Arizona republican., 1904-12-09

now, at home we like better just sitting in the garden" She leaned back and united her bonnet strings. Don't l trouble to call Miss Palmer now; she Is busy, dare say
 Isn't she. though?" whispered her ladyships son. but the whisper sounded alarmingly loud in the stiffness, ana Amys imploring face impelled him to silence.
 You are younger than Miss Pal mer?"
 .sYes." Kate was thinking of her novel and wondering if, there was any | possibility of relief. Conversation was not Rates strong point. Ut is odd she has not married. She is quite beauty"
 Worried about plain Mir. Gowan," thought Kate. "I must quiet her mind"
 T hardly think Amy will ever marry" she said.
 An" said Lady Gowan sympathetic | interest in her tone. Has she been crossed in love?" which expression al- most proved Kate's undoing. and caused Amy to look anywhere except at the young man beside her.
 He died" sighed Kate, thinking what fun it would be to tell Jack about it.
 And she still mourns, poor dear! How sweet"
 Don't you like the smell of the syr- i ingas?'' Kate assayed to return to the paths of truth, but her ladyship would have none of it.
 How did it happen, my dear?' she inquired with that frank desire to at tend to other peoples affairs While keeping ones own undisturbed, that IS so delightfully."- British.
 Gracious, why doesn't some one come?" thought Kate.
 He was killed" she said.
 An poor young man! And how was he killed my dear Miss Palmer?"
 "It's a strange story" said Kate pen sively.
 Lady Gowan gazed with flattering attention at the raconteuse. |" She Is having a good time,' thought that un- veracious young person, and Amy wanted her to have good time.
 Ut happened in wyoming. Amy was spending the summer there on a ranch The man she-she cared for Cthe love messages in Rates stories were always brieD used to ride out from the town on horseback. Part of the way lay through a canyon about which the cowboys told strange tales. Dead Mans Canyon, it was called
 "Ciruesome namei" shuddered her listener.
 1 "I don't know that I ought to tell this" Kits conscience was imperfectly subjugated.
 "Oh, my dear young lady, l shall, ot course never mention 1t. Your poor sister! So young, too! Pray go on.'
 Well" continued Sapphira. "one evening when they were expecting him he failed to come; and in the night black storm came up in the foothills where the ranch lay. Amy was lying awake, listening to the wind roaring in the pines, when she heard a horse gal lop into the yard"
 Kate was now enjoying herself. Amy was not She tried to convey the true state of affairs to MT. Gowan by a glance, but he had stopped looking at her and was staring at the back fence with an intensity that the beauty of the fence did not warrant, so she put both her hands over her ears to shut out Rates ridiculous tale. When she removed them Kate was saying i'm pressively
 'Something horribly cold sprang on his horse, behind him. He knew no more till he recovered consciousness in the ranch house, to find Amy bending over him.
 And he died?"
 An instant's hesitation between death and insanity ended in favor of the for Iner.
 "Yes; he lived only long enough to tell his story
 MT. Gowan ceased from his contem- plation of the fence, and turned to Amy with British determination in his blue eyes.
 "Is it true?" he said.
 She shook her head, and then, care less of consequences and a family dis habille, rose and fled to the dining room.
 Mir Gowan closed the door carefully behind him, and then, with relieved amusement in his gaze, confronted the flushed young woman, who stood in the middle of the roomi grasping chair back for support. while she tried to ex- plain that her sister had been telling his mother a most inexcusable and baseless romance.
 "I am partly to blame,' she said scarlet with embarrassment. but doubly trying to shield her erring sisteer. 'l told her that-that Lady GOwan was liked love stories, and Kate knew that none of us was presentable, and she tried to entertain her. It was toe dreadful of Kate"
 She was really pathetic. and the smile in his eyes charged to sympathy. He moved nearer, and opened his lips tC speak comforting words, when, just al this point, Jacks voice was heard out side of the dining room windows, talk ing to Mrs. Baily.
 ''Ye gods, Betty" he said. "ft was greati I didn't think Kit had it in her was on the piazza roof, and I nearly rolled off. You see, Kit wasn't going tC have the dowager worry about Amy capturing her son, so she settled Amy with broken heart"
 Ut was dreadful" said Mrs. Baily How could Kate! Has Lady Gowar gone"