The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-05-13


blings.
Nor was this all; considerable de-
gree Of restlessness was surely par
donable in one who, from her window,
watched a carriage-drive populous
with vehicles (for the most part mo-
tor cars) bringing to the hotel gayly
dressed men and women, the guests
invited to the wedding of Rose Urine
and Alan Law.
Within another ten minutes the
man Judith loved with all her body
and soul would be the husband OF her
sister.
She had told herself she was re-
signed; but she was not, and sne
would never be. Her heart was brea---
ing in her bosom as she sat there
watching, waiting, listening to the
ever heavier detonations OF the ap-
preaching thunderstorm and to the
Iubilant pealing of great organ down
below.
The had told herself that, though
, resigned, she could not bear to VIII
ness the ceremony. Now as the mo-
ment drew near when the marriage
would be a thing finished, nxed'
irretrlevable, she found herself I'M
able to endure the strain alone.
Slowly, against her will, she rose
and stole across the floor to her IA
theirs chair.
His breathing was slow and regu-
lar; beyond doubt he slept; unques-
tionably there was no reason why sne
should not leave him for ten minutes;
| even though he walked 1t could not
harm him to await her return at the
end of that scant period.
Like guilty thing, on feet as noise
less as any sneak thief's, she crept
from the room, closed the door 81
lently, ran down the hall and de-
scended by back way, little-used
staircase, to the lower hall, approach
| ing the scene of the marriage.
Constructed in imitation OF an OLD
Spanish mission chapel, 1t contained
one of the finest organs in the world |;
at this close range its deep-throated
tones We'd with the warnings of the
storm. Judith, lurking in passage
way whose open door revealed the
altar steps and chancel, was shaken
to the very marrow of her being by
the majestic reverberations Of the
music
Since they had regained contact
with civilization in section OF the
country where the Law estate had
vast holdings of land, the chapel was
thronged with men and women who
had known Alans father and wished
to honor his son.
Above stairs, in the room judith
had quilted, Seneca Urine opened
both eyes wide and laughed silent
laugh of savage triumph when the
door closed behind his daughter.
At last he was left to his own de
vices-and at a time the most fitting
imaginable for what he had in mind
With a grin, Seneca Urine raised
both arms and stretched them wide
apart.
Then, grasping the arms of his
chair, he lifted himself from it ant
stood trembling upon his own feet fol
the first time in almost twenty years
This, then, was the secret he hat
Rugged to his embittered bosom, {
secret unsupported even by the at
tending surgeon; that through thu
motor accident three days ago he haC
regained the use of limbs that hat
been stricken MISUNDERSTANDING
enough, by a motor car-nearly tive
decades since.
Slowly but surely moving to thu
bureau in the room, he opened on
of it's drawers and took out some
thing he had, without her knowledge
seen Judith put away there while sh
thought he slept.
Then, with this hidden in tn
pocket of his dressing gown h
steered straight if very deliberate
course to the door, let himself out
and like a materialized specter of tn,
man he once had been, navigated tn,
corridor to the head of the broat
central staircase and step by step
clinging with both hands, negotiated
the descent
The lobby of the hotel was deserted
AS the ceremony approached its en'
every guest and servant in the hous'
was crowding the doorway to tn
chapel None opposed the progress
of this CHASTITY vision in dressing
gown and slippered feet, chucklint
insanely to himself as he tottereC
! through the empty halls and CORR
doris, finding an almost supernatural
strength to sustain him till he founC
himself face to face with his chosel
enemy and victim.
The first that blocked his way int,
the chapel, a bellboy of the hotel
looked round at the first touch of tn,
claw-like hand upon his shoulder an,
shrank back with a cry of terror
cry that was echoed from half
dozen threats within another instant
AS If from the path of some grisl,
visitant from the world beyond tn,
grave, the throng pressed back an,
cleared way for Seneca Urine, ia
Their of the bride.