The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-08

AaFo given much 20 DrInB JACK tne Aosi
girl, and with her the lost happiness. And
Il was now remarked that he did not aid
though he said much to discourage the
careful exsminstiono of the ground between
his own and the, French felix's dwelling
Behind Schwachkopfheim there is g little
hill OF knoll, separated by q ravine and
running stream from the more PERCEPTIONS
height Of Teufelfels. It was here that he
was most to be seen, looking thoroughly
miserable.
A-fetnight went quickly by. No news
was heard, ofiMademOiselle Adelaide. The
Enelishman's companion returned from
HoilenbAden. The two supposed students
started for Switzerland. The Yankees
pleasure, or business, called him away from
Dammeneselsteinr and on the very morn
ing of his embarking on the Dusseldorf
boat, he saw, he said, the bent and broken
down figures of Monsieur and Madame
4 Niboyet helped into the coupe Of the dill
geuee their faces the picture of grief and
desolation-the little groupe Of loungers
round the starting vehicle standing respect
fully silent.
p sWeiK' said /, Hthis is 8 very melancholy
story. but what has It TO do with Tenfel-
fsls9i5 You promised ms q legend Of the
ruin-and beyond the fact of your having
seen It IN 8 thunderstorm you have said
nothing about it. But was anything ever
heard of Msdamoiselle p
tGuess You'll hear it all in time, sir, if
you'll wait till I have done But my throat
is Just catAwsmpously dried up with talk
ing. Let US have a bottle Of Schwschkopf-
heimer, and then III get on with the le-
| pend."F u" '
Some i've years after the events just re
counted, my friend, It would sesm, was at
DdmmeresSlstein again, and, Of course, at
the Hotel de PEurope, He saw, n morn
ing st breakfast an Englishman, whose
face, he thought, was familiar TO him, seat
cd by the side of q charming young lady,
obviously and msnifestly his bride.
GAdelAide NiboyetT
"Out there, stranger; that wouldn't be
legend, would it 2 a
No. Adelaide was dark. The present
young woman was fair. But it was AIDE
lsides young EnglishmAn, travelling on his
wedding tour, And he seemed TO be apsr-
son in prosperous circumstances, for there
was . carriage, and q courier and 8 maid.
After breakfast the lady retired, the Yankee
aecOsted her lord. He recalled the eircum-
NnAOOo HAACLL ArAA a NAuA bAOI HbIo
last sojouIning together under the same
roof He begged 70 inquire whether the
Englishman had heard Rnything4of the lost
girl, or of her unfortunate parents. With
regard to Madamoiselle Adelaide, the Eng.
liShman was just going to put the same
q0egtion-to him. Monsieur and Madame
Niboyet, the EngIishmAn had heard on I'M
~impeaGhAble authority, we're both dead. The
old gentleman had survived the calsmi-
~ about a year his wife fingered In soli-
tude for q few months longer, and then died
too. Here, the maid brought a message to
her mastar, and retired. The bride, it
seemed, was tired With her journey, and pro-
posed TO rest in her apartment for that
morning. The Yankee was projecting, he
said, a walk 10 SchWachkopfheim, and pro.
posed that the E~nglishmsn should accom-.
pany him. This latter, 1t appeared, had
already been once.to the scene of the mis-
tetious dispearance in the interval between
his departure with his fellow student and
his return with his bride. An irresistible
impulse attracted him to the fatal spot, and
though he WIS tenderly attached to bis new
wife, he could not pass the place in which
were enshrined the memories of an ear ly
and unfortunate attachment, without hav-
ing to- make new Inquiries touching the
still unknown fate of its hapless object.
He was gladthat his wife was %indisposed
o iwslk cut o. that particular morning, |
for he had said nothing to her about the
ola lazAEAAd -hAs presence would only en-
b8rTass his movements.
r The Yankee now learned what he had
not known beforeLthat on the day Of the
storm it had besn arranged between Ade-
laGAo a.1 gkn K.-lsh-,a. NhaN aka ahav, 4 |
start, as though going TO meet her father
self 10 the wooded knoll behind Schwach-
kopfheim, and there meet him, who had
now declared himselfhef lover. The other
party TO this contract had been unable to
keep his promise, for he hsd fallen in by 7
with Monsieur Niboyet, and that
gentleman had held him fast, and insisted
on his "wslking home with Adelaide" to
dinner. Then came the storm. Adelaide,
The Rngishman had thought, must be safe
with Madame. The letter of the morning
dispelled the illusion. It wsa at least clear
Why the Engiishman had searched more
diligently through the eopses behind
5cbWaohk0pfhsim than on the high rosdto Il
Dummereselstein. r-.,- ann.
The Yankee and his companion wander
ID over the playground, and talked over the ]
storYs .R~.FfsfTfn ,.r4 -BiFfEHt tEE l.
qTsesrched," the Eng1ishmsn said, Gev-
bit Of this ground, for the slightest ]
Of her having been here, aud found
80 '
Tbs EaAlee then proposed that for the
lake Of the view, they should Chamber up
-he height of Teufelfela. half an hours i
scramble brought them over the gully,
and up TO the Vsf1 base Of the ruined /
Many masses Of masonry were
Ying arOund-sh0RiRg that once the castle
nd been as cspAcioas as i was strong.
Now only one tower remained, and into !
hat there seemed no means of access. I
There was q great rift in the wall, some 4
or fifteen feet above the ground, but |
Whsrebyjt 70 reach it. Part Of a
van seemed once to have led up to the
7ery baseso thia ePeningy but that was ]
down Marksin the tower indt1 (
where the party wall had met il, and
he ground was Uttered by the fallen I
blocks of stone. .The- adgsntusers were (
bent on exploring the interior of the tower.
al remember" said tie Englishman, Tin /
pecting IBIS about 3 week after Adelaide
Siboyets disappearance and thinking if it '
lad been lees difficult OF access, and she
,onld have got into il, it might have Af- I
orded her shelter from the storm"
At lsstIh~ Hnkes and his comrade hit !
N an experiment for making m entry
they conveyed, with some exertion two i
pine trunks, that were lying
lot many yards of, TO the foot Ofthe tower, a
md. succeeded in pryiDg them in such a
way against the masonry that 9 skillful
,ymnAst might reach the aperture in the
gall Somehow or other they both sue :
,eeded in ~elsmbering up to the ledge :
in the thick wall of the tower. j
The floor inside they found to be nearly !
IN q level with the cleft through which :
hey had entered. They turned round on
Ichieving ths ascent TO survey the glori- 4,
Jus prospect before them Then they both
down on the heaps of stones that
Q floor. ''1i
Why did the Bnglishmsn start back
Rith q sudden gesture of horror as they
passed into the cAvernous interior Of the