Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-02-09

mained there. was more than half stu
pefied with grief myself.
"I tried feebly enough to console her.
She would not be comrortcd.
"'You are very kind, she said, but
don't understand me. Max is dead, and
that Is all I care to hear or know. 1t was
who sent him to you. / believed-hoped-
that happily you would save his life; but
God willed It otherwise. He loved him so
much that He robbed me.of my husband,
and has taken him to Himself. There is
only one thing I want now ny husbands
body. II belongs to melt is mine! I
alone will watch over 1t, alone will lay it
in tho coffin, and alone will follow IL to
the grave! Bid them bring me my hus-
band, and promise me faithfully that no
one shall disturb the last few hours that I,
Marie Oppenheim, have to spend with my
darling boy. Sir, I beg-I implore you
to allow thisr
"What could say?
"I gave her his letter, and left her, as she
bid me.
might after night 1 watched the house
from my balcony opposite. II was bitter
ly cold, but there | st ood and watched. and
scaldlng were the tears / shed for her who
sat desolate in the room in which a light
burned on through the long night into the
morning again.
"My house was terribly close TO her, and
I heard every thing. | heard her awful
shriek when they led her away, and she
had seen his face for the last time and
heard the dull thud of the hammer, and
click of the cruel nails.
"Wo followed, all us, but afar off and
away from her, for she had begged TO be
alone with him at the grave.
"The next day, hearing and knowing
that Max's widow was desperately poor,
wrote to her, notifying what we bad ar
ranged to do among ourselves for her.
"She wrote back, declining all assistance,
and within very few days had left Held
elberg. No one knew whittier she had
gone. I tried in vain to discover her
whereabouts, and not long afterward ! my
self had completed my university life
there, and came to England.
"For five years l was attached to one Of
that period, before l bought the practice
down here" continued DR.. latham, II
went for short continental trip, and revis-
tied Heidelberg for the first time since
had left it at the termination of the old stu
dent days.
"There is little wonder, after what have
related TO you, that the place had a strange
attraction for me.
~ lost no time in making my way TO the
pretty church yard where, five years ago
had seen Max Oppenheim sadly buried.
II found the grave. 1t was surmounted
by a simple cross. There were two names
carved on the arms of the cross. On one
arm was the word Max and on the other,
freshly cut, Marie
"An old woman was standing by the
grave, and on its bosom was little lair
haired girl, dressed in deep mourning, and
busily employed in planting on the grave
some snow-drops and violets.
"From the old woman I learned how
that Marie Oppenheim had returned to
Heidelberg some few months after had
left for England, bringing with her little
baby, whom she idolzed The sweet moth
er had died but a few months back and
here was the little one on the grave of its
mother and father, as yet hardly old enough
to know the real bitterness of its loss.
''The child took to me in wonderful
manner. l staid at Heidelberg for some
weeks, and the little one would not allow
herself to be ont of my sight for moment.
The consequence was, that when I return