Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-09
CHAPTE II--Continued.

The waiter set before him silver tureen. covered.
 He sat up ard began to consume his soup scarce dcing it justice. His dream troubled hfm--his dream of the love of woman.
 From little distance his walter re- garded him with an air of disappoint- ment. In the course cf an hour and a half he awoke to discover the attend ant In the act of pouring very hot and black coffee from bright silver pot Into demitasse of fragile porcelain. Klrkwocd slipped single lump of sugar into the cup. gave over his cigar case 10 he filled. then leaned back. de- llberately lighting a long and slender | panetela as Il preliminary to last iin- gering appreciation of the scene of which he was part.
 He reviewed 1t through narrowed eye!ids lazily. yet with some slight surprise. seeming to see It with new vision. with eyes from which scales of ignorance had dropped.
 This long and brilliant dining hall. with frs quiet perfection of proportion and appointment. had always gratifed his love of the beautiful Tonight IL | pleased him to m unusual degree. Yet 1t was the same as ever It's walls | tinted deep rose. with their hangings of dull cloth of gold Its lights discrin- inatingly clustered and discreetly shaded. redoubled In half hundred mirrors: it's subdued shimmer of plate and glass, It's soberly festive assem- blaze of circumspect men and women splenGid.v gowned. its decorous.y muted mrr,hrY of voices penetrated ard interwoveh br ,,sc strains of hidden string orchestrs. -9ressed his senses as always. yet with differ- | ence. Tonight he saw 1t room popu- lous with lovers. lovers insensibly paired. man unto woman attentive, woman of man regardfui.
 He had never understood this before. This much he h:d missed In life. It seemed hard to y,alize that one must forego 1t all forevS-
 Presently he found hin.seh acuteiy | self conscious The sensat:t. puzzled him. and without appearing 10 do 50 be traced It from effect to cause and l found the cause in Il woman--a girl. rather-seated at table the third re- moved from him. near the farther wall | of the room.
 Too considerate and too embarrassed to return her scrutiny openly. look for look. lie yet fe;t sure that. however | temporarily. he was become the cb- ject of her Intent interest. | Idly employed with his cigar. he slipped his coffee In tirle aware that she had turned her attention else- where. he looked up
 At first he was conscious of an ef- feet of disappointment She was no- body that he knew even by reputa- ton. She WIS simply a young girl, barely out Of her teens--if as old as that phrase would signify. He won- dered what she had found In him to make her think him worth so long study and looked again. more keenly curious.
 With this second glance appreciation stirred the artistic side of his nature, that was already grown impatient of his fretted mood. The slender and girl. ish figure. posed with such absolute lack of Intrusion against screen of rose and gilt. moved him to critical admiration The tinted glow of shaded candles caught glistening on the spun gold of her fair hair enhanced the fine pallor of her young shoulders In the sheer youth of her (he real ized, more than in aught else lay her chiefest charm. She could be little more than a child. Indeed. If he were to judge her by the purity of her shad- owed eyes and the absence of emotion in the calm and direct look which presently she turned upon him who sat wondering at the level. penciled darkness of her brows.
 At length. aware that she had sur priscd his interest. Kirkwood glanced aside coolly deliberate lest she should detect in his attitude anything more than impersonal approval
 slow color burned his cheeks. Tn his temples there rose a curious puls- ing.
 After awhile she drew his gaze again imperiously. herself ;'ll unaware of the havoc she was wreaking on his tenn perament.
 "Eighteen." he haznrded--" eighteen or possibly nineteen dining at the Pless in ravishing dinner gown md un- happy? Oh. hardly-not sher'
 Yet the impression haunted him. and ere long hc was fan to seek conhrma- tion or denial of It in the manner of her escort.
 The latter sat with back to Kirk wood. cutting a figure ns negative as his snug evening clothes. One could surmIse little from fleshy. thick neck. round glazed bald spot. fringe of grizzled hair and two bright red ears.
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 Somehow the fellow did suggest Kirkwood's caller of the afternoon The young man could not have said precisely how. for he was unfamiliar with the aspect of that gentleman's