Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-28

out with aggressive steps. SHe Sd" Tillie and Mir. Ripley at the gate while she was yet long way off. She walked straight up to them and observed that it was beautiful evening for seeing the mill dam and bore the stranger away. When the pouring waters of the dam had been sufficiently admired the young man was walked 10 the liai- litlay homestead and kept busy quot ing poetry and drinking cider until II o'clock
 In tI.e course of a couple of weeks at least half a dozen girls were iittfo- duced to Mir Ripley by the landlords wife. and each and every one of them set out for a Irritation with him. Each and every one of them came to grlef. however. Sarah was in evidence, ana when she butted in the others had to butt out At the end of fortnight she felt herself as good as engaged MT. Ripley had praised her strength and skill in rowing. her luck in fishing and her emotional temperament. and sbe had several times caught him giancing at her as a man only glances when his admiration Is aroused. He had been asked to tea ilree or four times, and the two had boated and fished every afternoon. and all was going we'll
 '.How.s it coming out, Sarah!' asked brother Jim one morning at the break fast table
 ''Theres only que thing needed. she replied. Haven't you noticed that lie is always talking about heroes ana heroi1es!,'
 '.Yes.''
 If | were haroine he'd pop the q1e@4 :oa inside of twenty four hours,
 "!,ft ao@ eau yoa te:''
 Il e1ii't sag .u., HOW, bct I'm going k, t,?:aIA ft oesi Gg:r..tE t!a G;1|
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 Sarah planned f. 1 from that time on. Sarah lau lc:;,'l!s'! Ina: Mf. Ri!}ie% arose amt break tts,eI at $ ocl9ek. i.@ then spent an hour oil the vcfanda smoking and reading. The mili daNi was not a hundred feet away and Ill plain view.
 Next morning as the young man OH vacation sat smoking, he heard some one calling his name. He looked up, and there was Sarah Halliday i'll an oarless boat floating down upon the dam. She cried to him again and again. and it was plain to him that she must be swept over the falls and drowned. The best thing he could do, however. was to fall over his rocking chair and roll down the steps Right under his eyes the boat went over the dam, ana right under his eyes sawmill man, who had never longed to be hero, tished Sarah out with long pole. She was heroine. but insensible. They rolled her on barrel. They dragged her around in the sawdust. They car ried her home on a slab and sent for Jim and the doctor. She was wrung out and put to bed. and it was two days later when Jim was permitted to
 
 ask:
 "Now, then. what ill the old Harry were you doing in that boat at that hour in the morning?
 Rowing" she answered.
 "How came you to lose the oars?'
 'I wanted to be rescued"
 "Oh. see. You wanted to be hero inc. ch, and you wanted to give Ripley a chance to play the hero?'
 "Has he sent Ue any fowersT she asked, avoiding direct reply to his question.
 'Naw!"
 But he surely called?"
 "How coull he call when he took a skate that very forenoon?'' bluntly re- piled the brother.
 'Did he see me all wet and wopsy"
 ''Of course, and that's why he skated.''
 Poor Sarah! She had hustled, but she had lost.