Arizona republican., 1899-01-27
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BY EDGAR FAWCETT.
CContinued From Yesterday.>

l~I evidently great grudge against t.,o king and his court, and it was 1 pleasant for them to feel that their friends were of the same rather rancor- Ous mind They never spoke against Cicri1aon1, but they hinted that he was d;ppant end frivolous and had all the 1 pravcr5ial bad faith of princes. Brother and sister were oddly alike, both being tall and slim, both having a sunlcn look about the checks and slaty-hued eyes with p;nk-cdgcd lids. They both talked with q slight lisp, and in talking used their hands with tho same ierlzy little gestures. Neither of them often said ''I, 1t was always we with them, so tat after awhile you got the irnprcs- sion that nothing happened singIy to this devoted brother and sister. but that human experience treated them to it's good and it's ill in perpetual duo, as the rain and sun treat two apples on single steam.
 Harriet birmingham made herself rotab bly, civil to Mrs Ker1aird, and after awhile they had 9 private chat to- gethcr amid thc general babble of the little 1ncdi5h draving-rcor.
 We hear your daughter is so won- 1 dcrfully beautiful, Mrs. Kcnnaird,' said the sister of the dePcsed art super 1 intendcHt. Pardon nc, but we do! l And it Gricvcs ne greatly to hear that she is irdispcsed to-day. The waters sometimes affect people for a few days just like that. Wecant live away from them now. thOrgh at first we thought them really quite horrid. That is why my dear brother hasn't departed from Saltravia. I mean since Mir. Eric Thaztcr caused the king to treat him so cruelty. But perhaps you haven't heard about that. No? Oh, tLcn, l won't bo4c ycu with our private griev- ances. And yet, after all, they've be- come horribly public ever since my dear brother was ouslcd from his position and that AloDZo Lispcnard was made to replace him"
 ''Alonzo Lispenard!" broke in Mrs. Kcnnaird. ''Is-is he in Saltravia?"
 q believe he is in Munich now, though there is . report that he will be back next week for the great royal ball at the palace. Pray, do ycu know him?'
 'Ycs-ycs, I've ret him. He's a-a New Yorker. yCu know.
 True. l suppose you have met him in society over tkerc-the Four Hun dred,' as they cell it?'
 ''Yes, said Hrs. Kennaird, feeling a little dizz:y and hardly knowing just what answer left her lips. Quite right. It-cr-was in the Four Hundred, as you say"
 Such a queer name, isn't it?'' babblcd Miss Jccri1Gi,Grl. We can't get used to it, you know. There vas nothing of that sort when VIC were thcrc.''
 ''Oh, yes, there was," her listener might mentally have said, ''only you ok Kenncird was in TO mood for any such comments, whether mute or vocal. And So this Alonzo Lispenard,' she presently faltercl, holds a position here under the king
 ''Oh, yCs-art superintendent, you know. Erie Thaxter, the adOred friend of CIarim0nd, took it away from us that is, mean from my brother-and | gave it (vith the kings full sanction) | to this Mir. Lispenard.''
 q see, sec"
 Pray, is it trre,'' continued Miss Jerninghara, that he was engaged to a beautiful girl in New York, who tilted him the moment she heard he'd lost all . his money?7'
 Really, think it's quite false,' mur- n1ured Mrs. Kcnnaird. She got away from | the villa as soon as decent politeccss ! would permit. The late afternoon made ! exquisitc1y 1y-tendeda and statucd lawns ! in front of the hotel look like squares ] and medalliOns of dark green plush. | From an immense Japanese pagOda that | burned with as many tints as if it had . been bUilded out of Q fallen rainbow flOated music made bv enc of the most [ perfect orchcstras in Europe. KatIl- | lcen, in a plain dovc-colorCd gown, without single ornament of any kind, ] moved here and thcrc amid the ara | bcsque of boz-cdgcd paths, holding q book against ono side of her bosom, as ! women arc wont to do. She seemed i wholly unaware of the attention. even tho scrutiny, which she Gttractcd, | though she was perhaps perfectly well | aware of it a-l preferred to appear otherwise. She lad known no one at | the hotel on l-c~ arrival, and aftcrward | had desired cc.plctc isolation. The | new ccqU.ai-tc.cCahips into which her mother lad driftcd were not. shared by her. She rcElciIcsl calmly, tl,ough not haugllti,y, alocf.
 When 1IIG. Ilc-2lciTd now drcu near the great square cvcr which loorncd the light and pretty facade Of the chief hotel, she a5 once perceived that Hcth- Teen was being greet deal noticed and silently admired. Little wonder, too,'' it swept through her mind, for as she walks there now her form ard face seem to cmbody this delightful thing of Chopia's that his majesty's musicians arc playing so finely" Ard then Mrs Kcnncird approached her daughter But before she could reach her side. cid Mrs Madison, with wrinl1led face. gouty step, and a cane /big enough for a British squire beset by the same nalady as herself, came hobbling forward.
 My dear Mrs. Kennaird, 1 don't know how l can stay any longer in Saltravia unless you present me to your daughter! It isn't only that four or five young men are always tormenting me for presentation to her, knowing that l know you. It's that lots of tiresome