New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-08-14

head and all her silver bangales ringing
like the sAlmee'ss bells? Eh?, But the
beautiful arms? The fair head r.
'sThheerezyon go aggain!' cried Chrys-:
tie "'as@' ~ S'r'~@ s-@Ss- s&S'%$ ;.%
sisTo-d day, as Fenallosa played, there was
something very grand and solemn in his
thoughts; one might fancy that he was
up among tie purple slopes and silvery
peaks OF the hills at home with the work
of death. 81 By degrees. though, more and
more sweetness stole into the measures,
with ali sorts of hesitating turns and
melancholy cadences he had forgotten
himself 81 eif an and his boyishess in the music.
But When At length be. paused, it was to
]. Sees hrEstiess eyes swimming inS tears,
ana al al : the boy was uppcrmost again.
SSShe IS ice,but melt herr he cried and
Immediately he began playing,zwith a
fetal Oblivion pf deadauncless and living
! coffee estates, all sorts Of gay dance tunes
| andsthe ajrs 81 sweet Iove3 Songs ~, ending
with medley OF national airs framed in
aftaanlfaronde of trum pet calls, drum beats,
shull .cornet strains, tor Fenallosa was a
master Of music, Then suddenly he
arose, bowed to every body, and darted
for the haliand his hat,4 found =, the hat
gone, and it;its place. the light straw ruin
/ that Garcia had left sy 20 ..e2. u 90
You should have Seen the transport Of
rage into which Fpnallosa fell, and heard
the anathemas on the luckless bead Of his
compatrots, the adjurations that thev
should want hats all their lives and have
no heads to put them on, while the hat
went spinning TO the ceiling, came down
and was .Tanpled under foot til there
Ewas nothing left of It. "a nice prospects
for a. wlfeN said /, at his elbow. "a
pretty husband, your He turned laugh
ing in an an instant, his white teeth glisten-
ing and his face full of color.
why She not to pacify me?" he cried.
And It conrsesweE ssil laughed with him,
tor the greater part Of the time Fenallosa
was as good as aplay. ~ = . -
+. But there was no help for it; Fenallosa
now would not stir out of the house till
night ut is lndecorous.n' he said. II
am not to mock the memory Of my uncle
Here | stay?' And he was as good as his
word taking tea with US, and CONDUCTING
himself with the most charming dignity,
feeytidaeanty ina sense f the honor due thc
After dark, when we had sat for a
while on the veranda overhanging the
lisea, watching the great stars rise from
7 the water, brother John and John Allen
Went up TO the roof with the fireworks,
and Fenallosa followed ); an increase of
two OF three other youths, Emily's lovers
and Sues, presently taking place, with
! the inevitable Spanish lads dying, to play
some fresh prank on FenalloSa. But
! Fena llosa shortly returned to u.s. and he
and Chrystie leaned over the rail together
to watch the colored lights in the waves
breaking on the Cliff below, and singing
some refrain halt under the breath to-
gether. just as we were in the midst of
the, Bengal lights, I heard feet on the
ROOT; of the veranda overhead tittcring
and to- heeing, and directly down came a
long pole with a huge bunch of fire
|scrackers on . the end, suffering and tiz-
Fazing and haringg, aud exploding 8. straight
IN the faces Of Fenallosa and Christie,
shedding sparks every where about us;
and IN another moment there was blaze.
a sf1fiek,| and Chrystie's muslins were
There was one scream from every
mouth: lOh, she will burn to, death p tor
the summer pariors had neither RUG moi
curtain, and there was nothing tosmothel
the blaze, :. But before the words were
we'll uttered a sheet of fire went hurting
through the air. "Fear not!' crieti !
Fenallosa, IL to die!'" And we saw that
he had caught her. in, his arms. and had
Eleaped into thessea S<@<$ $i5%
f. 1A'' H r1rry t~4s'hhrry'r' I shrieked. "He
can't swim! Oh, you have killed them !
both!' But while, L was exclaimlng, a
dozen Il long legs were scrambling down to
the beech. the boats were OUT and before
long-7to he, had come to the top again,
and although he could not swim he could
keep ss4afoat-Fenallosa and .Chrystie
F,Werespulled If, safe and alive but both
of them badly scorched, and what was
left Of Chrysties muslins one back and
gripping rag But we wrapped her in
the cloak with which I had run down,
and by the next evening her injuries
were not apparent, except for the weak
ness from the shock she had sustained. I i
Fenallosa had been at the door at sun
rise and at noon, and at twilight he camel
again, and now-he sat beside Chrystie as
she lay on the cool wicker sofa on the
veranda, half covered with the flowers
that the deeply repentant young scamps
had hea ped upon her. It was from there
as the evening darkened, that the words
of which I told you came in on that
enderly,, impassi, ned 80, tone: 'Will you
to marry me? AZ nj proorecita, o,nig1teta
CA1y$tSta n1ia!"' At Which fastened to
make: : racket Of aqnysort. Wheh;, by and
| by, I went out on the Veranda. Chrystie