Arizona republican., 1899-02-02
AmerieaD
 Pusbs&
BY EDGAR FAWCETT.
Continued From Yesterday.)

"Anothcr worlin which to define your | present mood jealous AlOnEo gave great start Then he tried to laugh, for the third time. and lcncly failed. ''Oh, that's cruel of you!'' Here his brow cloudcd And if I ain 1 jealous of 2 1.22r like that!'
 "A vcry noble and exceptional man, 1 rc1le-lber!'
 ''Oh, yes. But q man whose immense rank compromises Kathleen by the fact of his bciarin love with her!. Eric played for 2 1no1acnt with an ivory paper cut ter which haI lain on the desk near which lis friend had discovered him while deep in tho solution of some new architectural problem.
 ''lIoyy GO you know the king is in love with lor?" llc suddenly asked.
 'B&h!' Trumblcd Alonzo. "Hov do know I am I, you are you?'
 well, granted that he is. Come now, Lonz. you've known him long enough to feel, if not also to know, t!.at he's 2 ncn who v.oall 6corn to treat any p-1rc woInca-v-ell,'' Erie went on, &fter q pausc and z gesture ito trcat clv pure women S l-flgs have too often do.c.''
 Aloazo g12wCd his lip What OF
 
 love with her"
 her the least little bit and yet
 "Oh, scrioCsly! He cant marry her!"
 Cant hcn'
 What do yOu mcan?" cried Alonco, jumping up from his chair as though something he'd stung him.
 ''Ah," said Erie, with q voice cool and E.T broken with her. How, then. can it wake your wrath if she should become the queen of Saltravia?'
 ''It vouldn't-it vyouldn't,'' muttered Alonzo, pale and visibly distressed
 ''But if anything happens, Long, I pledge you my word that will happenl The Ling has done far more aud2ciors things already than marry an American girl As for Q 1aorga1atic 1narriagc-''
 ''Curse Inorga2atic Narz.iagcu' cried Alon2o. If he tried that, and she con- sented, I'd put bullet through his brain, though they hung me ten minutes aftcrward.'
 ''Thcy don't hang here; they Cu.iio- tine" said Erie, calmly Its much heater. in a way. But you needn't covet any such poetic fate. Clarimond loatl2es tt-lSACIC N1A1C14S- A-t-sS l4-t-4E J-4Gt told me. Long. Long! you linOyv hin too well by this time for such kind Of talk. Here you gre, rich, through his generosity, and you telk of him as if l-e were oorac co1amoa ca<.o
 I'll resign my position"' quavered Alonzo, with both hands clenched at his side. I'll go to starvation, if you plcasc-'
 Don't. Go to the ball first.
 ''I'n send him my resignation this very day!"
 Wait until the ball is over''
 ''Curse the ball!'
 ''You're cUrai-2g everything, it strikes me, in the most prorliscuous manner"
 Forgive nc. Erie, but I can't help it
 You cant help it. dear boy,' said Eric, ''bec2c-sc your heart is almost breaking in your breast" He got up from his clcIr, and went straight to his friend, putting his s,r1aS aboct his neck and kissing hira on the forehead. It was a very sweet and simple act, and it was also one tl,2t bri-n-aed with q beautiful, spontaneous fraternity.
 Alonzo threw back his head, stared forlornly at his conparion, and then flung his head on Fries broad, virile SnOulucT- Il j5A'Ct4u, pe-5Slo1dJC ILrIAO1I of tears follovvcG-the tears that men shed, and so tellingly seldom, and that are wrang, when shed at all, from deep governed wells of their spirits
 Eric held him in his arms. not speak ing a word, only throbbing with the most humane sympathy. But mean while his brain worked, and he thought, with the bitterness and irony that cer- tain stern freaks of life will too cften wrench from Us, whether we are op- timists, pessinists, or only part of that huger throng which neither think nor feel too Ecenly. And l brought him here for this! It's too devilishly bad! In way he vas happy enough till he'd seen her again, and now it's all a tumult with him, a madness, a tor ture. But hell stay for the ball. He'll stay, jcst to see her again. And then? God knows with what reckless force hell fly straight in the face of lis Irea- cnt prosperity.'