New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-06

| curiosity, you KNOW; and so saying she
folded it up and slipped it inside her glove,
and shortly afterward took leave.
After Miss Brandt and her party bad
gone. Miss Helms cousin, q rather pretty
looking young widow, said to her:
"Whats the matter, IogebOrg you seem
as if you were laughing with one eye and
crying with the other"
"On, nothing much" was the reply; "only
bubble has burst. and perhaps"
You know, dear, am a bad hand at
guessing riddles; so if you wish me to IN
derstand your meaning, you must descend
to the level OF my understandings
well, ten" said Iuge borg, IL have just
lost an illusion of six years standing"
"Of Elk years why, you were then only
| sixteen ~
Exactly; just when I was sixteen met
an ideal with which fell in love. To-day
l have heard that he ia married. But I'll
tell you the whole story. Six years ago l
drove into Copenhagen with my late father.
While he was engaged in business matters
went about the town to execute my com.
missions.
Just az l was turning the corner of a
street l was nearly knocked down by the
While was gasping for breath a scrap Of
paper flew in under my veil, and hung there
hutteriDg just like a butterfly. l tried to
remove it, but as often as / put it away it
flew back. At last l was determined to get
rid of it, for it worried me, and was on the
point of throwing it up into the air, when
noticed there was some writing on it. !
read it, and saw that it was regular love
| letter The writer stated that he had sent
it forth after the fashion of the old North
men, who committed the props Of their high
seats to the waves. and that wheresoever it
| alighted he would some day bring his
plighted faith 1t was signed 'Geb.'"
What is 'Geb9'" inquired the widow.
"Why. Ingeborg, of course" replied
Miss HELM, with a simplicity that testified
to the earnestness with which she had be-
! lieved in the reality of the writer's vow.
''Very strange, indeed" replied her cous-
in, with just the slightest touch Of irony in
her words; land SO you determined to re
main single till your unknown came to
claim you as his ownl"
| mo, not exactly that" answered inge-
borg; but perhaps it made mo rather more
particular"
"WeIl-and now? interrupted her cousin
81 have Just given Miss Brandt the note"
"Given it to Miss Brandt! Why, what
| made You do that"
Because learned from her that the man
who in all probability wrote the letter mad
spoken of it publicly, and was an assessor
| in the criminal court
"Oh,. see now," replied the widow. in
y
turns out to be but simple assessor,
then"
''He is my ideal no longer, you were going
to say" broke in Miss Helm.
''No; not exactly that. But, tell me. how
could possibly have gone to him and told
him that had his missivel Besides, 1t is
quite plain that Miss Brandt has liking
for the assessor. Fancy, if they we're only
to make match of it, and she were to give
him bis note back on their wedding day,
wouldn't it be romanticF'
But how can she explain about 'Geb'"
asked the widow.
"Oh, such matters do not depend upon
single syllable. Besides, Miss Brandt is
rather cautious young lady," added Miss
Helm, in slightly sarcastic tone.
unattended. One morning, as the assessor
was sitting in bis room, he received official
notice OF his elevation to the distinguished
post OF a Judge OF the supreme court.
The first feelings OF qualification had
scarcely subsidized when letter was brought
in to him. 1t was in a strange hand-evi- |
IDENTIFY ladys:
Quickly breaking the seal. he ead as fol-
lows:
1.-THE props OF the high seat have reached
land. GEE"
y
man is especially exposed to the influence |
OF love, and that after that period he be- |
comes ambitious. But in the present case |
Bagger's ambition, if not satisfied, was at |
least allayed. while his amatOry propensi-
ties had not been severely strained. The |
note, then, he had just received acted on
him like a spark on barrel OF gunpowder.
A glow ran through every vein in his body
Sill there was So much of the lawyer about
hun that, after the first rapturous emotion
had subsidized, he thought, what if it be
some practical joke. alter all ?"
On the other hand, he was quite certain
that he had never alluded to the compari-
son OF the old NGrthmen's chair props to q
living soul, much less had he breathed that
now precious syllable '.geb" in mortal ear.
Evidently, therefore, the missive he mad
once sent forth had come into the posses
sion OF lady flor the hand writing, the
delicate perfume of the note-paper, pro-
claimed her to be such), who by some
means or other, hat! discovered his secret.
Again and again he looked at the envelope.
Il bore only the Copenhagen post mark.
The writer, then. must be living in that
clty-perhaps was close by. But who could
she be! All! that was the vcxatious thing
about 1t. And yet it must inevitably be |
so,' he reflected; for how could she have
come IN Pr0pT1d persona, and have said
while handing me the Lote, 1t ia 2 Per
iaps she would write again"
Some nine or ten days elapsed and found !
he judge in very despondent mood. All
The bright castles he had been building up |
were demolished as soon as completed.
one evening, however, the postman left
note at the door. 1t was in the same hand
writing, and contained the following words:
81 ought TO act honestly toward you and,
10 we may never meet, can do So"
Dagger gasped for breath. Some persons,
indeed, might have put different interpre- |
alton on this sentence. and Tor Il ought to
,ct honestly" ETC., have read. Il mean to |
make fool of YOU" aud for I'VE may
lever meet" IL snail soon see you;" but |
he worthy judge took every word for
gospel.
Il am ashamed" the writer continued.
at the words last wrote you NV ex-
use must be that only learned day OR
wo ago that you were married. NV cor
olation il that you will never know who I
III, ana shall be forgotten as l will for !
ct"
Or thought the Judge: "sUpposing we t
we're to meet some day when we are both |
ray headed, and she we're then to learn
hat never was, am not, and never intend
marry! can anything more dreadful be
Yet If she were to lind her mis-
axe out to morrow. she would not she
ould NOT, wIle again to say. L was in |
rrcr.' No. am completely cut of from
er. l might as well be living up in the
loon. Ma, what is even worse, may meet 1
er in the street, brush ul against her dress
'ithout suspicion that she is my Geb. Our c
ge boasts of lte penny post, its steamers. | c
liways, telegiaphs, etc. As far as am
Oh cerned, they need not exist; what use t
re they if they can not help me to find out
er address,"
"A sudden idea now flashed across Bag d
er's brain. "Stay; why not ADVERTISED But t