Arizona republican., 1898-12-22
Number Six s
 Sister.
BY BERNARD BIGSBY.
Continued From Yesterday.)

Yet, strange to say, beneath this wild
 rhapsody was an under current of vim
 slictivcness-a desire to ''get even' with
 her for t,.c humiliation she had inflicted
 on hin.
 lie an angry storm spending itself in it3 ovs-l fury, his passion st last wore itself out, and he fell into the more dan
 gcrous mood of planning future retalia-
 ton.
 Pshaw! What fool hchad been to get
 into such q rage. He would win in the
 end. There were two ways of catching
 this bird Of beautiful pluGlage, and, if
 Crc failed he could try the other. If
 the aiHzcn ret of koaicd words was use
 less, he knew how to cast the strong
 bonds Of o3ligaticn around her.
 The Dollaans' owed him 120ncy-tllcy
 nus l,clD bin; Robison, her employer,
 was in the car1c 1f-1, lc must do his bid
 ding; end Hrs. Evcsham would surely
 not be blind to the glitter of his world
 ly prospects. As for that blind fellow -but no. 8 girl like Wanda could never give her love to hin-vycll, if he stood in his way, it would be ali the worse for hiIn.
 And Wanda! She was fevcrishly toss ing oa the bed, the victim of thousand doubts and fcars-thc past with it's pha2ton3 Cf uncertainty, the present with it's Accomplishments. tho future so clo-dcd with hopclcssncss that she dreaded even to think of it. With Q heart ovcr1owing with the tendcrest gratitude, 5llc pondercd over Mrs. Eve sham long years of mOthcrly solicitudc fer her. of the sacrifice shc knew that noble wclnan must have made for her sake. True. the bUrden was pressing less heavily on that dear friend now. Kate was ct work, the store was pros porous, Alice was no lo1~cr dependent on her, and Sl2c, WG1da, yTGS i1 q posi- ton to add her mite to tho family funds. But, if she sfould fail-ps1aw. she must not fail: sllc must cndurc any discon- fort, any dcgrcdation rather than go back to Glastonbury to be again charge on tho widows bounty.
 As for Danien3, with his rustic inso1- ! snce, she was foolish to waste q second ] thought upon him and half regretted | that she had coldcscendcd to rcbullc | his iTnpertincncc. But, then thcrc was poor blind George Arundel-tllat was q | different trouble. It was very well for | hin to talk about being her adopted l brotl1cr, but she l1ncvv thGt his love for her was of very different nature, and | she was sure that she could never re- turn his affection in tllc way he wanted it.
 Then-ah, thcn-noatcd before her imagination face of typical beauty. Big, earnest, brown eyes seemed to be looking tcndcrly into hers, so vivid was the picture that shc could in fancy nave raised hcr hand to push away the short, clustering, brown curls which extended over tho clcar white forehead. She sew the pleasant smile on tho we'll .;,rvcd lips-nay. she could almost be- ievo that they moved and whispered lcr name in . tone of exquisite tender lcss. Wanda never sounded half so wcctly as when he uttered it. But she must not think of hi-a-ro, it would be crime of ingr;titude to fcttcr him vish her dowerlcss love. She would be ,ravc, she would dismiss hin forever rom her thoughts; and, saying this l he concentratcd her whole soul on the ,cautiful vision. till-thc wcaricd eye ids closed, and sleep drew the curtain if oblivion over her wandering fancies. . And the brOwn-cycd hero of Wanda's reams was none other than Harry . Ivcsham, who, as Alphonse Damicns ] -ad truly said. was gone to New York o make his fortune"