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

republican school. To be sure, since
he and were in Germany together he
had received a consulship from the
Government OF her Majesty Queen Vie
toria.
:. They said her husband was worth
less scamp" said i, for want Of any
thing else or better tO say.
:. They did; believe II was only too
true, " replied Rounded, rather glOomi-
IT,
:. She didn't care about him, sup
pose ~ asked.
brute, and the marriage was a political
arrangement"
q" suppose those royal or Semi-royal
marriages always are
He didn't answer directly. But he
sent up another pillar of smoke and
murmured. "Deadl-so Young and so
beautifall-
:. You grow quite sentimental about
the Grand Duchess. Did you know
hers''
-. never saw her, as YOU have said,
for twenty years
:. Then why are you so greatly con-
ccrned about her death2''
Well. You see, her memory belongs
to the old time, when we were young:
and l can see her face now before me,
sad and beautiful. know she was very
unhappy. remember hearing a story
Il don't know whether its worth tell
ing, though
" By all means Go ahead. l shall
be delighted to hear it,
-aSl 49, bs...ar.-.. 4 III -.
thar half-eager half-apologetic tone
which shows that a man wants to tell
you something. but is afrsid YOU viii
not care 10 listen 10 it.
:. II ism much. There was a fellow
knew al the time we were in Liebe-
sheim-an English fellow. I don't
think you knew him. Hewas studying
something or other there, and he liked
10 read in the mornings. He used 10
get up with the lark and stroll out into
the park You remember the park
pretty, wasn't it2 And he found out q
quiets place where hardly any people
ever went even in the dav. and he used
70 read there. | remember the SPOT. /
every stone and leaf Of it-ks showed il
10 me-and used 20 lounge there some X
times after he bad gone. Il was little I
bit az clearing in rather thick part
Of the wood, and there was \ litte
stream there. l used 10 spout GOethe's
poem to the Bachlein there
:. ToE used to spout. or the fellow
You are telling me of?''
..Oh, used to-when he had cone. 4
YOU know Perhaps he used u spout il 4
too. II doesn't matter There were a
couple Of statues there, a nymph and = 7
faun-that sort Of thing grown over 4
with moss Well, sir, one lovely sum \
mer morning, when this fellow was
reading there, declaiming out lOud-he .
had a great fashion Of doing that
. 80 had you, | remember.
= Had / really2 Oh. no, Think not /;
anyhow. he had Wen, he was de-
claiming something from Schiller, when 4
suddenly he heard an unmistakable 4
laugh-a very pleasant, musical laugh
and looking up. he saw"
. A GIRL Of course"
Wrong. for once. He saw two
girls
.All the same. knew we should \
get 20 some girl or girls before long"
Nice girls, too, and v-rv beautiful
quietly dressed; citizens daughters
that sort Of thing. Got into talk with .
this fellow We're a. friendly and sweet
and modest as dear little German girls \
only can be, or used to be in those days. X
The fellow talked good dealtOO. They
were interested in England and his
studies, and 50 on. One III them had
lovely eyes Went away. OF course.
Fellow went there next morning
"They came again"
"Wrong, sir. They didn't He
was sorry. But they came the morning
after y
"Oh, confound TT that al comes To
the same thing. They came, anyhow
They did. Acquaintance grew and
grew They would sit on the grass
and talk for an hour at a time-thev
three"
Always rhreer''
Always-at first"
Thought so.''
"Like q good fellow, let me get on
nv own way Or you tell me the story,
i you know all about it,
"Wel, almost think 1 could The F.
regular sort of thing, / suppose-the I
fellow You knew fell in love with the ]
yIrl who had the eyes, and, for some
reason or other, she couldn't marry
him, and they were miserable, or she
lid marry him, and they were happy.
Can't be any thing else. Did marry or
iidn't marry, there's the only differ
snce.r
Rounded laughed rather a gloomy
'ort of laugh. .In this case il was
iidn'r marry" he said; sbut we may I
IS well 20 regularly through with the
tory as we have begun It, It's not
luite so commonplace a. YOU suppose. :
Well, these girls came very regularly / (