Arizona republican., 1898-07-30

You overestimate my courage. I am a little afraid, too.''
 "Then you do think I deserve it ?'
 "I didn't say that, nor do Isthink it. l confess, however, that up to this mo- ment felt just trifle lonely
 ''Just a trif1e! We'll. that is flattery How nicely you English do turn a com pliment. Just a trife!''
 ''I believe, as a race, we do not ven ture much into compliment-giving at all. We leave that for the polite for eigner. He would say what I tried to | say a great deal better than I did, of course; but he would not mean half so much
 ''Oh, that's very nice, MT. Wentworth. No foreigner could have put it nearly so well. Now what about going on | Geck?''
 Anywhere, if you let me accompany you"
 you. I won't say merely a trifie de 1 lighted.''
 "Ah! Haven't you forgiven that re- mark yet?'
 There's nothing to forgive, and it ! is quite too delicious to forget. I shall never forget it.''
 q believe that you are very cruel at heart. Miss Brewster
 The young woman gave him curious side look, but did not answer She gathered the wraps she had taken from the cabin, and, handing them to hiIa before he had thought of offering tc take them, they went on deck. He l found there chairs side by side, and ad- mired the intelligence of the deck stew ard, who seemed to understand what chairs to place together. Miss Jennie sank gracefully into her own, and al- | lowed him to adjust the wraps around | her.
 ''There,' she said, that's very nicely i done; as well as the deck steward him. self could do it, and am sure it is inn possible to pay you more graceful 1 compliment than that. So few men 1 know how to arrange one comfortably in a steamer chair''
 "You speak as though you had vast experience in steamer life; and yet you told me this was your first voyage Ut is. But it doesn't take woman more than day to see that the average man attends to such little niceties very clumsily. Now, just tuck in the corner out of sight. There! Thank you, ever so much. And would you be kind enough to-yes, that's better. And this other wrap so. Oh! that is perfect. What patient man you are, MT. Went worth.''
 Yes, Miss Brewster, you are a for eigner. I can see that now. Your pro: l fessed compliment was hollow. You said l did it perfectly, and then inn Inediately directed me how to do it.''
 Nothing of the kind. You did it well, and I think you ought not to grudge me the pleasure of adding my own little Improvements"
 ''Ch. if you put it that way, I will not. Now, before I sit down, tell me what book I can get that will interest you. The library contains a very good as sortment"
 q don't think I care about reading Sit down and talk. suppose I am too indolent to-day. I thought, when came on board, that I would do lot of reading, but I believe the sea air makes one lazy. I must confess I feel entirely indifferent to mental -qrovement."
 'You evidently do not think my con- versation will be at all worth listen ing to-
 "How quick you are to pervert my meaning. Don't you see that I think your conversation better worth listen fr bor bo i,,fn 1 proving book you can choose from the library? Really, in trying to avoid i giving you cause for making such re- mark, I have apparently stumbled into a worse error. I was just going to say I would like your conversation much better than a book, when 1 thought you would take that as reflection on your reading. If you take me up so sharply, l will sit here and say nothing. Now. then, talk
 What shall I say?'' ''Oh, if I told you what to say should be doing the talking. Tell me about yourself. What do you do in London ?''
 T work hard. am an accountant ''
 And what is an accountant? What does he do? Keep accounts ?"
 Some of them do: do not. I see, rather, that accounts other people keep have been correctly kept"
 Aren't they always correctly kept I thought that was what bookkeepers were hired for.'
 If books were always correctly kept there would be little for us to do; but it happens, unfortunately for some but fortunately for us, that people occa sionally do not keep their accounts ac