The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-05-19


lucrative investments. Not until al.
German Philadelphia is reused from its
wonted apathy by the report that kath-
crime Schauber j. surreptitiously receiy-
ing the addresses OF Yankee peddler,
is he appraised Of the facts. Schauber
is no longer the furnishing boy-desertcr
travelling ON foot from Paris 10 Havre,
NO longer the hard-worked cabin-boy or
bakers apprentice, but Frederick
Schauber, acknowledged magnate Of all
German Philadelphia, whose princess
daughter, Katherine, Is expected TO con-
tract a marriage worthy her position
and charms. He curses Rufus, curses
the Froelings, comes near TO cursing
the adored katherine herself Rufus,
emboldened by open opposition, takes
q position he had otherwise hardly dare
assume, that Of declared suitor of Kath-
crimes. To hi. inexpressible delight.
he finds Katherine not one of those
young ladies who are in n twilight state
Of uncertainty in regard 10 the nature
Of their own feelings. She IL just Is
decided as to what she wants as Papa
Frederick is 10 what he don't want and
won't have.
In vain Rufus shows himself the pos
SCISSOR Of from eighteen TO twenty thou
sand dollars. What are eighteen or
twenty thousand 10 Schauber's own
half-millionl In vain Rufus sends To
Middlefeld for q certificate from
:. Priesi NASH that his parentageis re-
spectacle and his character unexcep-
tionable. What does Frederick Schan-
Der care for Yankee parsons certificate.
of the character of Yankee peddlers,
"She shall never marry the beggar.
'1erer; will send her to Germany
cries the infuriate Frederick.
Katherine goes no more TO the Froe-
lings'. She shall neither ride nor walk
without trusty attendance. But kaih-
crime is own daughter Of the man
who at IL years of age bribed his way
through the Prussi2n lines with Il
cents worth Of bread She easily ar
ranges for an interview.
Il don't know what he will do, Ru-
fus; he may send me 10 Germany,
bad
The delicate garden lily flames up
with the force of the Schauber will 10
a royal tiger flower She rounds her
sentence with q look Rufus will be ike
" 10 remember
From that hour Katherine utterly
disappears. No one Of all her acquainT-
ances can give any clew to her where
abouts; the Froelings profess igno-
rance, and are evidently sincere. Not a
vessel leaves the wharf for Bremen or
Leipsic that Rufus does not board,
seeking a glimpse Of the one figure in
all his thoughts not 4 door in Philzdel-
phia or Germantown but opens at his
knock. the request always on his lips
to be allowed to put up blinds, the hope
always In mis- heart of a glimpse Of
katherine. He sends letters 20 every
city in Germany. He spends hours in
watch upon the Schauber mansion.
People come and 90, forms fit before
the windows, and faces look out, but
Katherine never. Philadelphia becomes
a strangely empty city one street in it
Is dead street.
sits no use, Rufus says his good
friend Froeling, at the end of year
and a half; Schauber has will ike
iron; you will never have that girl
Rufus remembers that Katherine. too,
has the Schauber will. and in this con-
nection comes the problem why, II still
faithful to him, she never manages TO
convey him message Then comes
self-distrust. What, he asks himself.
Is he, Rufss Swift, late New England
farmer. then Yankee tin-peddler, that
he should call forth such devotion a he
has taken for granted in this flower of
Philadelphia culture and refinement Is
ii not good sense to believe that her at
tachment 10 him was but n feeting
fancy? May not her absence from the
city be accounted for by her shame and
dread of the raillery of gay acquaint-
ances' Doubtless she Is mingling in
society in some distant city, and think
ing of him only with finsh of self-in-
dignation that she has ever entertained
one thought of fondness for him. lie
waits and watches another six mosths.
One fact becomes patent to Rufus's
mind-the regard which Katharine
Schauber had protested for him was but
the transient emotion of an enthusiast
tic, warm-hearted girl
The next incident in this story is nm
fortunate for the interests Of sentiment
tai literature, but considering the world
as il is, not surprising Rufus is alto
gether sick and tired TO death Of his un-
exceptional, first-class Philadelphia
clearinghouse. The occasional teas
at the Froelings' have grown dull and
embarrassing. Perhaps he has been
seized with longing for the apple-pie
and doughnuts Of his native land. He
bethinks himself of a lady. nameless
here, resident in Southampton, Mass.
a lady of refinement, amiabilty and do
mestic qualifications With business
like promptness he addresses her let
ter, in which he says he has always held
her in high esteem, and would like to
open a correspondence with her with a
view to matrinonv.''