Arizona republican., 1899-01-13

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 place. The inmate, a young man
 wrapped to his ears in a huge coat
 ined with sablcs, remained inside his
 carriage until the footman's bell ring
 had been answered. Then he lightly
 bounded forth upon the pavement aEd
 ran up the stoop into the open doorway, which was immediately closed behind aim by another footnan inside the hall.
 ''Is everything ready, Jameson?"
 "Ycs, sir" replied the man, as his young master slipped out of the ccat and let it's big, suInptuous bulk drop into this third servants waiting arms. large miro II glcamcd opposite the form which had thus lightly unshcathed it. self, and it's possessor, AlOnzo Lispen- ard, gave saucy stare at his own pre- scntTacnt. He saw man in the later twcnties, of excellent height and build, though of meagcr personal beauty. Bronze eyes, with a merry spark in them, and waved hair of silky yellow did their best to keep the face from be- ing commonplace. An irnpudent nose aided it-a nose with an airy, upward slant and little arches to flank either nostril. Some of Alonzo's friends used to say that this feature accounted for many of his cudGcitics.
 EEObi I think I'll flo ' bP o--p1aiT1,a6 half to himself and half, as it were, to Jameson, who grinncd serenely. 'If they don't like me this way they'll have to take me all the same" He wheeled round on one heel and hurried to the staircase. He had reached the middle of it, taking two steps at q time, when he suddenly paused and called over one shoulder:
 ''Ohl Jameson, are the carpet and the awning out there? I forgot to notice."
 ''No, sir; not yet. But they're sure to be in time, Mir. Lispenard.'
 Alonzo fronted the speaker and shook with vchcncncc an upraiscd forefnger.
 Now, Jameson" he cried, If anything goes wrong to-day you'll not forget it till your dying hour. To say that you'll merely be discharged isn't anything. I'll have you traced by detectives to the uttermost parts of the earth, and the instant you try to get a new place they'll prevent you"
 He sprang upstairs again. still two steps at ., time, while Jameson watched him with eyes that twinl1lcd fondly. Just G3 he disappeared the new English valet, Fletcher, .sauntercd from back regions. This person had a sheer on his clean-shorn upper lip as he muttered to Jameson: ,.+
 Well, if he ain't~ one O the reg'lar bloonin1', lah-de-dah, strike-ye-with-a- feather kind! I wonder how you could stand him for so long time. I begin to be pretty sure that I can't" -@
 Jameson colored and scowled. He greatly liked his young master. To new eyes and ears Alonzo's manner was no doubt efferninate. He often chose to use the treble notes of a voice that was not devoid of bass ones, and he gave to his body a too mercurial twirl, to his shoulders a too facile shrug. His laugh had sometimes a girls own shrillness, and he sometimes used his hands in gestures that were so many challenges to dignity. But those who knew him best knew him for an athlete of skill, a rider of pluck, a keen sportsman when lazincsS let him shoot or hunt, and a mental force replete with every opposite of womanish trends and tastes.
 The new valet had been in office hardly q week yet, and here was not the first slur that his fellow had heard fall from his lips. He had chosen a dangerous atmosphere in which to vent his aversion, and this fact was soon made clear to him in no careful terms. Look out, my young sprig of con ccit,' growled Jameson, whose gray l touched little thickets of side-vyhisl1er seemed to bristle as he spoke, ''or you'll find that. the gent you've en- gagged with II send you fyin' before you've had the chance to give warnin'., And without a rec 'mendation, too. \ Yes. sir; you needn't look sour and up pish. MT. LiGpenard won't mind that \ If you take him for what you've just called hin you'll get so left you won't know Monday from Saturday week.
 Tho new valet (who was thought to wear stays) put q neat white hand on either hip. He had been in this coun- try three or four years, and had learned i not to sdnander his h's. Rrt i-- +1-~ citement of repartee he now forsook a few of them. With "bloomin','' 5 ''blarsted,' and an occasional bloody" as his recurrent adjectives, he declared ' himself anxious to learn of Jameson \ why he so admired Mir Lispenard. And ' Jameson swiftly told him.
 "Hc's got his harum-scarum ways" the butler, in tart semi tone, ''but he's every inch gentleman behind 'em. His foolin's only like the white of an egg with a big yoll1 to it. When was sick in the hospital, two years ago, he went to see me twice a week and put me in a room that must a cost him a hundred dollars a month if if CNSt 2 cfrot The rn rn 4hnt l...-o 1