The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-05

keeping II and losing several pleasures
that other men managed 10 enjoy. appar-
emily with free consciences, | confess
used to rather envy them. 1t is no par
ticular virtue on my part; the thing
struck me as rather more vulgar than
wicked and so | have had no wild oats
to speak OF; and no woman, If that is
what you mean, can write an anonymous
letter, ana no man cau Leil you n story
about me that he could not tell in my
presence"
There was something in the way the
young man spoke which would have am
ply satisfied the outsider had he been pres
ent, but the bishops eyes were stili un-
| relaxed and anxious; lie made an I'M
patient motion with his hand,
Il know You too well, ! hope" he id,
ito think Of doubling your attitude In
that particular. know YOU are a gem
tleman. that is enough Tor that; but
there is something beyond these more
common evils, You see. l am terribly In
earnest over this-you may think unjustly
this child is my only child. II her mother
| had lived, my responsibility would have
| been less great but, az 1t Is, Cod has
left her here alone to me in my hands, !
| should end when | had fed and clothed
her. and taugh; her TO read and write:
] do not think He meant that | should
pnly act as her guardian until the first
man she fancIcd fancicG her. ] must look
/ to her happiness, not only now when
she is with me. but l must assure myself
| OF u WDgn Sle leaves NY TOOL
| "These common sins of youth | acquit
you Of Such things are beneath you,
| believe. and did not even consider them
! But there are other tolls in which men
! become involved other evils or mlsfor"
| tunes which exist, and which threaten all
men who are young and free and attrac"
| tive In many ways TO women, as well as
men. You have reached a place in your
profession when you can afford to rest
| and marry and assume the responsibilities
OF marriage. You look forward TO a life
Of content and peace and honorable am5L- 11
| which Is to last forty or fifty years, You
consider where YOU will be twenty years
from now, at what point OF your career
tice. your perspective is unlimited; you
| even think OF the college TO which you
may send your son. 1t Is long, quiet
future that you are looking forward TO,
and you choose my daughter as the com
panion for that future. as the one woman
| with whom you could live content for that
length of time, And 1t is In that spirit
| that you come 10 mo tonight and that
you ask me for my daughter.
Nov l am going to ask you one. .gues-
tion, and as you answer that | VIII tell
| YOU whether or not you can have Ellen
| for your wife. You look forward as
say, to many years OF life, and you have
| chosen her as best suited To 1.-Two that
period with you, but | ask you this. and
demand that you answer me truth
| fully, and that you remember that you are
speaking to her father. Imagine that
| naQ IIC power TO ten you, OE IatNcI
! that some superhumap agent could con
vince you, that you had but a month
| TO live, and that for what you did In
that month you would not be held re-
sDonslblc either by any moral law, or any
law made by man, and that YOUR life
hereafter would not be Influenced by your
conduct In that month. would you spend
II. J ask you--and on your answer de-
pends mine-woulJ you spend those thirty
days with death at tho end. with my
daughter, or with some other woman OF
whom 7 know nothing?"
| I.atimer sat for some time silent until
indeed his silence assumed such a signi- =
ficance that no raised his head impatient
ly and sold with motion OF the hand.
III mean to answer you in minute; !
| want 10 be sure that understand.
| The bishop bowed his head In assent,
and for still longer period tho mon
sat motioness. The clock In the COR
nor seemed 10 tick more loudly. and
tho dead GOALS dropping In the crate
had a sharp. aggressive sound. The notes
OF the piano that bad risen from the
room below had ceased.
'If I understand you" said Lstimer.
finally and his voice and his face as
lie raised II wcrc hard and aggressive.
"you are stating a purely hypothetical
case. You wish 10 try ME by conditions
i which do not exist, which cannot exist