Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-07-07
PLYMOUTH O, SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 7, 1855.


The wish had hardly been murmered,
when dull heavy sound OF o steps broke
upon tine ear. In the daytime, a noise SO
slight and muffled would barely have been
noticed or heard; but now, amid the ST.
lence, 1t monopolized the attention. Gle
menza leaned little out to- see who was
coming; it was a soldier on horseback, adj
at a measured and solemn pace
There was something strangely spectral in
the appearance of the night wandeiers.-
The horse was gaunt, bony and lame, and
seemed, from the muffled sound of its
footsteps, to have lost the shoes off his
hoofs. Tne horseman appea' ed to be in as
bad case as his steed his uniform was soil
ed and tatteed, and hung in sad disorder
upon his Shrunken frame, as if it had once
belonged to stouter man. His helmet
was siouched down over his forehead, so
as to conceal his face from any one look
ing down upon him; and the plume was
diminishing to a single feather, which
dropped forlornly towards tie earth.-
With hating, yet measured and steady
progress, the strange apparition came on.
Clemenza softly called to her father to
come and see the unwonted sight; but the
general had dozed into slumber. and did
not hear. As the horse and ridet gained
the front of the generals houe e, they stop
ped i'll the middle of the street. Then, for
the first time the no seman looked up and
in spite Of ghastly emaciation, hollow
cheeks, and wildly shining eyes, Clemel..
"a recognized her Konrad! Its,emed as
if he expected to see her there. He look.
ell directly up to the very window at which
she stood, and, with gesture of infinite
grief and despair, soemnly saluted, and
then passed on and away through the silent
streets.
"Why, what is the matter, child?"
cried the general, startling from his nap
"What could all you, that you screamed
out like that? Are you i'll, darling?-
What is it?
at is Konradn'
"Y u have been drea ming. Put of tha
scared, look, | entreat, and compose your
self"
Let me go; he cannot be yet far off.
"Ihere-let Inc put more water on you
forehead you are not recovered; you have
been dreaming, and have lost your senses
Smell this bottle-drink this brandy"
at is no dream. Konrad, wasted to ;
skeleton, had Just passed down the street.
My poor child Is deilrlous."
"Oh, let US hasten out and overtak
HIM"
"You have been brooding over the un
holy adieus."
Il have neither slept nor dreamed.
is plain truth that he just went by; and
youwill come with me down the street, yo'
will see him, and then be satisfied that
is no dream-no delirium.''
So assured, so piteously beseeching wa
she, and, in spite of her agitation, SO sell
possessed, that the general gave up the con
test, and with, u muffled, incredulous al
put ON his hat and took up his pipe agair
/ Clemenza threw shawl over her head an
shoulders, and led him out in a great hurry
They then went down the street, some dis
tance along the Esslingen road, an
scrutinized wistfully all the adjacent road
and streets but the worn out horse-soldie
was now here to be seen. In Difference
Clemenza's great anxiety, they roame
hitber and thither for more than an hour
hut nothing came of it. AT last they rt
TUNED home, the general much strengthen
| ID H. fls
Clemenza had fallen asleep by the windo
while full OF thought about honrad, an
had dreamed of him.
A month went by in the usual every da
style; no solution was sfforded to the my
terry. The general had forgotten it by tn
time, and Clemenza had almost begun
believe in the truth of the supposition /
had uttered whilst restoring her from HI
fainting tit. Nevertheless, she did not ia
to keep vigil-to ''mount guard as II
general said-at the window every evenin
After this month had elapsed, Clemen;
: was again excited by seeing a semblan
of Konrad in the cathedral one Sunds
morning. In the middle of the mass, wht
all eyes were engaged by the priest, al
all ears by the music of the choir, ha
$ gard spectral figure rose up by the side OF
pillar, and looked fxedly at Clemnez
S with most heart-touching expression
t anguish, despair, and resignation. Agai
3 in spite OF hollow cheeks and wildly 81
a ming eyes, Konrad was recognized. al
i Clemenza, with a stihed shrek, fell fro
her seat, to the great astonishment and
a fright of the general, who had not perceiv
= the cause of agitation, and who now, ASST
ed by sacristan, bore his daug hter out
: the building, amidst the wondering cong
d CATION. All sorts Of inquiries were mat
a with a aview to discovering who the seel
I; ing Konrad could be, or where he WI
le but still without effect.
A week or two after, a precisely sim
h lar occurrence took place at the oper
d whittier the general had taken his daught
l. for the sake of amusement and exhilal
a, ton of mind. The same weird-face rt
ell up before the heart-sore young lady
y sadly impassioned gaze was fixed up
at her and then the figure disappear
r amidst the company. This time she
a. not faint, but hurriedly communicated
t. her father the cause of her agitation.
n The general in spite of much inconveniel
tn went instantly to the part sheindicated, q
he examined every one in the loge. Unfor
nately, the nature Of the occasion preve
hit al him from asking any yery search