The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22

brushes him. he will go, in every sense.
| under the az. So I ought 10 be fired
with Il certain baIbaric caGcrncss for
victory. aud 90, in way. | am. But
| somehow, at the bottom of me, | wish 10
sec the fight fair. No hapdCaps: no
Olympic legginss, the winning 10 the best
| uan.
The fingers OF her hands cIenchcd.
! the pale bue of her eyes became the
harder blue OF metal.
isiranins puscle against sirainins
| muscle, wits fiercey hand to hand with
The cross for tho conquered That's the
fine thing. Courtandt, that's life! only
let Tie tight be fair"
This impassIopcd speech was inter
ruptcd by a thn. piping voice. little more
it said. Il am tired. May ! so home"
The old aunt had awakened. Her face
WAS plainjivc like "a child's- Time, haN-
ing made lfc's circuit with her. was re-
turning her 10 dissolution by tho cradle.
| summoned the old woman's maids
and they got her, with the footman's as
sIsiancc 10 the carriage: | went out
with Margaret Gsrnett she harkcd back
to her theme moment as took my
leave Of her "Croodnight. C9nr'land',
she said. please keep Randolph Mason
a neutral in this fight. IL is too tinc IL
struggle Ia be spoiled by an outsider.
If faihcr wins. | shah nave this mans
head on "A charger, IL ] wish IL. II he
loses lot The victor sell me into slavery" :"
IT Was thus that on the stage the
daughter Of harbarans was spenkine in
the haunted forests OF the Rhine. The
Bronze Helmet should not be offered TO
the gods for aid. If the Germans could
not heat Caesar back with their own
arms, let them die in the river marshes
remained for some time standing
by the curb after tho carriage Nas gone
had evidently come by chance upon
case TO 20 before Randolph Mason. u case
involving the fortunes of no ordinary per
sons. but OF John \. Garnctt. Thomas Is:
Wood and this oncmatic woman. |
M
garct Garnetts point OF view it involved
n conception Of fair play too purely acIo-
cmic; il returned to n heroic note; 1T was
too ideal for this commercial decade
Such an attitude was well enough in
Greek tragedy. or in That German Erin-
cess conjurcd up By Gaiki. but not IN
Margaret Garnctt. StIll her feeling was
doubtless passing mood created by tns
drama women were VIGOROUSLY subject
10 such influences; il would vanish with
eight hours OF sleep.
turned 10 call hanson. when one of
tho thcator attendants touched me on the
arm.
u bcs YOUR pardon" he said "can YOU
tel me il this article belongs 10 Miss
Garnet? II was picked up ' by % aq nsnsr he
gold lockct attached 10 a chain linking
alternately a topaz and an opal. car
rlcd tho locl5et To the light and examined
II. The case was without mark.
pulled II omen 10 sec If there was any
inside and I found there such a ono as
left no doubt remaining The locket con
tanned the picture Of her father. and on
posticit, of all persons on this earth, the
face OF Thomas r.. Wood.
So the girls heroic mood antedatcd
GatN. This struggle was the ono big,
thrilling incident NJ her prosaic life. Life
a woman, she had delticd the actors in Il.
The nice balance Of the struggle Was not
20 he disturbed even at tho price OF Vic
tory. The fight had taken on tho fine
lines Of al Latin tragedy The girls mood
W. he inv IN hlI
the lyric poets--a thing andTchronistc.
| returned the lockct to tho waiting
lackey. 1T is certainly Miss Garnetts.'
dlateiy to her residence"
Then I took a hanson 10 the Pcnnsyl-
vania station. This case on its way TO
Randolph Mason was Of consuming inter-
est.
On Thursday morning the counsel OF
John A. Ciarnelt called on Randolph Ma
son. When Pictro brought him into the
office | took him for some celebrated ac-
tor: his face was Of that pronounced clas-
sic cast associated in the public mind With
the masks of rhcsps: its expression was
ono OF supreme imperial serenity: IKE
that on the faces OF the stone lions in tie
Plaza Maggiorc in the Eternal City. If IL
were only gentle. His voice when he
spoke was deliberate and charming.
II have the honor he said ''to address
Randolph Mason My name Is Algcr.
am here ON matter for John 4. Car
melt.
! hid under conventional greeting tho
flaming interest which these words light
ed. Here was the envoy which Margaret
Garnctt said her father was about 10 send,
did not know that this meeting WAS by
appointment until Randolph Mason ap-
pearcd on the threshold Of the folding
doors between the two rooms. lie spoke
10 me.
II shall be engaged with Mr.. Alger for
the next hall hour. Direct Pietro TO ad-