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Show TEE PAGE SIX JOURNAL, LOGAN, UTAH. TRI-WEEKL- Y Taesday, October 13, igog. Tues Si J CHA Cl 5 Chapter ' a moment there was dead POE jisr-ry- s breath aught in his and the old mans eye throat, again impaled1 the hapless son. , Hugh threw up has head with an .attempt at jauntiness,' but with furtive apprehension every muscle, for he could not solve the . look ihe saw on his fathers face, and said : You act as if at were a cool million. I m n- worse than lot who have better luck than Suppose I- - did -- drawthe five thousand. - You were goin to give me ten for a wedding-preent. I had to, have the money then,' and you wouldnt have glv en it to me. You know that as well as I do. Besides, I was going -- to take it up myself, and you .would never have been the wiser. He promised to hold' it Its a f low trick for him to round on me like this. Ill pay him off for It - l s : some time. I dont see that its anybody elses business but ours he continued, with a anyway aurly glance at Harry. Ilarry had' been staring at him, but with a vision turned curious ly backward- - a vision that seemed to see Hugh standing at a carpeted dais in a flower hung room, while his own voice said out of a Lund .shadow, Wilt thou have this man to he thy wedded husband Stay, Sanderson said ' the old man ; then turning to Hugh, Who advanced you money on this and promised to hold it f Dr, Moreau. He profited by it. Hie got his said margin, Hugh sullenly. ; IIow much margin did .he - her protesting hands. It was ail he said, for he her strength and showered blow which h took a cracking parch! Hugh, pleaded, stopped suddenly at sight of her upon blow on the hard clay, tar ment.. It was : the. will ..against not for a moment not when 1 face, pain frosted; white as the face and hair and whose signing Ilarryrlrad plead--eshimmering am so happy ! Your. face is what folded cloth.. train powdered with ' the white months before in that same , I dreamed it must be I Why did Oh, turning to dust, till the statue lay on the room. Jhe butler entered. you make me wait so long. And ward the . vodee I remember floor, a- - heap of tumbled fra Witness she Oh, love. - A thousand. Where is the rest? Stires voice was like - steel. Hugh hesitated a moment, ne had still a few hundreds in pocket but he did not .mention them. I used most of it. a f ew debts. . .. . Detys of honor, I presume ? Hughs sensibility ' quivered at the fierce, grating irony of the ' inquiry If jou.d been more decent with spepdingmoney, ; he said with a flare of the old effrontery, Id have been all right. Ever since I came ' home youve kept me strapped. 1 was- ashamed to stick, up any more of my friends. And of course I couldnt borrow from Jessica! Ashamed the exejiaimed old man ' with harsh sternness. You are without, the decency or shame! If you were capable of feeling it you would not mention het name now I a- glim- Jkigh- tbought-he-samer through the storm cloud. Jessica was his- - anchor to windward. . What hurt him would hurt her. He would pull through! " Well, he said, its done, and theres no good making such a row about it. Shes my wife and shell stand by me, if nobody else does! No one had ever seen such a tires face as .!ookjqnj David came .to it now a sudden blaze of fury, and righteous scorn that burned it lake 4 brand., ad . - . ! w- - ., can., see, ' . -- I can I - Co ; the - ; : 1 - - - 1 - , a' i?? a I . TheRightKind at the Right Prices..... .....The Journal : . Stires once more in hia even, deadly voice, .Jessica is waiting in the room above this.. She wil not understand the delay. Wil you go to her? Make some excuse Any you can think of till Ilarry nodded and left the room, shutting the door carefully behind him, carrying with him the cowering, helpless look with which Hugh saw 7 himself left alone with his implacable judge. What to say to her? How to say it. He mounted the stair as if a pack swung from his shoulders. He paused a moment at the door, then knocked, turned the knqb and entered. There in the middle of the blue hung room in her wedding aress, with her bandaged eyes, and her bridal bouquet ori the table, stood Jessica, twilight was near," but even so all the shutters were drawn save one through which a last glow of refracted sunlight sifted, to fall upon his face. Iler hands were .clasped before her. He could hear tar breathing the full, hurried . respiration of expectancy. Then,, while, his hand closed the door behind him, a thing unexpected, anomalous, happened a thing that took him as utterly" by surprise as if the solid floor had yawned before him. Slim fingers tore away the broad encircling bandage. She started forward. Her arms were- flung about his neck. . she cried. Hugh, Hugh ! husband! My . lTheL Job Printing.. i 5 band!. he old man J i Farewell e H Excursion To . Or fault! 6 In her bitter words was an injustice a passionate as her pain, T the foot of the stir Harry but .for Her life she could not help paused, drawing a ' deep it. She was a woman wrenched breath as if to lift a weight and torn, tortured beyond control of air. lie needed to get his bear- numb with anguish " To. Ilarry Sanderson, her words ings, to win back a measure of --- -- - fell with a, wholly disproportioncalmness. As he stood there Hugh came ate violence. It had never ocfrom The library' Ilis head - was curred to him that . he himself down, and he went furtively and had been individually and activeslinkingly, as though dreading ly the cause of Hughs downfall. even a casual regard. He snatch- The accusation pierced - through ed his .hat from the rack, passed the armor of self .esteem that, be out of the house and was swallow- had linked and riveted with habed up in th dusk. - David Stires it. The same pain of mind that b-- a had. followed his into the hall, d spurred lie answered the gloomy question him on that Chapter CALIFORNIA , Sept. 30, Oct. 1st and 2nd ! in Harrys eyes. He is gone, he said. and hope to heaven I may never see his face again!. Then slowly and feebly he ascended the stairs. Ten," fifteen minutes passed, ; and old David Stipes . the room; went feebly to his wheel chair arid sat down. have told her he said presently in a broken - voice. You are kind, Sanderson, very kind. God help us I What has God to do with it? fell a voice 'behind them. (Ilarry faced about. It was Jessica as he bad first seen her in the upper room with the bandage across her . eyes. ' . ' -- stricken sud- sherepeated in a hard tonedenly, from Harrys face. An odd, Perhaps Mr. Sanderson can tell dazed color, a flush df. mortifica- us. It is in his line. 1 e -- Los Angeles Limited Leaves Salt Lake 8:15 P. M. Daily, Passing Through Scenic Nevada, Rich with Mines.' Moapa Valley, the Garden Spot of Nevada: City. Ticket Office, 163 Main Street, the SALT LATCt: CITY war heard had new to started life a bared, a scathed, y a re- - kindling sin It is true, said. . J' " he It was j the inveterate . voice of con science that spoke. I have beenj - nowered blow upon blow on the hard clay. 4 deceiving myself. I brothers keeper! I see was myj it now.! She did not catch the deep compunction in the judicial utterance. She stood an instant quivering, theh turned and. feeling blindly for the 'door, swept r from their sight. White and breathless, Jessica climbed the stair. In her iooin she took a key from a drawer and ran swiftly to the attic - studio, i She .unlocked the door with hurried fingers, tore the wrappings from the tall white, figures of the prodigal eon and found a heavy mallet. She lifted this with all j . - ! to the "adonis sion she had - What has God to do with it? Stopovers if Desired. long ago night . WA1 $40.00 Los Angeles andRcturn, Final Return Limi t, N ovember 10th - pakness-)wa- s - Vti 'I groaned. had - seen her 1 Jessica.-Hugh-s said helplessly. sin is not Sandersons; The didnt-know-h- Please said Ilarry. tion, of self reproach, flooded It from chin to brow. impudent blackguard He could not have told what he Despite himYou drag my name in the gutter self h had; felt his lips molding would-havasked, though the acand then try to trade on my self to an. answering kiss beneath her cent was almost one of entreaty. respect and - Jessicas affection. own. ' He drew a gasping breath, The harsh satire touched hip saYou thought you "would take It his hand nervously Caught the cred calling. Coming from her up yourself and I would be none 'bandage replaced it- over the lip it affronted at 'once hia rethe wiser!. And. if I did find It eyes and tied it tightly, putting ligious instinct and his awakened You hous. The she-said- my sigmature,Blake I Hugh really what you said that night right he said wrote and his name on the"1 seel Let it stay off, just for one here in this very room that you last Mr. Sanderson- will page. little moment morel. sowed your wild oats at college Fateful and: passionate 'as the sign withyou. He held her hands by force. with Hugh that they, were scene in the had been, her library You were strong, Jessica, wait, he said " in' a tidy, crop left An hour laier'the fasf express a of silence in the pall broken whisper, You must not and he was weak. You led, and going room. Ilarry Sanderson looked that bore Jessica and David take it off again not: now! he followed. You were Satan Stires was shrieking across the An incredible confusion en- Sanderson, abbot of the Saints, at' David Stires with pale long skeleton railroad bridge, a veloped him. Ilis tongue, cleaved the set in which he learned gambYet I would have given my dotted trail of fire against the to the roof 6f his mouth. Not on-- y ling. Why, it was in your rooms had the -- painful contretemps that he played his first- - game of life, he said in a low voice. to deepening night. nonpulsed and dismayed him ; not poker. He told, me so himself! save her this! Something in the tome caught only had it heightened and horrid And novv he has gone to be an fled the realization of what she outcast; and you stand in the pul- the oldi man. He glanced up must presently be told it had pit in a cassock, you. the Rev. I never guessed, he said aid a careless hand upqn his own Henry Sanderson I never guessed that You helped slowly secret, touching it with, an almost to make him -- what he has be- you loved her too vulgar ; mockery. It had over- come! Canyon undo it? But Harry had1 not heard. He Big stores are not built by luck, or accident any more than railthrow in an instant the barriHarry was looking at her with did not even know that he had roads or cades he had been piling. The a stricken countenance. steamboats. The greatt He had spoken aloud: est man in the world could not pressure of those lips on his no answer ready. The wave ot David Stires turned has wheel build a sent coursing to the farthest- re- confusion .store,, one really sucbig that had "'submerged chair, to the Korean desk, touchcessful without cesses of his nature a great wave him when advertising. he had restored the ing the bell as he did so. He .. which" dikes nor locks might ever v bandage to her eyes had again took np the draft and put in in1 Those people who do things in. again forbid. welled over him. to his pocket. He a pressed a business way buy and rent What a dear goose you are 1 c I am not excusing Hugh now spring; a panel dorpped and disshe said. The light didnt hurt property - that has been brought she went on wildly. closed hidden. He has drawer from to their notice by advertising. them indeed, indeed I Only to gone beyond excuse or forgiveHugh! Your wife will ness. He is as dead to me as j have her sight! Do po and tell thief, a common jailbird? had I never known- him, In the thoughts that were your father. He will be waiting though the word you spoke an though darting through Hughs mind, to know! hour ago made mV his wife, 1 T there was none now of regret or Ilarry made some incoherent shall have that to remember a;l of pity for Jessica. His fear was reply. He was desperately anxlife that and the one mothe fear of the trapped ' spoiler ious to. get away. Ilia, thought my ment 'I had waited for So long, for who discerns capture and its con- wa9 a snarl of tatters threaded by ray first sight of his face and my sequent penalties in patrolling one lucid purpose to; spare her brides kiss! I must carry it bullseye dashed upon him. He coming self abasement this sar- with me always. I can ncer wipe studied his father with hunted, donic humiliation. that face from my brain or the He almost ran from the room calculating eyes as the old man sting of that kiss from my dips--t- he and down. the stair. turn ed to Ilarry Sa nderson. kiss of a forger, of my hussaid David Sanderson, David I come of ' sudd held d' . get! -- out y.ou counted, on any love tor the ' poor, deluded girl you have married to make me condone perjure my your criminality,-tto admit the signature and self, shield you from the consequen ces. 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