St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-20

Dinner was served Immediately. and,
as they entered the dining hall TO take
their places at the table, young girl.
tall and slender of figure. rose from be-
side it.sand greeted them with grave
Salutation.
My sister, my sister Caillette, T" said
DR.. Colombo. i'll his sticky voice.
Pretty? Well, you could hardly call
her that. still by no means ugly. But
that which impressed Georges particu-
larly in the aspect of this young girl
was that she looked about her with the
strangeSt gaze that it is possible to con-
ceive of. Not only were her faded and
languishing eye-balls of a cloudy I'M
certainty, but every instant the pupils
seem to melt away-to dissolve into the
blueish orb, which itself appeared to
yaporiZe to the point that the long and
Opaline eyelids had the air of containing
a sort of twilight fog.
'ParbIeu!" thought Georges to him
self. regarding this curious condition of
vision. whether or no the Convent of
Saint GenYS InclOSeS a nun with bleed
ing eyes. | have not as yet found out:
but one thing is certain, the house of
the doctor shelters girl with the same
as no eyes at ALL"
And he. this Partisan skeptic and
moderniste, felt himself Shudder as he
had done OH arriving at the station
a while ago. when the chill of the even
ing had struck upon his brow.
And now to table :" cried the doctor.
eSsaying to give himself All air of cor
dial hospitality, and at the same time
diyeSting himself of his glasses. ITEMS !
But the sight of his eyes as nature
made them in no wise decreased the
nervous chill that for some reason or
other was making gooSe-fleSh along
Georges spine. The doctor without his
spectacles was simply frightful: his
awkwardness diSappeared-rathe was
no longer appreciable; the attention
was absorbed by those uncovered orbs,
restless. squirting. yet betraying eveu
in their deformity a will that was simply
terrible.
The dinner was good the amiability
OF the host excessive. Georges had not
thought him such chatterer. He
talked of Paris, of science, of thousand
and one curious things of life and
travel, abusing or praising with fury
and as the Whim seized him. In short.
lie talked himself dry. and at signal
Caillette placed before him carafe of
Armagnac eau de vie. that savorY but
dangerous beverage for which the
austere doctor had decidedly taste. :
He drank, and drank freely. His
speech grew thick. and his eyes little
by little lost their fiery sparkle: from
sinister they became Waterv. then
CLASSY: at the same moment Georges OBJ
served as great change going on in
the doctors ''s9ur Caillette." She was
| more animated. her glance had quick
ened and her entire perSon-reaIly
there is no other way to express it
seemed to condense itself. to lose its
vague. elusive cloudiness. :
All at once she lifted her head and re-
! garded her brother hXedly. Her COM
tenance had assumed an indetinable ex-
| preston, which resembied fear, but fear
| complicated with a sentiment of indig-
nation. possibly also a daWning resolIl-
| ton. She scrutiniZed him thus perhaps
minute, then turned and passed from
| the room.
The doctor talked on and on. Al
| other topics exhausted, be arrived, at
| last at the absence OF the Uncle Mercel.
| called SO hurriedly to the Chateau Eel
| ounce. The COmtesse FelZunce. whose
! portrait he had gone 10 make. had unex-
| pectediy yielded to one of those physi-
| illogical phenomena vulgarIy called
moral chagrins because of her daughter
| Mile. Camille Felzunce. who had fled
| with young officer. Comte Bernard de
I CastelmerC, of the hussars. on leave at
| st. Genys. ''Nevrose," added the
doctor, rising to light a lantern in ODE
dience to Georges request to be shown
| his room. ''all neYrose: lots of women
| die from the same"
And he led the way through a vsst
| groined cloister. whose delicate stone
laces profiied themselves in blacker
! shadow upon heaven swept by a ris-
| ing wind. Here and there star
pierced the darkness, and there were
! the walls covered with fantastic fres-
! Goes, whose restoration his uncle Marcel
had already begun. Toward the middle
| OF the cioister narrow niche, sort of
contracted recess. caught Georges at
tention. He spoke of it. The doctor
| laughed.
Yes" said he, sit is from here.,' en-
tering the recess and tapping upon an