The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-14
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The guests filed slowly into the
hotels great dining-hall and took
their places, the walters began TO
serve them leisurely, 10 give the tardy
ones time TO arrive and TO save them
selves the bother of bringing back
the courses: and the old bathers, the
yearly habtues, with whom the sea-
son was lar advanced, kept a close
watch on the door each time it
opened, hoping for the coming Of new
faces.
New faces! the single distract on OF
all pleasure resorts. We 60 TO dinner
chiefly TO canvas the daily arrivals,
to wonder who tn y are. what they
do and what they think. A restless
desire seems to have taken possession
OF us, longing tor pleasant adven-
lures. for friendly acquaintan
perhaps for possible lovers. In this
elbow-tO-elbOw life our unknown
neighbors become OF paramount I'M
portance. Curiosity is piqued, SYM
pathy on the alert and the social in
stinct doubly active.
We have hatreds for week, friend
ships for a month, and view all men
with the special eyes of watering
place intimacy Sometimes during
an hours chat after dinner under
the trees OF the park, where ripples a
healing spring, we discover men OF
superior intellect and surprising
merit, and a month later have wholly
forgotten these new friends, so
charming at first sight.
There, too, more specially than
elsewhere, serious and lasting ties
are formed. We see each other every
day, we learn to know each other
soon, and in the affection that springs
up SO rapidly between us there is
mingled much OF the sweet abandon
of old and tried intimates And
later on, how tender are the memo
ries cherished OF the first hours OF
this friendship, OF the first commun-
ion in which the soul came to light.
of the first glances that questioned
and responded TO the secret thoughts
and interrogatores the lips have not
dared yet To utter, OF the first cor
dial confidence and delic Gus sensa-
tion OF opening ones heart to some
one who has seemed to lay bare to
you his own. The very dullneSs Of
the hours, as it were, the monotony
of days all alike, but render more
complete the rapid budding and
blooming OF friendships flower.
That evening, then, as on every
evening, we awaited the appearance
OF unfamiliar faces.
There came only two, but very pe-
culiar ones, those OF man and
woman-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 as the vic
Tins OF some fatality.
The father was tall, spare, tile
bent with hair tlanched white; too
white for h S still young counter ance
and in his manner and about his per-
son the sedate alsterity OF carriage
that bespeaks the puritan. The
daughter was, possibly, some - or %
years Of age. She was very slight,
emaciated, her exceedingly pale
cOuntenance bearing a lanquid,
spiritless expression: one of those
people whom we sometimes encount-
er, apparently too weak for the cares
and tasks OF life, too feeble to move
or do the things that we must do
every day. Nevertheless the girl was
pretty, with the ethereal beauty Of
an apparition. Itwas she, undoubt-
edly, who came for the benefit OF the
waters.
They chanced TO be placed at table
Immediately opposite To me; ana
was not long in noticing that the
| father, too, had strange Affection
something wrong about the nerves,
| ii seemed. Whenever he was going
10 reach for anothing his hand, with
a jerky twitch, described a sort OF
| futtering zig-Zag tefore he was ab c
| TO grasp what he was after. Soon
the motion disturbed me so much
Kept my head turned in order not E.
see il. But not before had also oil
served that the young girl kept he
glove on her left hand while she ate.
Dinner ended, went out as usual
for a turn in the gr, uDds bel Jnging
TO the establishment. A sort OF
park, / might say, stretch ng clear
10 the little station OF Auverg e,
IICtatel.Guyon, nesting in gorge at
the foot OF the high mountain. from
which flowed the sparkling, bubbling
springs, hot from the furnace OF an
ancient volcano Beyond US there.
the domes, small extinct craters-of
which Chatel -Guyon is the starting
point aised their serrated heads
above the long chain; while beyond
the domes came two distinct regions,
one OF them needle-like peaks, the
other OF bold, precipitous mountains.
1t was very warm that evening and
! contented myself with pacing TO
and fro under the rustling trees gaz-
iug at the mountains and listening to
the strains OF the band, pouring from
the Casino. situated on a knoll that
oyerlooked the grounds