Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

Dia1ce 10 the Ef6nQtaJnef, ealo Tue uISlutH
Iauzhipgly, snd pointed with her left hand to
the tablet OIL which Lei z hsd just been paint
ing. The latter looked Mortified at the coarse,
mussy work-certainly suspicious evidence
OF his massersbip-and gave q vigorous kich
TO the easel, SO that the picture fell over, by
| good luck, bottom side dowr.
81 have made the caricatures in q FIT Of
anger, because they would compel me to
paint by locking me up. The master of the
| which would show you / am no Whitewater
Do you balieve that they would lock me up.
like 8 gold-maker, if could only make the
caricature which lies here en- the floor %
The last reason found favor with the shrewd
maiden, but the painter hardly hesrd her
answer. He had been go long without utter
ing q word that he must make the best OF
this opportunity to talk himself cut. In the
most engaging manner he accused his beauti-
full prisoner of being the cause OF his own
imprisonment, and told her that the sight of
her on their walk to St. Katherinl's Convent
he'd SO excited his fancy that he
was actually obliged to paint her;
and, in fact, as St. Katherine. But, un-
fortunately he had found it imp5ssihle to
paint her frem memory, and therefore the
Helpers in Distress that he had been ordered
TO paint, had been delayed so much that
finally Won Haltenherg had lncksd him up
mere 10 laDuIs ~ tSI dItiSJ ski
be combined his incidents Sc dex Rusty, and
put IN such high colors, that his enthusia, III
for the Unknown was made to appears SIS the
source OF all his misfortun; 8.
| In beginning his tory be held her hasd, but
gradually dropped it without danger, for the
| maiden made no effect to ssc2pe, but listened
| with Interest to the end. When, theTsupon,
be tried to press her hand. OUT of pare friend.
| ship, sas only made slight motion TO with
| draw it.
| She seemed to be really concerned about
| the poor man whom she had 80 uu consciously
brought into trouble. But light began to
dawn upon the overjoyei painter. The IN.
known could be no ether than Won Hslten-
bers's beautiful daughter, whom the tyrant,
equally Indifferent to the beauties of nature
and art. kept secluded from tie world.
Therefore he begged her to beeeech her father
to open the doors Of mis- prison.
THAT | cannot do" replied she; " nor
should my father do SO. He may treat you
haIshly; but he does no more thsn duty re-
quires."
"There we have entirely the child Of the
old SCHOOL," cried the artist. "a poor psint-
er is tortured to death, only to keep word to
the day and hour with the saints !"
For the rest he asked himself whether it
would not be better if ne now remained
locked up for few weeks. Perhaps the girl
would be induced to came frequently into the
quiet garden Indeed she looked very sym
pathetic already. Were he sent to town he
would never see her again; aud il he was at
full liberty in the castle, he was afraii that
the first spring of affection which was opened
10 the beautiful maiden by pity would
strsightway dry up.
Thereupon be quickly formed suitable
plan. He represented to her that hs could
only be free again if be finished the pic ures
handsomely and pulc.ual'y. In this killing
loneliness, without even q human voice, it
was quite impossible for him to accomplish
this. Moreover, he could not restore the
spoiled St. Ks herine uoless he had her beau
tiiul features as a MODEL She needed only
TO come and stand there few times +; talking,
and on the sly, the painting could best he
done. Casually he asked her if she was not
called Katherine. But her name was Su-
sauna
Az first she objected to the proposal, but
finally gave in rather quickly, os the psinter
thought afterward. Her father seemed to
have raised her as an innocent, pure child OF
nature.
How had the appearance of this child OF
nature changed our painter He rel 1iced il
his imprisonment, for she wanld come into
the garden again next morning He would
now paint the lacking saint for the beautiful
Susanua's sake, and consceniiously, as one Of
tie old masters would have done il for Coos
sake.
Already bis return to town was thing not
to be thought Of, without having secnred
Susanna's sffection; or, better still, having
married her. But here two dramatically
opposite ideas occurred to lin. He loved
Susanna as ardently as so giddy fellow
could love a girl whom he had twice seen
and spoken TO, and be wished to win her be-
cause be loved her. Besides this, he wishe d
to win her to punish the father. This was
his last trump card The ole gentleman had
outwitted him. and wanted to get the pictures
from him by force. Therefore the prisoner
would nov ouiwis him, and extort from him
his costliest j=wel his well-secluded daughter.
One might put d gold-maksr behind locks
. and bars; bus when you5g psinter and
maiden we're locked up, then the painter
would Lbs rate himself and the maiden as
we'll. With this d uble triunphsl song Ct
love and reveage, he began to prime an en-
tirely new tablet f3r st. Katherine.
V.
TIE helpful Susanna came sgain and stood
talking at the window grating. which she, in
convent pa1lance, called tie "conversation-lst-
tice." The psapls of the castle dared not
come resr the wild garden, that the painter
mi int remain free FROM distraction; SO their
Intercourse wss entirely safe.
The first days brought warm and clear
weather. Susanna could stand there for hours
without taking cold Konrad painted his
Katherine very slowly, that it might turn
out an entire success. In return with SEP
TENDER came rain and fog. For the wet days
the painter had saved up ST. Erasmus. with
the other male saiDts. But it rained on and
or, and he soon discovered that he painted
the man badly when the msiden was not
ths re TO inspire hin. by her grace and beauty.
Size was Therefore forced to come also in the
rain.
Now the rain was ai-be ~ iful Wrapped
ia great cloak-rmbrellas we're not yet
customary-Sdsanna swung on to the window
sill otherwise she would have had to stand
under the droppings from the caves; and
pressed quite hard to the grating, TO keep
from falling. 1t happened Their, quite natu-
rally, that the painter, duliug heavy she wer,
stole the first kiss.
She was, indeed. always merry and roguish.
Her sunny humnr was exactly what this
joyous Juth required and both soon avowed
tibet they were born for one another and
must remain one anctEer's for ever and ever.
Already they could hardly imagine that there
was ones time when they did not know each
other. Konrsd had actually imagined it o
much more difficult task to win the love of so
sTistocratic lady; but probably this was
simply the result of her secluded childhood.
The birds which are kept most carefully in
their cages fly most readily therefrom. Su-
ssnna had not yet seen anything of the world
more than the IeighboriDg town; but Kon-
rad promised TO take her away with him,
even across the Alps to Rome and Venice
Only in one or two things she was severely
old fashioned. Out of pure reverence she
scarcely dared to speak Of her father. She
seemed rather to consider him as her master,
and her mother as her mietress, as was GUS
tomary in old fashioned tines Occasionally
she even called him directly Herr Won Hal
tenberg, as in fact the wife formerly called
her husband by title and name.
When both had brought their love affairs to
full understanding. at the window-bars,
they spoke of marriage. Here Susanna did
not hide from him that her father would be
greatly opposed to the printers calling. He
did not think much of artists. and the one
imprisoned here in the alchemist's cell he con-