The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-05-26

back the courses and the old bathers,
the yearly habitues, with whom the
season was far advanced, kept close
watch on the door each time it opened,
hoping for the coming of new faces.
New faces the single distraction OF
all pleasure resorts. We go TO dinner
chiefly TO canvass the daily arrivals, to
wonder who they are, what they do
and what they think. A restless de.
sire seems to have taken possession Of
us, a longing for pleasant adventures,
for friendly acquaintances, perhaps
for possible lovers. In this elbov.to-
elbow life our unknown neighbors be
come of paramount Importance. Curl.
osity is piqued. sympathy on the alert,
and the social instinct doubly active.
That evening, then, as on every
evening, we waited the appearance Of
unfamiliar faces
There came only two, but very
peculiar ones, those OF man and wo-
man-father and daughter. They
seemed to have stepped from the pages
of some weird legend and yet there
was an attraction about them, albeit
an unpleasant one, that made me set
them down at once Az the victims OF
some fatality.
The :nthe, vas tall, spare, little
,ent. with hair blanched white, too
white for his still young countenance,
md in his manner and about his per
ION the sedate austerity of carriage
hat bespeaks the puritan. The daugn-
er was, possibly, some twenty -four
IT twenty five years o. age. She WAS
rery slight, emacisted, her exceedingly
pale countenance bearing a languid,
gpiritless expression; one OF those peo
Die whom we sometimes encounter, ap-
I oarently too weak for the cares and
asks OF life, too feeble TO move or DO
,hings that we must do every day.
Nevertheless the girl was pretty, with
he ethereal beauty Of an appsrition.
II Was she, undoubtedly, who came
/ or the benefit OF the waters.
They chanced to be placed at table
Immediately opposite to me; and l
vas not long in noticing that the
ather. too, had strange affection
something wrong about the nerves, II
,eemed. Whenever he was going 60
each for anything his hand, with n
erkv twitch, described a sort of zig
.ap before il was able to grasp what ne
was after. Soon the motion disturbed
ne SO much l keps my head turned in
order not to see it. But not before ]
aad also observed that the young girl
sept her glove OH her left hand while
she ate.
Dinner ended, went ont as usual
Tor a turn in the grounds belonging to
the establishment. A sort Of park,
might say, stretching clear to the lit
tie station OF Auvergne, Chatel-
Guyou, nesting in a gorge at the foot
Of the high mountain, from which
lowed the sparkling, bubbling springs,
hot from the furnace of an ancient
volcano. Beyond MS there, the domes,
small extinct craters which Chstel.
fuvon is the starting point-raised
heir serrated heads above the lonl
,hain: while beyond the domes came
two distinct regions, one of them nee
lle-like peaks, the other Of bold, pre-
cipitous mountains.
II was very warm that evening an(
{ contented myself with pacing TO an
fro under the rustling trees, gazing a
the mountains and listening 20 th'
strains OF the band, pouring from th'
Casino, situated on knoll that over
looked the grounds.
Presently, 1 perceived the iathe
and daughter coming toward me will
allow steps. bowed to them in ths