Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-06-01

before now Gwendoyn, you bank on thatl'
But tell you the Winstons here!"
How do we know it's the Winstons?"
WHO else could be? They said they were going t.
surprise And they're only friends too that tn,
concierge knows You'll they'll call again to-ngh
or tomorrow morning surel"
And supposng they do?"
Supposn;, they dol After their entertaining us ii
Boston for ten days and then taking us all over Lon
don--to have them catch us like thsl"
Let me cable; then The coin would be here the day
after tomorrow"
And when you told your father the last time that
never under any circumstances would we oRerdraw
again! Besides, she added with rnder emphasis,
1t would take almost every copper we've got on hand
to cable
The situation was partly novel and partly not For
the last two months of the first half of their mar
Ted life they had been occupying tiny furnished apart
ment in the respectable socherly end of the Latin
Quarter And although their fortune represented in
capital under the of their elders at home. was
since they had left Indianapolis they had reached the flag
endof their monthly stipend several days before the
next draft due.
There was this to note, indeed. Young Mr.. Morton
Carter in literature. He now gathering
material for that great romance of historical intrigue
which reach its height in the fall of the Basle
still to get printers ink and it had had predecessors
Literature therefore, not of wealth upon
which Mr.. Carter and his bride could reckon for i'm
mediate dividends.
Then I'll have to put in my watch"
Put in your watoh-with my picture in the back OF
II, and everything"
But tell you the mont de piste is regular govern
institution. It'd be Just like getting the money
from bank. Besides with nobody knowing US here,
we haven't any blame need to worry about whether its
respectable or not"
She shifted.
Oh, you mean by hot"-his sarcasm was wither-
ing" that I'm to cable after all?
No, you're not"
Very welt deare. very WELL I'm going out to get
my stuff about the Faubourg St Antoine It'll be up
to you!"
%Oh, yes. its easy enough to leave it all to mel
At that he stood nailed upon the threshold. But he
could think up rejoinder which he had used
often already that his literary conscience absolutely ruled
It out. And under bursting head of steam he Started
for the Faubourg
Whatever Mr.. Morton Carter may have lacked be-
yond any doubt he had the artistic imagination Three
hours later he came back with realization OF exactly
how the Bastie taken, which made his eyes glitter
and his breath in long exhaations that partook
almost OF solemnlty There would be one chapter at
any rate in By Right of Blood" which would make
Hugo himself seem pcayune!
The concierge stopped him at her little wicket and
gave him card. He still holding it when he
mounted to his own door and let himself in
The hall opened upon their dining and sitting-room
From If again, opened the dressing and then the bed
room.
Is that you Morton?" Gwendolyn called from that
inner chamber and then showed fower-lke head
which was still hated.
Where have you been'" he asked. astonished
She laid hundred franc note and big fve-franc
oartwheels upon the table I've been your old mont
de PETE that's where I've been And now we've enough
TO make some sort of show on, anyway"
But wha-what did you take out II don't sec
But he did At least he began TO feel-and it was
like large ice cake pressing upon his diaphragm
Why, there was that tankard thing. and the tray
And at the last, made up my mind could get on
without the tea-urn. too; can make that green
do. And when I'd put in the Sevres bowl and the
But Great Caesar! Those things all Miss Pas
We'll, we'd rented them, hadn't we? We'd rented
the apartment furnished And when she took her whole
four months rent in advance"
Rented theml-Snakes, Gsendolyn! Don. you
Didn't gou-Why we rented them to usei"
swell, that's using them, guess As long as we're
willing to go without them in the meantime
"Yes-and if Miss glastonbury should come back in
the meantime To say nothing OF the honor OF IT.
She produced it. "Oh, start lecturing now do
You'd-you'd think to hear you,"she gulped-" that
it was pleasure for me to go pawning And when
know very well she's safe IN Exeter.
The ticket not in itself terrifying document 1t
looked much like receipt for registered letter But
Mr. Morton Carter regarding it with all the horror
he had vanly sought to put into the expression of
Claude de Ia Coureeie upon the sight of his ets de
coehet How-how much will it take to get them out
again."
By this time Mrs Carter beginning to partake of
his emotion in spite of herself why its only seven
per cent said and the fees OF course there was
my cab-fare. there and back"
Cab fare? Why, did you go over to the head Office
ON the Right Bank" -
Certainly / did Papa says it's always good bust
ness to go TO the head Office Besides, how did know
that some time other Miss Psstonbury mightnt have
been at that place around the corner herself
IL was revelation OF Ine Iennlnnely AIdcnlaVclildn
which staggered Mr. Carter almost as much the
pawnrig itself WELL he said at length lust little
than half eleven francs is gone Thank heaven
We have the rest of it
"Oh-if you must get it out of me- we haven't it all
thought while | there, and near the Anglo
American would be chance toto get tea that
really nice. You know how particular ELY Winston
is about her,tea And-and anyway, we've got it now.
Yes, and hope Ely Winston may choke On it,
He looked at his watch " I'm not even sure there's
time to make it to-day
Just as like as not there's draft down at the con-
ciergs's now !"
Thereupon he opened his hand and glanced at the
card in it He did not exclaim, change ccor
to any marked degree, But at the look which began
it were, to warp his counte1auce, she exclaimed
" Oh Morton-it isn't-Not Miss Pdstonbwy-f
That's all And she SAYS on the other side Am
passing through. my way. to Switzerland with my
cousin, Mrs. Goyden Shall be here until tomorrow
afternoon Shall try to come in again before six.