The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-03-07
THE LATEST MAN.
Here Is One Whose Equal Would
Be Hard to Find
His Manner and Appearance Aroused Curl
osity and Comment Among tho
Others In the Rotel-A Start
ling Explanation.

duced quiet sensation by arousing
everybody curiosity. He came to
the hotel attended by an Arab
servant, who spoke only three
words of English. The newcomer
had ample means, evidently, and
loved his ease. He had no ac-
quaintances in the hotel and made
none. He drove about considerably
and lolled in the readingroom or in
the vestibule in an easy chair car
ried by his servant. He said very
little, ate in bis room. smoked occa-
sionally in public, the servant al
ways attending and attentive to his
wants.
He seldom used his legs, and never
used his arms at all, carrying them
both in a sling.
This was the point over which the
fancy of the observers exercised it.
self. They couldn't understand it.
Nobody, of course, liked to speak
about it to the man himself, and the
servant might as we'll have been
dumb, as he spoke only Arabic.
There was never more completely
mystified set.
The man was burned brown, per-
haps by oriental suns; he was we'll
and carefully dressed, was never in
any hurry, never surprised, never
irritated, but always comfortably
self-poised, at peace with all the
world, and as placid as still waters
that run deep.
Everybody was certain there was
something beyond all this-some ro
nance or notable intrigue or some
mystery more subtle than either;
perhaps crime of a rare eastern
order, in which love and sharp blades
and poison took part. 1t was be-
yond all question that he bad not
come out of the affair as he had en-
tered, as both arms in a sling bore
witness.
Some held to the notion that he
had been hanged and revivitied,
arriving at this conclusion by OBJ
serving his habit of always resting
his head on the back of his chair;
some suggested Spanish witchcraft,
others India hypnotism, but the
vast majority could not agree on
anything in particular, and couse-
quently drifted in their opinions
from time to time.
Col o., well-known every
where, entered the hotel one day,
nodded to the stranger, sat down
beside him and conversed quietly
for an hour in French. Nearly
everybody, of course, knows French,
but it so happened that nobody near
by could catch a word of the con-
versation, because the two talked
scarcely above whisper.
The stranger paid his account and
left the next day, and in the even
ing. when Col. o. called again
and asked the clerk for MIR. Burr, he
seemed not in the least surprised at
his friends disappearance.
pardon me, colonel, but he's a
man," somebody remarked.
Rather" replied the colonel.
"a great traveller, IpresumeP"
"No; he comes over from England
once a year.
"Kuown him long while?"
"All my life"
Hes had quite Gil adventurous
carecr?"
81 shouldn't think so
"Well, he certainly produced a
sensation here.
why, pray?"
ooh, moan he interested us ALL"
"That's the case everywhere"
"Indeed! But he hardly ever
spoke"
That's his way"
"We all cc..cluded that there must
have been curious accident"
"Ha never had mishap in his
life"
"But the arms, eclsnel."
"On, ! forgot. I am so used to
seeing him, l forgot how the thing
impresses others"
"What thing?"
'tI mean the way he carries his
arms"
That's the very pojlt, colonel.
''Oh, l see! Why, my friend
simply carries his arps IN a sung
because he's too lazyto carry them
in any other wayNN: Y Herald