Arizona republican., 1898-07-12

would need to take nothing With them out of this world. It would not be pleasing to be classed as a fortune hunter. All the philosophy availabl would not remove the sting from that reproach.
 Meditating these things, I fell into habits entirely reprehensible from the standpoint of everyday sanity. I sat up late O nights, I smoked more strong tobacco than was for my good. l took to moping and violent language. On the whole, it was fortunate that my practice was limited-fortunate for both me and my supposititious patients. Whether anybody guessed the charac- ter of my thoughts, or fathomed my moods, was a matter almost of indiffer- ence. I told myself that the mask should always be worn in the presence of Mrs. Loring and her niece; as for the others, their opinion did not count. AS matter of fact, imagine that my secret was known to all the women whereabouts, and perhaps to some of the men. Banks now and then cracked jokes at my expense of character which gave ground to believe that he had made shrewd diagnosis of my malady. But, when all is said and done. the simple truth is that I was as nearly at my wits end, even with the ghost of the colonel's rivalry eX- orcised, as probably half the adult males of the nation would own them selves to have been on various occa- sions, would they but make confession.
 Mrs. Loring was unquestionably the better for her life in the country. She still kept herself under the disciplin" of an invalid, though the precaution was entirely unnecessary. Her appe- tiue was excellent. her nerves were all most forgotten, the daily record of he : symptoms was limited to an entry of few lines, in place of the pages she had covered at first. She often failed to remember that was her physician, and suffered me to depart without hearing a word bearing on her long cherished aches and agonies. She had become acquainted with everybody in the village; nobody knew better than she the true inwardness of every piece of mild scandal retailed from one end of it to the other. She was hand in glove with the ring1eaders in it's social diversions, and was the moving spirit in an enterprise which promised to eclipse anything of the sort ever at tempted in Rodneytown. This was no jess than a ''Fete Internationale," as tke programme had it, in which youths and maidens of many lands were to be personated by the young people of the village. There were to be tableaux recitations, music and dancing, and al together a somewhat ambitious list oi Advertisement. Mrs. Loring had as 3umed the responsibility of designing the costumes, a duty which she was well fitted to perform, for she wa: blessed with a keen eye for color eff fleets, and her travels had made her q trustworthy source of information re garding the details of the picture ii was proposed to present. There werC no suggestions of invalidism in her as | she hustled about on her cOngenia
 tasks; tn. buster she was, the greater her content. The fete was to her : mental and physical tonic, more bene ficial than any possible combination ot chemicals. This I realized, but witi
 the perverse pessimism brought about | by my season of unrest feared that ii would result in opening her eyes to