Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-25

Saooco tAsS hi6uS uarduulnS eyDpdi tion of yours" Seeing that she he., tated, he went on: ''I suppose tbero,. lot of reasons why you shouIdn,, confide in me. I don't like that o,s man of yours nor any of your friends but maybe that's why Pm interestod If any of them has upset you Tn tar. particular pleasure in helping you ra. even."
 "I don't want to get even, and tbers is nothing to tell" said Necia, 'excent a girls troubles, and I can't talk abor. them" She smiled painful crookad smile at him.
 "Your old man has been rough ,o you?"
 No, mol Nothing of that sort"
 "Then it's that soldierr' he ouizzaa shrewdly. "I knew you cared be,0 for him. Don't he love your'
 "Yes. That's the trouble, and hs wants to marry me. He swears he win In spite of everything"
 "See here. l don't quite follow, thought you liked him. He's the kind most women go daffy over"
 Hike himv The girl trembled win emotion. Like him! why-why I would do anything to make him han. py."
 'T guess I must be kind of duIl- Stark said perplexedly.
 Don't you see? I've got to give hin up. I'm squaw."
 "Squaw h--l! With those shou!dersr
 Stark checked himself, for he found ae was rejoicing in his enemy's defeat and was in danger of betraying tim self to the girl. In every encounter the young man had beSted him, and these petty defeats had crystallized his an. tipathy to Burrell into a hatred So strong that he had begun to lie awake nights planning systematic quarrel
 He had brooded over his quarrel with Gale and tine lieutenant ever since their first clash, for in this place they 1 furnished the only objects upon which his mania could work, and it was mania, the Arrangement of diseased distorted mind.
 "So you like him too much to stand in his way" he said meditatiyely "How does your father lock at itT
 He wants the lieutenant to mary me. He says he will fix 1t up an right. But he doesn't understand How could heT'
 "You are doing just right" concur red the man hypocritically. "and yOul live to be glad you stood out" Nov | that both his enemies desired this thing he was set on preventing 1t n gardless of the girl. How did th. lieutenant take 1t when yOu refused himT'
 "He wouldn't take it at all. He only laughed ard declared he would mary me anyhow" The very thought thrill ed her.
 "Does he know you love himl"
 The tender. sobbing laugh she gave was ample answer.
 "Well, what's your planf"
 T-I-I don't know. I am so ton and twisted with 1t ali that cant plan, but I have thought I--ought-tS go-away."
 "Gocdr' he said quickly, but his ac l quiescence, instead of soothing her. had the contrary effect. and she burs out impulsively:
 | "Oh-I can't-I can't! I can't go away and never see him! I can't do 1t! want to stay where he iSr' She had been holding herself in stubbOrnly. but at last gave way with reckless abar don. "Why wasn't I born white like other girls? I've never felt like an lt dian. I've always dreamed and fan cied I was different, and l am in nI soul. I know l am! The white ss strong in me that it has killed the red ard I'm one of fathers people. ID not like the other two. They are brown and silent and as cold as little tCaS But I'm white and full of life all ova' They never see the men and women that see in my dreams. They neVs have my visions cf the beautiful snOs white mother with the tender mouh and the sad eyes that always smile S nc"
 "You have visions of such thing eh?"
 "Yes, but I came generation lah that's all. ard I've got that other Ee mans soul. I'm not half breed In not me at all. I'm Merridy-Merrds' That's who I am"
 Her face was turned away from DIE so that she did not notice the frighuu effect her words had upon Stark.
 "where did you get-that name' His voice was pitched in a didereu' key now. Then after moment a fa6ded, From the story l told you ;" the mine that night. suppose"
 "Oh. mo-" she answered. i've ways had it, though they call me NV oia. Merridy was my fathers mo'D., I guess I'm like her in many ways iu often imagine she is part or ms that her spirit is mine. It's the oHg way 1 can account for the slsbS sec"
 Your fathers motherT he said iD' chanically. That's queer" He seeI ed to be trying to shake hinseII n~ from something. Its heredity. Sup pose. You have visions of wIi'e '"