Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-04-05
BY AN EYEWITNESS
RY JAMES KNAPP REEVE.
Copyright 1894, by the Author. !

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I had watched them for a long time,
and hat is how 1 came to know and to
understand these things that 1 shall
tell you of. It may be hat I am an old
book-worm, as I heard her call me one
day-which Of them I near by ''her"
you will perceive pSesently-but never
theless I have eyes to sea
I think they were at the hotel when
I arrived, but I am not certain. So
many hundred people were in the great
white wooden pile that 1t was some
time before faces began to take on
them in the dining-room, where every
head turned to look at her when she
entered. The three always came in to-
gether, he and she walking side by side,
the other one a little to the rear. From
this 1 made a mistake, al frst-think-
ing them to be husband and wife, and
fancying the other might be bis sister
or hers. .
After seeing them once, my eye was
continually caught by this group. It
could not well help being, for mono
others in the whole place were so we'll
wo rth noting. He looked like an
athlete. Not like the fellows Of huge
bu Tx whose strength lies In their beef
ness, blu t like a Greek wrestler, grace
women were strangely alike-yet as diff
ferent as day and night OF the same
size, form, carriage, manner. voice,
faces, n could hardly be told from
the other, yet in coloring they were as
different as the Saxon and the daughter
of the south.
They were sisters, as I had partly
guessed, but only in part, for women
diff erent as the sun and the moon had
given them life. The blonde one wal
his wife She it was who walked be-
hind, while the brunette, her head
proudly erect her black eyes sparkling,
her mien indicating hat it was but her
rightful place hat she held, led the
way with him.
The three were always together. Al
most never was he alone with either.
And there was such apparent good
fellowship between them all; such bub-
bling life, such sparkling talk that few
would imagine there was more under.
meath than showed on the surface. I
do not know how I first became con-
scious of it. But I did grow to know,
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this uncertain world, that there was q
volcano all ready for eruption.
For a long time the wife saw nothing
of this. Clearly, she was subjective to
the superior brilliance of her sister-I
will not say to her beauty, for it were
hard to decide which wore tho crown
there-and SO yielded often the place
that should have been her WI When
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was curious to observe the change in
her-if it had not been for the pity of
it; watchful of every movement and
glance between them, while affecting
the utmost unconcernI using all q
woman's arts to add to her beauty, her
charm, her piquancy. When l saw how
we'll she succeeded I thought she never
would have lost him had she but be-
gun this a little sooner. But the
trouble was that this which was art In
her was nature in the other. Some
times I caught her face when it was
not made up for them nor even to de-
ceive herself. Aud the horror OF 1t
then-the agony, the despair-would, I
think, have made him stop even then
II he could have seen it. But with them
she carried herself bravely.
The grounds about the hotel were of
simple extent In one part was a maze,
built up with high hedges of ever
green's, where foolish people wandered
n sometimes lost themselves. So
tina If two lovers were out in the soft
moonlight beyond the hour that watch.
ful mammas deemed prudent, they
had but to say, by way of excuse, that
they were lost in the maze-and blame
was silenced.
I am given to the study of many
things that others regard with mere Gu
riosity. and this led me, early In my
stay, to make q study Of the maze. In
case should wish to walk there 1t
was not pleasant to think that I might
be forced to endure a humilieting cap