The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-06-15

Eyes"
"No, think not. She came over the other night,
and when she had gone, Fred told me that she made
him very tired"
"Humph the boy must have been cultivating his
mind lately"
"By the way, Miss Bumpus took occasion TO
remark that you seek to make fun of her"
"Humph; she is penetrating"
"She says that you have no sympathy for literary
women"
"She is wrong There are some literary women
whom | almost worship, but they are women who,
instead of loing about, signing for sympathy, get
down to hard work. l have but little patience
with the self anonted genius who does not recog-
nize the necessity of patient, accomplishing toll.
Sometimes q name, hitherto unknown, bursts sud-
denly into the full bloom of reputation We
marvel, we wag our heads and, having been disap-
pointed ourselves, cry out against the presumptive
prodigy but could we have peeped through the
blinds at midnight, could we have seen the lamp
burning into the sunlight OF day that has come
too soon and unex pectedly, we should have found
the presumptive prodigy, deep in study, lost to all
thought OF self the merciless thought of
self criticism. The Baron's Daughter is not that
sort of a prodigy. She has ability she has the
raw material but she attempts TO weave before she
has spun her threads"
"What are you writing, Henry"
al am engaged on another book"
"Why don't you shut yourself up somewhere?
should think that people dropping in here would
greatly annoy you"
"My dear boy, my door is open TO my characters.
They live here in this town and they drop in
occasionally to see me. Sometimes fellow comes
in and by a smile word pulls me out of a
marsh l thus catch impressions during the day,
scratch them down, and at night when am alone,
smooth them out and tuck them away in their
manuscript bed. This is the first time you have
been in town since the fight, isn't it?"
"Yes, for the scene is not altogether agreeable TO
me-"
at was not altogether agreeable to me when |
harangued the mob, after seeing you oil. thought,
at one time, that should be torn to pieces. The
next day, however, they came around and threw
guilds of tobacco into that box"
THAT reminds me that must go around and
thank the aiers wife for the great service she rem
dered me in throwing the keys down into the cor
ridor. | wrote to her, telling her how grateful |
was, but do not know that she received the letter
81 forgot to tell yOu" said Henry, "that she died
of pneumonia a few weeks after that night. Come
in"
a tall man, wearing linen dnster, had stepped
into the doorway
"Mr. Evans, let me introduce my brother. in law,
Mr.. Burwood. Mr. Evans is our sheriff." Henry
added when the tall man and had shaken hands.
Il suppose you remember him?"
EYES," | answered.
"You recollect | reckon, when | took you in
charge at the mouth of that alley across yonder,
Mr.. Burwood."
81 shall never forget that. Have this seat, Mr..
Evans?"
"No, Pll set right here" he answered, lifting the
skirt of his buster and throwing one leg over the
corner of the table. "That was squawly time |
tell you; and how you managed to get out with
out being shot all to pieces is something don't
understand"
"Perhaps if he had possessed sufficient presence
of mind to have managed at all he should have been
shot all to pieces" Henry reoined. 1.-THE reckless
ness resulting from inability to think is doubt
less what saved him."
"That may be-" Evans answered. "still on an
occasion of that sort I'd much rather have time to
think a little"
Evans" Henry remarked, ~ hear that you gen.
tlemen have decided to let Boyd Savely come
back"
"Why you gentlemen? Pve had nothin' to do
with it. The court decided to wipe the whole
thing out. l couldn't kick, could /? Nobody
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