The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-08

came In at the gate. Hell know It
when he sees Il again." said one Of the
men In green baize aprons. l wondered
who "he'' was, and then looked up and
saw him. He certainly had anything but
a prepossessing face. think the peculiar
offense was In the irregular teeth, the
dropping, everted neither lip and the pink
eyes, but, must confess, l cannot describe
his visage in detail He was watching our
move In with grin upon his face, a slc5-
bering leer that was certainly not engag-
Ing.
will admit felt what our little serv-
ant would doubtless call turn" Posi-
bly,, too, had flash Of irritation at our
affairs being spied upon. Then / was
ashamed of myself for grudging the poor
demented outcast creature the petty satis-
faction he had in our arrival. BY way Of
reparatiop for my first sensations, turned
toward him, and waved my hat, as one
might do to a child.
He grinned, anything but prettily, and
waved his arms In reply. They were very
long arms--at least, in proportion to his
little body. And he began brutal traves-
ty Of speech by way of greeting.
| When / heard his inarticulate mouth
lngs, turned and followed the sideboard
into the house.
When came out again, looked at him
out Of the corner of my eye, and he was
still gesticulating. II occurred to me that
1t was rather foolish to encourage him
overmuch, and affected to be unaware Of
his presence.
Yet all day the thought was in my mind
Of the poor darkened, inarticulate creature
hanging over the fence along the top Of the
wall and trying to express his dim thoughts
to me, trying to signal something-heaven
knows what-and / felt little sorry for
having turned my back on him. To tell
the truth, his grotesque appearance and
the conditions under which he was living
had laid hold of my imagination. ]
thought Of him wandering about the mar
row garden between the spiked palings,
which constituted his world, and, reading
my own feelings into him, imagined the
horrible monotony of lis existence That
evening he was gone to Mariana's great
relief, but the next morning he was back
at his post, and in the excess of my philan.
tropy waved my hand to him.
made the acquaintance of Morton, the
village doctor, that day.
"You'll bo having that Hanotaux boyle
for a neighbor," +" said he "Have you seer
itP It's grewsome thing to have aye peer
Ing over the wall at you, man."
He always spoke of our little neighbor al
1t. $50 far as l can ascertain" f" said he
"the thing is 23 or "a years old, but Il
looked precisely the same five or six years
ago I've attended 1t twice for fits Hano
taux cannot be just right, or he would mo-
have the thing about him. He would sent
it to an asylum. Something wrong NJ
above Is corgenital with both Of them, Tn
thinking. It's got nasty temper, too, fo
once it bit my finger Bit its medical at
tendant, manp
"Hanotaux, continued the DOCTOR afte
a pause, "has given 1t room opening ou
upon the garden, and the whole of the gar
den, except a part behind the kitchen h
has fenced off, for it to disport itself in.
demonstrated with him about it once ant
says he, Hes good Hanotaux blood any
how, and I'm not going to have him i'm
prisoned in an asylum to be tyrannizet
over by doctors and attendants, and to b
experimental upon for the good of sci
ence. And he began to provoke me Il
argue about the medical profession ALT
hospitals and vivisection, and so got ava,
from the boyle"
81 suppose" said !, catching his mod
of expression, "the things as happy wher
1t is as it could be anywhere"
"That's not it," said Morton. cts m.
belief the things dangerous"
"Nonsense" said /, though his tone O
conviction made me uncomfortable "It'
never done anything-in that way, has it,
"No" said Morton. "It's pure supposi
ton on my part But, you see-well, 1
used to go out in the village, hear whel
1t was younger, and the boys teased it, AM
| To nj rrin q
came by it's first fit. And after it was Sc
cluded in the house 1t made dead set a
one Of the servants, and she had to leave
It's queer brute, ard there's no countin;
on it. Partly it's as it is because it's
malformed albino, but chiefly it's ativism
It's one of those cases where nature trie
back and fetches up the ancestral savag
, out of the past to trouble us. People thin
creature like that just goes about glib
bering; but, depend upon 1t, that bogl
has mind Of its own that works-in IL
way--just as much as ours do. 1t has--i
must have-hopes and desires of its own
though they are as crippled and repulsiv
as its body They won't all be satisfied
I'm thinking, by high fence with spike
, and garden"
"No," said l, missing his drift. "I dar
say the thing--the poor little wretch III
dismal enough"
l saw the unhappy subject of our con
versation on my return at his post Of oil
servation. waved my hat at him, bu
, he made no response. He had his hea
craned out, as If he was trying to see int
our drawing room.
, found Mariana in the hall. "How
the pictures lookY" said I.
She looked quite worried. "Do get hin
to go away" she said. "He has been u
there all the morning"
"He means no harm" said L "You'r
overfancifrl"
"I'm not George Really can't bea
him. He has been mopping and mowin
up there
| saw the tears standing in her eyes. A
that / turned and opened the front door
with the idea of shaking my fist at him
, But our little neighbor had gone.
So much Happened in the first two day
of our tenancy. thought that we shoul
get used to him, and that he would tire O
! watching u.s. thought, too, that Marian
, would find that he meant no harm, an
for my own part maintained friendly re
; lation by means of waved hat and hand
/ But things became worse In the course q
, fortnight rather than better, and at las
{ began TO think that the annoyance sh
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