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once. In a few hours the scouts had
found it leading from the old Florence
road near the Gila, crossing where the
killing had occurred 1t led through the
Superstition mountains, which he had
not had occasion to visit since Chris
topherson death. Soon he found him.
self again Oh the same rugged trail and
had passed the point where before he
had lost it. The Indians were evidently
heading for the Tonic basin and trying
to return to their own reserve. Once
among their tribe, only the released
prisoners could be identified, and the
perpetrators of this last outrage would
be lost
Tradition warns you that if one en-
tiers far into the Superstition mountains
he will never return, the country being
too rough for animals and too dry for
man. Prospectors who have penetrated
the edges of this range say that it is
filed with mineral, Improbable for
want of water. Cattle do not range
there, and men hunting large game go
to the tinbered mountains, so trail
across this chain would lead where no
one wished to go save Hodgson, who
now went for sake of duty. He pushed on,
with sullen, dogged courage, over the
stony trail used as lost time gaining
refuge by hunted savages in these most
arid mountains of our most arid land
until he emerged, almost mad with
thirst, on the Rio Salinas, in the Lower
Tonto basin. Thence the trail led into
the Sierras Auchas, and i'll this great
altitude it was lost under the first fall
of autumn snow.
There was nothing left for Hodgson
to do now but to return to the reserva-
ton, as tho Indians were evidently try
ing to do, for the eastern foothills of
this sierra border the San Carlos reserve,
and the Indians would not remain long
in the snow. Hodgson must make de-
tour, see their squaws among the cibi
Gus on the western edge of the reserve,
and if their bucks had not already re-
turned he might hope to cut their trail
where it left the snow line and intercept
them from their haven, the reservation.
He had found from their squaws on
Cibicu that they had not yet returned.
1t was all he wanted to know, but as he
was leaving a squaw's tepee his eye
caught sight of faded pink letter. Gu ;
riously embroidered by way of color
ornament onto the face of buckskin
garment. The writing was familiar.
He seized it cagerly-in faded letters by
fading light he read her answer.
He tore her letter from the garment
and pushed it into the pocket Of his jer-
sey and stood for a moment near the
door of the tepee, looking absently
across the bare hills of the brown re-
serve. He was thinking Of the woman
who was not his wife and of children
not his own. Then he turned quickly
and mounted his horse.
s'It was all my fault" he said, ''but
I must not lose the trail today Ishould
have followed it closer when had it be-
fore "
And as he spurred his horse toward
the snow line of the sierras he was
laughing as one should not laugh when
one is young. Overton i'll San Fran /
cisco Argonaut
WHAT SHALL ROYALTIES DO?
The Growing En- ibarfaSsncntSa ami Buriena |
CT Their Position.
It is q matter perhaps of little impor-
tance, but as observers interested in So
cial as well as political history we rather
wonder how ''tho royalties, - as people |
begin to call them, will settle them
selves down into European society
Their present position is hardly toler-
able. Owing probably to some little no
ticed change III morals and to relaxa-
ton of the rule against mOrganatic de-
scent being recognized, the princes of
the royal houses, the people to whom
you must speak standing, are becoming
numerous beyond all precedent There
are literally scores of them, all equal by
birth, all claiming topmost places and
all more or less cut off from active ca
reers. They may be soldiers still if they
like, but they cannot be statesmen or
ambassadors OF viceroys, much less mer-
chants OF captains of industry. They are
not permitted to marry out of their
own caste, there are no islands for them
to conquer, and they must not take to
the new trade of agitation. They are
not even allowed to marry heiresses
without renunciations which are CALLING
to their pride. And what are they to do
for a living?
The question is becoming pressing
one, for, rich as all royal houses are, ex-
cept our own, no family wealth will
suffice to maintain hundreds of families
all wanting to live with the wealthy
mobiles and all deprived Of the means of
making money. The grand dukes Of
Russia, the archdukes of Austria, the
princes of our own country, are becom-
ing clans, burdensome to the stocks
, from which they derive their grandeur,
and at certain point, now by no means
distant, that fact will be officially recog-
nized. There are royalties" even now,
who, in English eyes, would be account
ed poor men, and in the next generation
there will be royalties literally with
nothing yet, if the present system con-
tinues, chiefs of society and observed,
as before this generation even kings
were not observed except at intervals.
What are they to do? We can see
nothing for it except for the dynas-
ties to let them go, to make q rule
that royalty" shall only extend to,
say, the tenth person from the throne,
and that the remainder must sink back
among the people and win titles or rank
or fortune like everybody else. Their
pedigrees will help them somewhat
they spring from strong races, and they
may be, if they please, as we'll educated
as their neighbors. They can help one
another if they like, as Scotchmeu and
Jews do, and once lost in the COM
monalty the strange jealousy of them,
which now keeps them out of public
life, would speedily disappear. They
could adopt names as the nobles' sons
do in business and gradually would
come to remember their pedigrees only
as sources Of family pride, and, let us
hope, as incentives to specially honor
able lives.
We are not joking i'll the least or
writing. what would be particularly |
foolish satire The maintenance of poor |
relations does actually press closely |
and heavily Oh most royal houses, and |
in the next generation, if not in this, |
= will have tO bn met nv cOTne SvStnO1 of |