Arizona republican., 1905-04-02

I Its all right, Drake, we're going
 right down to cash the check. You l get away before Dietrich sees you and ! gets suspicious. and I'll meet you with the thousand dollars at Lotta's Foun- ! tnia in half an hour"
 l Drake walked down Market street.
 In a few minutes he saw Maxie, Maids l low and the old Dutchman approach ! ing. He kept out of sight while they ] passed him. on their way to Montgom- cry street where the bank was located. Then he commenced his vigil at Lotta's Fountain.
 When Admeh Drake looked up to the clock tower above his head he was sur prised to see that it was already a quarter to F. He had waited nearly an hour. He began to be impatient, nervous. suspicious. Maidslow should have returned with Maxie long before this. Something must have happened, or else-he grew frightened at the thought-they had given him the slip, and would avoid paying him the thou sand dollars as his share of the plot. He waited now with less hope. Surely if they were coming at all, they would have returned before this. He lost in terest in the passers by and watched only for the two who were to bring him his reward.
 The clock struck noon, and the throng was swelled by clerks and busi- ness men released for their lunch hour. One o'clock and the tide poured back again. Two and he grew weary with standing and sat upon a pedestal of the Fountain. Three, and he gave up all hope The excitement which had kept him up all night relaxed. He was faint and limp from lack Of food and sleep.
 So he, too, joined the human current and drifted along Kearney street with no set plan of action.
 He turned into the Old Plaza, at Portsmouth square, his eyes caught by a sparkle of light from the gilded sails of the little bronze ship in the Stevenson memorial. He walked near CT to see what it was. and as he ap- preached he perceived a young man in a red sweater reading the inscription on the marble shaft. It was the liar ward Freshman.
 'To be honest, to be kind" Coffin was reading. ito earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his pres encc''-and then he turned away with a bitter protest in his throat to see the hero of Pago Bridge looking over his shoulder.
 Pretty. aint it?" said Admeh Drake, and he, too, looked at the immortal quotation from the Christmas sermon. Had it been written for him alone it could not have stung him more fercely.
 TO renounce. when that shall be necessary, and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without apitulation-above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy."
 He turned to Coffin with despair in his eye, all that was best in him writhing at these graven words. Say, what the hell did they stick that up here for, right where every man that has failed can read and eat out his heart9'
 Coffin slapped him on the back in sympathy for even the irsepressible Freshman seemed for the moment to be touched by the admonitory legend. But he was not one to be serious for long, and after that one swift glance into his soul, his customary spirit as serted itself.
 See here,'' he said, this is the way look at it. You can't have good luck with your conscience all the time, any more'n you can with your purse Nor al: cultivate your forgetteryi We meet under the shadow of the good ship Bonaventura, aforesaid ship being full of buccaneers, and sailing over a Sub i lime Moral Precept, by R. L. $. II doubt if he would claim he was always such an angel himself if anybody should drive up in a chariot and ask him. Lastly, my brethren, why be phazed by a dozen lines of type? Dis | card your doubts and draw to the glorious flush of hope. Amen. Let's | have a drink"
 They pledged each other somewhat forlornly in Spring Valley water and then Coffin remarked: By the way, what did you do with the dime Coffee