Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-04-18
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walters began TO serve them leisurely, TO
give tho tauly ones time TO arrive and TO
save themselves the bother of bringing
back tho courses And the old bathers,
the yearly hahitues, with whom the sea
son was far advanced, kept n close watch
ON the door each time IL opened, hoping
for the coming Of new facCs.
New faces, the single distraction OF all
pleasure rcsortsl We go TO dinner chiefly
TO canvass the daily arrivals, 10 wonder
who they are, what they do and what they
think. A restless desire seems To have
taken possession Of us, longing for pleas
ant adventures, for friendly acquaintances,
perhaps for possible lovers. In this elbow
10 elbow life our unknown neighbors be-
come Of paramount importance. Curiosi-
BY is piqucd, sympathy on the alert and
the social instinct doubly active.
We have hatrods for week, friendships
for month and view all men with tho
special eyes Of watering place intimacy.
Sometimes during an hours chat after
dinner, under tho trees of the park, where
ripples 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.
That evening, then, as on every even
ing, We awaited the appearance Of unfa-
miliar faces.
There came only two, but very peculiar
ones, those of man and woman-fathor
and daughter. They seemed to have step
ped from tine pages Of some weird legend,
and yet there was an attraction about
them, albeit an unpleasant one, that made
me set thom down az once as the victims
OF some fatality.
The father was tall, spare, little bcnt,
with hair bluuclCd white-too white for
his still young countenance-and I'm his
manner and about his person the scdate
austcrity of carriage that bespeaks the
Puritan. The daughter was possibly some
"a or 20 years of age. She was very slight,
emaciated, her exceedingly pale counte-
nance bearing a languid, spiritless express
sion-one Of those people whom we some
times encounter, apparently too weak for
the cares and tasks of life, too feeble to
move or do the things that we must 10
every day. Nevertheless the girl was
pretty, with tire ethereal beauty Of an ap-
partition. il was she undoubtedly who came
for the benefit of the waters.
They chanced TO be placed at table i'm
mediately opposite 10 me- and l was not
long in noticing that the father, too, had
"a hlIAIkt NLAftl AOu-htliltlilAl NIOilk
about the nerves it seemed. Whenever no
was going TO reach for anything, his hand,
with a jerky twitch, described sort of
huttering zigzag before he was able to
grasp what he was after. Soon the motion
disturbed me so much / kept my head
turned i'm order not to see it, but not before
l had also observed that the young girl kept
her glove on her left hand while she ato.
Dinner ended, l went out as usual for a
turn in the grounds belonging 20 the es-
tablishmcnt, "a sort Of park, / might say,
stretching clear 10 the little station Of
Auvcrgne, Chatol-Guyon, nestling I'm a
gorge at the foot Of the high mountain,
from which flowed the sparkling, bubbling
springs hot from the furnace Of an an
cient volcano Beyond us there the domes,
small extinct Craters, of which Chatcl-
Guyon is the starting point, raised their
sCrratcd heads above the long chain, while
beyond the domCs came two distinct re-
gions, one of them needlclike peaks, tho
other Of bold, prccipitous mountains.
IL was very warm that evening, and /
contentcd myself with pacing TO and fro
under the rustling trees gazing at the
mountains and listening 10 the strains of
the band pouring from the casino, situat-
ed on a knoll that overlooked the grounds
Presently | perceived the father and
daughter coming toward me with slow
steps. l bowed 10 them I'm that pleasant
continental fashion with which one al
ways salutos his hotel companions. The
gentleman halted at once.
"Pardon me, sir" said he, but may 1
ask If you can direct us to n short walk,
easy and pretty, If possibleY
Certainly / answered, and l offered
20 lead them myself TO the valley through
which the swift river iows--a deep mar
row cleft between two great declivitics,
rocky and wooded.
They accepted, and as we walked we nat
urally discussed the virtue Of the mineral
waters. Thy had, rs ] surmisod, come
there on his daughter s account
"Shc has strange malady," said he,
"the scat Of which her physicians cannot
determine. She suffers from the most in
explicable nervous symptoms. Sometimes
they declare her IN Of heart disease; some
times of a liver complaint, again OF a spi-
nal trouble. Az present they attribute
It 20 the stomaCh-that great motor and
regulator OF the body-this protcan dis
ease of a thousand forms, thousand
modes Of attack. Ii is why we are here.
myself think it her nerves In any case
Il Is very sad
This reminded mo Of his own jerking
hand.
at may be hereditary" says l. Your
own nerves are little disturbed, arc they
notf"
"NIincY" he answered TRANQUILITY. Not
at all. ! have always possessed the calm
est nerves. Then suddenly, as If be
thinking himself:
"For this" touching his hand, "is not
nerves, but the result Of shock, q terri
bio shock tnnt / suffered once. Fancy Il,
sir This child Of mine has been buried
alivol"
could find nothing TO say. Twas dumb
with surprise.
eyes" he continued, buried alive, but
hear the story--it Is not long. For some
time past Juiicttc had seemed affected
with "a di-Drlorod action of the heart. We
were fully certain that tho trouble was
organic and feared the worst. Ono day
It came. fhe was brought in Ifolosa
She had fallen dead while walking I'm the
garden Physicians camc in haste, but
nothing could be done She was gone
For two days and two nights i watched
beside her myself, and with my own hands
placed her iu her coffin. which ] followed
60 the cemetery and saw placed in the fam
ily vault This was in the country in the
province oi Louuirc
1T had b1.u my wish, too. that she
should ha buried in lcr jewels, bracelets,
necklace udrinrs-n'l PRESENTS that / had
given tcr--nna lE hsr AIet ball drs-s. You