Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-07-11
ter and take upon me the vows which will
doom me to living deaihw

think OF me- rejoined the organist.
!" Your royal father has requested me to play
a. the wedding, and ! have promised to be
here. If were your equel, could be the
bridegroom instead of the organist; but a
poor musician must give you up"
at is like rending soul and body asund-
er, to part with you," said the girl. "To-
night may tell you this--tell you how
fondly l love you, but in few hours it will
be sim Co. go, and God bless you p'
She waved him from her, as if she would
Danish him while she had power to do SO,
and he--how was it with him? He rose
to leave her, then came back, held her to his
heart in a long embrace, and with half
smothered farewell ieft her.
The next morning dawned in cloudless
splendor, and at an early hour the cathedral
was thrown open. and the sexton began to
prepare for the brilliant wedding. Flame
colorcd flowers nodded by the wayside-
fame-colored leaves catne rushing down
from the trees and lay in light heaps upon
the ground; and the ripe wheat waved like
golden sea, and berries dropped in red and
purple clusters over the rocks along the
Rhine.
AT length the palace gates were opened,
and the royal party appeared, escorting the
Princess Elizabeth 10 the cathedral, where
her marriage was to be solemnized. 1t was
a brave pageant; far brighter than the un-
twined foliage and blossoms were the tufts
of plumes which foated from stately heads,
and the festal robes that streamed down
over the housings of the superb steeds. But
the princess, mounted on snow-white pal
fry, and clad in show-white velvet, looked
pale and sad and when, on nearing the
church, she heard gush of organ-music,
which, though ju5ilant in sound, struck on
her ear like funeral knell, she trembled,
and would have fallen TO the earth had not
page supported her. A few moments
afterward she entered the cathedral There,
with his retinue, stood the royal bridegrc ON,
whom she had never before seen. But her
glance roved from him to the organ-loft
where she had expected to see the myste.
reous organist. He was gone, and she was
obliged to return the graceful bow of the
king, to whom she had been betrothed
from motives of policy. Mechanically she
knelt at his side on the alter-slone me.
chanicalIy listened TO the service and made
the responses. Tnen ner husband drew
her to him in ,convulsive embrace, and
Whispered
elizabeth, my queen, my wife, lookup r
Trembling in every limb, she obeyed
Why did those dark eyes thrill her so
Why did that smile bring glow on hel
cheek? Ahl though the king wore tn,
royal purple, and many a jewelled ordel
glttered ON his breast, he seemed the samt
humble person who had been employed Il
teach organ music, and had fought her th'
lore of love.
Elizabeth" rlurtnured the monarch
g Bertram Hoffman, the mysterious organ
ist, and King Oscar, are onel Forgive my
slratasetn. ] wished TO marry you, but
would not drag to the alter an unwilling
bride. Your father was in the secret"
While tears of joy ran from her blue
eyes, the new made queen returned hel
husbands fond kiss, and for once, two heart.
were made happy by aroyal marriage.