Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-16

fee girl to step aside to avoid a slta"c, for i. ,tancg*"
 sau1derei again.
 Well, this is just where r1a+ -I,,, o'o day ean see her now. bl,>< ner heart, dancing along fu tEe l.l5l,. ....,4 ai5ilts and baby cowboy Gl5zs. <5,... J......, to ""ar and dangling her big ~a.lhrer-, 4y lta cord. She hF.TI I Seap mo an,, turned to hike back the way canr. ] for Leo Bailey was on Ter t.:ifI and rG seen them together as often a~ ron,a i possibly stand it.
 Just as she came ta that turn where. tfte powder iuts oat she gave a Httie scream and turned sp suddenly that hor loot slipped and down sue went rioh, on the edge. She held on to that roci, Tor heaf lie and slHiellcd; Lee, Oh. Lee,'
 l hat Lee settled ne and I stood still, like stubborn mule. and ,at her veil knew he could pick her uD eaSliN enough. and wouldn't butt in But when reconnoitered around the. boWlder was behind I was the cause ol the diSturbance-this MT. Rattler. ful1llns himself up like the coil of an electrocutioncr ani disputing the rieht of way with my girl.
 And there was Miss Na0 whitn with fear, staggering right on the edge of '1e pfeclFlce, too paralyZed to move back up the trail
 
 W here was Bailey. the noble res- cuer! asked as Dane paused and ga2ed reflectivcly into the lighted end of his cigar
 'Yes: that was what vantad to khoW. He'd made for camp on lope- that where he was, the coward-to get fishing rod to kill the snake with he explained afterward, but it didn't % down with Nan. When saw her nat. ufal protector deserting her I stepped out Ill the road, bowed low. pulled my gun and blew the gentleman's head off the rattlers. not Bailey's, though that would nave been q job to my liking too. He wasn't as much of gentle. man as MT. Snake, for he was polite enough to tell right out what sort of poison critter he was, while the hurnan serpent wasn't"
 And Nan" l even forgot to puff smoke i'll my interest
 Acted just right. like the heroine in melodranla-fainted promptly on to the shoulder of her faithful knight. and when he'd walked her up again bv means or kisses and other shocks she promised to love and obey him ever after and nothing would do but that snakeskin must be fixed up with the trimmings you saw as one of our Lares and Penates, but whether a Lar or Penate 1 don't know, being rather mis- ty on mythology since I left college. Ah there's the moon at last. Isn't this country great at nght?"
 Yes yes" I exclaimed impatientlv, without a glance at the wonderful panorama of rolling, pine clad, snow capped summits now being transfig- ured by the rising glory But what became of Nan? Why didn't you marry
 "Oh, there you are, dearr' called out silvery voice ahead of us farther up the slope. I've been waiting for you q long time. You have been two hours climbing the gulch came up the short cut. It takes more breath, but less time"
 Well little girl. you've got plenty of both.' answered her husband sprawl ing himself over the thick pine needles at pretty Mrs. Danes feet and laying his head shamelessly on her lap. Her small fingers buried themselves in his hair He pulled them down to his lips "We took the time because was using up all my breath telling Jack about the snakeskin belt Nan. dear.
 "Oh, that old story" I could see her blush delic2tely in the moonlight
 Another light than that of the moon broke in on my darkened senses. "Oh, then you did marry her? thought you said'-
 My first sweetheart? Sure, so l did and Mans it.'
 MT. Gilder's Judicious Reply.
 The woman journalist was enter