Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-29

If lle l..all' done so ;tirtaoH. nut tered ENI'ank after h,i., If hes E. stars st.l!' By heaNc.., it lie i, in sorry for him"
 His tone WAS quiet enough, but about the naStie$t ever heard. tell you, Bunny. l was glad I'd brouglH that revolver It looked a> though it must bt mlle against his. luGzzte to mu@zlc
 Letter have q look down here first, said the ncN' manager,
 ".Nhi!c he gc.s through his window: No, no. hes not down here
 Its easy to have d look
 "Buuly. if you ask me what was the most thrilling moment of my infamous career l say 1t was that moment There l stood at the bottom of those narrow stone stairs. inS dc the strong room. With the door good foot open. and didn't know whether if would creak or not. The light was coming Hearer-and didn't know. l had to chance it. And it didn't creak q bit It WAS far too solid and well hung, anG l couldn't have banged it if l tr.e,l; ii was too heavy. and it fitted so csoSe that l felt and heard the air squeeze out in my face. Every shred of li@'lt went out except the streak underneath. anG it frightened. How l blessed that door!
 ".No, he's not down there beard as though through cotton wool. Then the streak went out, too. and in a few
 
 once mora and was in time to hear them creeping to my room. Well, now there was not fifth of second to be lost. But I'm proud ta say I came up those stairs OH my toes and fingers and out of that Dll> they'd gone and left the door open just as gngery as though my time had been my own. ] didn't even for get to put on the hat the doctors mare was eating her oats out of as well as ! she could with q bit or it alone would i have landed me. didn't even gallop away, but just logged off quietly in the thick dust a, the side of the road. though l own my heart was galloping. and thanked my stars the bank was at that end of the township ill which really hadn't set foot The very last thing l heard WAS the two managers raising Cain and the coachman. And now Bunny
 '.But that's not ail?' I cried.
 I'm sorry to say it is." said Rallies apoogetically. "Fhe thing should have ended with an exciting chase, l know. but somehow it didn't l suppose they thought I had got no end of a start; then they had made up their minds that belonged to the gang, which WAS not so many miles away, and one of them had got as much as he co1ld carry from that gang as it was. But l wasn't to know all that, and Pm bound to say there WAS plenty of eX citement left for me. Lord, how l made that poor brute travel when l got among the treess Though we must have made it over fifty miles from Melbourne, we had done it at snaiFs pace, and those stolen oats had brisked 1 the old girl up to such pitch that she fairly bolted when she felt her nose turned south. By love, it was no joke, in and out among those trees and under branches with your face in the mane. told you about the forest of dead gums? It looked perfectly ghostly in the moonlight, and I found it as still as l had left it, so still that l pulled up there, my first halt, and lay my ear to the ground for two or three minutes, but heard nothing, not a thing but the mares below and my own heart. I'm sorry. Bunny, but If ever you write my memoirs you won't have any difficulty in working up that chase. Play those dead gum trees for all they're worth, and let the bullets fly like hail. I'll turn around in my saddle to see Ewbank coming up like the wind in his white suit, and I'll duly paint it red Do it in the third person, and they won't know how it's going to end"
 But I don't know myself" I com plained. Did the mare carry you all the way back to Melbourne?'
 Every rod, pole or perch. had her we'll seen to at our hotel and returned her to the doctor in the evening. He was tremendously tickled to hear had been pushed. Next morning he brought me the paper to show me what l had escaped at Yea
 'Without suspecting anything"
 "Ah." said Rallies as he put out the gas. That's q point on which Eve uever made up my mind, The mare and her color were coincidenceS-lucl fly she was only bay-and l fancy i the condition of the beast must have told tale. The doctors manner was certainly different. I'm inclined to think he suspected something, though not the right thing, wasn't expecting him, and 1 fear my appearance may have increased his suspicious"
 I asked him why.
 ''I used 10 have rather a heavy mus tache," said Rallies, but I lost it the day after I lost my innocence"
 Gro Be Continued)