Arizona republican., 1899-01-16
AmerieaD
 ..Pusb&
BY EDGAR FAWCETT.
(Continued From Yesterday.)

''1 told them not to bring the car ricgc, Lona, sl:e faned. dropping into 2 chair. ''I!ector Gail he might turn up, but le hash t.G-3d yol7 know he never dcc5 a-2y earthly thing that l2c Prorai3es kcIl do. So EoT, you'u hove to ccnd nc I,oIac i1l your ccl'1'ia.gc, for it's frcez- inrly cold outside. let clonc being dark as pitch. And I ougLt to have got home an ego ogo. 1 r2fCacl ti2a Bar tholo-le<v'5 dinner 5c-a1.lc it's q Patri- aroh's ball night. Or, i--2o.v yG21l rc not going bce2ucc for some Te2Gon tlc Ken rairds haven't been asked. B:1t that's nothing b nc, LHE2. you l,-1oyT. and I've :5-l1-li5cl to dance tae cotillon with that dear. lovely Mark Manhattan"
 ''Al-vc1,7 replied Alonzo, musing'ly. ''Is he the expected successor of Jack Pettigrcw9''
 ''Lonz. how can you!" reproached his sister The word successor is per fectly insulting. l don't know what you mean by itI''
 She was very pretty as she sat there before her brother. wit3 her trim neat figure, her clcGr-crlt, HupercihOuS little blonde face, her P2,'iciaa gown and it's harmonious adjEnct Of T j2unty bonnet The late dance l2ad given her cheeks becoming pink tint; her foes were apt to say of her that she was too pale, and perhaps q few of them said it because they wanted to tempt her into rolging, which would have been q salient peg on which to hang their slurs. Tho 'Hec- tor to whom she had just referred was her husband, whom sine had married when she was only eighteen. eloping with him for that purpose, and whom it was whispered that she now gave 2 ha-.dsc1ne yearly allowance in the doubic capacity of letting her alone and not appearing to let her alone too much. .'Icctor has every conceivable vice, :" she had said, not long ago, to her brother. -.cxccpt that of i2civility. He is SO refrc5hingly polite to Ine. l dare say I might have tried to get q Givcrce from hin three CT four years age, if it hadn't been for his beautiful Inanacr5." !"
 Were the truth told about Kate Van Santvoord, it would have cast scd re- 1ections upon her husband. She was one of those women who hunger, in tlYDir Girlhood for protective fondness, and to whom an early marriage i5 hence aa agency teeEling either with porten- tons 1l1i5ery or joy. Treated with de cent marital respect she might have made an excellent wife: treated quite the reverse of tl,alt. she had tlrncl wife hood into q travcsty. Tho ali-aelt cf frivolitv on vvhi5h 5ho i'd had ;.,1.g- men1eCl Ter natural foeblc2ca5 cf char aeter. She was like q child foraGing in {. boz of s5ugar plr--1s. which cc-l be taken from 1t only vTit-2 traG.ie shrielzs and tears. Alol2o lrc,->J2cl s2-l sta--2i-l.s of this sort now. And yet tic bo-. of smear plul1-a3 he'd to be ta--cl ;l;Fay. | There was no help for it.
 Il always want to mean pleasant things when l talk with y0u Kitty,' her brother now replied. T only wish that I could always mean to say them. :"
 '.Yor. don't always try she pouted, not at all cOnprelcnding him. Just look how other women behave. I'd have you understand that I consider myself the pink of discretion"
 You should liizcn yourself to a lily, my dear. and not Q pink. Like the 1 lilies of the field, you toll not, neither do you spin. But I'm afraid, Kitty, yorir-your vacation is Over.'
 My vacation over?" she queried, lift | ing her brows, staring at him, for the first time pcrceiving that his face was ! colorles3 and that there were drawn | lines near his lips. But still no real suspicion of the trath came to her. ''Oh! dear,'' she exclaimed, you're going to lecture mel You've heard something horrid about me and you've believed it. 5
 Alonzo smiled sadly, and for mo- ment lowered his look i've heard something horrid about both of us," he | said. and I'm compelled to let you know what it is" Then, amid silence, he lifted his eyes. and soon added: Tt concerns our money. There's been a great loss!''
 "A great loss?'' was her cry, as she started up. ''When? Where? How? Do you mean that any of my money has gone?"
 ''Yes," and as she again reseated her self, agitated and frowning. he pursued: kitty, what will you do when you ve heard the entire truth, since you deport yourself like this on the mere threshold of it?" He at once proceeded to tell her the entire truth, and some time before he had ended she was almost in straits for breath.
 'Oh. Long," she at length gasped. '.I-I can't think of myself as poor! It's too ghastly! Don't you believe thereil be anything loft?"
 ''Thcre's always something left in these hideora affairs, A1onzo answered. Its like a shipv-rccl1--some kind of rubbish or another is sure to get washed ashore I'm sorry for you, Kitty avfully so. Bat the thing has got to be borne"
 '.Borne.' she almost shouted. TT can't bear it, and 1 won't! Poor ugh! l loalhe poverty.''
 '-AIcst people do."
 ''Ch! thot vile Chichester! I always did dctest kiIa! He was commonncss itself, with lis twang, and his diamonds, and his negro cca1hman.2
 T quite agree with you"
 He should never have been allowed in tl-o firm, raved the sister of Alonzo. And then her fippancy broke through her despair. in ludicr0us contrast to it. | s-4c didn't only have a pCeFI-3 ct33oilTrlaT