The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-11-21

her hands were hot and her eyelids
burned Finally she reused herself.
Thank you. Emmaline." she said
In tired voice, good night now: I'm
going to sleep. and you must go to
bed. too"
But alone In the warm wan dark.
Shirley lay staring open.eyed at the
ceiling. Slowly the terror was selling
upon her, the dread. noiseless and In
tangible. folding her in the shadow OF
Its numbing wings. Was her mother
the one over whom that old duel had
been fought7 She remembered the
cape Jessamines. Was the date OF
that cuel--of the death OF Sassoon-
the anniversary her mother kept?
She sat up In bed. trembling. Then
she rose, and opening the door with
caution, crept down the stair. sliding
her hot hand before her along the
cool polished banister. AS she passed
through the lower hall. hound on the
porch. seeming her. stirred, thumped
his tail on the flooring. and whined.
Cropping her way to the diningroom,
she lighted candle and passed
through a corridor into low-ceiling-
ed chamber employed a. a general re-
ceptacle--a glorified garrett. as Mrs.
cambridge dubbed 1t.
II showed a strange assemblage! A
row OF chests, stored with winter
clothing. gave forth a clean pungent
smell OF cedar, and at one side stood
an antique spinet and worn set OF
horsehair furniture.
Shirley had turned her miserable
eyes on bookshelf along one wall.
The volumes II contained had been
her fathers. and among them stood
row OF tones taller than their fel.
lows-the bound numbers OF a county
newspaper, beginning before the war.
The back of each was stamped with
the year. She was deciphering these
faded imprints. Thirty years ago.
she whispered: yes. here II Is"
She set down the candle and
dragged out one OF the huge leather
backs. Staggering under the weight
she rested it's edge on the table and
began feverishly to turn the pages, her
eye on the date line. She stopped
presently with a quick breath-she
had reached May 18th. The year was
that of the duel: the date was the day
following the jessamine anniversary
Fearfully her eye overran the columns
Then suddenly she put her oper
hand on the page as though to bio
hA IA ~ aAIA,
stricken from cheek and brow. Blu,
the line seemed TO glow up through
the very aesh: Died. May l4th. Ed
ward Sassoon. In his twenty.sixtt
year"
The book slipped to the floor with q
crash that echoed through the room
II was true. thenl II was Sassoon'i
death that her mother mourned. Tn,
man In whose arms she had stood
such little while ago by the old dla
OF Damory Court was the son OF the
man who had killed hlml
"Oh. God" she whispered. "just
when | was 80 happy! Oh. mother
heart broke when he died. II wai
Valiant who broke it-Vallant-Val
liant His father!"
She slipped down upon the bare
floor and crouched there shudderins
and agonlzed. her dlsheveled hair we
with tears. Was her love TO be bu
the thing OF an hour. a single clasp
and then. forever. nothing? His IA
theirs deed was not his fault. Ye
how could she love "A man whose ever,
feature brought pang TO that mother
she loved more than herself? So
over and over. the wheel OF hel
thought turned In the same desolat'
groove. and over and over the parox
ysms OF grief and longing submerge,
her
Noiselessly as she had descended
she crept again up the stair As sh,