Arizona republican., 1898-06-22

zilian maiden, fine brunette, with a figure inclined to the statuesoue in it's outlines. The other, so nearly as 1 could discover from an occasional glimpse of her in the course of the frs. two days of the voyage, was slender, graceful girl, brown-h haired, and neither very dark nor very light of complexion. She was travelling in company with an | older woman, attendance upon whom kept her fully employed for AS hours out of port. Then, as the weather was fine, the pair appeared on deck and joined the party under the big awning aft. Each carried book, but it was noticeable that, while the elder read steadily and rapidly, with the business like air of a hardened devourer of nov els, the girl often dropped her book upon her lap and let her gaze stray across the wide expanse of blue water. Seemingly she took little heed of her fe.low-voyagers, group of whom were chatting not dozen feet from her. It was an excellent opportunity to study her without her k1owledge-as I be- lieved; and the longer I watched the ' her did become.
 She was slender, as has been said, and carried herself so erectly as to ap- pear taller than she really was, her height being, in fact, but trifle above the average of her sex. Her forehead was broad, and her hair worn low upon 1t. Her features were good. The nose c ol chin delicately rounded. Her mouth was larger than the canons of art de- manded, and now and then the lips were set in line which indicated no lack of frmness. It was not a stub born mouth, however, even when the thoughts of its mistress seemed to be least pleasant The face was inclined to paleness, relieved by faipts flicker ing color which came and went on her cheeks, even as she sat watching the sea. The eyes gave her strongest claim to beauty. They were clear, dark brown eyes shaded by long lashes.
 AS a whole, the face was attractive, but it was no easy task to class it's de- gree of pulchritude. Absolute beauty it did not attain; pretty" was clearly not the adjective to apply to it. ''Hand- some" seemed 10 be closer to the truth, though even that word did not quite satisfy Fly indgment. But I did not ponder long over the point, for I soon found myself fully decided that the girl was, in appearance at least, a very charming young person.
 Burroughs. a British youth with whom l had struck up an acquaintance in the smokiE groom, crossed the deck to her chair, and talked with her for perhaps quarter of an hour, the novel, reader merely looking up from her book on his approach and promptly return ing to its perusal after answering his greeting. I envicI Burroughs ac- cuaintance with the girl, although neither he nor she seemed to derive any great entertainment from their some what intermittent conversation. Once she sent quick glance in my direction, and l guessed that the youth had reached me in going over the list of pas sengers. I prayed that he might be charitable in his comments.
 Strolling into the smoking-room that evening, I found most of the male pas sengers were assembled. Two games of cards were in progress, with fringe of spectators looking over the players shoulders. After a. few minutes Bur roughs appeared, and dropped upon the cushioned bench beside me.
 Not playing, eh?" said he. Don't | you admire the sport?'
 Not particularly answered. "Are you going to take hand?'
 T like to. generally" said he, with a