Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-28

getle crook in the knees and a certain furtive way of glancing over the shoul- der as if anticipating missiles.
 ''Pshaw now, ladies. Why didn't you let me know that you was coming, and I'd have tdied up the place and organized Il few dried apple pies.''
 "Where's your wife," sternly de manded the fat lady
 "Oh. 1 presume she's dancin' whole lot over to Ervay She packed her ball gown in q gripsack and lit out of here two days ago. p'inting that way X To- comotive couldn't stop her none if she got chance to go cycloning round a dance
 After supper when the fat lady was so busy talking goo goo" language to the baby as to be oblivious of every thing else Mary Carmichael took the opportunity to ask Johnnie if he knew anything about Lost Trail. The name of her destination had come to sound unpleasantly ominous in the ears of the tired young traveller. and she fear ed that her inquiry did not sound as t.. Johnnies candid reply reaSsuring.
 It's pi2en mean country. from all I ever heard tell. The citizens tharof consists mainly of coyotes and noun tain lions, with few rattlerS thrown ill just to make things neighborly This were place" waving his hand to- ward the arid wastes which night was ] resort. with modern Improvements, compared to it.
 Mary screwed her courage to a still more desperate point and inquired If Mir Dax knew a family named Yellett lying in Lost Trail.
 "Never heard of no family living there excepting the bluff at family life maintained by the wild beasts before referred to See here. miss, ain't nakin no play to inquire into your af fairs. bu, you ain't thinkin' O visltin' Lost Traii, be youi''
 "Perhaps," said Mary fainty, and then she too. talked "goo-goo' to the baby
 
 All that long and never to be forgot ten night the stage lurched through the darkness with Mary Carmichael the solitary passenger The fat lady had warned Johnnie Dax that be was on no account to replensh Chuggs flask if he had the whereWithal for repleniShment l on the premises Johnnie hurt to the quick by the unjust suspicion that he could fail so signally in his duty to lady. not only refused to replnnSh the aaSk. but threatened Chu%g With c>ll- dtionll vengeance ill the event of ac f ;.itlent lefai,ing the stage. 1t was Wit! q partially Sohcred and much threa ened stage driver. therefore. that Mary continued her journey after the supper i at .Iohnn;e IpaX's. l Ut the knowledge oi ] lt brought Scant reinsurance, and it is 5oubtful if the red stage ever haraora auy one moe wa!.efu! than the pale tired girl Who watched all the chang - from dark to dawn at the stage win l low.
 The hoofs of the horses beat the night away as regularly as the ticking ot d clock It grew darker as the night wore on and sometimes coyote would velp from the fringe of willows that bordered creek in way that made Mary recall tales of banshees. And once when the first pale streak of dawn trembled in the east and the mountains looked like jagged rocks, 1 heaved against the sky and in danger of topAlnc. the whole dread scene brought before her one of Nedder's pictures that hung in the shabby old 1 library at home.
 They breallfasted somewhere ant Chugg put fresh horses to the stag" She knew this from their difference O, color: the horses that they had left the second nax ranch With had bean whit and these that now toiled over th saud and dosoiatian were apparent b.own. She could not te certain L.