Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-15

NellJ WldI uO you lIlllk Ol lleTl They were toiling slowly up the mar row, winding grade of the mountain road, when the foregoing question was asked. The sun was sinking behind them, and scattering shafts of ruddy light were playing on the higher crags, and the young man appeared to be contemplating them with deep inter est. The question was repeated, ac- companied with dig in the ribs, and the answer came, borne on the breath of deep sigh.
 "She's darling"
 "Well, let's drink to the success of your wooing," and the flask was again resorted to.
 A month or two had gone by. Nor gan-that was the young mans name had paid many visits upon every available pretext, to the ranch at the mouth of the canyon. He could speak Spanish huently, having studied it thoroughly under the impression that 1t would be useful to him in countries where his vocation of assayer might take him. He had looked into Carma's eyes and her eyes had answered him in way that had made him draw his breath somewhat spasmodically; but they had never as yet been entirely alone together. The woman whom Carma spoke Of as "Tia Juana" had seen to that, and the black eyes that gleamed out from face pitted by smallpox, were ever on the alert when Morgan came down from the camp.
 But one summers evening Carma greeted him. and a searching glance around failed to discover the ever dis agreeable Juana. He asked where she was. "She had gone to Alamo Seco with father. Old Pedro was left here, but the horses have broken out and he has gone out on foot in search of them"
 Morgan flushed slightly, and his breast heaved as though with labored breathing as he again looked slowly around, and when his eyes met those of Carma she detected something in his glance that caused her to drop her lids and with deep blush turn towards the house.
 He followed her, and they sat for some time in silence, she apparently watching the sunset, with a somewhat feverish glow on her cheeks, and he regarding her with devouring, ardent gaze.
 "Carma, don't you think that some of the peaches ought to be ripe?"
 q don't know" she answered throw ing him half-frightened glance
 "Wel., let us go and sec"
 They were still in search of ripe fruit when dusk was gathering, and it seemed as though the quest would have to be abandoned for lack of light,
 
 Qil, renenlber tree now that al= ways bears ripe fruit before the rest. Comew
 They found it, but the fruit was a little too high to reach
 "What shall we do?" asked Nor gan.
 "Why, we'll have to find the ladder"
 "Oh, no, that will be too much trouble. Let me lift you up, Carma, and you can pull the branch down."
 She demurred faintly
 "Oh, don't be foolish, Carma," he said, but his voice was dangerously low and entreating. Raise your pret- ty little hands ready to grasp the branch and let me lift you" She obeyed, displaying the bewitch- ing contour ot her perfect bust, but when he essayed to lift her she gave a hysterical laugh, dropped her arms, and then for one moment their eyes met in a burning glance, and the next Morgan was caressing her madly and she lay limp and panting in his em- brace. And he kissed her until she was nearly faint from ecstacy and poured into her ear the tale of his long, pent-up adoration, and she, pas, sionate and emotional to an intense degree, and loving him as she did abandoned herself to the delirious bliss of the hour, simply because nature had made her with emotions too powerful to De restrained by calm reason. The months went by and Morgan revelled in every form of dissipation that mining camp can supply, and his hotel keeping friend = the man , who had met him at the depot-would nudge him or slap him on the shoul , der and tatteringly tell him he was g dandy" and his acquaintances prais ingly spoke of him as lone of the boys. And during those months his visits tc
 the home of Carma had been as ire 5 quent as ever, and on one of these oc casions, shortly after the episode 1T
 orchard, Morgan had found Carms
 with her arms around the neck of e dark, handsome boy of eighteen or so ', who was dressed in the picturesque l. garb of vaquero. The young strang l, CT departed precipitately on the arriv l al of Morgan, and the latter had ther '- asked Carma with ill-disguised tri
 umphant malignity, who this new anC > tender lover might be, and she hat l. turned pale, wept, and at last explain t ed that the youth was her brother l. that he was associated with lawless anC d desperate men and was in consequenct n outlawed.
 l, Morgan had long ago asked her ia k ther's permission to woo her for hi l. wife, and the father, who wished hi
 daughter to marry an American hat [ offered no objection.
 n Morgan had done it at the instiga e tion of his blase friend, the latter as
 suring him that that was the only wa, l in which he could hope to escape. evel a to slight extent, the watchfulness 0
 old Juana, unless accident should favo
 him.
 :" Fortune had smiled on Morgan. H