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Ttul: DEVILS REVENGE.
one of The ophi,c Gau,ier. Odd storie

tue DEVILS REVENGE.
one of Thee phiic Gnu,ier's Odd Stories.
1t was toward the end of November
the Imperial garden of Vienna was de-
serted, sharp breeze was whirling the
saifron-colored leaves, shrunk up by the
early cold ; the rose-bushes, tormented
and broken by the wind, let their branch
es drag in the mud Still, the grand al
ley, thanks to its covering of sand, was
dry and passable Although devastated
by the approach of winter, the Imperial
garden was not without n certain mel
anchoy charm. The long alley pro-
longed far away its reddening arcades
beyond the view stretched over the Pra-
ter and Danube 1t was such promen-
ade as poet would have desired.
A young man was striding up and
down this alley with visible signs of i'm
patience, his costume, somewhat tneatri-
cal in Its elements, consisted of frock-
cont Of black velvet with gold facings
and bordered with fur. gray wooden pan
falcons, top-boots with tassels coming
halfway up lis legs. He might have
been - or % years of age his pale and
regular features were full of tnesse, and
irony lurked in the creases around his
university, which he appeared to have
students cap with oak leaves, he must
have plagued the "Philstines" and shone
in the front ranks of the "Burschen" and
foxes"
The narrow limits within winch he cir
cumscribed his walk showed that he was
waiting for some one, probably lady,
for the Imperial garden of Vienna in the
month of November is hardly propitious
to business rendezvous. Soon young
girl appeared at the end of the avenue
II turbnn of black silk covered her rich
blonde hair, whose long ringlets had been
slightly uncurled by the dampness of the
evening her complexion, ordinarily of
waxen Wilderness, had taken rosy tint
from the bite of the cold. Grouped and
wrapped ms she was in her mantle trim
med with marten skin, she resembled
ravishingly the statuette of La Frileuso !;
little terrier accompanied her, con-
veulent chaperon, on whose indulgence
and discretion You could count.
"Imagine, Heinrich, said the pretty
Niennese, taking the young mans arm,
81 have been dressed and ready to go out
for more than an hOui, and my aunt kept
on with her sermons on the dangers of
waltzing, on recipes for Christmas cakes
and carp with blue sauce. went out ON
the pretext OF buying some gray boots,
of which | have no need whatever. 1t is
for you, Heinrich that | tell all these
little lies which am constantly regret
ting and constantly beginning over again.
What IN idea it was Of yours to take to
the stage What was the good of study
ing theology so long at Heidelberg. My
parents liked you, and we might have
been married to. day but for that In
stead of meeting on the sly under the
bare trees OF the Imperial garden, we
should be seated side by side before
porcelain stove. III nice warm room,
talking of the future Of our children.
Would not that be happy lot Helm
Eyes, Katy, very happy" replied the
young man, as he pressed under the satin
and fur the dimpled arm of the pretty
Viennese; "but ] cannot help it. The
theatre attracts me invincibly / dream
of it by day, / think of it by night
feel the desire to live in the creation of
the poets seem to have twenty exist
ences. Every role that play makes me
II new life all these passions that | ex-
press feel, | am Hamlet, Othello
Charles Moor. When one is all that, he
can with difficulty resign himself to the
humble condition of village pastor"
"That is very noble. But you know
that my parents will never have an actor
for Bon-ln-law.
"No, certainly not an obscure actor, a
poor ambulant artist, the puppet of man
agers and the public. but great actor,
covered with glory and applause, who
tl,.,,.
will not refuse however scrupulous they
may be. When | shall come to ask your
hand in n handsome yellow coach, the
varnish of which will be able to serve as
looking-g glass for the astonished neigh
bors, and n tall lackey covered with gold
lace will let down the steps for me, do
You think. that they will refuse me ?"
81 do not think they will. \
Bnt who says Heinrich, that You will ever
come to that? You have
talent, but talent is not sufficient You
must have much good luck besides. BY
the time that You shall have become the
grand actor of whom You speak the best
time of your youth will have passed, and
then will you be ready to marry Katy,
grown old, when you have ut your dis
posal I'll e loves Of all these princesses OF
the theatre, so Joyous and SO gayly deck
ed"
"That future replied Heinrich, sis
nearer than you think l have an advau-
tageous engagement at the theatre of the
Carinthian Gate, and the manager is SC
satisfied with the manner in which play
ed my last role that he has made me a
present of 1000 thalers."
eyes," replied the young girl, with a
serious mir, ''that role Of II demon in the
new piece. confess to you, Heinrich,
that do not like to see Christian as
sumo the mask of the enemy of the hui
man race and pronounce words OF bias
phemy The other day ! went to see You
ut the Carinthian theatre, and at every
moment was afraid that a veritable hell
fire would issue from one Of the traps
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