Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-08

TOT love or his Wife.
 A certain percentage of the towns people and the members of the special circle in which the RarnettS moved were health seekers, and Ann was deeply relieved to find that all the con- forts of an eastern home were to be enjoyed in the big graystone houses on Rampant avenue. Indeed, the Bar netts lived quite as they would have done in Seabright or Lenox. They had dozen horses. a suitable assortment of vehicles, saddles and brides and were enthusiasts concerning polo and golf. Their neighbors and friends were unfailingly ecstatic in praise of the eli mate and the views and seemed illog- ically anxious to placate the prejudices of this naughty, pale faced. scarlet lipped young girl, who looked with calm eyes upon the great peak gloom ing to the westward. They formed, in fact. q colony of alien health seekers. busied with pleasures. set distinctly apart from the toilers and the traders of the place.
 Ann was puzzled and q bit bored by
  ration of the mountains and, being nat urally perverse, withheld the express sions of pleasure she might otherwise have uttered, for she was profoundly moved by what she saw.
 ''I never did understand that girl" said Donnelly Barnett to his wife one night after drive into the great Bear canyon. "She has everything to make her happy, and yet she goes about tor pid as an oyster. What's the matter with her!"
 Jeannette sighed That's her moth- CTS blood. She's like her mother in q hundred ways. Louis is exactly like his father 1 remember when he came back from his first and only trip to the west l was only d child but 1 recall his enthusiasm He was a lovable fel- low, but l never could stand Alicia. She was positively stony. l have hopes of Ann. Her hand is strong and warm human, i'll fact. Don't you think her indifference a poSe?'
 >'I wish it were No it's genuine
 .'Skse needs to be shaken up by good, hot love affair. Some man will come'-
 That's what Eve been saying, but the man don't come. She's twenty six"
 How awful!'
 That's the part I don't understand about Ann. She has money. is hand some, and yet here she is quite disen gagged, if we except her affair with Peabody, which Adney writes is quite as tepid as any of Anns other affairs"
 Well now, I'll tell you. She's come to the right place to have men ride up and demand attention. If she doesn't lave at least an offer week it will not be my fault. I'm going to Invite all the young fellows home to dinner while she's here. Now watch things bile -
 Barnett. nominally mining broker, was, in fact president of the polo club secretary of the Sage Grass Golf asso- ciation--in short financial nurse to ev cry collection of amiable sports in the town. He knew all "the best fellows in the state and now became more pop u!ar than ever. The young men accept ed his dinner invitations with grati- 
 undisguised court 10 the proud eastern beauty" as one young fellow called her. But they soon acknowledged fuil- ure Her reserve led to q sense of in- fury and was reported to be arrogance. They Were seldom Aiattered by the slightest unbending on her part
 However. several of these young fe- lows turned out on acquaintance to be socially related to some of her friends in Boston and New York and in that way won d certain acceptance which no mere civil engineer from Omaha or professor from St. Louis could hope to attain They were met on the conven- t1onal plane. and they got no further at any time.
 Meanwhile Ann was really troubled about Louis. He was eating less and less each day, and his sleep was bro ken. and at the end of the first week he fell in statc of collapse. The excite ment, the late hours, the contact with new types and, above all, the attempt 10 understand the country and his re- iations'ia with It had worn him out. Then .fnu said in her decisive way: "I don't believe this altitude is good for Louis. think l will take him home again"
 Oh don't do that. It isn't the alti tudc it's the social whirl. Send him down to my ranch. It's q hole of q place. but it's just what he needs notiing to see but coyotes and cow oa4S We'll put him under Rob Ray n@Ilds wing. Rob's my foreman and q good chap. He'll take to the boy like anything. I'm sure of it."
 1he plan as worked out by Barnett involved trip on his automobile for the four Of them: but he dala ea to., hs v, .Z. s.. "