The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-17

see that he would have no truck with us,
and was doing his best to make his sister
think as he did. That he did not sue
ceed in this is to be set down to many
things, but above all TO the fact that for
days together he would hang about the
hotel like man without a mind; and
was, as all the world could see, tottering
fast TO his grave. What drug he drank
or where he learned the habit, no man
could say, but more pitiable spectacle
than he made, looking for all the world
like a blind thing come out OF coin,
hope never TO see. Luckily for US, there
was no affection lost between MIN and
Miss Dora Talk as he might, the day
was rare when she did not plan some ex-
cursion with my master. They spent
hours together out at Fontainebleau or
Versailles half their leisure time
at the picture galleries, the other half at
the cafes and theaters. i saw them walk
ing arm in arm In the gardens, / saw
him kiss her when she went to her paint
ing In the morning, / saw him kiss her
when she came home again TO dejeuner
and / began TO think that after all ne was
right and was wrong. Then, all of a
sudden, the trou BILE came, and woke up
from our dream like men aroused by ar
tillery fire.
Michel Grey had disappeared. For the
first time since we had been at the hotel,
he had changed words with my master
to blows, but the hands of the people
aound the table kept the two men apart
and Sir Nicolas was heard by twenty
folk to say that he'd beat the life out of
the American with mis- hunting crop.
That night and the next Michel Grey did
not sleep in his bed at the Hotel de Lille.
AT ten o'clock, two mornings later, his
sistr Dora was knocking at my masters 3
door, wanting TO know what he had done
with him.
/ can see her now, with her pretty hair
streaming down her back and her face
that flushed that she might have been
rubbing her cheeks With glove. Many
women would have thought nothing of a
man gong off like that; but the quarrel
stuck in her head, i suppose, and she
was as scared as rabbit. When Sir
Nicolas came out to her, she was no
longer gentle with him as she had been
before this. but stamped her foot and
spoke angry, with quick, biting words.
swell, /" she cried, "where is he? You
know, of course"
''As God is my witness, know moth
ing" said he.
"But you were with him last--you were
the last to speak to him. :"
"Indeed, and i was; and when he'd
done with me, he went straight TO his
bed room. Dora IT'S not lies that I'D tell
you at such time. "
'Then where is he, what has happened
they love him at home indeed they do. I"
She began TO cry at this, and my master
took her hand.
"You poor little thing" said he, draw
ing her head down upon his shoulder.
''Would ! harm him, whatever he was
and your brother, too? Don't We see,
child, that he's just gone of in a bit
OF a huff, ana will be back before your
tears are dry. You'll be the first TO laugh
when he walks in here"
"He is not the man 10 do that" said
she, though she was no longer angry; 81
am sure of IT. 1 dreamed of him all
night. He is dead, Nicolas"
Now what should Sir Nicolas do when
she said this hut give her a great kiss,
and burst out laughing.
"Deadl" said ne, H'then ] thinking
should get ready for the waking, end ask
him TO crack the first bottle. Bedadl
he's as dead as am, little woman, and
don't you think any such thing. What
ever put that into your head2n
~ could not tell you, says she. "We
do not think these things; we know
them"
AT this he set OF laughing again, and
did his best 20 cheer her up-though II
was poor work he made OF Il at the best.
BY and by when he had seen a nice little
breakfast sent up 10 her rooms. he came
10 me, and 1 knew then that ho took il
worse than thought he would.
"ehf -raee uts iht ioolt gone, right
enough There's no word or sign vet
I'll begin 20 think by and by that harm s
come 20 him. 4"
sin that case, sir, - said "it'sa pity
that what was said two nights ago
couldn't wait. "
s'How do you mean7r he asked.
"Why--it's no good Disgusting it-vou
threatened TO murder him.
"Good God Would they think that?''
'Tnere's some that might