The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-02

IIluECS anu OOtOc1S Ot IOAm tnat udJOty made sound. We walked slowly. Sev- eral times Agnes looked at me as if she would speak. She clasped hey thickiy- gloved hands over my arm, and walked wearily.
 It is the first time she has touched me in any way since last winter, when she took her hand from me, and said she did not wish to see me again. hardly evea see her bare hands at all. She is gloved constantly; even when she and George were at the piano her hands were covered I wonder what superstition she has about them2
 We entered the house without any con. versation save few remarks in regard to the pigeon charmer, and the sea and the morning sky-idle words which held nothing of the thought that was deepest and cruelest in both our hearts. Pool George! Poor Agnesl
 June IS A great change has taken place in George since we came here He has fallen away rapidly in flesh and strength. He hardly leaves the house now. Yesterday he was only up for an hour or two. have exhausted my re. sources. Every exhibition is followed by those symptoms which would occur in health, and yet, unless there is marked change soon George has not many months to live. He is at ease only with Agnes. She devotes every hour to him while he is awake. He falls asleep every night about 9. as soon as 1t is faifly dark, and sleeps for little while, perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, perfectly. Then 1 An -eI light when he sleeps an hour or two from exhaustion in his morning slumber he is bathed in precipitation. l follow his awakening with sponge baths of sea water, and sponging with alcohol and water, and rubbing.
 It is impossible to bring his skin into any healthy action. There is still no in- dication of particular disease. His ap- petite is capricious, and almost absent. He does not seem alarmed, CT rather ap- pears wholly indifferent to his condition |; he is irritable save when Agnes is present, and demands her constantly. have not been in town for week. My assistant and Dr. Sternberg telegraph me con- stantly and have TO very serious cases which demand me. cannot leave George, who has grown very dear to me ]; as dear as son could have been, think. Agnes is brilliantly, wonderfully beauti. ful. There is no longer show of con- fidence on her part toward me. She avoids private interviews. and is silent when we are alone. Mrs. Baxter and myself watch with George on alternate nights. Sometimes he is very wakeful, and calls for Agnes, who comes instantly upon being summoned. George lies with her hand upon his forehead, or elapsed in his own, for hours at time now, with his eyes closed, in some strange unnatural rest. Agnes has dis carded gloves for the past week, and her hands are the most beautiful ever saw {; no statue or painting can compare with them. She and George converse very little. She seldom caresses him, save to put her hand upon his face or to lay her cheek against his o VII. There seems to be perfect understanding between them |; know what it includes. The world is very, very little to either one of them.
 June I6-Last night was my night with George. At a. m. he seemed remark. ably quiet and collected and wished me to call Agnes, and to leave them alone when she came. She answered my tap at the door instantly.
 l lay upon bamboo sofa on the porch, near the windows of Georges room. There was long conversation between the two. Neither spoke of the night to me. Mrs. Johnson and Agnes aie to- gether every morning without exception. There is a strong affection between them, and deep sympathy on the part of Mrs.
 ohnson for these two unfortunate lovers. She and myself have many conversations, and l admire her character highly. She is wholly without the reasoning faculties. She is incapable of the smallest argument or effort at analysis. Her affections and emotions, her instincts, take the place of conclusions and decisions. She rever reads, never writes line, knows abso. lutely nothing of literature or art indeed, she does not even know the names of tbe most famous writers. None of these things interest her in the least; yet she IS charming companion, and her con. versat;cn is delightful. She is ;n dcep sympathy with nature, and has wonder ful powers of observation, and discrimina- tion, and perception of differences. She is familiar with every living creature in this vicinity. The extent of her possible education seems to be the acquiring of the common names of things, memory of their forms, location, habits and so on the enly passion she has, is that of a broad sympathy which extends to every- thing that lives. She is married, or has been, and has child, son. She is IT, ticent in regard to her present situation, but is perfectly happy, so fay as her own life is concerned. She spends hours in playing with and training her poodle, named John, and it is the most highly educated have seen, and walks as well upon either of his two pairs of legs as on all four. Mrs. Johnson spends great deal time with George, for the past three days. She takes Agnes place, and Agnes walks out, or retires to her own room. George likes her attendance, and seems to rest when she IS by his bedside.
 June I7.-Agnes has gone to the city for day. Mrs. Johnson takes her place with George. do not understand this