone as sh,