The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-02-10

chairs back and touched the ground
why did do that? Why, all
shivering, did l receive the comb ?
And why did take into my hands
that long hair. whichgave my skin
a feeling of atrocious cold, as if
We're touching serpents? l don OF
know
THAT feeling still clings about
my fingers. And when l think Of
It / tremble.
Il combed her. handled, |
know not how, that icy hair. l
twisted it. l bound it and unbound
it. plated it as we plat a horses
name. She sighed, bent her head,
seemed happy.
Suddenly she said to me, I
thank you.' caught the comb out
of my hands. and fled through the
half-open door which | had noticed.
For several seconds after l was
left alone, l experienced that wild
trouble of the soul which one feels
after a nightmare from which one
has just awakened. Then at last |
recovered my senses; ran to the
window, and | broke the shutters
open with violent blows
"A flood of daylight entered. Il
rushed upon the door by which she
had disappeared. l found it shut
and immovable
"Then a fever of fight seized on
me, a panic, a real panic such a 3
overcomes an army. | caught up
roughly the three packets of letters
from the open desk; l crossed the |
room at run; l took the steps of |
the staircase four at a time;
found myself outside. don't know
how; and, perceiving my horse ten
PAGES off, / mounted him with one
leap and went off at full gallop..
81 did not pause till l was before
he door of my lodgings in Rouen.
the reins to my orderly,
escaped to my room, where
ocked myself in to think.
"And then for an hour kept
Inxiously asking whether / hati not
,een the sport OF some hallucina-
ion. I had certainly had one of
hose incomprehensible nervous
hooks, one of those affections of
he brain which dwarf the miracles
o which the supernatural owes its
over
And l had almost come to be- !
eve it was a delusion, an error of {
ny senses, when | drew near the Z
'indow, and my eyes lit by chance
pom my breast My dolman was c
overed with long woman's hairs t
'hich had rolled themselves around ?
lie buttonsl
81 took them one by one and S
rev them out of the window. d
it'll trembling in my fingers I
"Then l called my orderly. I !
1T too much moved, too much
Dubbed, to go to my friend that a
ny. And l wished also to ponder 81
lrefully what l should say to him = :
,out all this. 9
81 had the letters taken to his n
,use. He gave the soldier a re- Il
ipt. He asked many questions al
,out me and nv soldier told him in
as unwell, that l had had a sun d
roke - something. He seemed !,
easy.
81 went to him the next day, ear r.
in the morning, having resolved Sc
tell the truth. He had gone out ~
2 evening before, and had not =,
me back. nj
II returned in the course of the
y. They had seen nothing OF
n. | waited week He did not
appear. Then informed the po-
2. They searched for him every
ere without discovering trace OF La
passing or of his final retreat. en-
"A minute inspection of the aban-
led chateau was instituted. Moth T.
suspicious was discovered. on
No sign that a woman had been ~
den there revealed itself. w
-.
The inquiry proving fruitless,
search was interrupted 'e'
And for fifty-six years l have *
ned nothing. I know nothing la,
e."
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