Arizona republican., 1899-02-03
AmerieaD
 ..Pusb%A
BY EDGAR FAWCETT.
Continued From Yesterday.)

fSttNs--l tlbGCE. iN-l'--ls}reti IC1c
 .:ceiz, irnpaticntly. ''DamcI you art
 i!-o everybody else. How otherwise
 -ouII I hare her for ny wife, rlaH:
 Have I not told you t',at those r10rr2n-
 atic Elcrriages arc l0athsonae to 12ec B11t there it i2. Instantly th2t royalty idca occurs to you! Well, you are not to blanc. It occurs to everybody, no doubt, tlc moment E:y marriage is thought oI. It occurred to her. She accepted nc. Are you a-cliline because she accepted ne? Arc you aaying to yo--E5clf tt,c.4 al2c 1ac~cl.y dil vl,ct tllou= sands cf women r-c.ld in like circu-n- stance Go? Iut you arc wrong if you reason @, for sl2o vas sublilncly frank She made i5 clear t. 1nc tAi1 a,.o still loved Li3Dcnarjl, and if she brought nc 2 virgin body she could not bring me 2 virgin hcart,'
 ''She said this, monsieur?"
 ''In substance, yes, Eric, if not in actual phrase. And I, knowing how this man and woman love one another how the cruel worldliness of 8 single, hard-graiGcd being has kept then apart -I. whom you have called great. pause, positively pause, before the fulfllInent of my dIty!"
 ''Yo.lr duty, monsierr?"
 The kings eyes darted fire for a sec ond. there in the dusk where he and Erie stood. q can unite the-n if I choose, almost by lifting ny hand. If I do not choose, I can wed Kathleen. Which course is my duty? She will marry me, half from aIz1 bition; half because of her mother-that vicious, mannish, unsuitable mother! Which course, say, is my duty? People talk of Quixotisrn! Bah, As if I did not know! There was never a mealer word created than that 'QuiXotis1n! It has been the cloak for countless acts of covvardice, ard Cervantes, were he alive to-day, would regret that his genius ever aided in it's cciHing."
 Eric dropped his head, and felt his eyes fill with tears. He knew just what great throbs of noble nature underlay this splendid bluster, this in comparable vehemencc.
 Monsieur" he replied, when able to school his voice so that he could speak with self-goverCance. you have been very right ia saying that you require no counselor. I an Alonzo Lispenard's friend; I know how he has suffered IEJN| IIc St.11CLo S1L.t ] Si14l ! ClAI NLNfOCCNi servitor, and I realize the noble renun- citation 1t is in your power to make. You yourself have hintcd that you are capable of this fine seIf-cffacement. But 1 did not need your own admission to that effect. l have already known you too long not to grasp the height and breadth of your generosity"
 Clarin0nd turned on his heel like fash, throw both hands behind him, joininc them there, and then moved slowly away.
 live horribly deceived you," he shot over his shoulder. '.I brought you here in the hope that, although an Amer ican, you would prove yourself a good courier, and show me ample cause that I should plight troth with the woman 1 love-
 f'Monsieur," replied Eric, following him, T a1a far too good a courier for that. Sincerely as esteem your char actor in it's entirety, there is one ele- nent of it to which 1 must always pay primal obcisance."
 You rnean?' questioned the king, as Erie now reached his side again, in the fragrant twilight of their transient re treat.
 Your peerless conscience, your un- parallclcd sense of right?"
 As the fcstivity progressed, this even ing, nearly everyone conceded that there had been nothing at all resem- bling it in brilliance and buoyancy for many and many a month. Indeed, some of the native guests roundly ad- nittcd that Clarimonds reign had yet seen no grand assemblage so delight ful: for this season more foreigners than usual had gathered at the hotels and among these, where position and made it possible, the royal invitations had been somewhat lavish ly spread As q pleasant result the en- tertaia,Hent sparkled with novelty. At the doors of the banqueting- hall were opened, and wine and viands furnished in profuse largeness wrought just the needed result of quickened raycty and cnlivcrcd social zcst The Saltravian maids and -qatro23 unbcnt and became affable to fcflow-Icortals of different grades or often of different countries frc-1 their own. Admiration fer KatEleCl's beau | y Wa-cd with the progress of the | en1Crtc i,2,12c-.t. and after awhile many CtiiC5 sought to know her. Mrs. Ken ! aaird who had managed to get herself | and talked to by some of the | nest prominent men present, was in | m ccstacy of sclf-Eratulation. She had | )ncc come face to face with AlOnzO, and | had managed to make it appear as if | ,hc had not Intentionally cut him. It l was so hard to treat anyone unamiably | -o-night!
 Somc little time after midnight Eric oachel Alonzo on the arm. The latter rave a kind of relieved start, and at once said:
 I'm SO glad to find you. I mean to lip away, though of course you will not % yet
 '.Nou are tired so soon?"
 ''Yes-of seeing her, ringed round with her new idolators. It's getting ntolerablc. I shouldn't have come at .ll.'
 But, my dear Lorz, the king wishes