The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-29
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returned, II will say them 10 Randolph
Mason.
| wished then that had said nothing.
II was worse than Idle 10 20 on such an
errand to Randolph Mason. The girl
would not understand Masons unconcern,
ms lack OF the usual courtesies of life.
his abrupt dismissal of her, or his ruth
less questioning. I tried 10 dissuadc her,
but / might as we'll have pleaded with
Cerberus. The idea suggested suddenly
by pidue seemed To her ON reflection to
| said. she grow more welded 10 III.
Since her fathers attorney had gone to
Randolph Mason. she. too, would so to
him If he had listened then, perhaps
he would also listen now. a lawyer pre-
senting logically an argument was not
always the most moving advocate. There
was tho case OF Esther.
There was no escape, so | went with
Margaret Garnett In ncr carriage To Ran :
dolph Mason. On the way she was un.
usually charming There was a touch OF
adventure TO this mission and the high
spirits attending struggle. Her impulses
in this case were coming now 10 action,
When we descended from the carriage
she stopped on the flag walk 10 admire
Randolph Mason 6 house. II had the ulS-
tnction of a ruin in tnis modern city.
she said; il seemed TO mark something
old, important. forgotten, but enduring In
an ago Of changes. and 10 be found mus
exactly as il now stood infinitely further
on. when the city should have gone back
again TO ashes. II gave one. too. she
said, the sensation OF t1lnSS nleNltdDie
and sinister, like cell uncovered In a
garden, II WAS fit dwelling. she
thought, for some influence that persist
ed. that threatened constantly. or con-
stantly promised aid. 1t might he the
erlba ssadorical residence OF vanished
empire, maintaining in the world a mys-
tcrious envoy, To such highly colored
fancies did this ll-sept colonial house,
with its broken flag walk. its tile roof,
it's plaster columns, lead this imaginative
woman.
She expected TO ind inside. she said,
an Egyptian sitting In a chair OF black
basalt. his hands on his knees. his feet
rising on the sacred lotus. or a Chinese
4, mandarin infinitely old his long finger
! nails reaching down under sleeves or eN
quste silk: or a Hindoo. squatJed on a
carpet, cmaciated like corpse: gaZins
forever into mystic crystal, The girl
fancy was in an oriental riot. won
dered how she would meet that plain
gray man. who was said 10 resemble the
most advanced surgeon In Europe, and
whose mania was the practical.
| began then. somewhat late in the
hour. TO prepare her for this meeting.
| advised her OF Mason's curious habits.
OF his unusual abstraction. | warned
her against his abrupt. Indifferent man
ner. mis- rigid. searching, brutal inquiries.
II she had any sensibiites 10 be hurt
or any fragile ideas Of courtesy TO be out
ragged we would do better to go pack
on the instant.
! was glad Of this elaborate warning
when the girl stood finally before Ran
| dolph Mason. I think there is no othel
| man living who would have remained
/ wholly unmoNed when this splendid
| young woman came suddenly before him
| She was no mere placid beauty, but force
| intelligence. energy. allvital, all instant
| ly alert, like Jephtnah's daughter rather
| had she gone 10 The prophet, speaking
| against her fathers nconsidcraLc vow.
! Mason deliberately laid down the per
| I'm his fingers and lifted his head, viii
the expression Of one who submits ou
OF necessity 10 an interruption. There
was no .Glcam of Interest. OF concern
even Of inquiry in his face. lie regard
ed the tall girl standing superbly before
his table her eyes illumincd, hcr nervou:
hands gripping firmly the back OF {
chair, as he might have regarded q beg
gar. slipping IN unnottced through th'
door He waited merely for the inter
ruption TO cease. the intruder 10 b'
gone.
Mr. Mason" the girl began. Il an
Margaret Garnett wish 10 inquire
why YOU care so greatly for my fathe
TO prevail over Mr.. Wood"
! ''I do not care he said.
| The young woman was evidently sur