Arizona republican., 1899-01-20

her lips.
 '.Yes, rang the girls voice. full equal | lv of satire and defiance, q know every milestone there! You've been
 my cicerone, mamma, and an excellent one you've made.''
 kathleen, Kathleen"
 'NOw I'm sick to the soul of this i whole hidcous business! People are making fun of us behind our backs worse than they did after that disgust ing episode at Dendudlon hall."
 Disgusting, my child?"
 ''Yes; there's no other word and YOU know it. heard yesterday (don't ask me who told nc, for I'll answer yes to every name you bring up) that they're calling you the saleslady' since my engagement was broken. l Well, I've only this to say" Kathleen went on, throwing back her small. dark head with an effect as unconsciously beautiful as it was forlorn: ''I'll nc lcnge- be trotted round at your pleas ure, like tickcted animal"
 "Silence!'
 "No mamma, I will speak out. I was silent too long in those English days, ard now I'll take stand that you must recognize"
 I'll not recognize 1t! You die spirstcr, indeed! When I've really made a great match for you, some day, you'll thank me. Let them sheer at us. They're all precisely as we are. I've done no more than every mother docs with a daughter as handsome as you are. l won't let you fling yourself away. No, not fo- ten years yet. For tunately you're a beauty without being a blonde. Blondes are 50 apt to go all 10 pieces after they're fve-and-twenty. Yo1've ny color:Eg, dear, and you should be thankful for it. Look at my skin for a vvc1aar. Of my age. One hates to be stUpiGly vain. bEt I'm Q great ad- vantage to you when we appear to- gether. You're prophecy; I'm fulfill Tent. That means great deal to the men. Ncne Of them with the least ricety Ct feeling would care to marry girl who would degenerate into bcef- ness. And you'll he kandsomer still than I (thOCgh you don't carry yourself jus: as I want for you're taller, and you've bend Cf the EOstr;l. q curve of the check, aE archnCsS about tho way tke eyelid is ft:ed over the cycbail and tke way in which it l:tt Is or droops it. se.t, which your poor, dear father gave you. And there are yOUr positively r.--iG.-e G:rcpics5. ny dcGr-'
 ''Hust.l ks.sts..'' broke in Kathleen. If you want to pay the jockey who slows my points eff, yO-. forget that there's TO purchaser present. And if ever the purchaser comes, 1IlarrEa, l warn you I vii take measures to spoil your coveted bargain"
 Mrs. Kc-,-l;l:-'3 shook her head with g-a:.5.y a-<-.ab De G:sapprovaI. She never showed hit of ite when Kathleen was ia one Of these desperate 12oods, ard they were moods tha. ~eecct1y had grown freq-.c2t. Her diplomacy, of which she had large funds, forbade any s-cA cOurse. and her :c2tcr1al ambition, which was fatho-1-,css and after fash ion sublime, weighted i: with an added veto.
 "YcuHl never wreck your own pros poets. ny dear, when the tine comes. The star Of your destiny las meant you for better th;ccs. after all, than to be thc wife cf that eccentric G-2d somewhat vulgar Lc2zo Lispe1ard. who, wkcD stripped of lis money, was in 10 scasc-'
 ''Please don't refer to k;-.1, struck in Kathleen. If you do, I shall simply leave the roo11l."
 ''O!l, very well, :zy dear. Let us talk O. other tk:1gs. If you're sensible rou'u go with -le to tho Dillwortkv's t:-;s evening It's true, they're entire lv rev people. but tLcy'vc pushed thc1a- selves :1, and at tt.;s stage of their social audacity it would be absurd not to ac- cept them
 ''I've graver subjects t!:aa thct to concern me. 1.,;a1z,---.a. One Of them is :l1e way we've sunk i13 debt. It may be c2ly a few hundred, as you said so :z1aga: iccct,,y yesterday. Bat those few hundreds -.,.s- be paid, and I mean to pay them Do you l1aow how? By selling every bit of the superb jewelry possess, ard some of ny handsome gowns as well. Then I want to go abroad and live in so-cc little cheap l German place; Stuttgardt. or some i where like tl2at. There will be money enough to keep us both quietly, with | none of the fa1nc and strain of our oGi- ou5 past. I nay not have happiness, | but shall have peace. I shall take off | ny ticket and shant be for sale any | longer. Ah, what q luxuryi No jadcd . old orEn;bus-aorsc could feel moro i grateful when they unharnoss him for q good long rest"
 She spoke firmly enough, and yet with an occasional hystc-ic thro5 in her voice that the car Of her listener plain ly perceived. Mrs IlcE1a;rd WAS a listener, that day, of wonGro.,s polite shrewdncss. Kathlccn must have her head for little while, she had con- ciudcd. There was no other way of hereafter cocrc:ng her. It is possible that poor Kathleen, whose mind was much larger, just as Ter nature was much deeper. than that of her mother, never clearly graapcG the lattcr's aston ist1ing power to put her worldliaess into practical use. Every day since Marga- rctta Kannaird lad first looked upon her child to sec that she was UnvOntc6!y fair. had been a steady persistence of resolve that this beauty should find its s,-ll .;.-,-.--;nl ,,,-i.n rI,En aLncI- .-E