New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-22

strides they appeared to be and up came gentle
man with a large straw hat on. completely shading
his face. He carried good stout stick In MS
hand. and had walked fast and far, to judge from
his dusty appearance He just about to pass
the spot where | stood when a bark from Mares
little terrier made him look up. on went his nat
in an instant, and with the laughing eyes and the
pleasant smile | remembered so well. my neighbor
of the next droschky bowed to me, and passed on.
II was all the work of a moment. / bad barely
time TO return the pleasant greeting before turn
in the road hid him from nay view. / know not
why, but when Marie came back with her book,
cared TO talk about the incident little as had
cared to mention my rude neighbor of the next
droschky when narrating my adventures.
On our return. we saw travelling carriage
driving up the road before us. The next minute 10
Turned into the Dahlsburg gates There's Uncle
Harry | thought 1T was his carriage. cried Marie;
Dear Miss Afford, do let us be quick; | think
must runI And Oft set Marie tearing along the
road Mt a great pace. | followed more demurely,
making up little German speech of thanks the
while for the hospitality shown me at Warourg,
counter with the stranger Of the laughing eyes.
was go much engrossed IN my thoughts, wondering
if ever he would cross my path again, that had
nearly got up 10 the steps where / had seen the
kind Countess and her daughter awaiting me on
the evening of my arrival, before saw Marie, with
all her brothers and sisters, coming down toward
me with q stranger In their midst.
Here she is,' they cried. Uncle Harry wants 10
be introduced To you, Mss Afford.
Now that you are no longer in need OF any as
sistance hope YOU Will allow me to lntr0duce my
self said the pleasant voice. that was still ringing
in nv ears. I looked up, and beheld nv friend Of
the next droschky. ~ ., ,-., ~
as,onishment making him laugh and the children
Count Harry Dahlen at your service, at all
times and in all seasons though You do not make
it easy to serve YOU he added Win u smhe anu
Then everything had forgotten in my surprise
and pleasure rushed back upon my MIND. MY cur =
answer in Berlin; my arrival AZ mdnlgnt anu ~
arousing the Warburg house, my turning us
master out before dawn-for ! saw u all now nov fi IN
tuitively-and then the kind requltal on the fo-
lowing dnyl My sentence of thanks died away
upon my lips, and stood before Count Harry IKE
a silly schoolgirl at the mercy Oh her hiasiei
Again he came to my rescue chivalrous knight thaI
ne was, and asking me if | were not homesleK, nc
led the conversation far away from Germany anu
gave me time to overcome my evident eonius'o ,n
We walked round and round the grass piot. as we
often did toward evening, and then the countess
Dahlen came out and joined U.s. but Count Harry
still kept by my side.
1t is long since left Castle Dahlsburg. They
all so good to me when went nome lI I
will never be another Miss Afford for us, dear
child how we shall miss the bright lace, sald the
kind Countess. when she kissed me on tne very
step where had seen her first a year before. pun
Warburg is not far off, and you nave proihiSeu W
come and see US often -
That she shall, came from the pleasant VOICE
that had haunted my dreams ever since that event.
ful morning at the Berlin station 30 tar OH now
That she shall This shall be her hrst VISIT aItef
I bring her home from England this day 81 SIX
weeks. This day SIX weeks young lad IsniG,T0 -
that; aud no delays for trOusseaux and that KIM VI
thing he added eneTgeticallY.
And thus it happened that | came to I'VE az
Warburg after all. 1t Is barely three years since
saw il first but often think that 1T must nave
been in some previous state Of existence-llfe mas
80 changed for me. Harry says he knows that
his real life began the morning he saw an anxious
little face lovely the silly fellow persists in put;
ting III peering eagerly into every carriage, ana
then looking so proud and distant at the oher OF
help from a stranger, Notwithstanding ITS perpleAi-
He he 1QstnetNely WHO III Dis Ilittt
came ND TO his door on that stormy August night
even before he had assured himself of the tact py
peeping over the banisers to see the owner Oh yne
anxious little face conducted TO her ROOM lie ieIt
even then that a change had come to his life. Ana
he laughingly adds that he shall hencet0rth be a
firm believer in love Mt first sight.-lIhe Argosy'