Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-03-26
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From the baltimore Gszet,c.
Our own city OF Baltimore has wit
Messed in its days more than one lite
tie bit of dramatic romance. One of
the most curious, however, has re-
Gently come to light within the past
few days, and as the veil which
covered up the mystery has been re-
movad by death, there Is now no
wrong II giving tile details Of story
which is cnriously strange. 1t Is rs
Follows: ...
More than dozen years ago no.
bic Baron, residing in the northern
part of Germany, smittcn with the
charms of tire daughter of we'll
known doctor In the town where he
lived, wood and won her, and made
her baroness. Years sped happily
along, the birth Of two daughters
gave additional life to the little house.
hold, and the baron rejoiccd in his
ftttie garden, which lie too confident
~ Imagined Sas free from the trail of
the serpent. Coming home, how
ever, one night, very UNEXPECTEDLY,
lie found u young student In his room,
and In an excess of wild jealousy
and rage, seized upon sword, which
was hanging against the wall of the
chamber. and ran him through. The
Baron fled to the Crimea. where he
served throughout the trimean war,
and, after 1t was ended, made his
way after various yicissitudes OF for
cGne to Baltimore, where, Under an
assumed name, he commenced TO
give instruction In languages. After
lie had resided some time in this city,
happening one day to 20 into music
shop for the purpose of making a
trlfling purchase, to his great aston
ishment, lie met face to face with his
wife, who was standing behind the
counter. After the first surprise was
over, they had each the prudence to
remain silent. A meeting was ar
ranged, when the ex-Baroness in
formed her former husband that,
feeling that their intercourse was
forever at an end, she had accepted
the proposal of her present husband
to marry him and come to America,
which she accordingly did without
troubling herself about q divorce.
She had brought with her her two
daughters, who bore the name of her
present husband and imagined them
solver his children. 1t was then
agreed between the two that their Sc
cret should be preserved, and that
the Baron, under his assumed name,
should be received as teacher of Ian
guages into the house, where he
should have the care of the education
of his children, which accordingly
happened. Years passed by, the
girls grew up, and old age, laying its
hand on their real father, brought
him finally to his th-bed, which
he exchanged short time ago for q
grave. While in the jaws of death
he sent for friend, and confided TO
him parcel Of papers, giving in
structions, among other things, as to
she disposition of some property
which he inherited abroad, and re-
guessing him to hand them over to
his wife when he discovered her,
who, he told him, was the daug liter
Of q doctor, whom he named, in a
German town. This friend, know
ing that there was daughter of this
doctor married In Baltimore, deter
mined, naturally, to apply to her for
information. Going to the music
shop to find her, he met her husband.
and announced to him that he had
some important papers for his sister,
in-law. But before he got further on
his explanation, the wife rushed from
an adjoining room, told him that she
knew all about IL, and that she would
call and see him next day at his
his house. He had hardly returned
there, however, before she followed
him, entering breathiess, without
bonnet or shawl, eager to know what
had happened. The papers were
handed over, and all necessity, she
thought. for secrecy being removed,
the two girls were informed of the
facts of their birth and their title to
distinction. So they Immediately
disclaimed their reputed father, and
announced themselves as Baronesses;
and the one little girl who was for q
Tong time known as bare-footed lit
tie sauce-box, who trotted about the
streets earning pennies by her musi-
cal performances, and her elder sis
ter, who has not always been so re-
fined in her tastes, are suddenly be-
come what the Germans call holfdhig,
and are capable, in some parts of
Germany, of being admitted into
society into which many leading
merchants and rich bankers are not
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