Arizona republican., 1899-01-19

| Kathleen there can be, to my thinking no possible substitute
 He watched her eyelids quiver a little and her large form slightly stiffen. But you will show mercy to my poor child's headache,' she returned. with a smile that seemed just to edge her lips and no more. You will be good enough on that account, am sure, to make the best of me under the circum- | stances"
 Alonzo gave his head short negative ! shake. q can't. 1 want Kathleen, headache and all.'
 ''Oh. but you're presumptuous"
 That's just what you force me to become
 Not at all."
 ''Then allow Kathleen to appear"
 ''She is too much indisposed, as I told you"
 II would like to learn that, if you please from her own lips"
 Bless me" said Mrs. Kennaird, lift ing her shoulders for moment and put ting mp her glasses. You're ruder than I thought you knew how to be-"
 Say more decided And I'm com pelled to add this: If Kathleen is forbid den me I neither can nor shall accept you IS her proxy.'' '-No?" replied his hostess, with hard ening face. But suppose my daughter desires just that arrangement?"
 She does not desire it.
 ''You speak with delightful coni- dence, really"
 '.Oh, madam, let us end this,'' cried | Alonzo, feeling himself grow pale. If you attempt to keep Kathleen from sec ing me your effort can only produce transient results
 Mrs. Kcnnaird threw back her head 2 little, as though on the verge of q scorn- ful laugh. But either she checked her self or something in the visitors look checked her. Like q flash her whole visage changed; not that it became soft CT but that it surely lost in expression both subtlety and restraint.
 My dear young gentleman she said, I'm very sorry for you, because I've always liked you. But the truth may as well be told without another instant of delay. Your engagement to my child must cease, and you know why"
 50, then, it's open war;" returned Alonzo. T prefer that"
 It isn't war at all; it's worldliness- any bad name you're bent on calling it.
 s'I'll call it the same spirit, then, that made you try to entrap into a marriage with her that crippled young English lord"
 He had hit and with poignant thrust, the heart of wound that had never healed She frowncd, and the color left her tightening lips. While she stared at him he went on:
 ''Oh, Kathleen has told rac. But she never knew vvl.at love meant. then, and that was why she was such yva.; i1l your hands. It's altered with her now: your rule isn't what it cncc was. If it Lad been you'd have kept her from writing me these letters. I've offered to release her but she has refused. The terms of her refusal have seemed to carry with them a certain tang of yourself, Per haPs I've judged her wrongly"
 Now he rose and went toward n door which led into the other apartments of this limited; flat. He caught with one hand the curtain drapcd across this door and drew it slightly aside. Its not your opposition fear; it's tke thought that she may be influenced by it. I know you've done all you could to 6iss1ade her. But she must come to me ScOrEing ives, that's the word-scOr1ing such odious arguments as you've doubtless addressed to her, or she shall not ccEGe at all"
 At this point he drew tke little cur tain still further aside, and knowing that his voice needed only to be raised key or so above the ordinary to make | it reach the furthcst room of the suite he called with clear accents:
 kathleen! Kathleen! I am here, and wish to speak with you. Will you not come to me for at least q few mo- nents?"
 An exasperated cry broke from Mrs. Kennaird, who had now gained her | feet.
 You're insolent," she cried. You're Outrageousl I told you my daughter was i'll. And now, sir. I command you to leave these apartments"
 But Alonzo scarcely heard this voice, | for another, faint, sob-brolSen, and | somewhat distant, had fallen on his | ears. He still held the curtain side ways when Mrs. Nennaird sprang to- ward him and tried to wrest it from his grasp.
 Do you call yourself gentleman?'' she gasped, Gs he thwarted her at tempt.
 Do you call yourself mother?'' he replied. And then Kathleen glidcd quickly through the open doorway pale and embling-though quite tear less.
 Alonzo at once receded. From that instant his mien and voice became judi cial in their calm. It was he who broke silence after the trio had thus met.
 Tell me-" were his first words to Kathleen, why, when I came here, did you permit your mother to meet me in your place?"
 Kathleen, with compressed lips, re- mained speeches..
 Tell me-" AlOnzo repeated.
 The girl shot look at her mother.