The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-17
Romantic EpisOde-The Loves Oh
Kafe and Casper.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.

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Onr attention has been called to one Of
those little episodes in life which arc so
full of romance, and which put to the blush
the fat and insipid efforts of the povelists
who so strain at the imaginative. We will
tell the story as we have learned it, as
briefly rs possible.
Some ten years a German family left
the old country to find q home in the new.
A member of the family, and one to whom
we shall particularly refer, was a bright
eyed, lovely girl of sixteen, named Kate.
In Germany she had plighted her troth
with a young farmer, whoexpected toleave
for this country in the same ship with Kate,
but some unwonted circumstance pre-
vented, and they must perforce separate
for a time. Before doing so they again and
again swore to be true to each other, n
that no sea should be broad enough or
boisterous enough to separate them long.
As soon as the young man could arrange
his affairs he would follow his ~betrothed,
and in the New World seek her hand.
With her parents Kate came to Milwau-
kic, and settled here. 1t is q matter OF
little Importance to u readers whether
Hates father opened o lager-beer saloon or
engaged in some other legitimate business.
Sufficient it is to say, they came here and
settled down and %prospered. For some
months every steamer brought a letter from
the young Casper to Kate, saying that he
was nearly ready to leave, and in a few
weeks al most should be in Milwaukee, to
clasp the hand of her he loved more and
more every day Of his life. Suddenly the
letters ceased coming, and not a word was
heard of or from the lover.
Now, it is preposterous to suppose that q
pretty young girl like Kate should remain
long without lovers. Kate thought of Cas-
per, and kept them off for four years, but
hearing nothing from Casper, and believing
him dead, or, what was worse, faithless,
when the right man and the right time
came, she yielded like a good girl, and gave
the love which she had been saving for Cas-
per to another.
After a few years of happy welded life,
the dark day came, and Kate was a widow.
During her happy married life she had
in a measure forgotten Casper and the
early love but one day, while sitting
deeply buried in thought over her lost hus-
band, a peculiar sensation seemed to pierce
her heart, and she felt all her old love for
Casper come back as fresh and as earnest as
it vas when the two parted at Hamburg
years before. She could not explain it,
other than one Of those mysteries which are
Is yet unexplained, denoting the presence
Of "twO souls with but q single thought"
For several days this strange feeling kept
possession of her breast. She said nothing,
but thought a great deal. One day she
picked up a copy of the See B0te, and as
her eyes ran carelessly over the German
list Of letters, she met q name which for o
moment startled her-it was that of Casper.
The name thus passed before her seemed
to add more fuel to the fame raging within
her bosom.
Her impatient spirit would listen to no
further delay. At once inquiries were
prosecuted among her German friends.
One of them knew Casper. He was q tall,
good-looking young man. He had left his
home in Germany only a year before, and
had been vainly searching throughout the
West for some lost friend. His face wore
a deep, thoughtful look, as il there had
been grief connected with his history, and,
indeed, the friend had often heard Casper
speak Of some bright angel which had left
him years before, and was now lost to him
forever. He was single, too. She had heard
him declare that, having lost her, he should
never marry.
How poor Rates heart bounded now.
'Twas he-she knew it-felt it. After so
long an absence he had come back to her.
She was yet young, and by no means ugly.
All! she had but to see him-to talk with
him a moment--all his old love would re-
turn, and burn as hers was now burning,
and together they would float down life's
sea SO happy.
Tho <houOhk onoIo hor srcooksap< Che
would surprise Casper. While he thought
she was dead or welded to another she
would appear before him, and win him
back to a new and stronger desire to live
Tor her, as she now only cared to live for
MIN. The friend assisted, and behold
Kate, her heart futtering furiously, yet
light and happy withal, as she stood on tho
threshold Of Cssper's door. Lightly she
entered the apartment. He sat ct o table,
his back towards her, his face buried in his
hands, and Kate heard q sob which seemed
TO come from the innermost recesses Of his
heart. 80
"Oh! Cod" she thought, aand all this
10, me. He has been 30 true-so devoted
al these long years.
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