The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-09-29

Y full home where he had found so muc
e hitherto unknown comfort, and Wher
: he felt that, though stripped of his for
2 tune, he was treated with much NOR
4, attention than had ever been paid t
: him in the days cf his aff1uence. Ma
ture had hitherto been a sealed book t
3 him; he now studied it in his wander
t ings amidst the charming scenery of tn
neighborhood; and it spoke to him il
, language which he could never befor
have dreamed of understanding. H
t had never formerly taken any notice o
children, but his hosts two sweet chill
: dren, managed to iusinuate themselve
, so much into his good graces, that h
was always happy to see them, and hav'
, them about him. He could not imag
: inc why he took ueh interest in them
but they we're such good tempered, pret
ty, clever little creatures, that it wal
impossible not to be pleased with them
, And Aunt Regime liked them about al
much as her new Mops, and it almost a:
much as her first canine favorite, SO that
old Maren was right in saying:
"Well, this Is really blessed house
we are in /; We seem to have all become
| DGlLcE pcIOu rluCc we nave DGcu B6Te
even the master himself is quite differ
ent creature, and does not find fault
with his bed as he used to do; formerly
there was no making it to please him
And really now, when he sits leaning
his cheek on his hand, wrapt up in his
own thoughts, he looks quite good old
man"
And Herr Kraft often sat with his
cheek resting en- his hand, wrapt up in
his own thoughts, but what these were
he communicated to no living being !;
perhaps they were hardly clear to him
self, for they were frequently new and
unaccustomed thoughts that came to
him in his solitude.
Herr Warner occasionally paid him a
short visit, and when he began to speak
of commercial matters and the affairs OF
his late house, the old merchant would
J heave deep sigh, aud say: :" If every
| one has been paid, and no one has lost
anything by me, my wishes are fulfilled.
I desire nothing more-lny time is over
and therewith-Basta -
But the word came forth like the echo
of sound-the ghost of habit now
almost forgotten; and this conclusion,
which had so often caused CONSERVATION
by its irrevocable vigor, seemed now al
most sad.
About the time that the mistress of
the hoase was expected back from Pyr-
mout, Herr Kraft felt very much india
posed, and when she reached home, he
was laboring under a fever, the violence
of which had made him delirious. In
his delirium he sometimes fancied him
self the rich man, whose commercial in
huence extended over half the world
sometimes impoverished, destitute, and
dependent on those around him; but it
was always on money that his fevered
dreams dwelt, and the demons of gold
fought their unhallowed battles in his
clouded mind. In the course of week
or two this state of morbid excitement
passed away, and was succeeded by u
utter prostration of strength aud extreme
degree of weakness, in which he lay, for
the most part, with his eyes closed, as
if sleeping. With how much kindness
that long illness Day and night was
his anxious hostess in his sick-room, and
whenever he opened his eyes, they al
ways rested on the same form. And
when the crisis was over, the greatest
danger was past, and all the family
would assemble around his bed, any one
would have thought that he was dear
member of it, they treated him with SO
much affectionate attention.
One evening, in tue dusk, when they
had all left his room for short time,
and old Maren alone was sitting by his
bedside, he suddenly opened his eyes
and gazed around him, as if he was try
ing to recollect where he was, aud what
had happened to him. lie then asked
about the children. Maren clasped her
hands in Joy that her master had recov-
ed to consciousness again, while he re-
peated his question, and added:
"Is it not not true, Maren, that the
boy is called Ludwig, and the girl Geor-
gia? These are both my own names"
Well, that is very natural" said
Maren, Significantly "What else
should they be called ?"
is my cousin Warner here?" asked
the invalid soon after.
He was there, and Maren went i'm
mediately to call him. Herr Kraft
made a sign to him to sit down near his
couch, aud another to Maren to leave
them by themselves.
Cousin" he said, Il see now how
things are--I am in my daughters
house. I have been very i'll, but I did
not lose the use of my eyes, and Louise
has watched by my bed, and attended
me-"
Herr Warner nodded in affirmation
of what he had said.
You knew it all along. You took
the place of her father when 1 threw
her offs it not so 2"
Warner nodded again; he was Sc
surprised to hear person generally SO
stern and over bearing speak thus gent
ly, that he could not utter a word for a
moment.
"But her husband was not named |
Warner, aud be had only a very small |
property, not such large place as this?
How are all these discrepancies to be |
reconciled ?"
Herr Warner then related to him in |
a few words that his sonin-law had as
sumed his oiiizen-like name out of graf
itude, because he had presented Louise
With considerable sum of money he
had received from the Bast Indies, for
which he had no uso himself, but which
had enabled the couple to purchase this
large property, where they had lived as
happily as they could do while under
the ban of his displedsure, and without
having obtained his forgiveness. But
now he would surely not longer with
hold that, and they would all be happy