The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-19
BURIED ALIVE.

~, Guests fled slowly into the great din
,--seIl Of the hotel and sat down at their !
Is .s The walters began their serving /
pm aisurely, in order to give the belated |
.;-,a 70 arrive and to save themselves |
..o,ble of bringing back the dishes; the
Nv ~, b.+bers the habitues, with whom the
,gas far advanced, kept an alert
unon the door each time it was
Cd hoping for the appearance of fresh
faces 80 ,.-.-oo.,o., 80 o.ou;-
10 we 90 to dinner to inspect tine daily
plsoe9Is IN wonder who they are what they.
OH Tyhet they think. A restless desire
a. 1,ossession of us, a longing for pleasant
taAe9 tt,ras for friendly acquaintance, for
sl' ~ rarhaps. In this elbow-to-elbow sort
I'VE w. onr unknown neighbors assume eX-
t.1a Importance. Curiosity Is aroused,
ZEN is on the alert anu the social in
i stuct is active E.. ,....,- "a x.;
sa- month; we view men with other
'uit @ through the special optics OF water
eJo',Iaoa ecoualntance. Suddenly, during
Ing p-r,s talk after dinner, under the
Oh IN the park, where bubbles up heal
snring we discover men OF superior
ilss,lii9ence and surprising merit and,
month later, we nave COLlPloCelJ IolsoC-
MI. .hose new friends, 80 charming at first
sight. .-o o,,ick1v than anvwbare
ora rorned grave and lasting ties. We
vs.. US ZACH other every day, know each other
eeo o- Haor and in the affection that springs
mingled something of the sweet
ouPondons of old intmates. Later on, tender
COLLECTIONS are cherished OF the first hours
If friendship, Of the first communion in
VI 80 hrcYrhr 70 ICbt IF
/ 80 first looks that questioned and responded
" tho interrogatories and secret thoughts
40 Inns had not yet uttered, of the first
oar5ial confidence, and that charming
so1sation of opening ones heart to some
40 TVho also seems to lay bare his own to
you. d,,,,,o,. tho ,,oro+o-
nv of days exactly alike, hourly renders
more complete the unfolding OF friendships
flower. .
ma awaited the entrance OF unfamiliar
faces.
There came only two. but very strange
ores those of a man and q woman-tather
and daughter. They reminded me at once
of some of Edgar Poe's characters; aud yet
there was an attraction ABOUT them, an un-
pleasant attraction; set them down as Une
victims of some fatality.
slightly bent, with hair quite white. too
white for his still young countenance; there
was in his carriage and about his person the
serious air of eusterity that bespeaks the
Puritan. The daughter was, perhaps,
about "A or 25 years of age. She was small
and emaciated, and her exceedingly pale
face wore a languid, splrltless expression.
We sometimes encounter people who ap-
pear too weak for the cares and demands
cf life, too feeble to move, to do the things
we must do every day. This girl was
pretty, with the transparent beauty OF an
apparition: she ate with extreme slowness,
as if she were almost incapable of moving
her arms.
1t was she undoubtedly who came for the
benefit of the waters.
They happened to be opposite me, on the
other side of the table, and l Immediately
noticed that the father had a very singular
nervous aft1iction.
Whenever he was about to reach for any
thing mis- hand, with quick jerk described
a sort of fluttering zigzag before he was
able to touch what he was after. In few
moments this motion annoyed me 50 much
that turned away my head in order not to
see him.
l also observed that the young girl kept
glove on her left hand while she ate.
After dinner | went out to take turn III
the park belonging to the water-cure estab-
lshment. 1t extended to the little station of
Auvergne, Chatel-Guyon, hidden in gorge
at the foot of high mountain, from which
run so many bubbling springs, hot from
the deep furnace of old volcanoes. Over
there, beyond u.s. the domcs, extinct craters,
raised their mutilated heads above the long
chain. Chatel-Guyon begins the lands OF
''DOmes."
Beyond the ''Domes" are two other dis
tlnct regions, the one Of needle-like peaks
and the other Of abrupt, preclpitous noun
tains.
Tie Puy de Dome is the highest of the
craters, the Pic du Sancy the most ele-
waited of the peaks, and the Plom du Can
tai is the greatest of the last type OF noun
taIus.
1t was very warm that evening. | was
walking back and forth in the shady park,
listening to the music pouring forth from
the casino on mound that overlooked the
park
perceived the father and daughter COM
ing toward me with slow steps. saluted
them, as in watering-plac one salutes his
hotel companions. The gentleman, stopping
Immediately, inquired of me:
Pardon me, sir. May ask if you can
direct us to short walk, easy and pretty if
possible."
/ offered to coaduct them myself to the
valley through which The slender river lows
"a deep, narrow gorge between TWO great
decivities, rocky and wooded.
They accepted.
And, naturally enough, we spoke of the
virtue of the mineral waters.
AN yes" said he, my daughter has a
strange malady the seat of which her phy-
siciens are unable to determine. She suffers
from incompTeheusible nervous symptoms.
Sometimes they think her afflicted with
heart disease, sometimes with liver com.
plaint and sometimes with spinal difficulty.
At present they attribute to the stomach,
which is the greater motor and prime regu-
latOr Of the body, this Proteus-llke malady
OF thousand forms, a thousand modes of
attack. That is why we are here l am
myself rather of the opinion that it is her
nerves. In any case it is very sad"
That reminded me Immediately OF the
Violent jerking of his hand, and | asked:
"bnt !s that not hereditary! Are not your
own nerves a little affectedF
TRANQUILITY he answered:
Mine? Oh no; have always possessed
very calm nerves."
Then. suddelly. after a pause, he re-
marked:
"Ah, yesl You refer to the action of my
hand whenever l reach for an objectl That
Is the result Of a terrible shock | once had.
Imagine, sir, this child has been buried
aven'
could find nothing to say except "Ahp
with emotion and surprise.
he went on: Here is the story. 1t is
simple. Juliette had for sometime seemed
subject to disordered action Of the heart.
we were sure she suffered from some dis.
ease OF this organ and exDpctad the worst