Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-25

Cheery Mir. Sinclair.
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N l. come courting me for You're nothing but il boy, and I'm forty"
 Rats. Forty. You may be few ,ears older than am, but you're ten or twelve years this side of forty, and 1t wouldn't make any difference to me if you were fifty. AS soon as l saw you I knew you were just the woman for me.
 The man was Algernon Sinclair, youngster of twenty-two. He had known Miss Gibson only a fortnight, but had been very persistent in his at ten. ions during that time. He had ap: pearcd one morning at the door of her fiat and asked for Miss Gibson. | am Miss Gibson" You're not the Miss Gibson I'm looking for. Shes & red headed. freckled faced person, while you--well. you're simply beautiful Miss Gibson snickered and asked the good natured. cheery young fellow to step in-perhaps she could help him in his search. He did step in and was in no hurry to step out. From that time forward he was devoted to Miss Clcmentina Gibson.
 "Tickets to the theater tonight he said one afternoon. Got box. We'll be right in among the sUels, and you'll have to wear your best clothes Put on what jewelry you have Any diamonds: No? Well. I think I see my way clear to get you some before long if deal 1 have on arlc brooch set with pearls. Wear it with out fail
 The young man rattled on in his funny way, quite delighting the elder ly lady, who had caught his fancy When he called for her in the evenin. and saw her attired in pearl silk dress he held up his hands in admira; ton. The brooch he pronounced a daisy One. two. three four, five. six. seven--seven pearls. and that big one in the center is hummer. I'm not going to be ashamed of my girl to- night. you bet. Come on"
 Whenever Mr Sinclair took Miss Gibson out he manifested this sam3 desire that she should be we'll dressed and on occasions appropriate for jew o!ry, ke begged her to produce some rev: ornament that she had hot Wora berere But Miss Gibson Was hot in el:neI to wear her best gowns in pub lie. though she wasrnot disposed to have Mr. Sinclair think she hadn Il fine gowns, and finally when he bet her dozen pairs of gloves that she couldn't show half dozen really first class dresses she brought out the h,if dozen and said she could ''go two bet ter" Sinclair looked at them, lost in admiration, and the next day paid the bet.
 One day he wrote her note to say that he would call in the afteSEpoon to take her to ride in an automobile and wouldn't she wear that dress with the green fgure-"snakes andaturtles on jamboree?" Miss Gibson laughed at his description and put on the dress indicated MT. Sinclair called at the hour appointed with a beautiful ma chine. which he drove himself, and they sailed out into the country. Dur ing the ride a man ahead with cam era waved his hat. Sinclair slowed up.
 He wants to take our picture" he said lets have one"
 "No. no; We don't want picture"
 "Yes: we do Fire away. Mr. Pho tographei..'
 There WAS a click. aAl the picture was taken.
 The next day there was a ring at Miss Gbson's door, She opened it and there stool Mr Sinclair and another man with warrant for her arrest. She cast aa astonshed look at Sinclair and turned pale
 'Who and what are you anyway"
 Robert Williams, detective"
 Mr. Williams, recently pretended lover, now only4a paid hire!iag Of . wealthy lady who had been robbed bF her housekeeper proceeded to ransacl his ladylove's premises with no more evidence of feeling than if he had been a savage burying a tomahaWk, in her brain. The photograph ofa- the dress with the figure of t'snakes and turtles on jamboree" had been sent to her employer, who had identified the dress as one of her own. Mir. Williams found the flat filled with stolen prop erty, all of which belonged to the rich lady in question. The brooch with seven pearls was in list of jewels he possessed lost by his client, and every one of the half dozen dresses that had won the bet was on list of missing gowns.
 The detective had been given the preface to this little story book, which was thus: Miss Gibson, housekeeper for Mrs. Bickford. had quarreled with her employer and had left her service vowng vengeance. Some time after her departure the house was entered when the owner was away and large quantity of property taken. Consider ing Miss GibSon'S threat Mrs. Bick- ford suspected that she had given the information that led to the robbery.