The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

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him to return to. Katrioe and Marie
and make The best story be could to
tho latter latter 70 account for her remaiuipg
behind. So Tho mother .nd tho good
priest watched beside the bed Of the
sufferer. He shared the night .vieils
'nd+ the anxious cares Of the poor moth
81. He nursed His friend viii" all the,
teudernoss Of a: woman.
For days the struggle between life
and death went o. But it did not
last long He would live, they said.
Aud then Katrine told Marie all.
When Eric opened bis eyes to con.
sc'"usoess they gazed upon the loving
face Of the mother who bent over him
They closed again In quiet joy. He
never asked how she came there; he
was content to know that she was with
hlm. His first words we're to Carl: he
asked Why Ernst was not there? Carl
could not understand how he knew
that they were all in Rome. He could
not think Why he took it 80 quietly
that his mother was with him. A,
last, when she was ont Of the room, be
told Carl how be had met Marie on
bis way to the quay, to look after the
marble, aod how be had fed at once.
: When he was sufficiently strong to be
removed, an easy English carrlae e
was sent from Rome for HIM. He was
taken, at his owa desire, to his own
lodgings. There, after few days, he
regalned 50 much strength, that bis
mother ventured to tell him that Erost
was 10 Rome; with his wife Katrioe. -
She saw that she bad done we'll to use
preeastioo with him for when he
heard that Katrine was Erns,'s wife.
be turned white, and had nearly faint.
ed.
"Kstrine married to Erost! Moth.
;er kstrine married to Ernst p
"Rush, my SOB. We know all. All
shall no" have a happy Termination.
Ernst is waiting outside. Will you see
him ? He has seen you slre.dy. When
You were deIirious with the fever he
was with you"
"Oh, mother, mother r. cried Eric,
"where is my noble brother p
Ernst came in. Eric rose to meet
him, and fell upon his neck. Long,
long the brothers held each other
Tucked 10 a close embrace.
"And Marie? When shall I sec
her 2" said Er,c.
"Now, dear Eric" said Erust. Eric
received her from the hands cf his broth.
er, folded her in his aims, and once
again claspcd her to his throbbine
heart.
And so there was smother fiesta iu
Arqol. The old priest, who had sc
tenderly nursed Eric, gave him and hit
bride the nuptial benediction at the
foot Of the very altar, in the very
church. Young girls .stre~ed the path
Of the bride with the brightest flowers
OF the late autumn. And, after the
ceremony, the bride aud bridegroom
started for Vienna, where Carl joined
them at the end of a month. And
then all three went to Kroneuthal,
and spent the winter there. Ernst had
bis wedding present, acd the day that
it was hung over the mantelplece in
the vii tn drawiDg.room, there was a
graod party at Kronen,hal. Some Of
the guests did not krow but what they
liked a small picture Of ladies attacked
BY wolves, quite as we'll as, if not bet-
ter, than, the large one. However,
opinions were very much divided about
that. Carl, and Ernst, and Eric, had
some capital sport together; and
Schwartz killed three more wolves b..
fore be went back to Rome in the
spring, with his young m,stress: to
whom he appeared to have transferred
bis allegiance. Eric bought a beauti-
full little villa IN the neighborhood Of
Arqul. Every wiater they returned to
Kronenshal. Carl often joined them
both there aud at Arqul. The last
time he was expected in the north,
grand preparations we're making at the
castle, to receive with becoming hon.
ors the blooming young bride be was
bridging with him FROM the banks Of
the tar.tff Thames; and whom be
wanted to show what warmth of hos.
pttality was to be found 10 the frost and
snow of Z Pomeranian winter.