Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-27


 we turned to her late journey.
 And did you go to R---?" I had for gotten Fraulein's presence.
 "Yes; we were there two or three days"
 ''Then it is to be hoped that you saw the brother-in-law' place " And laughed.
 But Mrs. birmingham answered, quite seriously
 ''We did, indeed; and it is everything that Doctor Carew made it out to be. I never knew landscape gardening carried 80 far" 'And the doctor?"
 'Is expected now on the B--, Let me see,-two, three,-Fraulein, do you find l another cuff? There should be four of these. with sleeves. An, yes, here it is. And we met his wife"
 l Net Ats aoite! Whose wife ?" .'Why Doctor Carew's, and a very pretty little English girl she is Thin, as they are l apt to be but with pretty blue eyes and complexion like milk. Take care. Fraulein! l You are upsetting that jar. Here, you may take these into the children's room" 4
 rose straight up from the corner of the bed, where had been sitting. Elsa, as pale as death, had escaped from the room. i Do you mean to tell me that Doctor Carew is married-the Doctor Carew we know p
 ''To be sure he is: I dined with his wife, They have been married four years, I under stood her to say. He brought her over this last trip of the B----. and she is to stay some months. And, do you know, it struck me as peculiar that he should never once have mentioned her to us.''
 1 "Pecuhar !'
 ''Yes, I felt so; I shall say sharp word to him when he comes again. l But did not heed her. Poor Fduleiu!
 Elsa did not appear again that morning, nor 1 did I see her for several days not until met her coming down the stairs at Mrs. Jerning- hams one morning. Her changed appearance surprised me into an exclamation. | ''You are not well," said
 II thank you; am fiery well, she answer ed gently, but going on with the baby's DOT ringer of milk in her hand, it's contents scarce ly winter than her face.
 opened the subject of Fraulein's health to Mrs. birmingham, who suspected nothing of the truth, 1 soon found. Nor would l betray her secret pain.
 'Yes, she is beginning to feel the care of the children" Mrs. birmingham said. Dear Elsa It has been more than either of us expected, for the baby was we'll when we left Gottingen. But the sea voyage will do every thing for her, and the B---must come in before many days now" ... | The D.! And did they still plan for Fraulein to return under Doctor Carew's care? This should never be. 1 would warn the girl, if she did not herself refuse to go with him. But how? She seldom appeared now, confining herself closely te the nursery and the children and the days were slipping away fast. The B--was expected mo- mentarily.
 had been detained down town until nearly dark one day, and was hurrying home across the small park in the square below my friends house. The lamps were lighted, and the nurses were hastening away with thelr young charges. The white paths the gleaming lights among the trees, the great pots of foreign plants, and the white capped 6onnes, gave to the spot a thoroughly foreign air. It was early yet for the evening strollers. The seats were empty; the paths deserted, save for an occasional hurrying. belated figure. I slack ened my steps involuntarly, enjoying the faint "reminiscences called up by the scene, glad of a moment of quiet security after the plunge and dun bewilderment of the streets outside, when was startled by voice-Fraulein's voice, could not mistake it-coming from behind clump of towering shrubs at the end of the path upon which I had just entered. The tone was that of excited remonstrance. flew down the walk until an opening in the shrubbery revealed the girl and her companion to me. She was standing in the light of one of the great lamps, which gleamed more and more brightly asthe darkness set in, her hands clasped together her head thrown back her face deathly pale.
 ''Iss it to go with you ?" she was saying. ''To go with you on the B---? Mo- Doc tor Carew. 1 will nefer go with you. And now that haf told you, you will not come to the house and ask me to go, before them alI."
 He seemed to reason with her,-to plead in a low voice.
 ''Oh, l know about you, Doctor Carew; l know fiery we'll indeed about you. And / kno,r a5out you" acite," Fraulein cried out in a voice sharp with anguish.
 1 The man started back.
 ''Who has been telling you foolish stories ?''
 ''It iss no foolish story that haf heard. know fiery we'll about her eyes that are blue, and her face that iss like the milk. It iss Mrs Jerningham anho hDs Seen your aoits"
 His face grew white under the yellow light of the lamp.
 ''What do I care p he said desperately "Will you turn away from me because didn't meet you earlier? It was no fault of mine, | and l'll not give you up now-nOt for all the milk faced girls in the world.';
 ''What iss it you say? Gott ina Himnael! Now know you for one fiery bad man! Oh, if my father could hear you. If Fritz could l know :"
 She was regarding him with dilating eyes, as she retreated backward. To see her slowly going away from him like this, with horror in her eyes, must have maddened him. He | sprang and caught her. She gave a faint scream as she wrenched herself out of his hands, then flew along the path to the curb stone. darted among the carriages in the street, and vanished from sight.
 He started after her. Then, flinging his hands back with an oath he turned and dis appeared in another direction. | In two days the B----sailed for Liver pool. Doctor Carew neither called nor wrote. But Faulen had been stricken down with a fever, and no one remembered the surgeon or thought of the girls going home. There were long, dreadful days and nights, when we had | little hope that she would ever see her own people again. But God was good to her, and pitiful of the poor old father in distant land, who nerer knew that she lay sick almost to death until, after anxious, weary weeks, she 1 began slowly to recover. As for the D., it passed out of our thoughts. It may have come and gone; we never knew or inquired. | When the summer was nearly spent, we all went down to the sea togethet, to quiet resort where the Jerninghams had taken cottage. We were sitting on the rocks togeth- CT one day, Fraulein and 1, the idle waves drifting in to our feet, and her wistful eyes on the dim lime where sea and sky met. She sighed;
 ''It is a fiery great way ofer the sea, Mees 'Yes, Fraulein."
 ''Oh, It iss that wish wass at home :"and she fell to weeping bitterly. And then it came out that she had missed her weekly let ter from over the sea-
 ''There is only some mistake in forwarding it here" said, cheerfully. ''It will surely | come later. And when we go back to the l house you shall write. Your eyes are stronger now and you might easily write few lines" It was Mrs. birmingham or her husband who had kept Fraulein's father informed of her progress toward recovery. "But you have never talked to me about your home, Elsa. Tell me something of your people," .s
 'I haf nothing to tell" she answered simply. But my request had reused her to reminis- cence, for presently she began .-
 ''There iss my father-oh, you should see my father, Mees - and the color flowed into her pale cheeks. "His hair it iss white and when he comes down the street in the efe-