Arizona republican., 1898-06-29

The train was 1alrly under heaGWay 1 now, and I stood lowing low. but rot to the vanishing invalid. At the mex. window to hers I had had glimpse l of another face, one that dreams lad
 '.c;,a fresh in ny memory and that had i l.gGred in the little romance that had crept into my existence.
 Winter, as a rule. displays few of his iniIdar moods on that coast. and had dreaded the effect of the season's rig
 DTS upon Lamar, who certainly had had
 70 ex: egience of the protracted cold of l the latitude. Luckily, the house on the
 knoll lad been built to. withstand
 storms, and saw to 1t that an abundant supply of fuel was laid in, so that. on the whole, in spite of its exposed posi- ton, the dwelling was fairly com
 furtable even in the worst weather Its
 owner made no complaints. He spent
 much of his time in one of the upper
 rooms, which he had fitted up as sort of Ia laboratory. His interest appeared to be divided between chemistry and electricity, though whether his expert ments in either had any object save his own amusement I never learned. Two CT three cases of books had been shipped
 from Trent to my address, but for his use, and, when he cared to read, a mis cellaneous collection of worthies could be drawn upon. There were a. few Portuguese books and few Spanish, q
 good many in Latin, and a still larger
 number in French and in English. Bur ton's Anatomy, Cicero's Letters. and Voltaire's works seemed to be his fa- vcritcs. I say seemed" for he never lock the trouble to speak of any of the authors he read.
 He was still as cadaverous as ever, though his general physical condition was as good as could be hoped for by
 any man who led so sedentary life. December dragged through it's tenn pestuous length, and January followed
 with an even more trying stretch of gales and extreme cold. These condi- tions he withstood so well that I had hopes that the winter would pass with out illness at the house on the knoll:
 but one day early in February I found him suffering from a severe cold and exhibiting symptoms which were most
 unfavorable. It was my first oppor-
 tunity to earn the salary of his medical
 adviser, and fortune was kind AL 1 though he developed a good deal of fever, and at the worst it was touch
 and-go with pneumonia, week saw 1 him practically out of danger, though ! still quite willing to keep to his bed, l and a good deal safer there than he
 would have been prowling about the
 house. He expressed no opinion of his
 treatment, no thanks to his doctor, no | impatience to be about again. I was
 his physician, hired by the year, and so long as he was ill my orders were to be
 obeyed unquestioningly; there was
 no need of gratitude either way. It
 was all very Logical, no doubt, but it in
 creased my dislike for him. There would have been more real satisfaction
 ill persuading a dropping sapling to
 keep alive.
 After his recovery we slipped back
 into the old routine. He gave orders
 occasionally, and obeyed them, with
 out question and without any great Cts I speculating upon this mans history or
 his plans was such proftless business that, for the time, I gave it up in dis gust. He was person who was to be
 visited daily, who paid liberally for the attention, and who thus enabled me to I pass my many leisure hours in careless.
 easv-going comfort. The people I met
 were no longer inquisitive about the
 hermit; the theory of the brewer from
 Charleston appeared to have spread
 widely and to have been accepted, find ing believers far more easily than
 would have been the case with any state Inent of the facts concerning him, SC
 far as they had fallen within my knowl- edge.
 At last winter drew to close, and spring came on, advancing coyly, as is the custom of maidens before whom
 the world is ready to bow in eager hom age Then the last of the snow-banks
 disappeared from the recesses of the hills, the slopes grew green, and the
 rank vegetation of the marsh f1ourished
 in all the vigor of it's strong new life , Once more there were birds in the trees . end flowers in the fields, and once more from the sea swept invigoratina breeZes.
 ] To all about me spring brought re newed activities. There was a fine ' hustle on the farms, and even the sleepy illage seemed to be awakened. Fol he first time my ease became cncrous; ! fell to inventing tasks to convinet
 myself that ore could be busy if he ) would. My horse, whose eXistencf turing the winter had been all that ,quine sloth could desire, was now il , steady service. for the roads were excel lent, being sufficiently sandy soon te
 rid themselves of undesirable moisture and I explored the highways and by , ways for miles around. Near the vii . iaEe l let my steed choose his own gait
 but when we found level bit of road
 where there were likely to be TO spec tatoTs the trotter had an opportunity