Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-04
1 M Rallies, |n&3zn. !Me Amateur
 M1l12xS7I CraCkSn1an J ENl4aMtW /\ By E. HoRNUNG

fled by my NeIdtlty.
 ..Tbought you were bosom pals:' said ba with (as l imaginedl d geam of suspicion in his crafty little eyes.
 "Ouly in town,' said l. i've never heen to his place.
 "Well," he growled, II suppose it can't be helped. Don't know why he couldn't come and have bis dinner first like to see the.death bed I'd go to with ont my dinner. It's full skin billet. if vol, ask me We'll, we must just dine without him, and he'll have to buy his nie in poke after all. Mind touching that bell? Suppose you know what he came to see me about? Sorry I shan! see him again, for his own sake. liked Raffies-took to him amazingly He's a cynic. Like cynics. One my self. Rank bad form of his mother or his aunt and I hope she will go and kick the bucket"
 I connect these specimens of his con yersation, though they were doubtless detached at the time and interspersed with remarks of mine here and there. They filled the interval until dinner was served, and they gave ne an inl- pression of the man which his every subseouent utterance confirmed. It was an impression which did away with all re.norSe for my treacherous nresence at his table. He was that ter rible type the silly cynic, his aim caustic commentary on all things and all men. his achievement mere vulgar . irreverence and unintelligent Scorn. III bred and ill informed, he had ton his own showing) fuked Into fortune on rise in land Yet cunning he pos sessed as we'll as malice and he chnc- kled till he choked over the misfortune of less astute spectators in the same boom. Even now 1 cannot feel much compuncton for my behavior to the Hon. J. M Craggs, NJ. l.. c.
 But never shall I forget the private agonies of the situation, the listening to my host with one ear and for Rallies with the other. Once 1 heard him. though tle rooms were not di- vided by the old fashioned folding doors, and, though the door that did divide them was hot only shut. but richly curtained. I could have sworn l heard hili 0lce l sIiIled my wine and Ial:gled at the top of iny voice at s1.ae co;ii' e sal of n3y host S Aand heard nothing more thoG@li my Mars were oa tle stIS.in. But later. to ny horror, wen the waiter had final '1y withdrawn. Graz x himself Sl9rang up and r::le4i to h.s bedroom with out Word. s;t lie stone till he returned
 Thought I heard Goor go" hc said. Mus haze been E!ist. ken 1maginatiol-s,sN me GCite a t;;i'a Rallies te.: .yoa priceless treasure got ill thc-e:'
 It was the p:s..u:'e at last. Up tu this point l had kept h.m 10 G,uee..s- land and tke making of his pile. tried to get Lim back tl.ere how, b,t ln vain lie was rcen .licI of l.. great, il! gotten possession. sad that Rallies had just mentioned it. and that set him off With the con ndential garrulity of q lI4&a w: h:.:; dined too well he plunged into his darling topic. and looked past hiM at the clock. It w:,s only a quarter to 10.
 In common dccency could not go yet so there l sat (we were still at port and learned what had originally ! nfed my hosts ambition to possess 1What he was pleased to call d ''real genuine, twin screw, double funne!cd. copper bottom old master" It was U
 go one better than some rival legS- lator of pictorial proclvities But even an epto@ae of his monoogue would oe so much WGariness Suffice it that ended inevitably in the invitation had dreaded all the evening
 But you must see it. Next room This Way"
 Isn't it packed up:" I inquired has tiy
 Lock and key. That's all.'
 Pray don't troubien urged.
 U, lfo;}b!e be hanged" said he.
 Come along"
 Ahd all at once saw that to re sst h!a further would be to heap sus-
 p1ioA uF3a myself against tie mo.
 ust of impending discovery. there
 .We followed him into his bedroom
 sHhout further protest and suffered
 n hrSt to show nc the iron map s4se' Which stood ill one corner. He
 "0a crafty pride in this receptac.c.
 Ia fh2v2g'.t 3e Wavld rovc" cease
 sVahtlns on it's innocent appearance
 suo It's Chuhb's lock. It seemed an
 l'erminablc age before the key was
 a he latter Then the ward clicked
 sau my pulse stood still.
 ny Jove" 1 cried next instant.
 he maps, ''' ID i''''e "''''s
 inocsht it would knock you," said
 hsss drawing it out and unrollng it
 \, my benefit Grand thing. ain't
 So.s wouldn't think it had been paint
 o. So years? It has, though-my word!
 'ohnson's face will be a treat ne sees it; won't go Dragging
 u' his pictures much more. Why, ohes worth all the pictures in CUOlV ns