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Show DONE BY AN ARTIST The old traveler was speaking. "I was held up once In a way that I admired ad-mired very much," ho said. "No force, no serIous shock to. tho nervous ner-vous system, and no affected courtesy. courte-sy. I had been In a good many different dif-ferent countries and had heard and read ot all tho different methods, but for the quiet, unostentatious transaction transac-tion of business of that nature, without with-out any unnecessary trimmlnRS, commend com-mend wo to the man who got -my watch. "IIo was sauntering along tho street ahead of me, softly ntiuimlng a ty'no. Ho uasn'l lceoplng in tho shadow shad-ow of tho buildings, and he Was not doing any thing else that ms buspIt clous. Ho was just sauntering along with IiIh arms fo'.dcd on his breast. I ""was walking faster, and so I had to, o urtako and pass him. I passed hfm on tho left that Is, I started to pass him on that sldo. Whon I got oven with him he said, 'I say.' 5'it was said quietly and didn't oven startle mo. None of those absurd "courtesies, I tell ou, nnd nothing sensational In it. Of course I looked townrd him and I saw the tip ot a revolver on the crook ot his left pi bofr. His arms Hero still foldod but I had an idea that his right hand was oiil tho other end of tho revolver. "Just take It easy,' ho added. "So I took it easy and sauntered along wUh him, and at his suggestion transferred my watch nnd money to his pocket. Then ho said, 'Go on, and don't look back, And I went on nnd didn't look back, and I havo always considered hlra.a man who could do . a Job with noalness and dispatch and without unnecessary troublo and ex- j cltombnt." - j |