The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-25

are . couple ef tramp printegs, and I never employ that class. win try to struggle on without you"
 saw the blood rush to my friands face and passion leap into his eyes; !; but his lips were only compressed and white @ we walked down tho street. At . restaurant we ate dinner, and as we sat at the table he sAid: "When we pay for this, we are shroke;' we must have work" In vain I sssured him that I had money and would spend it freely. He said he had made tramp of me, and would pay my way. During the afternoon we vis- tied the office of another paper and secured work. He was given tho place of a reporter who was sick, while I "subbed" at the case. When we had worked s week he was offered the city editors chair and . good salary. He refused 1t. That night he asked me for all the money I had earned during the week and told me to go to bed. He did not come to the room that night, and the next morning when I saw him his face wore the same sshy look I had seen on 1t once before. l knew then he was gam bier, and that he had lost.
 He worked another week ct the same place while I picked up such work as could about town. On Sat- urday night he went away again but came in at daylight looking just as he did before, the lines all drawn hard about his face and a hard glitter in his handsome blue eyes. He showed me a roll of greenbacks, sAt down with his face hidden in his folded arms and sat there for hours. When he raised his head again he called me to him. "My boy," he said, "let the other man walk, always." l asked him what he meant. "Two men oc- cupied adjoining rooms in a hotel. One walked the floor all night and kept the other awake. The next morning he went to the walking mans door and asked him the cause of his strange action. I owe man a hundred dollars he said, sand it falls due to-day. cannot pay it. HI exclaimed the other. Let the other man walk It is the philosophy of life," he continued. "Let the other man walk"
 A few days later he dressed himself in new suit of clothes, wore 8 diff ferent style of hat and walked into MT. Seaton's office. "Mr. Seaton," he said, "I represent an eastern syndicate, and I have been sent here to buy your paper. Please name your price" Seaton had been trying to sell his paper to an eastern man, but had failed. He figured little, mentioned his "least cent that would buy it." and thus snapped at the bait. "Tll take it." said the other. "My name is Walton, and here is a letter authoriz- ing me to pay more for the paper than you have asked. It is nothing to me on the condition that you give possession at once you shall have the amount named in this letter. Two members of the firm will be here to- morrow and close the trade." When Seaton saw the names signed to the letter and the amount they agreed to pay, his crossed eyes fairly winked at each other. He agreed to give pos session at that instant, and he walked out. "Walton" took charge and l wal at once made foreman pro tem. In about an hour telegram was received from the syndicate, saying that il would be impossible for any of them to come, and asking that MT. Seator be sent east to receive his money and meet the syndicate. Transparent ai all this was, he bit again and started in less than an hour. His paper, which had been intensely Republican, cams out the next morning red-h0t Demo- cratic sheet. The next morning il was still worse, and 1t attacked Seator in the worst blackmailing manner al- leging that he had deserted his family and eloped with another woman. W. prepared the matter for the third issue and quietly left the town, for VI Judged that Seaton would realize thai he had been duped when the "syndi. cate" repeatedly failed to call meet. ing, and even refused to do o. And when three or four members of tn, alleged firm had assured him that h. had been fooled, we feared he woult resort to tine telegraph. At wal station we boarded train that car cried us hundred miles away.
 We did not work any more during the two months we were together fl We strolled about the country, ana visited the cities only occssion ally. Although he never told me tn , story of his life I learned from hi talk that he had been 6 wanderer fol , several years. His relations lived il the east and were wealthy. The only , blot on the page of his life, 1t seemed to me, was his gambling, and he fel the sting of dishoDor more keenly than less sensitive, refined nature Of the cause of his simlese, wandering