Arizona republican., 1910-06-26

made her dizzy to meet his eyes in that long-ago visit to Helen. Undeveloped silent awkward as she was, every word that he gave her seemed caress. Now it was even worse,-his very presence was a vibration, his words bliss
 Was she dreaming? Had the skies fallen? She tried to find something to hold to. Everything comes to him who waits" came uppermost in her mind in stupid reeration She wondered if that explained. Next she was conscious of being glad that she wore Heens gray dress-it was the most becoming thing she had. Heavens! he must have Helen in it again and again. But men never remembered Would Helen really have married him she wondered He had engaged in a desperate Irritation with her cousin during that week that they had both met him for the first time, and his filtration had actually lapped over the announce ment of Helens bethrothal to another man. The first thing that had occurred to Olive when she heard of Helens broken engagement, six months ago. that Lawrence Crane would renew his suit Perhaps he had, and perhaps Helen had refused him. She would not speak to him of her, she decided-es- pecialy when there was a coolness between herself and Helen
 Was life worth living? It 7Cus joy to get up at the uncanny hour in the morning. It 7Vus bliss to stand in crowded, foul smelling car It qcas rapture taking letters all day long at the alternate dctation of two stodgy, middle-aged business men! It 7ous ecstacy to skimp lunches and dinners for the sake of vacation!
 She from the car to the office She raced up the four flights of stairs-no elevator could hold her spirits that morning. Opening the door with jerk she rushed in, preciptatng herself into the arms of six feet of the other about to rush
 My hands up" he said without further barley. My moneys in my inner coat-pocket"
 She laughed and drew back But what are you doing here" she demanded in the next instant
 I'm Merriam the partner You've got me roped, thrown and tied-but don't mind me"
 She stared at him nonplused. He looked fresh, young, absolutely untamed, and yet he might have been thirty His skin had been weather beaten until it was cheerful mahogany. He had big, unabashed gray eyes clear as childs
 Olive hung up her hat and jacket and her hands played careessly back and forth over her hair Her cheeks still brilliant with excitement
 q don't suppose you know a cowboy from tax collector" he said, his eyes following the fitting hands.
 Her spirits bubbled over him. "Pd like to know how anybody escape knowing what cowboy is" she said, "when the magazines full of them and I know every of the ffty-seven varieties by heart l suppose all your life long you've done nothing but think noble thoughts about the stars. don't suppose you ever gave way to a temptation in your life"
 T could without straning muscle" he asserted, If it were little and dark and had brown eyes?"
 She sighed elaborately "Tm sorry my eyes are blue"
 Did make such mistake that?" He leaped forward with alacrity that mpeled her few steps backward but he examined her eyes nterestedly and took so long that she accused him of being blind
 "No, only dazzled,"-he was almost mournful about it.
 "You must get used to being dazzled," she replied with spirit I'm fixture about this ofice"
 He was meek. Its smoked glasses for me hereafter"
 "Im ready to take any etters,"-she was beginning when the door opened and the senior partner came n
 The elder man went out after while and she never talked to any in her life as she talked to him. But while she chattering her swiftest laughing her HcliIeSt diu SOquetullS Wltn nm Tn the way that seemed to be natural effervescence of her mood her heart beating to the single refrain-"He is coming to-nghtP
 Her companion very conscious of her presence all day long, and submitted her to unobtrusve banter that she soon grew to distinguish by his own term
 joshng, but he careful to interfere with her work
 That night on her way home, she perpetrated the unheard-of extravaganza of buying bunch of violets and later of ordering fire in the paror. After dinner she put on the one frivolous gown she had afforded in two years, soft rosepnk crepe and tucking the violets into her belt went down to meet her guest
 The frelight famed and sparlled and glowed as he