The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-05-02
TIE LATEST MAN.
Here Is One Whose Equal Would
Be Hard to Find
His Manner and Appearance Aroused Curl
osity and Comment Among the
Others in tho Eotel-A Start
ling Explanation.

The stranger, a Mr.. Burr, pro-
duced quiet sensation by arousing
everybody's 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 reading-room or in
the vestibule in an easy chair car
ried by his servant. He said very
little, ate in his 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 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 well have been
dumb, as he spoke only Arabic.
There was never q more completely
mystified set.
The man was burned brown, per-
haps by oriental suns; he was well
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
more subtle than either;
perhaps q crime of a rare eastern
order, in which love and sharp blades
and poison took part. 1t was be-
yond all question that he had 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 revivified,
at this conclusion by OBJ
serving his habit of always resting
his head on the back of his. chair;
some suggested Spanish witehcraft,
others India hypnotism, but the
vast majority could not agree on
in particular, and couse-
luently drifted in their opinions
rom 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
or an hour in French. Nearly
everybody, of course, knows French,
put it so happened that nobody near
,y could catch a word of the con-
because the two talked
scarcely above q whisper.
The stranger paid his account and
eft the next day, and in the even
ng. when Col. o. called again
md asked the clerk for Mr.. Burr, he
seemed not in the least surprised at
lis friends disappearance.
Pardon me, colonel, but he's
angular man," somebody remarked.
Rather" replied the colonel.
"a great traveller, I Ipresume?"
mo; he comes over from England
nee year"
''Kuown him long while2"
'All my life.
''He's had quite an adventurous
arecr?"
'T shouldn't think so.
"Well, he certainly produced a
ensation here"
"Why, pray?"
"Oh, I mean he interested Us ALL"
''That's the case everywhere"
"Indeedl But be hardly ever
poke"
THAT'S his way"
"We all concluded that there must
ave been q curious accident"
"He never had a mishap in his
fe."
"But the arms, colonel"
'On, forgot. am so used to
eeing him, | forgot how the thing
others" "
"What thing?"
II mean the way he carries his
rms
''That's the very point, colonel.
''Oh, I see! Why, my friend
imply carries his arms in sling
ecause he's too lazy to carry them
! any other way. N. Y. Herald.