Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-09

! Don't mention il. MI irewsttf: ii
was netting to Go" protested Conrav
| In confusion. I'd do anything in IT,.
world for ydu and f,r her
What is the at!agc about est -
Your bread ulon the water and cett;Ac
II hy TX again" asked Rip Van WiLE'e
OF Toe Er;,gton as 'hev juniantIy fol
lowed the procession below.
There was 10 more sleep on boar,.
that night. In fact, the sun was !4oi
long III showing himself after the eS.
cUCrS returned TO the vessel. The oar
ing attempt of Moiiammed's emSsaricS
was discussed without restraint. ANA
every sailor had Il story to tell of the
pursuit and rescue. The event furnish
ed conversation food for days ami days
among both the Sealnen and the pas
sengers. Dan DeMille blamed himself
relentlessly for sleeping through it all
and moped for hours because he had
lost a magnificent chance to do some
thing The next morning he proposed
to hunt for the sheik and offered 10
lead an assault in person. An investi
CATION was made, and government of
ficials tried to call Mohammed to ac
count, but he had fed to the desert
and the search was fruitless.
Brewster refused to accept share
of the glory of Peggy's rescue, pushin"
Conroy forward as the real hero. R.l,
the sailor insisted that he could not
have succeeded without belp-that he
was completely exhausted when Mont,
came to the rescue. Peggy found i,
hard to thank him gently while he
heart was SO dangerously near the rioi
point and her words of gratitWi
sounded pitifully weak and insufficie..
"It would have been the same ha
anybody else gone to her rescue he
unused dejectedly. ''She cares for mt
with the devotion of a sister, and that
all Peggy, Peggy he moaned, ''if
you could only love me, Fd-l'd-oh.
well, there's no use thinking about ii
She will love some one else of course
and-and be happy too. If she'd aI
pear only one-tenth as grateful to me
as to Conroy Id be satisfied. He had
the luck to be first, that's all, but God
knows l tried to do it,
Mrs. Dan DeAlille was keen enough
to see how The land lay, and she at
once tried to set matters straight. She
was far too clever to push her cam
paign ruthlessly, but laid her founda-
lions and then built cunningly and Sc
curelv with the most substantial mate
rial that came to hand from day to
Gay. Her subjects were taking them
selves TOO deeply to heart to appre-
ciate interference Oh the part Of an out
slider, and MIS-. Dan was wise in the
whims of love
Peggy WAS not herself for several
days after her experience, and the
whole party felt Il distn-z relief when
tie Yacht finally left the harbor and
steamed off TO the west, 4 ca,iegram
that came the day before may have
had something to do with Brewster's
depression. but he WAS not the sort to
confess it. 1t was from Swearengen
Jones Of Butte. Mont, and there was
something sinister in the ]aconic ad=
monition. 1t read:
Brewster, L. S. Consulate, Alexandria:
Have a good time while good times
last JONES.
His brain was almost bursting with
the hopes and fears and uncertainties
that crowded it far beyond it's ordinary
capacity. 1t had come to the point, it
seemed to him, when the brains of
dozen men at least were required to
operate the affairs that were surgins
into his alone The mere fact that the
end of his year was less than two
months off and that there was more or
less uncertainty as to the character of
the end was sufficient cause for wor-
ry, but the new trouble was infinitely
harder to endure When he sat down
to think over his financial enterprises
his mind treacherously wandered Off to
Peggy Gray, and then everything was
hopeless. He recalled the courage and