Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-09

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 "Wlich one:"
 told hin. sNd lo sighed relief.
 At last! You're 'le very first I've not had to ieue with as to what is and what is not public sctool EX- pclleA!'
 No said after a momcnt'S heSj- tation; no l w;ts not expelled. and hope you won't cxpel me if ask a question in my tun!'
 ''Certa;Nlv not
 ".tre you Mir Maturin's son:"
 NO. my names Theo'a!d. You may have seen it down below.
 '"rhe doctor:' said.
 His doctor." said Theohad, with a satisfied eye. "Alr Matu.iu's doctor. He is having q male nurse and atteA. ant by my advice. and he wants q gentleman if he can get one. 1 ratlc. think bell see you. though hes oal. seen two or three all day. There arr, certain questions which he prcfa:. to ask himself and it's no good go:n@ over the same ground twice So pc haps l had better tell him about you before we get any further
 And he withdrew to a room still nearer the entrance. as l could hear. for it was very small fiat indeed But now two doors were shut betwee: us, and had to rest content with mur- murs through tue wall until the docto; returned to summon me.
 Il have persuaded my patient to see you" he whispered. "but I confess l am not sanguine of the result. He is very difficult 10 please. You mus. prepare yourself for a querulous in valid and for no sinecure if you get the billet
 May I ask what's the matter with him z"
 By all means-when you've got the billet"
 Dr. Theohald then led the way, his professional dignity so thoroughly in tact that l could not but smile as followed his swinging coat tails to the sicllroom. carried no smile across the threshold of darkencd chamber wlit'i rocked of drugs and twinkled with medicine bottles and ill the middle oi which q gaunt figure lay abed in the half lght.
 flake him to the window, take hiin to the window" a thin voice snapped "and let's have look at him. Open the blind a bit Not as much as that dash you, not as much as that.''
 The doctor took the oath as though it had been fee no longer pitiesi him. It was now very clear to me ti4s.t he had one patient who was a little practice jn himself I determined there and then that he should prove q htt1e profession to me if we could but keep him alive between us. MT. Maturin however. hati tue white&t faee that have ever seen, and his teeth g1eame5l out through the dusk as though thp Withered lips no longer met ahoal them, nor did they except in speech. and anything ghastlier than the per petual grin of his repose I defy you to imagine. It was with this grin that h2 lay regarding me while the doctor he'd the blind
 So you think you could look aft@ me. do you;"
 'I'm certain I could, sir"
 Single handed, mind, 1 don't keer another soul. You would have to cook your own grub and my slops. Do you think you could do all that:'
 "Yes, sir; think so."
 "Why do you? Have you any ex perience of the kind?"
 No, sir. none"
 Then why do you pretend yau have"
 'T only meant that would do my best''
 "Only meant, only meant! Have you done your best at everything else them"
 hung my head. This was a face, And there was something in my invalid which thrust the unspoken lie down my throat.
 No. sir, I have not I told him plainly
 "He, he hew the old wretch Uttered And you do we'll to own it; you do well, sir very we'll indeed. If you hadn't owned up out you would have gone. out neck and crop! You've saved your baCOH. 1Ou IuaV uO lnOfe 50 you are public school boy, and very good school yours is, but you weren't at either university. Is that correct?"
 "Absolutely."
 What did you do when you left school!'
 II came in for money"
 And thcn:"
 "I spent my money"
 And since then:'
 1 stood like mule.
 And since then, sayn'
 "A relative of mine will tell you if you ask him. He is an eminent man and he has promised to speak for me. 1 would rather sly no more myself''
 "But you shall sir. but you shall. Do you suppose that suppose pub lie sehooled boy would apply for a berth like this if something or other hadn't happened? What I want is q gentleman of sorts, and I don't much care what sort. but you've got to tel