The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-10-17

| to the water agaln, hnd him lying upon the bank, much shaken, bruised and ex' hausted, but holding on to his rod dog gedly.
 The 6sh is sulking in the lower pool" he explains, empling the water from his | pockets. !" When I've had rest you must come and rouse him up with stones ! This respite Is brief That game tlsh l is soon csreering round the second pool, i but the effort is final one, Very soon ! he is lying in shallow wafer, almost pas sive.
 We have no gatf with us, and Captain Ctoft's big landing net would not even hia: ., enclosing sace a !ev;a;a31 as iAis. Dick leads the ii hsh steadily shoIeward uuul il is almos; aground then Captain Cref, warily circhng around k, scoops Il up ID both arms. and, behold, the great salmon IS glit,ering among the ling and heather
 A loud cheer arises from the whole party. and htlle Bella, Tn a puoxysm ot triumph, kneels besides the silver mon ster and kisses it slippery side.
 Thirty pounds at least we cry.
 No, twenty-five, perhaps" say the gentlemen. And a grand nsn, Tn per. feet coneriou,
 The ex itenent of the spot, has com ple,ely drven all thoughts of Dicks com ing departure from my mod, but they now return with force. |" He shall have chance,' l declare to myself and pon der li;,le while others are steeped in hsh worship.
 Dick. lexclaim authoritativclv, "you must 20 home at once. instead of loter- ing about here, dripping like A New toundland doE. Ethel and will walk back with you"
 Catching Dicks eye, see that he un- derstands me. Come along" he says.
 Ethel takes my arm on the side remote from Dick. She IS remarkably silent, and shows a tendency to blush about nothing, fearing possibly that her anxiety about Dicks dangerou. escaplde just now may have betrayed her, Dick, feel ing that he is now, as he would himself phrase it. "in for II maintains a no less impene,rable dumhue,s Never have two such leaden companions fallen to ry lot before or since.
 lt IS ieliet that the beauty ot the winding of the moorland-p ,th, stretching away behind Us. co npelS me to stop and take out my ske,ch-bool.
 "lll stay with you, says E.bcl nerv. ous'v.
 "Wha', and leave poor old D,ck to Jog home alone f
 "Fht' s.ys Dick, looking a, me with Comlcal terror. Don't let me drac hei with me If she wants to stdv.
 !" Nonsense go away, l. hel cant have you hdgetlng about me while Am dt 4wlng"
 Their assiduous good nature tn prepar- ing my water.color box and block for ac- non knows TO bounds neither iulsoms hints nor cross requests wall induce them to depart. At length, when l am busy with my first wash. and refuse with sulky steadfas;neSs to answer any more ques- sions, or 10 offer any further pfetext for their moving hand or foot in my behalf they stroll shYly of together, Ethel eyes on the ground, Dicks on the distant hor2 )n.
 Cranlng round upon my camp stool ] watch them down the long slope of brake fern and heather, strainlng my eyes as they grow indIstinCt af CT crossing the stream and finally disappear, to leave me none the wiser for all my gazing.
 Anxiety prevents my sitting still for ten minutes together. My ske,chis is n curios fly phenomenal specimen of the kind of daub produclble by the Convuslve dashes of hand totally unassis,ed by mind, which IS too agitated to do it's duty.
 My eyes yearn to pierce the small knoll behind winch the twain have disappeared Are those two heads any ncarer to each other than when saw them las,
 For years we have looked upon Dick as brother tomorrow nght, when he has departed, many tears will be shed which he will kno" nothing of. His go ing to India, too, is mere freak, de- l,sion reversible, | really believe, by a sine'e word from Ethel AgaIn, Dick Is hIs own master, unhampcred by tn Il lack of gold which qucrches the hopes of so m any young fellows. Well, 1 have done my best, and, now they have had a clear hour with theIr late in theIr o~n hands. may as we'll coilec: my parAphernalia and follow them
 AS pace homcward ard gaze over the swelling h.lls, the sun setting beyond thelr utmost pu pie rim" saddens me Solitude and the gloom of evenude, mel an holy as A long drawn i5h of nature settle upon my soul by he time have reacaed the last bridge 10 be crossed, the castles have built concerning D.ck and E'hel have crumolcd one by one.
 Suddenly stumble upon them among the ks, and my hopes rash to the sur lace once more ; the glow of happiness upon these teo faces admits oi but one explanation.
 You old brick" begins Dick, clasp ing my two hands with fcivnt which trust he never will repeat. "' If Il hadn', been for you, should never have done t.,
 And Lacy" adds E,hel in thrilling voice, with her arms round my neck "you're dear old thing If i, hadn't been ior ,he salmon and D.c1's going Tn atier II, he woulI nev-r have" |" Done this, interpolates D.ck, ki siag her again and again, with cool ind.fier- J e.icR n rareserc. nkich AatkA. kex