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

ther word with Beatrix Smith, but Mrs
Burgoyne- Hayes descended on me,
courtiandt'' she said your great,
grandfather on your mothers side, i
think. was a soldier of our King George
duke Of Hesse -Darmstadt drew his pay.
I did not see the note which Nine Won
Hubert wrote. TO Randolph Mason; but
return after dinner and ACCOMPANY him
10 Eighty-siXth street. The Won Huberts
have a residence on Eighty-slxth street.
We arrived there on the hour and were
al once sat down In q. heavy black oak
chair before the fire. This chair was a
massive and curious piece; II WAS s, cafvea ser
the baron's grandfather, The tortuous
shapes forming. It's arms and legs are
like the gargoyies TO be seen seen unaer os aS tms
and then In Paris.
l vas impressed by the picture OF Ma
son In this massive chair His long,
features OF the hldeous oaken monsters,
his face thrown partly into shadow by
the flaming logs on the, hearth The
with it's projecting chin, the fearless,
bony nose appearing In the fantastic
light flattened little at the end, like
that of a beast OF prey. and the cragsy
forehead-all colored. Drowned. reddened
by the fire.
/ heard the latch OF the door click and
on the threshold, looking at Mason with
profound interest. Her lips were parted
and her eyes wide open She had not
thought to come on this curious picture
of the middle ages taken down from some
Italian gallery and propped up here IN
the library OF the Won Hubcrts she
down by the library table little beyond
Randolph Mason. at the corner OF the
Presently Mason looked up at her, rs
1sf- IJ,,h hnrtp n
rising. without an infection OF Interest
or courtesy, as he would have said: Us
this the contract? Tho bond in quos-
tion?"
She flushed little; NO" she an
swered. 81 am merely the interesting
case that you came to examine into
"Give me the details OF 1t, said Ma
She began at once without introdue-
tion or verbiage and told her story with
breyty n and that s eoHd
through r the the drawing rooms of Newport
looking for rich husband
She had inherited from her father TWO
thousand acres OF wild forest land In
the county OF Pocahontas In the state
OF West Virginia. She and her aunt had
on 1t each year; they had even taken the
county seat. ip order that they might
know what lands We're returned delin-
warned against the horde OF dangerous
and unscrupulous land thieves said to
infest the mountain districts OF the VIZ
enias; But her great care was not
sufficient against the ingenuity Of these
pirates. After one Of the periodic assess
me1ts OF real estate nd one 1honsand h acres ang
books under the name OF Walden. re-
turned delinquent. and sold for , taxes.
The land wsS of ihe black Grse
Lumber company for s36so. She had
paid no attention TO the sale: not recog,
nlzing her land under this name until
she came to have the estate surveyed
a few months ago some five or six years
after It's purchase at the tax sale by
Gilbert Williams. She also learned that
the whole thing was a well planned and
effective scheme of this owner of the
Black Creek Lumber company TO steal
her land. These wild lands had vastly
increased in value
This company and rival one, the
Export Spruce company. were exceed
ingly anxious to purchase the remaining
tract: They would give, she r. thought
of the two companies had been al her
heels ever since she arrived In New York
Gilbert Williams was, now at the Flfth
reach her by telephone this very evening
lie offered a little better price than the
Export Spruce company; but he could
stolen half the land. The agent of the
Export Spruce company was at the Hol-
land, HIS note. on the table, requested
an interview with her at any hour. she
would name, day or night This indi-
| Gated how very desirous they were for
the land, Such a sale would yield her
would have given her the forty thousand
which she needed, Her name now was
Beatrix Smith; she had married Lieu
tenant Smith the year before io1, d,vm ne was in in
fore eleven o'clock this night.
That was the whole history. brief. ac
ment. She had there the table the
original deed. maps and tax receipts.
Masons face showed marked annoy
ance. as that OF an eminent surgeon
haste. arrives to find the patient with a
bumped nose.
why do you send for me?" he said :.
any lawyer could adjust this prob
lem"
1T ls vital one to me-" replied the
woman: 1T means my happiness and my
husbands career, I beg you to help
Her eyes began 10 III up and her lips
trembled with distress.
Randolph Mason gave no attention to
the woman's emotions. He sat. beating
the TIPS Of his fingers on the arms OF
the chair, with evident annoyance,
Let us get the thing over, then" he
said. Call ND this man Gilbert Williams.
Say to him that Mrs. Smith has deter
mined TO sell the lands; ask him 10 come
here at once with a totary.'
| w NAT. Crlcu ScatVlN Sfnlth, sell the
land to Williama2 the man who robbed
me. Flow can that help?''
! Madam" said Randolph Mason do
not worry me with petty bickerlne'
I signaled Beatrix Smith 10 confer
ence with me in the hall. DO exactly
as he SAYS" l whispered when we were
| outside the door, "and hurry
She promised and went swiftly upstairs
to the telephone.
In very few moments Gilbert Will
liams arrived. He was a red haired old
fellow with face like fox. and beady
ewes set obliduely in his head Randolph
Mason arose when he came in. and ex-
planned that as Mrs Smith wished 10
leave America at once. she had deter
mined TO sell her lands. provided cash
was paid. The lands were worth thirty
thousand dollars, but her husband was
absent and could not convey his curtesy
In the deed. She would therefore take
twenty thousand cash and make a deed
on the SPOT. Gilbert Williams snapped
up the offer Hc did not care anything
about the curtesy. Of the husband. The
land Itself was worth nothing. the tim j.
ber only was valuable. His mills would
cut II off In a wear, and he was willing
10 take the chaDce Of Mrs. Smiths living
that long. He produced q deed. which he
had brought with him TO New York, and
ran a pen through the blank which it oon :