The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23

part Then she told the fellow that
the young Princess and herself had tax
en- "A freak of going out for moring
walks dressed like city girls, and that
they meant no harm; and that one day
they heard the fellow declaiming from
Schiller, and they listened. and they
got to talk with him, and they rather
liked the fellow; aud so on, YOU know.
Now the Princesss marriage was APP
preaching, and there must be no more
cakes and ale. But You will not be
sorry TO learn said Dorothea, shat
your friendship and our pleasant talks
sometimes gladdened the poor Princess,
and that she will always remember you
as n friend.'n
Z" But what had all this to do with
HERSELF" asked, little impatiently.
"That was just what the fellow put
TO her; but she said that her fate was
bound up with that Of the Princess, and
she too limited of some COMPOUNDED
marriage engagement. Oh, he talked,
did the fellow, l can tell You. His elo-
quence fairly astonished himself But
il was all to no purpose. She firmly
declared that they must never meet any
more. Then he began TO accuse her Of
having played with his lore, but she
looked at him with such grieved and
imploring face that he soon dropped that
game. He begged Of her even 10 give
him the comfort of telling him that she
loved him, that if things had been diff
ferent, and all that. She only said,
My friend, some day you and will
both be glad that | speak no foolish
words now. You will look back on my
memory with all the better feeling 1t
was growing late; the woods were
darkening-a this, though it seems
long, didn Z take a quarter of an hour
she had TO 20 away. She wouldn't
even give him lock of her hair-no,
by JOvel nor the flower in her bosom.
Not now,' she said; I'VE have both
gone too far. Adieu; / won't ask You
to forget me- and she held out her
hand. He caught it and kissed it.
There was a ring upon her finger,
which came almost loose in his hand.
He almost thought Of pulling il off, and
keeping it as relic; but he didn't He
pressed it on her slender little darling
of finger again, and in half a moment
she was gone, and the fellow was
alone"
- Poor fellows, What did he do?r
"Do? lie mooned about the wood for
an hour or two with his hands in his
pockets, thinking of nothing,in an odd,
dazed sort of way. At last he went
home to his lodgings, and | think he
he wished that he we're woman for
once.r
"why that'"
- Don't you see2 Because If he were
a woman, he could have a good cry and !
ease his mind little. But he could on
ly smoke. and when the fellows BE
knew made jokes, he had 10 try and I
make jokes too. Hewent with them TO
the beer gardens and the dancing
places, and don't suppose that any Q. |
them ever knew the poor devil was
wretched.r
"Did he keep up visiting the old |
place in the mornings2"
- He did but she never came again. I
She was gone"
I" Then did he never see her again?'' /
"Oh, yes; he saw her once. 1t was
on the day of the Grand Dukes mar
riage. lie posted himself in the crowd. \
poor fellow, to see the procession
which passed through the city from the
church when that COMPOUNDED brute
and cad, the Grand Duke, took his new
ly made wife round to show her to his
people. The fellow thought, yos know,
that he would be sure TO see Dorothea
somewhere in the court carriages, and
he longed to see her again - much as
il the sight could do him any possible
good. There he stood, and he saw
her.
Roundell brought his clinched fist
heavily down on the table as he spoke
sin one Of the court carriages, of
course?n
"In the carriage Of the Grand Duke,
and seated by his side. She was now
his wife,
"Dorothea?m
"Dorothea herself.- Rounded rose
up from his seat in the window, and
strobe across the room, looked or af-
fected to look at the clock over the CHM
ey-piece, returned 10 the table, stood
there a moment in silence, then poured
himself out glass OF claret and drank
L. Yes,n he went on, [" Dorothea
was the Grand Duchess. Meta was only
The cousin and companion. II was a
pious fraud she had tried TO practice on
he poor fellow who loved her, and
whom she-well, perhaps might have
owed II he hadn't been a poor devil
without family or fortune, and she a
German Princess"
I" Did she see him?' ~
"No, she was looking away when he
first saw her. and then he drew out of
he crowd. lie spared her that Meta
Jaw him, and turned pale. She was in
he third OF fourth carriage. He made
isr formal bow, ms many Others did,
md she returned it. But he saw by