San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-13

NAiSS LSDOhE SCOlS.
Yes" said her host, land no one
knows its history or who put it there.
1t has strange fascination for me, one
not altogether pleasant. You are never
quite sure when that hunter.is going to
put his other leg across, and enter the
room. These pictures depicting ar
resoed motion are, to me, denominations
OF art, no matter how skillfully they
are done But it would be shame to
move that; it has stood there since no.
one knows when"
YES, indeed they all agreed
This incident is typical of the easy,
quiet way in which Mr.. Graham chat
ted with his guests He talked of
America. OF has encounters with queer.
Yankees, of Connecticut, where Frank
and Paul were educated, of Long Island
Sound, and some cruises he had made
on 1t, of Chicago, always so fascinating
TO Englishmen, all in blissful uncon-
sciouSness Of he were the stranger
und' the hat Of any suspicious that
must be lingering in his guests minds
When the party reached the inn, the
universal verdict was, that Mr.. Graham
was simply charming and that he was
grossly malignsd in being described
as morose and moody. All were
up betimes the next morning
for the promised coaching trip. The
weather was all that could be asked,
and the day was flied with pleasure
from beginning to end. There was an
early dinner at the chateau, snd when
the party took the train for Paris, the
one subject discussed by Paul and
Frank, was some suita BILE way of max
ing fitting return for all this unique
hospitality. All sorts of pressing invi-
tations were urged upon Mr.. Graham,
to which he listened with hattsring
cordially of attention, and responded
with promises of accepting them If
possible.
The trip to Paris was without Incl
dent. As the party entered the hotel
there, a messenger in the livery of Mr.,
Graham gave a letter to both Paul
aud Miss Lebourgeois. The mes
senger requested them to read their
letters immediately, and in the family
circle, j possible -. ~.
THANKING that there would be some
new souvenir of the trip, the party
FASTENED to their parlor, and Paul and
Miss Leboprgeois broke the seals. On
reading the first line, Paul exclsamed,
my Godr and Miss Lebourgeois threw
up her hands and tainted dead away.
Being removed TO another room and
quickly restored, she was kept there
by her mother for the night. Mean
while Paul and Frank read the two
letters. They were identical, dated,
"Tgsmblpy, Saturday evening" and,
read as follows:
When you read this, in all probabl-
ity shall be dead. Before you have
flushed it, Frank Lebourgeois will pro-
baby have received dispatch an
nouneing my suicide. 1t seems but q
poor return for their kindness thus to
shock guests, who have become friends
in the short space while have had the
privilege of entertaining them. You
will say, He is mad, poor fellow" and
soon dismiss him fre4 your thoughts.
l am mad. I am mad. Unlike most
poor mad people, @! am conscious Of my
terrible mania and q tbs possible hor-
rors it may entail. To prevent these
possible horrors, to rave those love-
yes, love, from the mad freaks of
diseased brain, l apply the only COM
plete cure for madness known to
materia medical: Death. II might be
you, Louisa Lebourgeois; it might be
you, Paul Terry, whom l should be left
to entrap with diabolical cunning and
destroy with one neat little bullet-hole.
You little realize that you have been
the guests of a mailman. | realized it.
All the sanity of will power located
in one hemisphere of my brain was put
under the most tremendous pressure to
control the insanity of impulse located
in the other hemisphere of my brain
And yet, for this sacrifice, l ask the one
poor compensation of my madness.
will be associated in your united lives.
Paul, you will wed Louisa. Louisa,
you will wed Paul You will owe your
double happiness to the poor mailman
whose last act was to gi"a the best he
lad, and to remove himself where he
Gould never undo what it is the sincere
wish of his heart may never be undone,
wen when death does you part.
By what right does the mailman in
erfere in your lives? Listen. l will
lot detain you long. knew neither
ather nor mother. was brought up
" kind, but rude. foster parents. A
lever youth, l was the sport and play
hing of rich benefac or, who en-
owed me with plenty OF mere money,
rooding over the story of my
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