Arizona republican., 1898-02-25
(Continued From Yesterday)

cS It WdSidthOi PuoliS sf mitten-giving, I'll admit" says Parry, refectively. "and not two years ago, either" he added. Then suddenly @Lot, what sort of fellow is Capt. Graf ton2"
 "A very dignifed, majestic parsonage "a good deal older than she is, you know, but she's devoted to him and he TO her. There's a woman who doesn't do as she pleases. let me tell you! Capt. Grafton will have no nonsense going on under his nose, and I'll tell Fan that if she thinks to resume her old filtration with Merriam, she'll have to blind Graf ton first.''
 <My love, you forget the compact. You're not to tell Fan anything except good-by. Yes-you may send our re- garSfs to Merriam by her. He's par ticulariy nice fellow. if she did throw him over for old McLane and his for tune. And, Mrs. Parry, shouldn't be surprised if our particularly pert and pretty sister were taught very valu- able lesson. Therefore do as l say, let her go, Gai- mean let her go- And, talking of going. suppose you drive me home with you. We'll stop and see Fan "a rsinute-and Swinburne."
 And stop they do. finding the broker magnate still there, though in evident straits. Is it possible for man in love to look pleased at the coming of vis- tete-a-tete? Swinburne doesn't. He looks infinitely distressed, and Parry doesn't fail to remark it.
 ssHullo, Swinburne, Who'd "a thought sf seeing you here at this hour? sup posed you never missed day like this for drive, yet your team isn't at the door,
 .sNo-er-I had business to discuss with Mrs. McLane before her start for fhe west-a journey which I had much hoped to hear Mrs. Parry has dissuaded her from taking.
 ''Oh, bless you. no." responds Parry, - rheerfully. ''The doctor advises change of scene and air. doesn't he, Fan? And Sedgwick's the very place for both. There's no scenery within ten miles of 1t, and there's more air than they know what to do with ten hours out of 12. It blows 8 blizzard there six times week doesn't it, Fan?"
 Then I presume the residents of the post must be unusually charming to offset such monotony of landscape and such objectionable climate" says Swim surne, stifIy. and looking ruefully at fhe fair young widow. T have not the bonor of anybody's acquaintance fhere." he adds
 Sop says Parry. ''Why, there's Capt. and Mrs. Grafton, old friends of Fans, you know-that is, Mrs. Grafton 6. and there's Lieut.. Merriam-splendd fellow. that! We knew him so well when he was on duty al the Point. And there's Minturn. Of the artillery. there with, his battery. He used to visit US often when Merriam was philandering abaut Fan here. Oh. yes, there's raft sf pleasant people there."
 Mrs McLane's pretty face at this Iuucture is study. She is flushed, al most fearful; ready to pull Ned Parry's 6air in wrath, yet hardly able to re- strain her merriment at sight of Swim hurne, who sits in oper-routhed dis may For downright mischief a broth er-in-law has e-->ortuDities accorded no other mortal. q! y at once her ls~uent-and her delight Mrs. McLane has been known to say that Charlotte fonA very mean advantage of her in having met him first and Handed" him before he ever saw the sunshine of her swn lovely blue eyes
 Very little alike were these two sis fers, despite the fact that they ha d lived most of their life together. Educated abroad by benevolent aunt after the 7ouf of fhnf, 1 had returned to America the great year of the Columbian fetes, and Charlotte. the elder by two years, had met Ned Parry, a rising and successful young lawyer, before they had been home a month, was engaged to him before the autumn leaves were falling-before Fan even dreamed that anything of the kind was in contemplation, for she, at the moment, was having what she termed simply deliriously delightful time at the Point. Harriet Palmer, her especial friend at school. both at home and abroad, had married Capt. Grafton early that spring. Fan making almost her first appearance in society as one of the bridesmaids on that occasion and being much impressed with the de- votlons of the groomsman assigned to her, handsome. soldierly fellow by the name of Merriam. He was an off, cer several years the junior of Capt. Grafton, but, being Of the captains reg iment and conveniently stationed at West Point, he had been called into acquisition with others of his cloth. and very pretty wedding they had had. And then, as luck would have it, Grafton himself was offered detail al the academy, and rather than take his bride to the far frontier so soon after their marriage be accepted it, and there they spent the summer; and there, in July, Miss Frances Hayward joined them at Mrs. Grafton's urgent request, and there did Randolph Merriam fall deeply and devotedly in love with her, and no one wondered. By far and away