Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-04
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 Is yo1r watch safe9 I suppose 1t was robbery:' I slia feeling somehow rather mean and cast down EE the un- expected situation.
 Thank aI. quite safe." he replied. without troubling t9 ascertain. es. qlisa safe te.44.s:1 mist suppose Il to have been rosbery-yes robbery, no aaz:b-.''
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 T an 2t | loss to know" sztle he la= boring over his words and speaking very deliberately. what devil of folly pursHes men that they will hazard all on q !.eee of careIessHess. a vanton Whim CT just mere indifference or idle ness. ! cannot say He paused as We emerged npen the road. This must be your he.se, then. q good, serviceable animal, that would have warmed my heart thirty years since I cannot say. Ae resumed, cIutcAing gently at my arm. that my adventure today was a1a tos any other cause than that of mere carelessness He paused again, surveying my horse with appar= cnt interest. In the first place. should hot have been so far from home: secondly. l should not have been with out my revolver; thirdly. I should have used my stick harder when got home, a concurrence of negEseGcas which made my fa5e almost certainty but for your arrival" he added as polite afterthought, squeezing my arm.
 I confess that l was utterly at q loss what 10 make of him auii Has inclined to interpret him for mild lunatie, but We proceeded along tie roadway, with tAe bridle of my horse over my arm He St.lI clung to me discoursine quietly ill a melodious voice upon his i views of life and the philosophy We should derive from it, while l listened. for the most part, in silence. But after walking for q quarter of an hour. the latter part of which time was spent in q somewhat laborious ascent, we came out upon the summit of a little bill clad in the splendid livery of summer and Surmounted by what seemed in the distance to be the ruins of d castle. Here the old gentleman came to q halt. ceaslng simultaneously of his chatter, and looked toward the building.
 T am fully conscious Mr. =; I don't think l caught your name, Mr"-