The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-04

mot unless you wish it." he replied 81
can not be cured by absence, and l can
promise you that you shall not be harrassed
by regrets and entreaties | feel that your
attitude toward me is final
Then come often" she said, giving
him her hand Perhaps | shall be
worthisr of friendship if l know that |
possess it,
When the General had gone Kitty sat
down at her piano and touched the chords
and sa G. She sang without words, as the
wind sings in the LEolian harp; but the
rise ami fall ard changes of her voice ex-
pressed her mood to herself as only music
| can express it, And perhaps, great COM
poser, liste ping to her, might have OWNED
more of the secrets of her heart and soul
than any human speech, even her own,
could have told him.
In the course of an hour, Frank Cunliffe
came in. She did not leave the piano. but
turned her head and smiled greeting to
him over her shoulder, while her fingers
still wandered over the keys.
You always seem to be enjoying your
self" Frank remarked, as he threw himself
down in a chair near her. Nothing ever
troubles you or depresses you. believe "A
little misery would do you good"
mo, misery amounts to nothing if your
dgeS ion is right and your circulation in
good ORDER" she answered. Eating, sleep
ing and exercise make happiness
"Ah! tn IT'S all you know. l wish you
could have some desperate love affair, or
lose your voice, or something."
why, what now, cousin {" she said, still
playing with the keys. us it you who
are in love at last9 or is it still your lost in
come that you are lamenting"
Il wish you'd let that piano alone and
be sensible, he exclaimed, with an az
grieved air. You are becoming quite pre-
viouSm
"Would you have me shiver at the equa-
tor or perspire at the poles | am in Rome,
and | am as the Romans are"
"If | am as the Romans, it must be at the
period of the Decline and Fall, said Frank.
"My position in the world has never been
one Of such briilance that Fate need have
grown envious of ME; but it seems as if l
had taken turn, and was to go downward
from now on. 1t is not my digestion that
disorders my affairs; it is my affairs That
disOrdes my digestion"
Has anything new happanedF" she
asked, leaving the piano and going over TO
the ii eplace, where she leaned with one arm
on the mantel-piece.
don't know" he said "pm half in
clined to think that something or other is
going on, having me for its OBJECT; but
can't find out what it is, and perhaps it is
only my morbid and bilious condition that
puts it into my head. It's a nuisance all
the same"
Something going onp What sort of a
| something's
well, / have a notion that l am being
followed or watched. | have heard that
| that is the way a man feels when he is go
ing insane. It's the first symptom of meau-
choha. Have | committed some crime
without being aware of itf or am |
watched to see whether intend to commit
onei or am the victim of q new form OF
dellrium tremens, derived from drinking
the cup of modification to the dregss
can't understand it,.
Nonsense, Frank Take a run round
| the block and clear the cobwebs out of
your brainl Who would want TO follow
you, or watch you either! | never heard Of
such Il conceited ideaP'
"Oh, detectives don't follow one because
he is beautiful or lovely"
Detectives! what next'
Look out of the window"
Kitty laughed, walked across the room,
and standing within the shadow of the cur
tain glanced up and down the street A
thaw had set in. the sidewalks were wet
and sloppy. and the roadway a slough of
dirty snow. A man, with his coat-collar
turned up to his ears, and his hands thrust
street. He was smoking a short pipe, ana
looked like d specimen of the American
worklngman out of job. At the corner
of the adjoining avenue there was a to-
baccO shop, The show window of which was
rendered gorgeous by the colored pictures
OF young women in airy costumes celebrat-
ing the virtues of nicotine The man
stopped in front of this window, and stood
for while in apparent admiration of its
| liovNl owy -.
ward, he turned round and started back
down the street. After having passed some
distance beyond Kitty'S window, he paused
again, knocked the ashes out of his pipe
against lamp-post and began hunting in
his pockets us if for tobacco. Not being
forthcoming, he slowly retraced his steps
to the tobacconist's, and this time entered
the shop. Kitty returned to the fireplace.
"Well d d you see anythingp Frank in
quired, looking up from brown study.
what | always see when | look out Of
the window-the street, and people in it.n
Zone of those people is after me. Idon't
know which one IL is, and | don't think it
always the same one; but every once in a
while turn round, and meet the eyes of
some one looking at me. He looks away
Immediately and passes along, and that's
the end of it; but by and by again, there is
pair of eyes look. " atme. Yes, you may
say it's imagination; so | told myself at
first; but why was | never afflicted with
this particular vagary of imag nation be-
fore: repeat, it's a nuisance"
Have you committed any crime!" asked
Kitty, looking him in the face
mo; nothing worse than usual. But |
shall, before long, if for no other reason,
just to bring this mystery to a head and
lind out what is at the bottom Of it."
Don't be uneasy, my dear boy said
nd los h..
hand for moment on his shoulder. II
lave presentiment that ali will be well
with you before long"
ITO BE CONTINUED