Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

and had been almost DlohSA
 While she had put Day out o1 hef heart as being unworthy of her, sbe yet felt like having a few last farewei words with him.
 By the time the pretty little WolllaH was through talking and smiling anu crying. | was ready to put brotherly arm around her and speak words ol consolation. Indeed, when l dlseoVefeu that her engagement was "off, l came very near offering her my heart anu hand as a substitute. Nothing re- strained me but the fear that 1 hau not known her long enough 10 lhsPlre the proper trust and confidence when a oood girl should have. l at once granted her the privilege of a prlYate interview with Day. That IS, she was allowed to enter his cell, the door of which was left open, and converse with him while a guard waited within call. The interview lasted half an hour, anu there was much weeping and pro1nls- ino and protesting. The young man didn't want to be thrown down just be- cause he had stolen $32o,o00 and been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The o:irl was obdurate, however, though It broke her heart over again to tell him that he need no longer hope. When she came out, her handkerchief to her eyes and a sob in her throat, she sat down in the office to collect herself and then said:
 q want Charles to restore that money, and have been pleading with him to do so. If I can have only one or two more interviews with him | think I can accomplish my object"
 I jumped a foot high and told her she could interview him every day for a month. He knew where the money was. of course. and if it was restored through any effort of mine the taXPay- CTS of the state would carry me around on their shoulders as q reward. Not only that, but the oftener Miss Laneas- ter came. the oftener l should see her, and the deeper I should be in love. She came next day at the same hour, held another fearful interview, and after it was over she said to me:
 "Charles has almost made up his mind to confess, but still hesitates. He has a sister of whom he is very fond, and if you don't mind I will bring her in to help me plead with him."
 didn't mind, of course. If he had had four or five favorite sisters l should have been glad to have them all in to coax the secret out of the rascal Day appeared to be very much broken down, and after Miss Lancaster had left the prison he sent for me to ask if the governor would pardon him on his giving up the money. had to reply that it might be four or five years be- fore he could look for his liberty, but it would surely come before he had served out more than a third of his sen tence. He seemed quite elated ever this. and when I pressed him to tell me where the poodle was hidden he opened his mouth as if to do so. On second thought he shook his head and replied:
 If I tell anybody it will be Miss Lan- caster and my sister I had deter mined to die first, but I am beginning to see things little differently"
 I left him with the impression that the two girls would soon have the se- cret. When Miss Lancaster appeared next day Miss Day was with her. Miss Day was very coy and retiring. She neither shook haeds with me nor re- piled to my salutation, and turned her back as soon as possible. At the same time, as l remembered later, Miss Lan- caster not only dallied with my hand, but pressed it and was very effusiye in her speech She said she would have something special to tell me when she returned from the interview.
 The interview did not last over 15 minutes, and it took place just as dusk was drawing on. When the two ladies returned to the door Miss Lancaster came over to me and whispered:
 He has promised to confess all to- morrow, and every dollar will be re- stored. l am glad, not only on his ac- count and mine, but for your dear sake. 1 know you to be noble man, and if you would not think it unmaidenly in me IT."
 l took her hand in mine and gave it several squeezes and assured her that nothing she could possibly announce CT confess in the English language would be considered by me unworthy of her. She pressed my hand in return and was going to confess her love, but the telephone bell rang and put her out. She just whispered in my ear that I was an old darling and then laughed and joined Miss Day at the door, and | myself pulled the lever which swung back the hinges that let them out. Need l tell you that I walked around on air for the next quarter of an hour? had won that little girls love at first sight, and when she came on the nor row 1 should ask her to name the day and the date. She had said she was an heiress. I was loving her for her self alone. l was still loving when the deputy warden came rushing in and called out:
 Those girls-haye they gone?"
 "Certainly-long ago."
 "Then we are in for h-ll and repeat! Come out here, will you2"
 He led the way to the west wing and upstairs to the second tier of celia | When we reached the one oecnnied h,7