Daily globe., 1883-05-14
4 MRN's Love.

Hans Behren's picturesque holae was
high up among the lowlards OF the
Hurtz mountains. Loving his profes-
sion of forester for its own sake, his
caAtentment and happiness in the posi-
lion fate had assigned him we're COM
plete nor had he the shadow of an
anxiety, save for his one motherless
ch5la, Kathleen. He had educated her
la q city school, and during her absence
hes. place had been filled by Fritz Ixa-
den, the orphan son Of Hans foster
sister, who, appronticed to his uncle,
Was also studying the profession OF for
ester.
Since Kathleen's return q strong at
tactlnent Lad grown up between t4e
cousins, and Hans was glad to thalk ti.at
a Young man lie liked so much might
become lis son in-law and Ieiieve him
of AZ further care for his daughter. He
therefore brought the young people to-
eether as much as he could, and, rOw
taat professional opening offered Rself
la q station some twenty miles distant,
he hastened to secure it for Fritz, thus
putting him in the way for furthur pro-
motion.
AS for The young man, though it sep
aEGted him from his love, it made him
gla0, for would it not the sooner bring
them together Il was not an advaace-
me0t to marry on, but it was Il step in
that direction, and he YVES pleased asad
hopeful to- have got SO far.
So he had gathered together has slen-
der possessions, and in ~ few days ne
vas 10 depart for his new home. bidding
farewell to the old home, 50 dear in all
It's associations.
II was then that he resolved not to
leave Kathleen without speaking his
n&nd. AMI securing his happiness freh
her own lips. He had been working
steadily MI the summers afternoon in
tlae forest, when he saw her coming to-
ward him with bunch of violets In her
Lan.ls.
"See. Fritz she said, :'what lot Of
dear vioiets I have found. OF all the
flowers they are my favGrites they ;sre
so lowly, so unambitious. All unlike
yourself i'll that, she added with a IA
di2iIt smile.
"Do you dislike my ambition, Kath-
leen :? " he asked.
no" she answered q lit!1e sadly.
" though it is taking you away from
US"
"And for whose sake do you think I
am going? For who do you think [
work SO hard 2" he asked, eagerly.
Glow can [ tell?" she said saur;ly;
but, meeting the gaze Of his deep bile
eyes, she dropped hor head and blnshed.
DO you care to know ?" lie reenMed,
advancing & step nearer to her, and seq
ing tie Land hanging listlcssly at Aer
Side, Lilo she buried her blGsh;ng tace
in tho other, that held the fowcGs,
neither 81 'caiing E0r stirring. She lQ2ew
what was coming she lonGed for 1t yet
she dreaded it but she seemed reeted
to the spot by some magic spell.
Kathleen, l love you-T want to
make you my wife. I seek some posi-
tion wheEe I could offer you as. comfort
able home as the one you would leave.
for would not think it honorable to
ask you to share less comfortable cna;
but, once have attained sNch posi-
tion, and a home and range of my
.5wn, can you not give me hope, Kath-
ieen, that you will SO supremely Bless
my life? All, answer me, dearest"
BIT She did not answer him q word,
only buried her face deeper IN the ma
CANT flowers; but neither did she resist
him when, putting both his arns around
her, he drew her closer to him, holding
her IN his strong embrace and pressing
paesioHate kisses on her bowed head.
"Speak to me, love-" he whispered;
"only one tiny word, Kathleea.
With passionate impulse she threw
both arms around his neck, scattering q
fragrant shower Of white yiolets 6Ter
him,
"T love you, Fritz" she marmured,
and, breaking away from him, she ran
to the house.
The next cay the young man left for
his new station. 1t was full month
before ne found an opportunity to revisit
his old home. ALI was as he had left it,
except Kathleen, and she seemed changed
how he scarcely knew.
There was shyness, q reserve about
her manner; less of the girlish simplicity
which had always charmed him, and
much more of the lady; sertain con-
stralpt which he had never noticed be-
fore. When he spoke to Hans about it,
the latter pooh-poohed it, saying that it
was the way with girls, and that ap-
prOaching matrimony always sober6d
them,
And, although Fritz left his old home
with certain anxious foreboding, youth
is so hopeful and love so trustfu1 that
his fears were soon soothed, if not en-
tirely forgotten, by the friendly letters
which he received every week from old
Hans, full of accounts of their welfare
and tender messages from Kathleen.
But one autumn day he received two
letters. The one in the cramped hand
writing of his old master ke laid aside.
to tear the second, bearing huge Gov
ernmental seal, eagerly open. Here at
last was his dream realized. for his pro-