Arizona republican., 1898-09-15
THE OLD
 SILVER TRAIL.
BY MARY E. STICKNEY.
Continued from Yesterday,

":so; we left for the east the next mcrning.' she replied, her cheeks grown rosier for this frank confession. That was the reason l was so anxious to have my jacket. l. was such shock to ,re to find tke building closed for the night; I believe was on the verge Of bursting into tears when you ap- peared. What q funny little adventure ii was. I shall never forget how stood outside and trembled while you prowled about hunting my property. I think ] counted on nothing less than arrest for us both if you were discov- eret,."
 l. might have been temporarily em- barrassing, but you had the check to show that the coat was yours, and since they had carelessly neglected to bolt the one side of the door to the floor, so that the lock gave way so easily-weil. they should have been thankful that only such honest folk went in.''
 You are so kind,' she returned, her eyes very bright as she looked down at him. II am sure you did not guess that night how grateful we were. We were so tongue-tied with excitement- so wholly upset. But afterward-l would have been so glad of an opportll, Eity to thank you again. It troubled me to think we had said so little when you had been so liind.''
 ''It was more than kind of you not to think it presumption" he answered her, flushing with pleasure. T con fcss it rather looked like that to mo when you had so courteously dismissed n.e at the door of the Colorado building and I persisted ill still keeping you il. sight down the walk
 ''But what relief it was to me to find you there when that alarm came. and the fire company came rushing by and the crowd jostlet me about. Itwas 50 soon after the Cold Storage disas ter, and the idea of fire threw me into panic, to say nothing of the fact that the crowd seemed disposed to tramp,e me to death without perceiving me at all. l was so grateful to you for see ing me-" she added, smiling down al him with perhaps more of kindness than she knew i'll the depths of her eyes. You seemed like an old friend then-a friend in need"
 "And how grateful was to that fire alarm for giving me d chance. to as sumo the attitude." he eagerly ex- claimed. And when I ventured to as sume that it might give nie pretext tc walk along Ecside yolt-ah, Miss Mere dith, 1 trcnhied for Iny audacity then a good deal more tran V hen was bur glarizing mp in the Colorado building"
 T can hardly credit that. l renleu: Der you as perfectly cool and self-pos sessed," she declared. holding up her soft cap as though to shield her face from the fire, in reality making 1t serve d., Il screen to hide the blush she could feel burning upon her checks. "And V hat mercy it WAS that you did come. i'll view of the fact that Mrs. Hallet was not waiting for me at the place we had agreed upon! With tine dark- ness and the crowds about the electric. fountains. I should have been wild if you had not been there to help me find her. And when she had been discOr cred and it further developed that she had lost the child and his nurse-why. you were q regular godsend. It was such time of mishaps-''
 You did seem rather out of luck, for fact" he laughed, though when yos; make so much of my small services 1 feel anything but sympathetic in a way; can't be sorry that it happened But I never clearly understood, by thn way, how your friend happened to let the boy get away from her. Was it in Ter hunt for you::''
 'Oh, no; we had left little Paul with his nurse looking at the trained animals over in the Midway late in the after noon, arranging that they were to take supper at some place over there where the girl had q friend employed. ] fancy it,was her sweetheart, from her anxiety to patronizc the place. At all events, it was settled that they were to be left to their own devices until seven o'clock, when they were to meet ns by the electric fountains. But Mrs. 1iallet and 1 became absorbed in hag- gling over some curios at one of the AL gerian bazaars over by the anthropo- logical building, and before we knew it it was after seven o'clock. Of course she felt that she must fly to keep her appointment with little Paul, while it vas hastily settled that I should take the intramural train around to the Col orado building ard get my jacket. which I had left there. It had never occurred to her that she had arranged her rendezvous at the spot which was
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