The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-14

form ofa young man, almost as pal
ana ghastly as the shrouded one
within. The old man knew him q
one Whom he had often seen lingering
somehmes spoken to; and on these a.
Saslons he had looking after the me
iancholy youth, said to himself-"He /
IN love, poor lad, and his love Is cross
ca. All, mel youth has its sorrows a.
wellas age.ps
Inc student placed both his hands OF
the shoulders of the old watchman
ana looked In his, face. with fearless
Burning eyes, full of silent anguish.
"Etto," said he, ''you have one here
who is, even in death, dearer to me thaf
her once more.
4 The Waterman shook his head, "You
must have written permit.p
tnat cannot obtain. lean no more
gam permission to see her in death
than had TO speak to her in life. But
| py the remembrance fyour own youth.
1ul love, and for the sake of the good
God from whom all true love comeih, j
beseech you to grant my request" :.
Ihe old man hesitated as he SLOWLY
rubbed his withered hands one in
another. Then he said
"If it Is known shall be blamed.
and perhaps dismissed n
1.-THE dead tell no tales" said Karl
Gessner, quietly; "and by Tomorrow /
shall be, like her, lying here with the
tNay, my son, the sorrows of youth
are bitter, but brief. You have your
life before you"
''Let me see her." repeated the SIN
dent, needless of the old mans words.
LET me see her; and / will pray for
you in heaven-she and l."
Etto raised his trembling hand, and
silently pointed to the door of the dead
room.
Karl Gessner, walking slowly along
the line of the dead, came at length to
one lying like waxen image, in bridal
robes, the marble beauty of her face
half concealed by rich white veil that
swept to her feet Here he paused; and.
lifting the veil, gazed long and steadily
upon the sweet face, marking the pure
brow, and the dark, dropping lashes,
and the smeet lines of the mouth, as
though he would fix them forever in
his heart. Then he knelt down and
lifted the head on his bosom, and kissed
the lips and the brow for the first time
in his life. y7-7s = .es9
"I shall soon be with you, my be-
loved, my bride !" he murmured. "My
own in death and for an endless life to
comel-my own now and forever! GOD
be praisedl" - 0 -h-s--
There were voices in the ante-cham-
Der, and old Etto came hastily to the
door. y
81 pray you, my son, do me a service,
even as have Done to you. a messen-
ger tells me that my Lena, my little
one, my granddaughter, Is taken in
sudden illness, and calls for mel
knew 1t, these fts-and that she may
die, die calling for me, and 1 not there
to answer her. My son, stay thou here
and watch with the dead till I return,
In an hour or less.o
Karl Gessner drew the bolt after the
old man, and sat down in the arm chair
before the fire. He looked more COM
posed, but his face wore an expression
of stern and speechless anguish-an-
gnish to deep for either tears or words.
He looked up at the clock. It WINS
nearly midnight. Then his eyes raised
above the clock, rested upon the row of
bells.
He was not thinking or them, for his
eyes had far-away look, as though
dreaming of that spirit-land where SO
Yet stili, mechanically, they were lit
ed upward, and rested dreamily upon
the bells.
Suddenly his eyes dilated and be.
came fixed. Surely one of the bells |
had movedl The Iron tongue, though |
1t made no sound, had trembled with a
perceptible motion. Again-and agRinl |
And now, now, faint and uncertain.a |
sound, awful in the profound |
stiffness, stole on the silence of the
room.
Karl Gessner arose. deadly pale and
trembling in every limb. '.Ntsn.ber |
Three" the bell was marked; and he |
having juss seen that
number inscribed above the Marble |
slab upon which lay his lost love.
A moment could have elapsed ere the |
student was again by the side of the
fair form in its bridal robes, Not dead |
now, but with the hues of life flushing |
gradually back to lip and cheek, and |
the light of life-yea, and of love-in |
the sweet blue eyes that looked up, |
yet full of happiness, into |
his own. And there, amid the upcon-
scions dead, where the first words of |
love spoken, and the first mutual kiss
Of love given and received between
these two. r.a-
II thought 1t was adreamio murmur-l
ed Gertrude, looking hewllderingly |
around, as her her lover explained her
situation. II can remember only of |
swooninE, as I knelt at my devotions,
Of outer things, and no |
power of motion. And now 1 am arohs-
ed; and oh, such blissful awaken=
ing !" Aig-' n
Karl held her close to him, with emo.
ton too deep for words. > 49,
ouG my IatneF u SAID J19 girl, turn !
ing her eyes appealinRly to her lover,
and shrinking closer toihims He will |
take me home-he Will separate u.s.
"He shall not !" said Karl, passion
ately. 'Nothing shall ever again sep
arate us. Here 1 swear---n ~
He suddenly paused, and gave a low |
cry-a cry of such anguish and despair
as startled the girl. - q l.s go
'sGertrudeI my love-my bride I" he
cried. passiOnately, 81 thought we were |
united forever, though even in DEATH
but we must part ~
"Part2 Who or what should part us |
now They gave me to the grave, |
your voice and touch have re-
stored me. Ny life is yours"
.But I-but Ip cried the unhappy |
youth 40h, Gertrude, thinking you
dead, I resolved to join you, and for
me, now, there Is no hopeW
It was even so. The young man, in
his anguish and despair at losing her |
he loved, had taken poison.
And Etto the dead watchman, relat- !
ing this story to strangers who visit the |
tells how, upon his return TO |
vived and the living dead. And the |
streets of Frankfort, may remark |
among the black-robed sisters who
glide past, one whose marble face re-
minds him of some beautiful statue,
and, inquiring, sis told that IL is the
daughter OF the rich Herr Won Amberg,
who died, and was miraculoualy re-
turned to life, and thenceforth devoted
the life so saved TO the service of Chriat
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