Arizona republican., 1898-07-03

'DOeS it,!
 At this particular instant, yes; at other times, when I can't get away from myself, mo-"
 There was another pause, and when she spoke again it was to ask ne the routine to be followed by her aunt. While I described it she listened as >oberly as if she had no room to doubt that the invalid was close to deaths door. Before the recital was finished we had begun to traverse one of the level stretches. I frightened the reins, and the bay heightened his strides; a chirrup or two and his lazy air was shaken off and his hoof-beats rang quick and sharp upon the hard road. Away we went at pace far below his best, but one which would have left most of the local trotters hopelessly reached rise in the grade, 1 turned to the girl little triulnphantly. The swift motion had brought new light into her eyes, and the rush of the wind had heightened her delicate color.
 That was delightful" she cried. Let me confess at once, I misjudged your horse cruelty. He has wonder fully exceeded expectations
 ''The brute has redeemed himself easily" said I. Would it were as light a task for the man."
 Perhaps the man has not been mis- judged, after all. But come, Dr. Nor ris, you've told me almost nothing of your adventures for the last two or three years. Surely, you must have had some before coming here?' "'The short and simple annals you know the line. The city was not generous; there is nothing more to tell. Believe me, you are fortunate, indeed, to escape any risk of the monotony of a humdrum existence. I envy you the variety of scene and surroundings which has fallen to your lot" "As if there could be 10 monotony in variety; as if one could not grow weary | of it!" she cried. Why, Dr. Morris, it is the superlative of inonotony. Many 1 provingly the growls of an irascible old Englishman we met in Spain. | Madam said he to my aunt, take my word for it, all hotels aie bad, but some are worse than others: all strangers are obnoxious, but some are pestilen- tial; all sightseeing is a weariness of the flesh, and the more one has of it | the greater the burden becomes And Mrs. Loring?"
 His vehemence startled her, and she fled at the first opportunity" ''Yet she could not have needed the trade to advantage. In all sincerity 1 let me say that until she consents to settle down quietly for considerable 1 time there is not much hope of effect ing her cure. You must have observed that on a journey she seems to be at her best, but that when the trip is ended there is a reaction, and after a few weeks she is off again, finding in the renewed excitement relief which, in turn, has to be paid for at high rate. When her greatest need is rest she applies the spur. If ever there was a victim of the travel habit, she is one. Can she not be persuaded to give her l 1ecuperative powers fair chance to assert themselves? One can't do bet ter than to let nature alone sometimes. This is plain talk, plainer than should like to address directly to your aunt;
 but it is due to you, for in many ways you can help to put it into practice"
 And I will help only too gladly said the girl, earnestly. 'Please be as- sured of that.'
 ''Is it bargain, then?"
 Indeed it is"
 May it be successful one," said I And now, Miss Gray, you may be pleased to know that from this turn ill the road can be had the only view ot
 ;assettville which warrants a claim ot l 5eauty for the place."
 We drove into the town and turned
 into it's principal street, halting in
 lront of the shop of it's solitary drug g;st. While 1 stood before the counter
 waiting for the prescription to be made
 up, Sam Carpenter sarntered in. T q kinder wanted to see ye," he re-
 marked, after the weather, the state oi
 trade and town politics had been dis
 cussed. s'Tain't much, but maybe yer'd like to know about it.
 Whats the trouble?" said I. wal, d SOuPiC Oeit . eiSC d SAiei |
 come ter my stable an hung round til l we got ter talkin'. He didn't seem ter . have no special bizness cgitatin' him ' but he did seem alfred curious. Pret- ty soon he got round ter that old brewer from Charleston, South Car'liny, you 're
 doctorin'. Seemed mighty interested in him-too mighty interested, reck oned. When a neighbor's boy asks me
 how my apples is gettin' on I put ii down ter friendliness, but when I catch him up the tree call him too blamed affectionate. So as this chap was tryin
 ter pump me, I tried ter pump him, but 1 guess neither of us got any more satis faction than the schoolmaster did wher , he tackled the parsons Hebrew book thinkin' it was Greek. Struck me you , might as well know about him, though
 What was his name?" asked.
 'He didn't say.'
 , s'Can you describe him?''
 ''Hefty fer his inches; old clothes