ember; the Alamo boarde

es his bow. He is conspicuous for his able research in Arch?ology, a

ever, a mere dry-as-dust collector of knowledge, and is very much inclined to u

dsome man of forty is

ling air for a slight, but

ailing at most things under the sun; hence by the boarders he is surreptitiously dubbed "the Grumbler." Mr. Morley

expensive bedroom for herself and her invalid sister, who has one hopelessly diseased lung. This cheery-faced Irishman, who with his shy little wife is, for a stubborn bronchial trouble, making the grand tour of the world's health resorts, and is now trying New Mexico,

r wives are Mr. Bixbee, from Ohio,

ited "lunger," in escaping his Scylla of consumption, bids fair to strand upon the Charybdis of liver complaint, since Mrs. Bixbee, in her wif

fire, of which, later, we shall hear more. Roger Smith is known in Boston society as one having heaps of money, but badly off for pedigree. All

go journalist. Mr. Warren is taking a vacation in Mesilla Valley, where he is

, Louise, a superbly healthy brunette. Their friend, Mr. Henry Hilton, during an absence abroad, has

nly of dishes new-fangled of name, and eminently trying to mortal digestion. There are, besides, some half-dozen male lungers unaccompanied by friends; and two impecunious invalids to

ountains. After getting his breath in this unaccustomed altitude, Leon's next care has been for the depressed lungers who daily gather on the boarding-house piazza and wonder if life is still worth living. To get them

tment of the bedevilled sewing-machine of their good landlady, and the restoration of harmonious working to all disgruntled mechanical gear, from garret to cellar. He it is who, on rainy days, manufactures denim clothes-bags for clumsy-fingered fellows; who fashions from common

ng to the charm of this gracious nature, does n

ted people, down to Fang Lee, the Chinese chef, Dennis Kearney, the table-waiter, the over-worked Mex

n the lower plane of the ranch, and full of the life

med his lungs to these novel atmospheric conditions, shooting on the mesa has become a part of his daily prog

, their conversation is circumscribed. Kind deeds are, however, more to the point than words, and go without the saying; and when Leon instructed the ragged herd-boy in the use of his bow, and made and weighted his arrows for him, he u