Arizona republican., 1899-01-16


 up from her chair and began an excited promenade, pausing and turning every few seconds with a swish of her sillzen skirt Philosophy can't pay ones tradespeoplc for one. To be poor is to be low and conte1nptiblc! Oh, you needn talk! 1 know the pettiness and nastiness of an empty purse! See here, Lonz!'' and she suddenly shot up to his side and seized a lapel of his coat with trembling hand. T shall go mad-I know l shall! I don't mean that it will | break my heart, no doubt Hector did that. long ago. and I've been living on with the two pieces pumping one against another in my breast and per haps making mo the restless, feverish creature I am. But if it doesn't break my heart it will break my brain.' She snatchcd her hand away from hin as he tried to take il, and then stopped her head while pressing a palm against either temple. At the same moment she gave vent to shrill, hysteric laugh. Alonzo caught her iN his arms and al- most carried her to 6 lounge. It was not till good hour later that he ae cornpanied her home in his own car riage
 Her exhibition of terrified weakness had not, after all, struck him as strange. It was just what might have been ex- pcctcd of a woman to whom the mere matcrialism of life had grown it's dear est aim, it's hardest fundament. Hero ism, nerve, resignation, acceptance of unforeseen ill, was not to be antici- patcd from such as she. And there were so many, he reflected, exactly like | her. The very spinal cord of their femi- nine dignity and self-reliance was pride in the plethora of their pocketboolls. Thank God he thought, while his sisters faint sobs broke above the rum bling wheels of the chill, dark car riagc, my Kathleen is made of sterner and better stuff!''
 The Van Santvoords had lately gone into spacious house on Fifth avenue, within almost a stone throw of the park. Kitty had grand ideas of the way one should live now, when ones income perlnittcd-and hers had certain ly challenged extravaganza. But it was extravaganza tempered by charming taste. She never entered her own car riage without having three men to at tend her thither. The appointments of her home were splendor itself and yet free from the least vulgar taint. No enc in town gave grander and yet choicer dinners, and her mouse warn- | ing" a few weeks ago, was pronounced marvellous for it's blending of elegance and discretion.
 Quite soon after he had entered her handsome home with his sister, Alonzo met his brother-in-law and shook hands with him just as he had done hundreds of times before. But on no occasion, however, had the incident of either meeting or shaking hands with Hector proved at all agreeable. Alonzo's heart | had 10 gloomy lairs in which hates could | turk comfortably, but it is doubtful if | he ever came nearer to detesting any [ fellow mortal than he did in the ease of | I[ittv's husband. Iector was to him | cold, hard, bright animal, openly volup- tuou3 and secretly cruel. It was easy to sec how any sentimental ,yorng- pirl might have fallen Iladly in love with his heroic figure and his chi5alcd face and his l&rp0 eyes of diamond darkness. But to Alon1o the mln was so brutally | Philistinc that he offered a constant personal explanation of his ranl1est fOllios He had murdered all that was finest i1 his wife, and those who knew ! him best were well aware how strong a thrill of triumph had passed through him when Kitty's own imprudence5 had swelled into q striking offset against | those which he himself had committed. T can hit back now, if she tries the divorce game,' he had once brazenly said in an assemblage of intimates. The ribaldry reached Alonzo's cars, and did not tend to deepen his regard for it's author.
 On his own side Hector greatly dis liked Alonzo. He considered him per son besotted with many paEnbyis-ns and fit only to loll at the feet of women sillier than himself. He thought that his praalls and capers were the most pointless bits of buffoncrv, and that he was never so much in his element as when the recipient of reluctant giggles from disgusted observers. More than once, during wrangles with his wife, he had aired opinions of this cutting sort as to her brother, and Kitty, flor the sake of peace," as women often put it to themselves, refrained from breathing q word of these savageries to Alonzo Meanwhile, as at present, the two kins- men continued to interchange civil greetings when accident placed them in each others path,
 Dinners been waiting ages" " Hector Van Saatvoord now said, following his wife and AlOnzo into q small reception room off the main hall, a nook that was all one tender bloom of rose color and silver Hector himself was in full even ing dress; the white at his throat be came him, as it does most dark men with features clean cut.
 His wife rested an arm on the mantel and stood there gazing downward, in mournful apathy. Alonzo began to draw off his gloves and said, while do- ing so:
 Il think that-Kitty had perhaps-a suppose you-a-would dine out this evening"
 He retained no idea of what words had escaped him q moment after he had thus spoken. It seemed necessary to