Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-14

1ca ld1SlcS t414 real love- more soAso
than odss: more vaudevlles than
dramas at q glance one might have
been inclined 10 use thai vulgar.
bat really technical term. dumPy.
Very small and shapely hands and feet.
black hair. naturally wsvy, black eye
brows, almost meeting above the nose.
which had the gentlest OF upward tilts,
large eyes, gloriously deep and dark.
with the bistre tone above them, and
the pearl tint below; checks rosy and
red and teeth as white as July almonds
such was this child woman Place
some red roses in those black tr-sses.
wrap a lace mantilia about her face.
set fan in motion in one of those
hands and drape that round but nex-
iole form with a shortened skirt, and
you would have an Andalusian-
Madeleine was the daughter of her
mother. If you had gone far enough
back you would have found one of her
ancestors among the builders of the
Alhambra, posi- biy even living beneath
its roof IL was rich blood. therefore.
of the color of melted coral, which
coursed through her veins. And yet
close observer would have noted tho
changes which the loss of the Southern
sun had wrought IN this transplanted
type.
The wedding day came on apace. 1t
SO happened that a few weeks before
the appointed day an Italian opera
troupe began a series of performances
in the town. Madeleine was passion
ately fond of music, aud with her in
tended's knowledge and consent in
fact sometimes in his company, she at
tended every representation. Lucien
noted how the singing stirred her very
soul. and was gratitied by the keen
enjoyment she drew from it. The
tenor singer, Angelo Liverino. strik
ingly handsome young man, who
walked the stage like an Apollo and
sang with the deep feeling of an Or
pheus, soon became the rage of the
town. Petted and feted by everyone,
and entertained by the best families,
he set hundred hearts ahame on his
triumphal course, but seemed TO take
no hurt himself until he met Madeline.
In an instant the two warm souls
flashed together, the two children of
the south land met after many long
years of separation.
One evening when Lucien entered
the home of his afflanced. he found
Nine. Duclos lying senseless on the
floor and her husband kneeling beside
her, himself but little this side of
dementia. Madeleine had eloped with
Angelo Liverino.
1t had only struck when Lucien
parted with NJ. and Mime. Duclos, and
yet it was past midnight when he pre-
sented himself at his apartments.
Here were three whole hours abso-
lutely cut out of his lifetime. During
this time he had been dead to himself
and he only came back to life when
his servant, in response to lis
knock. opened the door and
called him by name. Then
he rememb ered who he was and what
had happened to him. His clothes were
covered with dust and his feet were SO
swollen that his boots had to be slit
open to get them off. Manifestly he
had walked many miles, for his
strength, great as it was, was gone.
He staggered to chair and asked for
water. He was burning up with thirst
His servant begged for permission to
| summon physician. but Lucien shook
his head and directed him to go to bed.
The man reluctantly obeyed after he
had vainly tried TO persuade his master
to remove his clothes and go to rest
| first himself.
Nature is more merciful than men
| give her credit for. Like murderous
| blows, great ugonies so dull sensibility
that little pain is felt The terrible
hurt mercifully brings Inconsistencies
with it. Some sorrows are so heavy
| that the sufferer is crushed beneath
| the load. He cannot even cry out; a
| chill almost of death steals over him.
| He Is dead, for real death could not be
| SO horrible.
When Lucien's servant re-entered
his room the next morning he was
startled to find his master sitting
with his clothes on, just as he had left
| him He had not stirred from the
| chair into which he had fallen upon
| his return home after those three hours
of mad pursuit, and then, as the man
| drew the curtains aside and let the
suns rays into the room, he uttered a
stified cry of horror. for great flecks oil
| gray streaked that glorious head OF
hair. In a single night grief had
| wrought this devastation; in a few
brief hours a speechless woe had Sc,
it's ghasNy finger marks upon this
bright page of humanity. Nor did de-
spair stop there. In few weeks the
change was complete; that luxnrian'
! growth of hair-crown of strong and
| perfect manhood-was silvered DER te
rs very roots. But gradually the
paroxysm spent its force. and ike came
TO cure like when Lucien looked upor
he terrible woe now nested 10 tina,
little home and listened TO the laments
tons Of that old couple so cruelty de
serted
In few days letters came from
Madeleine, both to her parents and I.
Lucien. announcing her marriage t.
Angelo and promising 20 return hom'
in a few months, when they ha,
quieted down and had come to lool