Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-05

--....an uUwu ene steep race of the hill While 1 was wandering upon the margin, watching the tide and swirl of the tiny eddies with lazy sat isfaction, encountered my host, who greeted me courteOusly.
 "You are admiring my little brook" he said "Yes, it is pretty, but prettier in the copses below, where 1 think you must have observed it yesterday. Here it runs very gravely; below it is noisy vagabond. You see it has uses here.'
 "You draw your water here!' ask ed, fascinated with the primitive idea.
 'Not unusually" he replied, but there is a well within the castle doubt less from the same springs. Yet the brook rendered more important sery- ice in my predecessors times"
 I looked at him inquiringly. He smiled.
 Let me see'' he resumed. If I can give you ocular proof. It should be here.' He stopped and, dipping his stick into the water, poked among the pebbles of the stream. 'Ah, here it is. I think I have it.'' He looked toward the castle. above the battlements of which now famed the morning sun They rose some fifty yards away. There is a connection with the moat by means of a conduit explained Mir keSteyen.
 I uttered an exclamation of delight and vowed that I must explore farther. Asserting gfaeiously, he led the way toward the house and, letting himself gently down the sioping bank. walked, peering about him, along the bottom of the moat. You will find it over grown, no doubt. he said. But your eyes are better than mine. It is ten years since I looked for it.
 I searched amid the trailing creepers and presently discovered the mouth of the conduit. It was of thick stone and mortar and from it's appearance must have been of very ancient construction. But the opening was choked with earth and grass and probably had been so for centuries. I said as much to Mr. kesteyen.
 No he returned. T think not. believe my predecessor in the tenancy of the castle had it opened some fifty years a...a and flooded tho n2e"+ .1:. >- Jlie Wtte.' ant sE".. - >t=e'es. =s,=s... some e4j:...ei..tE. -zs.,= - sAail l1aht better ;yast...-ss.4s,z z.l-#e is.e.3 9s:f Hz..sA= borilool aller b9es,1l;ist l assure .1,l. Mr GseIt5=. 1t is '#.- Il t'4ur st;.e.y., and this ctfs..e 0f mine Is bs- ID ne,sIs singular
 w;,; quite ;,t lis disposal for I stroll Iaiel. iii tie Il. 9:'.......ss and 3=.la.l that oec2.s.9u got |. ::'st li;s5oo-le. .:.ssa of tee topography of the Gwent. knowledge WL.e.l, = you shall hear, 1 was glad enooes.l l1 profit by at q little later period. And here 1 may set forth in t tew Uos,..s tie character of that count.5 WLiez. ..-s}.; destined to be 50 strangely connected with ny fortunes. The castle stoo tap5I a little en}inence toward the higher parts of tie hills and looked down toward tle east upon d long. broad valley as upon it's special domain. This valley, which was some three miles long and little more than a mile across, was inclosed by undulat- ing hills and enyeloped in a dense growth of forest. Two roads ran from the castle toward the east downward, one upon either side of the ravine. One of them = not that by which 1 had mounted on the previous afternoon we took upon this walk together.
 (To Be Continued.)