Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-22

minded him Of the first minstrel show he ever saw-back in the sixties"
 If you want drink" suggested Powers, abandoning the warfare. won will find the cup on the tree there''
 I'm not in hurry was the plar=d response. II kinder like the quiet here I'd like to sit here alone for an hour ar so and jest sort of think things over.'
 Il think we'd both better be gattira along, suggested Powers. witt T glance at his watch. Its getting on. I'll go as far as Jenkins with vou."
 What time is it?" demanded .Iem
 Half past IT. Powers showed tbe watch dial. Howell figured that f would take ten minutes to walk on to Jenkins with Powers. He woujd oo up the road little way and then make cut across the fields and be back he fore 12
 Together they turned toward the road, and after q brisk walk Powers turned in at the Jenkins gate. and lem kept on up the road. A little distance beyond clump of trees threw au fuky blackness over the dust marked path. and in their friendly shelter leln climb cd the fence and made a bee line for the spring.
 Iae was still panting from his eXef- tons as he reached the butternlt and encountered Powers vrathfuI glance
 "rhought you were going 10 town he ieerea.
 Thought you had business with Jea- l kins, retortea ,lem
 "Jenl1iuS wasn't home. announced Powers Hnhlashingly.
 80 you cane back to get drink laughed Jem HHpleasantly. lou had better get il and be going OH. Ieve an engagement here. to tell the truth. and don't Want 5ou hanging around"
 You" sAeered Powers. abandoning pretense. "N'hy, Mrs. IAleasal4ton fixed the whole thing an for me,
 ''She did not" contradicted JeIn You must have heard somehow and just come around to spoil things. as usuala
 "spoil thfnes..' echoea Powers in dianartly. T Ike that Why. if had less patience I'd have thrashed you long ago for an interfering busybody.2
 If xou had had more sand you'd have tried it long ago" taunted lem. It's because you know you can't lick me you've kept off. I'd have tArashed you long ago If it hadn't seemed such a shame to put it on a chap wbo cant defend himself
 Five minutes later two men with bruised and bleeding faces abandoned hostilifies by common consent to face a small boy with broad grin upon his | face
 What you fellows fighting for?2 de handed Pax. You ain't scrappin' about Grace, be yep
 What if we are?' asked Howell
 "Nothin much was the cool answer, "only it ain't polite to scrap about mar ried ladies'
 Whose marriedY demanded the pair.
 You sec explained Pax, you fel- lows aint treated me right You could come an see Grace and you didn't care about me Now, ma wouldn't let Vance come around or let Grace go out with him, and so he had to write letters, and I took 'em for him. He was nice to me and you fellows weren't.
 Last night could see what ma was up to, and l could tell pa was goin' to try the same thing. l figured out that you'd be out of the way and mad not be worryin' about Grace, so she skipped off with Vance and went to Saltwater to get married"
 Silently Jem and Powers resumed their coats and together they started for the village Pax called them back
 Say" he advised sagely, mex time you fellows want to get married you remember that l did this and you get hunks with the brother; never mind her pa and ma"