The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-08
DAILY LEADER.
THE LERAND OF TEUFELFELS.
A Live yankee on his travels.

0L0AN1lAGNlAAN OA NA0 LNLAA0 0An "
sure that he wss 8 Yankee. he SCENE
sposted up" in All the history and sntiqui
ties Of RhiReland. Our. conversation turn
ing on the strange tales thst attach to th
many castles on the riverside heights
Liebenstein M Sternstel, and the tower
OF the Cat of tina Mouse. "And of tina
ruin yonder," said as 1 pointed with tn
end of my cigar to Teuielfels, then jus
catching the first sight of the rising moon
H0f that ruin yonder, down the stream,
know no legend at all; Murray does no
mention it.
"Don't you, indeed2 Wal, now, L do
a tale that licks snyof your old legends al
to smithereens. And it is true, zoo, sir
and that's what cannot be said Of mos
tRles.n s
Had a mind so TO do, 1 could not re
peat the story in the words Of the trans
Atlantic narrator; and could L remembel
the words and tsrms OF expression tina
gave it, in a literary point of view, a dis
tinctly Columbian character, il would b
impossible 70 convey on paper any idea o
the tricks of pronunciation and grimscC
which gave zast to the recital.
The tscts, however, In themselves, are
sufficiently remarkable. Here is the sum
and substance Of them. ii
Some fifteen years sgo the Yankee had
been sojOurning as now. st Dummeresel-
stein. Business, or pleasure, or whatever
his vocation in life might be, kept him
there foE some dsys. OF all the clouds of
travellers of all nations who passed up
and down the river, n party attracted
more of his notice than the rest, from the
simple fact of his seeing them again and
again. These consisted Of an old French
gentleman, his wife and daughter.
Scarcely a day passed but they were to be
seen walking through the street OF Dunn
mereselstein. From inquiries made of q
man who let donkeYs, it Was discovered
that Monsieur, Madame and Msdamoiselle
occupied q diminutive eottFge at SohWach-
kopfheim, and that Mademoiselle was
much addicted 70 sketching. Hour after
hour she would sit ina boat moorred in the
river, or on 8 point of vantage on the
hills, and transfer to her book by no means
contemplate representations Of Che fair
landscape round about. At tho time
these was sojourning st DummereselsLeln,
a yOung EnglishmRn, who had come with
a friend Co spend the vacation in H~reading..''
Left by his companion alone in the little
inn, he became by some favOring chance
acquainted with the French family of the.
neIghboring village. He ished MsdAme's
poodle cut Of the river, or picked up Men.
sieur's spectacles on tho road, or somehow
or or other, eve mind how, acquired the
privilege of saluting not only Monsieur
and Madame, but Msdemoiselle into the
bargain. And then all four made q long
excursion together. And then the Eng
lishmsn might be seen more tnan once
walking home late in the evening 70 DUN.
mereselstein by the SehwachkOpfheim
with the old Fnenchmsn. ra rsI ls,e
On a certain afternoon the fair weather
was broken by a very violent storm. 1t
was all very well a. appearances Ventfrom
within. The river and the rocks and the {
woods looked sublime enough as the rain
hissed over them, snd the lightning Lit up
their recesses. But it was very uneom-
Portable TO endure without. "As l looked
out Of this self-ssme balcony" said the
narrator, 81 just thought that I'd q hong
sight rather be in than cut. could fanaH
soma nlks hSing nigh sk5aled by the glare
and the noise. One fash came right over
that tumble down Teufelfels over there,
and 1 reckoned it mnst have been pretty
nigh bowed in or blown up-whst there
was of it TO blow. 1t WAS amAzin' grand
and enc of the finest advertisements of the
power of Providence I've ever seen. If
you could turn on a good thunderstOrm'
here now, stranger, you'd say ii was worth
at, rather"
While the storm was at its height and
the Yankee wss congratulating himself
upon being safe and dry in the coffee-room
Of the inn, he saw the little old French
man and the young EnglEhmsn spptosch
the same welcome asylum, both dripping
and half drowned in the peltiDg rain.
"You must of course stsy here with
me-" he heard the latter say. "Msdemoi- |
aeIle is doubtless safe with Madame. You
must not think of returning tonight.
Madame will understand how it is, and
rest assured that you are here. / can sup
ply you with dry clothes" -n.
SO the old gentleman supped at the Ia
bic d'hote, and retired early to rest as
peaceful as possible during a temporary
I nlensa ct thoro. And the rain ratified
and splashed, and the thunder pealed, and
i was clear enough that he had done very
wisely not TO attempt the three miles walk
along the road to the SchWachkopfheimi
Ferry. sssrR
The morning was cloudless and bright.
rhe Englishman and Frenchmsn appeared
at breakfast and we're talking
the storm and the probable Anxieties
II Madame and Mademoiselle, when a |
Waiter entered with a note, which he put
n the hands of the FrenchmAn. As the
title gentleman glanced at the superscfip-
ion, he turned white, and his face fell:t He
ore open the envelope, read huFriedly I
the letter, and led his young com. /
ont OF the room. And what did it
And what could be more natural
han that the Yankee should pick up the
allen envelope and Fead the address
thereon in q trembling female
lsnd-" MAdemoselle Niboyet, Hotel de
Europe, Dummereselsteinl2 Why should
his rouse marks of trepidRtion and alarm
the old fathers facet In five minutes
! NOacbisn vehicle belonging to the inn
vas brought out-the Englishmsn and the
Frenchman jumped in, urging the driverto
possible speed, and clsttered. out Of
light in the direotisa of echwEcnKoptheim.
What had happened was, as vas SITTER
wards discovered, as follows At three
o'clock on the previous afternoon, Mad
imoiselle Niboyet had taken leave of her
at Schwsehkopfheim, and started
o meet her father st Dummereselstein, and
,eturne ed thence with him. The storm
lsd come on. Madame Niboyet felt as
ured that her daughter was detained with
Monsieur, and that they preferred spend-
ng the night at Dummereselstein TO n
lerLsking an hours unpleasant journey in
Wind snd wet. Adelaide, she surmised, if
he had suffered from the rain, would
,e put to bed andtended TO by the kind
ofthe Hotel de Europe So in the.
morning she wrote a little note TO her
laughter, and dispatched With it 3 psoket
If clothes. II was at the sight Of this note
hat Niboyet PEI trembled with dread
Adelaide had left SchwachoPfheim tthe
evening. She hAdnsYer arrived
Dummereselstein. What had become
IF her 2 rsf. 10 HJLa43a
Her disappearance caused, of course, Ter.
rible excitement. AZ first If was thought
hat she might have sought shelter from
he tempest in one of the cottages that
stand by the roadside. But inquiry dis
PEELED this hope. On the morning before
The storm she had made an arrangement
with her father to walk to meet him in
Dummereselstein late in the afternoon.
At shout 3 O'Clock, according to Msdame
Niboyet, she had donned her hat and man
tie, had said, eMy little mother, / shall be
IN dslav for INV fafhar If I do not haatan