Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-07

out with aggressive steps. Sue saw Tillie and Mr. Ripley at the gate whflo she was yet a long way off She walked straight up to them and observed fh,t 1t was a beautiful evening for seoina the mill dam and bore the stranger away. When the pouring waters of the dam had been sufficiently admired the young man was walked to the Hal liday homestead and kept busy quot. ing poetry and drinking cider until |, o'clock.
 In the course of q couple nl weeks at least half dozeu girls were intro. duced to Mr Ripley hy the landlords wife. and each and every one of thn,n Set out for filtration with him. E3c}, and every one of them came to ptfnf however Sarah was in evidence and when she buttcd in the others had ta butt out it the end of fortnight sine felt herself as good as engaged. AIr Ripley had praised her strength and skill in rowing her luck in fishing and her emotional temperament, aud she had several times caught him glancjng at her as a man only glances when hjs admiration is aroused. He had been asked to tea three or four times. and the two had boated and fshed every afternoon and all was going well.
 ,How's it coming out, Sarah:" asked brother Jim one morning at tie break fast table
 "Theres only one thing needed sde replied. Haven't you noticed that he II, ,hr heroines:'
 Yes
 If I were a heroine he'd pop the question inside of tWenty-four hours
 But how can you be-
 "I can't say just now, but I'm going to think it over during the day.
 That afternoon she received a note from Mr. Ripley excusins himself from calling on the ground of q slight III. ness. and two hours after she had read the note she learned that he was sit ting on the piazza with the Widow Phelps. who had had two husbands and wanted a third.
 sarah planned fast from that time on. Sarah had learned that Mr. Ripley arose and break lasted at $ 9 clock. He then spent an hour on the veranda smoking and reading. The mill dam was not a hundred feet away and in plain view.
 Next morning as the young man on a vacation sat smoking. he heard some one calling his name He looked tip. and there was Sarah Halliday in an oarless boat floating down upon the dam. She cried to him again and again, and it was plain to him that she must be swept oyer the falls and drowned The best thing he could do, however, was to fall over his rocking chair and roll down the steps. Right under his eyes the boat went over the dam, and right under his eyes sawmill man, who had never lOnged to be hero, tished Sarah out with a long pole. She was a heroine, but insensible. They rolled her on barrel. They dragged her around in the sawdust. They car ried her home on slab and sent for Jim and the doctor She was wrung out and put to bed, and it was two days later when Jim was permitted to ask:
 Now, then what in the old Harry were you doing in that boat at that hour in the morning."
 "Rowing," she answered.
 How came you to lose the oars:'
 q wanted to be rescued.'
 "Qh I see You wanted to be . hero inc, oh. and you wanted to give Ripley 8 chance to play the hero::'
 Has he sent me any fowers!' she asked. avoiding direct reply to his question:
 'NaW."
 "But he surely called:"
 How could he call when he took skate that very forenoon:2 bluhtly re- piled the brother.
 Did he see me all wet and wopsy?"
 "0f course, and that's why he sbated"
 Poor sarah: she had hustled, but she had lost