The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-18

was the whole repast-at wnich tle iauy
waited upon him with her own fair hands.the
only popularity about IL being thst hs,ehti
bread nor salt was to be found upon the table,
Int Kurt Won Stein was too much OF u gehtle-
man to notice the omission, though No cei-
tainly enjoyed his supper the less ~ feasop
OF their absence. ,.b
At Ienuth tho Young man ventureh TO ASK
one or two aupstions Ut hls kindly. host'ss'
MAY ! ipuulrs,' be- said. ARE you, 1alf 'aus'
the daughter ot this house n
"Yes.'' was the answer given, rs ~ seemed
sadly and low.
And your parents N
"Ihey are there" said tho lauy, po'h''4E
TO the pictures on the walls. go.
''DO yan mean 10 Say that you hVs III th'9
house alone Z" asked Won Stein.
"hlOne." returned the lazy. ! III ~ 80
OF my race" Y...
Who small sny how Il came about me
lsdy was beautiful, the man was young; LII
such raspA love IL sometimes 1ound 10 ~ u
plant tint dnes not take long In growing
Moreover. Won Stein. though noble, WAS poof.
md tho Indy the last of her race, the heirese
| of nm ancient lineage. Possibly the NOTION
of the Inheritance tho lonely girl might bring
| with her had sone part III the sliineu passion
whlck filled the young mans heart. VINO cal
ten !,
IL was not long before no found himself
knaeling Mt her feot and Offering the beautl
rul maiden all that he had to otter hls deVo'
tiun and his life.
The lady listened silently and with bower
head 70 his ardent pleading. Then she shln
lacking IN. but away from him, and speak
ing absently, II have heard those words %
fore"
but never from lips 50 true. 50 honest. 81
dIsintersstPd, said tho young man, Warmly
forgetting In his fascination Tor tho beautiful
lady how he had certainly taken her ihhefl
lance into acc tunt In the tirst place.
The lady sighed and was silent
Then she spoke IF ! yield TO your wishes
we must be married at once ,..,
"At onCel' cried Won Stein. perhaps n littl'
startled. Yet what lover sveR found the tim'
BET wspn bptrothal and marriage too short
81 am ready" he said gallantly. ana iinpa
tient." -
The lady smiled, moved softly away 70 ~
old worm.oatrn chest which WIS Aet aRains
the wall. took from IT " rings ana n whitt
v,tl and crown OF myrtle. which she lAit
upon her dark flowing hair. Her dress wa
white. ,,,
Come" sho said to her lover. and led u
way.
A little bewildered, after the fashion q
brideproofns In general. and s%carcnly Know
ing whether TO he happy or alarmed. III
young man followed his bride through, as J
seemed to him. niles of dimiy-light.d yalitp'
passages. where the damp was ttickling dow
The wallis. and where u~uthought-of steps W
and down were ready at every moment 7
trip np the unwary pa9ser. 1hs lady, now
ever, seemed to be well acquainted with ever
turn and twist ut tho place, anu giving ~
hand To her lover sbp lpd him on step by ste
until ut length they reached o vaulted cham
her. which they had no sooner entered than
great iron door shut heavily behind then
with q sound that echoed through every afcI
of the dimty lighted building.
IT. was tha chapel.
Your hand iR cold, my love, Shld inc yonht
man, tenderly. to his bride. ~
mo matter; YOURS has warmth and III
enough for both" returned the lady.
Yet the life seemed actually to ebb from tn
yo,Inp mans heart as he observed the ston
figure of d bishop, which was sculpnred on
praveatone Ia the center of tho chapel. gradl
ally rise from Its reeumhent position anu wal
UP the steps Of tho altar.
The ewes of tho bishop famed Ike glow
worms, the candles upon tho altar HEnth
of themselves. and the tones or tho Orga
rolled solemnly through that vaulted buiic
Ing.
of Windeek for thy lawful vile sald "
Bishop. In n low, sepulchral tone, whic
sounded rs though not he, but some mufle
voice 4 dozen yards away, were speaking.
At this moment tho whole horror OF tn
scene Bpemed to break upon the young MAJ
Around hin, slowly rising from their graves
he gaw the surrounded torms and tl'tshlee
faces of the dead, who cntne as witnesses I
tho phostly marriage. Even the fnee OF HI
bride, rs his fascinated eyes liked upon !
wore tho livid hue of death. He turned w Q
agony to fly from the horrible scene, tried
snatch his hand from the cold. hard glIp
the phantom lady, fell, as he believed, sense
less upon the chapel iloor-and aWoke 70 lin
himself, Mt dawn OF day. lying at his III
length on the moss grown stone where !
Ind sat to rest the hight before. Mt the cast
door. and his horse intent upon an carly me'
ON the rank heritage of the grass-grown 3oui
When he told his tale In the village and {
the neighboring castles no one IN the leat
dolbted that he Ind almost, II not quite. lai
the unquiet spirit Of the Indy OF Wludeck,