The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-03-06

Twenty years had gone by since the
FIRE had died out in the Alchemist's fur.
mace. The old house had fallen into decay
and hadnearlya all disappeared. Rising out
of the portion Of the ruins where the
laboratory had stood, was newer house,
with fresh brick walls and bright little
pointed windows looking out into the
street The street itself was much bright,
er and buster than Of old. There was
some sound Of traffic in the shops, and
many noises which disturbed the stiffness
and quiet which had prevailed when Peter
Althausen dwelt there
In the new house, which looked smiling
and homelike, lived Madelaine Althausen,
now a happy wife and mother. She was
no longer pale and thin, but had grown
plump and red.cheeked and comely. A
tall youth called her mother, and a gOodly
array Of girls and boys filled up the inter.
val between him and the toddling urchin
who cuDg to her ample skirts as she
moved about her household. Her hus.
band worked in famous workshop,
where they made wonderful clocks He
was very clever, and could make all sorts
Of time-pieoes, with little birds flying in
and out Of them at all hours of the day
and clocks with little men and women
who come out to ring bells or play on jing
ling tambourines, every time the hands
went round. Every room in the hOusC
had such a strange time-keeper, and a
every hour there was such singing, anC
striking, and "cuckooing," that with thu
noise Of them, and the shouts and laugh
ter Of the children, one might almost los,
his senses.
!, But Madeleine and her husband minded
it not. They we're happy and contented
and the roses bloomed on the dame'
cheeks as they had never bloomed ther,
when she was maiden.
all these years Peter Althausen ha(
been wandering over the earth. Ther,
was a restless spirit In him which did no
/ permit him to remain quietly in one place
He had great skill in medicine, and wher
ever he stopped for any length Of tim
was much esteemed as a youth Of grea
knowledge, but he could never stop t
gain either money or reputation. II
| could make no ties to bind him, for hi
/ heart seemed quite dead in his bresst, AM
he had no sympathy with the pursuits o
J his felloW-beings. ,l
After twenty years. on the anniversar,
3 Of the day on which he had drank th
4 youth-giving Elixir, he had returned +
{ his native town, led by vague curiosit
/. which he could not understand, an
? which was more like human emotion thal
anything he had felt in all these years
Q He sought out the house where hi
+ daughter lived, and going softly up, h
. looked in through the diamond pane
/ window which jutted out upon the stree
/ II was after dusk, and all the childre
+ were in bed, except the tall eldest, VIII
sat at the table fashioning some wonderfr
I piece Of mechanism out Of bits Of stee
and wire, and wood Madelaine sat in he
I low chair blythe fire, which burned brigh
! " on the hearth, holding her youngel
baby TO her breast Her husband wa
n seated by her side smoking his pipe an
curling allow wreaths Of smoke up froI
/ hfs mouth, as he looked thoughtfully
i the FIRE. All this Peter could see as !
I looked through the window, BY and b
!. MadelaIne spoke, he could hear h'
1 voice ll5
! at is just twenty years ago to-day
!. sac said, asince my father went ava
/, never 10 be heard from any more; ID
= two years later, on the same day wei
4 we married, my Gottlieb."
70 Yes" said 9ottlieb, rousing himse
. from his reyefie as he commenced speal
e ing, 'and thou hast been a good wife q
t. these years, Madelaine.n
q What became Of my grandfather
asked the youth, booking up from h
d work.
/, II cannot tell,P answered biz moth,
d sadly " Ny poor mother, who died shot
II aher he disappeared, said the Elixir
" Iiga 10 had " Tong worked forl came