The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-18

His whole expression changed suddenly
he seemed to become suddenly haggard
the victim of an oyerpowering horror, and
he replied.
1T is about two months now since the
foreknowledge of the hideOus thing which
is to happen to me seven years hence
first darted into my brain. The thing in
store for me at that time is about as aw-
full as anything l have ever imagined
and it will happen, I've brooded on ct
now for these two months, until l Won
der l am not mad was q stoutish man
before this horrible ailment of mine-look
at me now.
Wei, this foreknowledge has embit-
tered measured me. lie awake al night
brooding on the thing which is to come
until l scream sometimes.
1t has made me ill-tempered-my only
diversion is to give other people a touch
of what L feel myself. 1 try to keep my
mind off my own misery by that amuse-
ment. There's your case. for instance
there is the thing which is to happen to
you March 10, three years hence-March
10; don't forget 1t is not quite so horri-
BILE as my fate-but in all conscience it
Is enough to make one shudder, my dear
siri'
You can't avert it; it's sure to come
but, there; it's one of those things which
1t is best not to dwell upon; so let's forget
1t and talk about other things. Look at
a nice
thlng TO happen to him in three weeks
time; egad, I should like to get down and
tell him about it, only 7 can't speak
French well enough Dear, dear; now |
regret that I can't; what a drawback it
is to be unable to speak language
l let him rattle on, and ceased to hear
what he said Should ! refuse to hear
what my fate was to be-get out at the
next station and hurry off? Or should I
peg MIN to tell me, for mercy's sake? Or
should | make him reveal it-threaten to
Kill him unless? Pooh he knew I
could not kill him; he knew he had to
live seven years at Ieast-untiI that calam-
ity came upon him.
So 1 determined to keep touch with him:
travel with him to Paris, and never lose
sight of him; and I went to the same hotel
with him at Marseilles | overheard him
. tell the porter of his intention to leave
by the train on the following night; but
next day | found he had gone by the
morning train. l took the next train to
Paris and used every plan l could think
of to find him-for three weeks l was on
his track; but ] had lost him.
So there was that 18th of March three
years hence hanging over me! l struggled
hard to thrust the thing from my mind,
/ taking up all kinds of occupations to drive
I il away, but the thought would come upon
me at intervals with such force that
could get no sleep for weeks together. My
hair began to turn prematurely gray, and
/ my face became wan and furrowed.
was told by friends [ was a CHASTITY
sight, and my unconquerable gloom drove
/ them from my society.
| And one day / was travelling on the Dis
| trict railway, face to face with the only
/ other occupant of the compartment He
/ was a plump contented-looking man: and
/ there was something in his manner which
/ I seemed to recognize. Suddenly he be~an
to stare at me; then an expression of
/ great mental distress passed over his
! face, and he said: Were you ever at
/ Monte Carlo"
do you recolIect the numbers on the
roulette table, l said, "and the people
/ passing along the sea front? and the Ger
/ mans telegram"
Il will try my hardest. day and night,
! to recollect," he said. Here is my ad-
/ dress. Come and stay with me, so that
| if at any moment the recollection comes
/ upon me you may be at hand to hear.
What a demon I must have been at that
time. Why? l wonder What can have
/ changed me SO then? 1t is not my ma
ture"
Here was the opportunity to enlighten
| him-and l was silent.
He had tried for year now to recollect
/ tried necessarily. He has grown care
/ first knew him.
For the last three months I have been
| always at his side. watching his face for
the first CLEAN of memory, but it has
/ never come.
Again and again in my moments of hor-
ror ] have almost told him of the fate
hanging over him and due in a little over
four years-but I have not done it.
feel half mad at times, 1 am very i'll, and
. have become an old man at 81. He is sit
ting by me, holding my. hand and reading
to me.
Now and again a shudder passes over
/ him. and he ceases to read, and passes his
hand across his knitted brow. The sun is
setting in a bank of black clouds. 1t is
/ March IS!
What are you doing now?" asked one
/ Yale man of another.
I'm writing for a living"
/ What do you write2
/ Letters to the governor. Harlem
/ Life.
Observation-Disclosures is vat might be
called fin de steele
/ Goldheimer-Tinks so?
/ Ikenstein-Yesh; he advertises his fire
sales ten days in advance of der fire
/ Life.
John-SalIie, eff l was to ask you If vou'd
marry me do you think you'd say yes?"
Salle-l-er-gueSS so.
| JOhn-Wa-al, eff ! ever git over this ere
/ darn bashfulness I'll ask you some o. these
/ times.