Arizona republican., 1892-07-03
"JADIS."

Over the flat fen country there were
 ,b.ta mf5ts rising, It was already
 ,,,ofug dusk, but it was not going to !, ysrv dark this summer night The ~,aIs had been cut and dTifted down
 ,.-.sm in thick masses, 4 thin, middle
 ,,,l man stood by the lock gates,
 -,t.hing an approaching boat. He was s.s.srI in country clothes, but he had i ,ttbaairof a acountrymau: he was pale, r3 had look of experience. Save for g, rgular sound of the souls every rrs was quite still. Save for the man ,trso lonI, gates and tho solitary occu- b r,rt of ,hc boat there was no one in .,,ht lt was a wide, fiat. desolate serr.
 Tho bont was rather heavy tub, and r,mgn who was sculling was tired and Il rfof temper. Asarule, he was thought mla a distinctly brilliant and genial ro7nr man; but he'wanted to get on to yrrri,nam, which was five miles be- v.7I the lock, that night, and he had ..fn delayed by the weeds. The gods had given him extraordinarily good mss and many other good things; m5ngA 10 keep him genial, unless, as m'la present occasion, circumstances f-I him severely. At the lock he
 drew into the bank and hailed the mid
 de aged man who still stood watching
 bm
 Hi! what are the weeds like above
 hc 5ck%
 "Very bad, sir" The answer was
 given in a serious, respectful voice.
 The yomg man swore gently to him alf "Is there any place near here where could put up for the night?'
 There is only a public house, sir. 1 am the landlord of it-ny name is Hill. could give you a bedroom, a little u1ch perhaps, but
 "Good-,. bed and some supper-cap- iul, That is the only bit of luck I've had today" As he was speaking the young man picked up small knapsack which was lying in the stern of the boat and jumped out. He made the boat ast and joined the landlord on the tow
 path.
 "Itis this way. You will let me carry
 that for you, sir"
 As they walked along the brilliant young mau-his name was Philip Vince -chattcl freely. He was taking a holi- llyup the river and was to have joined a friend at Nunnisham that night and then gone on with him the day after. Ietold the landlord all this and also 1smised that Hill was not n native of ho fen country.
 "No, sir" was the answer, "l was vaat to Sir Charles Sulmont. You have
 perhaps heard of him"
 Philip had never heard of him. but said that he had.
 When Sir Charles died he left me Q little money and married a maid who was then in Lady Sulmont's service. l b0ughtthis house wNh little assistance from her ladyship and settled here. l was very young then and have been l3re eighteen years"
 Philip gathered from further talk as they went along that Mrs Hill was dead, and that she had left one child, Jeanne, girl of seventeen, who lived with her father When they reached laem, Hill showed Philip a bedroom aAr-e, comfortable room, and began to make some apology about supper. They Very rarely had any one staying in the Rouse, and there was nothing left but --aore Philip interrupted:
 "lou would be doing me a kindness h you would let me have supper with !mud your daughter lhate solitude. mean. if your--if Miss Hill wouldn't object"
 you really wish it, sir, should be Very pleased; so also, am sure, would J@uno.' Ii.ll was a born valet; be had We manner; if he had lived out of service for hundred years he would nave been a valet still. When Hill left nm, Philip looked around the room aud congratulated himself Everything was very neat and clean. The landlord Was a capital fellow-a little solemn, IeFnaps, but still capital fellow, This was lar above the accommodation which Ae had expected.
 Just then light footfall came up the ,.''rs, and Philip caught snatch of a trench song, The song stopped short I.N. I,... before the footfall passed his door. LNlhp couJectured that this must be the oalgh.er, and that it had been a French maid that Hill had married-hence the uino Jeanne and that snatch of song; aeo that the daughter had been warned | ns arrival, and had gone to put on De' pcttiest dress. All of these con Iclurcs were quite correct. And yet ""vh Jeanne entered the sitting room, a ,e" minutes afterward, and saw Philip 'o' Inc first time, she was SO startled ', G'"' She showed it slightly. Philip was a''o a little surprised, for different | ityoson, and did not show it at all. He I'' I thought of the possibility that Ig"lio might be pretty, and she was Us""'y-a brunette, childlike in many ""''' but with a woman's eyes. Her VI '0''e Was good, and her first words '"G"rd that she had some education. u took her about ten minutes to get s 5om decided shyness to complete conf- -."c'' Philip was feeling far too good S ~pered to let any one be shy with him; Ig i,o made Hill and his daughter talk, and Io ,: talked freely himself. He liked tho h.. J,ui phclty of everything about him; he I'u grown tired of formalities in Lon wv" He liked cold beef and salad, for G, h, W. was very hungry, and-yes, above all, ,' ., uhed Jeanne. What on earth were U g"' lace and that manner doing in