The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

denoe that the check was good. Will
Hams then folded his deed, put 1t in his
twenty minutes to bring to a close.
Randolph Mason Inquired at what hour
G %s tod S0d9n a Sm e wos 0nd bd aFFys he
OF the Export Spruce company to be
here at that hour" he said Then he
sat down In the oak chair before the
We were all greatly puzzled. We did
not see why this second purchaser should
nothing more 10 sell. The. transaction
seemed to us TO have arrived at Its final
act. the curtain down and the lights out
Sarah Lemarr came down to the hall
and peeped through the door at Mason
where he sat motionless. his right elbow
on the twisted arm Of the grotesquely
carved chair, his clenched fingers prop
20 Courtlandt" she whispered. "he
is splendid! think Lancelot must have
looked like that when he sat In Arthur's
tournament. Just fancy, with that fr9ez-
Ing acid irony he would have said. Hast
thou won? Art thou the purest
brother?'' TO such an unconscionable rake
as Tristan Then she swore Beatrix to
obedience and slipped back UP the great
stairway.
a few minutes after 10 o'clock Lieu
tenant Gordon Smith arrived. and, a lit
tie later, the agent OF The Export Spruce
company. Mason arose when this agent
entered and explained. as he had done
about TO sail for England. and had de-
cided to sell her land She would take
twenty thousand dollars In cash for it,,
the deed to be executed and the money
to be paid down, The agent agreed at
once. and produced his deed, He was
| prepared as Williams was. Mason directed
cute the deed had no end OF trouble
| with BeatriX In the hall this time. She
! did not want to make another deed: she
had sold her land. she would not rob the
| Export Spruce company, III was not the
company that had stolen her land; Mr..
Mason had clearly gotten the two com
panies confused, He was making an
set him right about H.
Instead. called Sarah Lemarr. She
berated Beatrix IKE a pirate Disobey
thinkab BILE! Make, n mistake. not that big
fine, bronze god brooding by his sacred
| fire. WHY. girl she said, II would
9 hS man e told Tg me 10 oo do II It S' He aGa is ador
| able could follow him around like Il
dog and bite people II he whstled to me-
come down with the dog whip. And she
shook her little clenched hand over the
banlsters.
Finally we got the matter over. Bea-
| agent gave certified drafts on Dexter e.
Co, for the twenty thousand dollars, and,
, Ike Gilbert Williams. folded his deed and
departed.
Beatrix Smith bearded the lion with
! ewes swimming in tears Mr.. Mason -
| she said you have made a terrible mis-
take. The Export Spruce company Is
not the one who stole my land. 7 cannot
take its money; II will not get the prop
erty' And she went on with torrent
of lamentation.
Madam" said Mason. rising. "all this
Is drivci I have made no mistake The
! Export Spruce company will get every
| acre that II has this night purchased "
| Then he directed Beatrix to cash the
checks at the earliest hour In tho morn
ing and sail at once for England
! When went down the steps 10 his
| carriage. Sarah Lemarr slipped out from
| behind the door and caught my arm. II
| shall sail on the ST Paul at IL o'clock" !"
| Then she gripDed me until her nails hurt
| through my sleeve, "Oh. Courtlandt,' -
| she said, II have at last seen a man.
and she closed the big door behind me.
] The solution OF the matter arrived a