The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-01
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 The sun had 't.st arisen and VAS peep ing III upon the roof ard spires ot Gro,or when Walter Arndt walked down the steps of the Exchange Hotel and ou; in:c the maln stree, of the little Pennsylvania town. People were already stirring and paused and gazed admiringly a, the stranger. who was q noble looking if no, d handsome man. He was dressed Tn ] neat walking suit: gray teit ha, sat rather rakishly on his head one of his hands. long and graceful ones. was thrus, into sioe pocket. while the other held a siou, walking stick. Altogether there was about his dress an air of substantial ness and also of careful abandon which the very small or very large man often takes on with impunity and success The rambler was fully six ice; in height; his shoulders were broad and straight, while the shrug which he occasionally gave them showed that he was used 10 work at the desk. His eyes, set well apart, and indicating an open, generous nature were letty black his mout was small. but we'll shaped and tightly closed while his up- per lip. still fresh from d visi, to the bar Der. showed that it had once borne a heavy moustaehe. He was at least twen- ty-tve years of age, he might have been thirty, but his dark, rich skin Saii,ed all oonjectures. A person. perhaps who won his daily bread by mental labor certain ly a silent man and one no. easily di- vsrced from purpose.
 On this morning his face wore uou- bled look his bearing was restless and his eyes blood-sho,, showing tha, during the night he had siep, li,tle He took no interest m what was passing around him-a strange thing for Walter Arndt, usually one of the closest oi observers. As he walked along a snake dar,ed up its head from rock and looked cum nlngly at him; ! rabbit pricked up its long, delicate ears and watched him with curiosity and fear; ard little milk maid paused to wonder what such \ well dressed stranger eould want Il, that hour on the highway. But all these things were unno,iced by the young man. and the bulky manuscript in his pocke, wa, forgotten and worthy editor TWO days later made to fume over the delinquency of a leading contributor. And all ,his was because the nigh, before. while watching the passengers alight from the evening train, he had heard voice. ,ha, of woman, which had caused hlm to start aud tremble violently. The voice was one which a stranger could have heard q thousand times withou, giving i, special notice. but i, carried with it si- lent influence that made him who heard It instantly seek his room and roll and toss on sleepless bed For an eNplana- uon let us turn back and read few pages from his past life.
 Five years before, in search of relief from business and sorrow, he had come to the watering place at which we now md hun. At tha, time his hear, was still sore from the loss of his mother and into his life had crep, a void which could only be filled by love. Here he met Grac,e Wornie, who, in hls eyes, seemed to embody all that was womaniy warm attachment sprang up between them, and before his vacation was ended they were pledged to become man and wife. In due time they were to be married mean while his duties on metropolitan paper kept Arnd, from visiting his be,ro,hed except at rare intervals. When the Rus. so-Turkish war broke out the publishers ct the journal on which he was employed offered to send him to the seat of war as their correspondent Recognizing the chance to soon win high place in his calling he accepted the offer Unable to visit his betrothed before his departure he wrote her his plans in full and then set sail with light heart and full of hope. He had been but few days in Cons,an- tinople when there came a letter from Oracle Wornie, winch implied that some thing terrible was about to happen. and begged him to return at once. Sick a, heart, but helpless to comply with her entreaties, he wrote at once, begging her to make known the cause of her fears and then waited anxiously for an answer. Six weeks later the long looked for le,te, came, and with it the announcement, oI her marriage to another. The iet,e, begged piteously and only as a woman could for forgiveness, saying tha, she could not tell why she had been com. pelled to violate her troth, but tha, per haps in time all would be made clear tc him. To Walter Arndt this came as , terrible blow it swept away all his fond est hopes, and destroying bis faith in tn, woman he most loved, shortened his faitl in all womankind. From that day fortl he was altered. He plunged recklessl, into the dangers around him and worke. day and night to forget his troubles. Thi did not bring him the relief he sough, but it brought him instead that which h, had once prised above all-fame. H. became mown as one of the most darin, and graphic of war correspondents; an, when he returned to his native land i, consideration of his services he was give, a position on his journal far in advanc cf the one he had once hardly hoped l. gain by long years of work.
 It soon became Arnds's custom ever, summer to visit Croson. A strong lov