The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-24

HThen, struck by a sudden idea, he raised
his hand against the widow and beat her.
Blanche still refrai1ed from making the
slightest declaration of her love.
"Whatl nor to the meiodrama eltherH
vociferated George; why, where then can
you have acquired your knowledge or hfe,
unhappy W Inanf'
He presented himself TO her one night
looking grave aud clothed IN black.
a"Farew-li,n said be il a trembling voice;
stink of me sometimes"
Blanche made 10 reply.
ASK me, az last, if l am going to fight u
duel, murmurei George, in Hn undertone.
Blanche shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, then, yes, madame! You have
OWNED my secret; am gong to fight! o.
but not you" he tded, III IA voice
broken by emotion; 81 will not say that
farewell be happy
Blanche touched the bell and ordered her
servant to escort him TO the door.
This is too muchm Numbered George;
II fight duel tomorrow with a rascal
VINO tells everywhere that you wear six
a1d-three-quarter gloves, and you do not
throw yourself on my neck and beseech me
to sacrifice my honor! 1t is contrary to all
the rules, madame" And he rushed from
her presence.
George Crick was dangerously wounded
in this duel. He caused himself to be ca
ried into her presence on a liter. VIII the
audie ces OF the modern drama believe it
Blanche did not offer her services to care
for him.
1t was in the region of the heart that he
had been wounded. A surgeon inserted
underneath his ribs an affair made of India
rubber, Tor the purpose Of experimenting
with a new disc very that he had just
made This duel and the India-rubber APP
paratnS were chronicled far and wide. All
the tourn is spoke of it,
Seeing that the public was eager for in
form alton, one of them gravely announced
that an India rubber heart had been placed
beneath the wounded breast.
The next day a rival journal announced
that all the world knew that this heart was
of India rubber, but what was not gem
orally known was that this heart was made
to beat by means of cl ckwork machinery,
which required to be wound up every day.
Nothi z else was talked of, and, the for
eign NEWSPAPERS aiding, it was soon known
in America that there was in f .ance an in
dividual whose heart made of India rub
Der, played an air fro LA Mascotte"
every time he approached prett woman.
'Wel! WE'LL" said Blanche d Altemur to
herself, reading this il the newspapers
And then, just like the crowd of English
men, Hottentots and Papuans who proposed
to cross the seas for the purpose, Blanche
resolved to go and visit the phenomenon.
physician, seeing the young widow enter.
rs it because my visit would make him
worse. monsieurW demanded Blanche, with
interest.
1.-The slightest emotion would kill him,
madame"
Blanche became strangely excited. Her
eyes glistened, her nostriis dila ed, her
breast swelled d heaved as though in
fiated by blacksnith's bellows.
- l. ST ~ She sighed yelling her face
with her hands. ''Georgel George! l
love you"
And giving way to her passion, she threw
herself in his arms and-waited.
George did not die.
His heart did not even play ''La Mas
cote"
''Monsterl" cried the widow, ''you never
s = me ana SIG SaaN Ii ny''eri's +
Blanche d'Altemur loved George Crick
distractedly, furiously, more and more.
even when she learned that her lover had
not heart for music.
Even when she lea rned that her love did
not kill her lover.
The heart of woman is an enigma.
She loves him VITA such Intensity of pas
Sio such obstinacy, suc4 fury, that George
Crck became uneasy.
II viii never b. able to rid myself of her
without gre tt difficulty" thought he.
His friends declared that he would never
get rid of her at all.
"What do you want to betm asked the
interchangeable lover of sport.
ANY. hing yoa wish"
This wager was accepted. and George
Crick, like the man of genius he was, won
again.
You will ask, perhaps-O, coquettes, o,
women of Paris-how George succeeded in
m king himself no longer beloved by
Blanche d'Altemur
Yet 1t was simple.
L. lc,rrn 1.