Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-11-16
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin, Nov. 3.
HOMANTIC---AN EPISODE OF REAL
LIFE.


Our attention has just been called TO one OF
tnose little episodes in life which are so full
OF romance, and which put To blush the flat
and insipid efforts of the novelist, who Sc
Strains at the Imaginative. We will tell the
story as we have learnedi il, as briefly as pos
siDe
some ten years ago German family left
Tue olu country TO find q home in the new A
member OF the family, and the one to whom
we snail particularly refer, was bright eyed,
lovely girl OF sixteen, named Kate. In Ger.
many she had plighted her troth with II
young farmer, who expected to leave for this
country IN the same ship as Kate, nut some
untowaru circumstance prevented, and they
must periorce separate for a time, Before
aolng so they again and again swore to be
true to each other, and that no sea should be
broad enough to separate them long. AS
soon as the young man could arrange his
allalrs he would follow his hctrothcd, and in
the new world seek her hand
WIN her parents, Kate come To Milwaukee
and settled here. IL is a matter of little i'm
PORTAGE TO our readers whether Kate's father
opened lager beer saloon or engaged in
some other Legitimate business. Sufficient
ls IL 10 say they came here and settled down
anu prospered. For some months every
steamer brought a letter from the young Cas-
paI 10 Kate, saying that he was nearly ready
70 leave, and in Il few weeks at most should
DC In Milwaukee to clasp the hand of her
nc loved more and more every day of his life.
suddenly the letters ceased coming and not
word was heard of or from the lover.
NOW, II IS prepOsterous TO suppose that
pretty yor ~ girl like Kate should remain
long witho lovers Kate thought of Cas-
par, and kept them off for four years, but
hearing nothing from Caspar, and believing
nm dead, or what was worse, laithlcss,
when the right man and the right time came,
she yielded like good girl, and gave the
ioVc winch She had been saving for Caspar
to another
A..er n few years of happy welded life,
the dark day came and Kate was a widow.
During their happy married lite she had
IN great measure forgotten Caspar and the
carry love, but one day, while sitting deeply
buried In thought over her lost husband, a
peculiar sensation seemed to pierce her heart,
and she felt all her love lur Caspar come
back as fresh and as earnest as il was when
the two parted at Hamburg years before.
Sac lid not explain it, other than one of
those mysteries, which are, as yet, unex-
pln ed, denotng the presence of 1.-TWO souls
with but n sin thonght."
For several days this strange feeling kept
possession of her breast She said nothing
but tli' ght a good deal. One day she
picked up copy of the See Bote, and us her
eyes run carclessly over the German list of
letters, she met name which for n moment
startled her-it was that oil Cnspar. The
name thus passed before her seemed to add
more fuel to the flame raging within her
BOSOM
Her impatient spirit would listen to no
further delay. At once inquiries were prose-
cuted enong her G""man friends. One OF
them kn-w { spar. lie was tall, good
looking 'ng man. He had left his home
III Germany only Il year before, and had been
valnly searcning throughout the West for
so.-.e lost friend Ills face wore a deep
thoughtful look, as if there had been grief
mixed with rs history, and indeed the
friend had often heard Caspar speak of some
bright angel which had left him years before
and was now lost TO him forever. lie was
single too. She had heard him declare that
having lost her, he should never marry.
How poor Katc's heart bounded now.
Twas lle--she knew it-lelt it, After so
long an absence he mad come back to her.
She was 1t Jung and by no means ugly.
Ali she had but TO see hm-to talk with
him moment all his love would return,
and burn us he's was now burning, and
togethc, they would float down life's sea,
so happy.
The thought made her impatient. She
wodld surprise Caspar. While he thought
she was dead or welded to another, She
would appear before him, and win him back
to new and s. onger desire to live for her,
as she only cared now TO live for Inn. The
frie I'd assisted, and behold Kate, her heart
iluttering furiously, yet light and happy
thai, n'iu stood on the threshold of Cas-
par's door Lightly she entered the apart
ment lie sat AZ the table-his back
towards her, his face buried in his hands;
and Kate heard a sob which seemed to come
from the innermost recess of his heart.
"Oh, GodP' she thought, "and all this
for me. He has been so true-so devoted,
all these long years"
Sac stepped up and lightly touched him
on the shoulder. The man surp scd that
his privacy should be invaded, looked up
suddenly. Their eyes met. Strange to say +,
Kate had never seen the face before in her
life