The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-05-03
nv SCHOFF. VINEGAR & co.

prepared himself manfully; and yet when h
came to the old house on the Graben, saw
no light in any window, heard the echo 0
his repeated knocking reverberate desolateIy
through the empty floors, and was presently
warned off by voice from an upper cham
Der of some neighbours house, with the in
formation that Master Schoeffer was dead
and if any one wanted particulars he must
go to the Polizei he felt as if he could hard
i ly believe in the reality of his misfortune.
1t was hard blow. Although the book
seller had been so often absent from his
home. although as father he had been un-
demostrative, careless, gloomy and irritable,
still, in his own strange way, he had loved
his son, and the young painter felt his loss
bitterly. All weary as he was, he sat down
on the desolate threshold of what had once
been home, and wept in the darkness as if
| his heart Was breaking.
Perhaps he had scarcely known till then
that he loved his father SO well.
He slept that night at little Gasthof
down by the Danube, and went uext NOR,
ming to the Polizei to lay claim to Wolfapg
Schoeffer's effects. The news which there
awaited him was both startling and painful
His father, always poor man, had been
brought horne, after his seizure, by easy
stages, and what with the heavy expenses
attending his journey, the cost of medical
attendance and the outlay incurred at his
funeral, the bookseller died in debt and
the whole of his possessions had been sold
for the benefit of his creditors. Chief among
these, it seems, was Herr Schliermacher,
the banker and money.lender i'll Anlage-
Applied to by Frau Martha when her mas
ter lay ill, be had advanced certain loan
upon the booksellers stock and when all
was over laid peremptory claim to his mo
ney. A valuation having then been taken.
the stock and household goods were sold
and the money lender, doctor and undertake
er took what they could get, which, after
all, fell below the amount of their several
claims. So poor Ernst Christian Schoefer
found himself homeless and penniless in the
streets of his native city.
When the first burst of anguish was past,
the young man turned bis face towards the
Anlage, and presented himself at Herr
Schliermacher's office.
The banker, small plump, pleasant
looking Jew. with a shining bald head and
pair of brilliant black eyes, received him
civilly enough, and ushered him into his
private room. The painter Informed him
that he had come to inquire into the par
ticulars of the sale.
Herr Schliermacher elevated his eyebrows,
shrugged his shoulders, shook lis head sig
niicantly, and thsust his hands into his
pockets.
1.-THE particulars, Herr Schoetfer, y he re-
piled, ARE told in dozen words | ad-
vanced certain moneys upon your fathers
goods, three hundred forms in all our
excellent friend the Herr Doctor Philipart
furnished him with medicines and attend
ance to the amount of fifty forms his flu
neral expenses came to one hundred forms.
There was also a half year rent owing for
the house on the Graben, besides few tri
fling bills for smaller items making about
thirty horiins more Taken altogether the
liabilities fell little short of five hundred
florins. and the effects realized just three
hundred and forty-fve Not kreutzer more
or less Here are the accounts. You can
examine them at your convent ence."
The young mans hand closed convulsive-
ly upon the papers.
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