The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-28

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Madness; and when | was studying for NV
pr Ie.Son 1 have often accomnanied him to
| IShalc asyIumS, aud devoted a great deal
VI time 10 the subject, intending to make
| !. my spe L branch also. The the nh
ing n1 s-lzed me and l entered the service:
%. nave never missed following the sub
JecI up whenever | have had an opportu-
my. nave therefore visited asylums for
Iuuatlcs wherever such existed at evarv
port which g have put into siace I have
been IN the service.
hen my eyes first fell upon Mr. Carne
ne was standing behind several other peo-
| PIE, watching the dancing, and the expires
sion OF his face struck me as soon as NV
eve leli upon him. | wa. ched him closely
an through the evening. He did not
ia nee, ana rireiy spoke to anyone. never
u!l4eSs addressed. l watched his face aud
MS hands-hands are, can tell YOU. almost
| aS expressive as faces-and | have not the
smallest hesitation III saying that the man
- Hldl- IL IS possible, but not probable
IHaU ordinary times he may show no
| s'BhS OF IT, but a times, and last night was
one OF those times, the man Is mad; nay,
more, l should be inclined to think that his
Madness is of a dangerous type.
NOW That you tell me it is hereditary,
an SO I&H confirmed III my opinion that
si'uId not hesitate, if called npon to do so
TO sigA certificate to the effect that in nv
oilhlon, he was SO far Insane as to need the
most careful watching, if not absolute con-
| inement.p
Tho color had faded from tie lieutenant's
lac9 as the ctor spoke.
1 am awfully sorry" he said in a low
to''e, and l trust to God, doctor, that Won
are mistaken. L cannot but think that you
! are; L was introduced to i'm by mis- sister,
ana he was most civil and p1ite, indeed
more than civil. for he asked me if I was
Iond OF shooting, and when l said that I
was extremely so, he invited me over TO his
pace. lie said he did not shoot himself
out tnat next week his cousin Mervyl and
one or two others were coming to him to
nave two or three days pheasant shooting.
ana he would be glad if would jim the
party and, as you may suppose, l gladly
| accepted the lnvitation.n
| w ell, the doctor said. drylv. $50 far as
ne IS concerned, there is no danger in your
dong SO, If as you say, he doesn't shoot. If
he dld, should advise you to stay away:
and in anv case if you will take the advice
winch offer, yo1 won't go. You will send
al excusen
The lieutenant made no answer for a min
ute or two, but paced the room in silence.
II won't pretend to misunderstood YOU.
Mackenzie. You mean there's no danger
with him, but you think there NAV he
| y
The doctor nodded.
II saw you were taken with her, Gulston
that is why have spoken to you about her
| brother
"You don't tbink-confound it. man
! you can't think. the lieutenant said angri.
ily, that there is anything the matter with
| her"
mo. mt think So" the doctor said,
! Gravely. mo, should say certainly not
! buS YOU know in these cases where it is in
@ blood it sometimes lies dormant for a
| generation and then breaks out again. |
asked somebody casually last night about
| their father, and he said that he was a CAP
ltal fellow and NOSE popular in the county;
| SO II 1t Is In the blood it passed over Linn
and IS showing itself again in the son. 1t
may pass over the daughter and reappear
| in her children. You never know, YOU see
! Do YOU mind telling me what you know
about the familyp
Not now; not at present. will at some
other time. You have given me a shock,
and | must think it over"
The doctor nodded, and commenced tc
talk about other matters. A minute OF
two later TIE lieutenant made some
excuse, and turned into the cabin
| DR. Mackenzie shook his head
THE lad is hard hit" he said, land 1 am
sorry for him. hope my warning come
in time; it would do If he isn't fool. hui
| all young men are fools where the women
are concerned. | will say for him that he
has more sense than most. but [ would give
a good deal if this had not happened"
| Lieut.. GulsGon was, indeed, hard hit: he
he had been much struck with the momen
tary glance he had obtained of Margaret
| Carne as ne stood on the steps of the Carne
| Arms, and the effect had been greatly
| heightened on the previous day. Lieut..
! Guston had, since the days when be was a
MILDLY. INDUCED in many a filtration, but
| he had ever before felt serious. He had
| often laughed at the lmpressibility of some
of his comrades, and had scoffed at the idea
OF love at first sight, but now that he had
begun to think matters seriously over, the
| pain that the Doctors remarks had given
! him opened his ewes to the fact that it was
| a good deal more than passing fancy.
Thinking it over in every light, he &C.
! knOwle lged the prudent course would be to
| send some excuse to her brother, with an
| expression of regret that he found that a
matter of duty woul1 pre- vent his coming
over, as he had promised. for the shooting.
| Taen he told himself that after all the
| doctor might be mis- AIKEN, and that it would
be only right he should judge for himself.
| II there was anything in it, OF course he
| should 60 no more to the Hold, and no harm
would be done. Margaret was certainly
very charmi &; she was more than charm
! ing, she was the most lovable woman he
had ever met. Still, of course if there
was any chance of her inheriting this
/ Dire ldful thing, he would sea her no more.
After all no more harm could be done in
couple of days than had been done already,
and he was lot such a fool but that he
could draw back il time. And SO after
cEangi lg his mind half a dozen times, he
| res 1Ived to go over for the sh )oting
Ruth, want to speak to you seriously,"
Margaret Carne said to her maid two days
after the ball.
Ruth Powlett was the miller's daughter,
and the village gossips had been greatly
surprised when, a year before, thew heard
that she was going up to the Hold to be
Miss Carne's own maid, for, although the old
mill was q small one and did no more than a
local business. Hiram was accounted to
! have laid by a snug penny, and as Ruth
was his only child she was generally re-
| garded as the richest heiress in Carnes-
| ford. That Hiram should then let her go
| out into service, even as maid to Miss
Carne at the Hold, struck every one with
surprise.
1t was generally assumed that the step
| had been taken because Hiram Powle t
wanted peace in the house. He had, after
| the de til of his first wife, Ruth's mother,
married again, and the general vervlct was
! that he had made a mistake In the first
place, Hiram was a stanch churchman
and one of the churchwardens at Carnes-
ford; but his wife, wno was Dareport