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

been begun. The Euglishman took it out
Of his companions hand, and gsEed st II
with q sorrowful interest. The American
then saw that there was writing on the
other side. Yes on the back of the draw
ing the poor girl, whose bones were bieseh-
ing there, had written her last Will and
wishes, andthe brief recital of how 1t was
that che lay there dying. The Yankee
declared he could remember almost the
exact words, but gave me the sense IN his
own translation \ Cd .r,:a eftaI9
az have climbed up here to sketch" the
dear girl said. A storm hasaeome on. The
lightning had struck the tower. The wall
which made q sort of staircase for my as
cent is broken down. 1 could not get out,
When I saw what had happened, l came
backihto the tower, and sat down close
under the wall to s~eek-shelter from the
rain. A7stone from the top Of the wall
fell on me, and struck me down. Then l
must have been insensible for some time.
[ When [ awoke again it was dark / was,
very cold and wet, 1 could, not move for
pain. I must have been insensible! When
L opened my eyes again it was light. /.
have Just strength to write this. think
I am going 10 die.t+od and the Holy Mary
have pity On me. Adieu ! my father and
my mother. Adieu, Monsieur-(hsfe there
was no name The very unhsPpyA N"
Q Below this WIS written sgsin, Ut sufer
much-nigbt is coming sgain8lA
Near the bones we're lying the tin-box in
which Mademoiselle Niboyet's eolors had
been pscked-her watch, some trinkets,
and 9 few coins. On closer examination it
was discovered that the left thigh bone of
the skeleton was broken. Did this illustrate
Adelside's being struck downgby the fallen
stone2 Or had It bean fractured since deAth2
Probably the Yankee surmised the former.
His theory was that Mademoiselle Niboyet
had gone to meet her love on the wooded
hill that, finding he did not come, she had
wandered on TO Teufelisls, perhaps allured
by the manifest beauty of the view to be
seen thence, perhaps piqusd' at the English
mans unpunctuafiiy. She had mounted the
steps made by the ruined walls, probably
with little difficulty, and had set herself to
work st her sketch. The storm had come
on. The tower was struck soon after IFS
commencement. She saw her hope of re-
turn cut off. While e~ndeavoring to get
from the rain she had been danger
hurt by q falling stone. If she had
cried, no one had been near to hear. She
probably unable TO crawl up the OPEN
ing in the wal, knowing that now that The
stones by which she assembled were thrown
Down, no n would dream of seeking for
her in q place almost inaccessible TO two
strong man. So she died. What agonies
had endured would never be revealed
. detail But il might fairly be hoped
hat the injury snd exposure she had sus.
aimed had 50 far accelerated her dissolution
IS TO spare her the worst psngs of fsmine.
The travellers returned too pensivs and
to make the necessary communica-
ions to the authorities of Dummeselstein.
The Englishm4n started on the very night
f the discovery for OOblentz, and the Yam
zee had never seen him since. Boz
"And that" said my friend, sis the Lee
,end Of Teufelfels, and if you know any
adder or stranger in Yon- POetry books or
,uide books, I'm whipped-snd that's what
citiz4n of the great United States of
ever was or ever will be, if he can
Ielp it. Coed night, stranger l unused
n the night watches over the wild story of
he hapless Adelaide. 1 could not drive
Ter from my thoughts, but saw her under
be cold wall dying in the wet, and the
Wind, and the anguish. 1 pictured to my
elf the. slow grief Of the poor old parents,
hoped that no unhappy consequences
to the EnglishmRn and his bride.
1 rose early in the morning, bent on q
isit to the SchlOss Won Teufelfels, in
TO visiS.the rum, and breakfast at
chwachkd peim. 4 surmounted the
rag on which the tower stands, and was
repaid for my trouble by the glor-
'us view. 1t is even better from this
ont than from the river. But after all,
was not the view 1 had come to see. It
'as the scene of poor Adelaide Niboyets
cath. A thrill of of romantic interest
not through me IS 1 turned to inspect the
stones. The tower is round, and
bout forty feet high; but so much is evil
ent from below. l looked for the spsFs
ire through which Adelaide and her dis |
had entered the building. Strange
!, say, nc such opening wal visible. But ,
,me years had elapsed since the finding /
{ the bones, and time had no doubt
more changes upon the crumb-
ng edifce. i
The breakfast at Schwschkopfheim was
le richest-the butter the freshest-the /
read the whitest- the strawberries the !
Veetest = the neutrality-suspicious. the
EG 2 s. ]
It was late in the afternoon when 1 Il
alked into the Hotel de Europe at Dunn :
ereselstein. j
"Wnere," 1 said, qs the gentlemen who 4
as with me last evening ~ .urr,s r-r-7 IL
"The English gentleman, sir.D tod ode ul !
Eyes" L said. There was no use in ex-
that all who talk English are not a
VThe gentleman who has been I
IRE so often before" -..ls a5
Been here 50 often before p EEzy]
"lf mein herr means the English gentle
who was sitting in the balcony last
ght, he left this morning by the ten
clock boat. But he has never been here
hNever been here before '
GNsHer nein nerr-not in my time; and
been here-boy and Wsiter-for eigh-
en- years 0t '7' '".'
"Rm,-Indesd. The gentleman was
ling me the strange legend of Teufel-
Isl G5L11a
HAhi yes-sbout the ghost of the monk
ho was murdered by the bsron2H .a !
"Not at ALI about the young French lady
ho was lOst." rba- 55" srisf
"AbOut the young French lady who was
81 2' saa
uYHs. Don't you know the story p
ademoiselle Niboyet %
"No mein herr never heard q word of |
"Ahl You will keep my place st the table
hote." -..-- r.rH-I 90 . 20
Number 372" ts.rs..4. ra az o. ID
"Number 37.n .. 81. .faiff- .,7r a
1t was strange that thers should be no
in the wall of TeufelfaIs tower
that a waiter who had lived in
ummereselstein eighteen years should /.
yer have heArdOf Adelaide Niboyet, and =
,ver have seen my Yankee friend before. :
One thing st least WA clear enough. He :
IS 8 Yankee. Once a Week. :
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