Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-28

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The stage is so far from here, and l
have no glass. Yes, l am dizzy. 1
think something has allied my head
And she closed her eyes; but
only to open them again, and fix them
on the left wing IF the orchestra. "It
OF course itwasn't. And vet
Why, the idea vas absurd. But still"
dd cGpo, dG capo, da capo.
clear me now play my lesson" said
HE sat down at the piano, and Emily
stood beside him. AS the young mu-
sician struck the keys her nerves vYibra-
ted to the touch. She felt a strange
subsection to the influence that made
it an effort to speak or act.
"You are making remarkable pro-
ggress. You will soon play better than
1 can." she said, in a constrained voice.
He played on, looking neither at
notes nor at piano, but steadily into
her face. She moved to the end of the
piano and called the cat to her.
"And you air glad?" Carl continued.
- shall be very proud of you. You
are the only pupil l am proud Of" said
sEes it soPh said Carl, with compass.
sion. "AiE they stupeedP Hat they
nc museek - their soulp"
Emily laughed bitterly.
"Your life ees not light" he said,
gently.
.ItSs all I expect. It's more than
I've had any right to expect. came
near being q dressmaker."
The young German said nothing, but
still fingered the keys and looked ut
her.
"You say l shall one day play better
than you? Will you then turn and 1
teach you? That would be a little joke,
ees it not? to change our place"
If Emily was ~displeased, she said
nothinggin reply, but continued: "You
should 60 to a great teacher. am for
children and poor people. You
should 60 to Friedrich Heller. I am
nothing. l can appreciates; that is my
one gift.( l am nobody. Why did
you ever come to me?" she said, pas
sionately and turned her head away.
There was q dead silence. Suddenly,
without word Of warning, the young
musician touched the keys with the
hand of a master, and dashed into q
brilliant raphsody of Liszt.
Emily darted from the piano to the
middle of the room, her face filled with
dismay. She stood there, trembling
from head to foot, till Carl, without
stopping, looked round upon her. She
was pale and quivering with anger
and CONSERVATION. She met his look,
flushed a painful crimson, and bursting
into tears, rushed from the room
Carl stumbled out of the house in an
agony of shame at his brutality. Iteven
added to his %offense, he thought, that
it had been committed with entire in
nocence. That he had had no fore
sight of these disastrous consequences
he felt proved not only his masculine
density, but the unintelligent cruelty of
the dumb brute. He subjected himself
to every form of self-castigation, regret
ting every moment that Emily could
not know what he was suffering. The
next day he rang at z Brick street, and
the mother %guardedly opened the door,
thrust out a bit of paper, and said:
my daughter don't expect you to
come any more, she says. I've made
out our bill. Is'pose you can send us
the money by Tomorrow"
In the meanwhile, thanks to Fried
rich Heller's influence, Carl Listman
prospered. He played at one or two
concerts, and was at once adopted as q
New York favorite. It was understood
in the highest circles that young List
mann, the new pianist, gave but few
lessons, and these only to persons of de-
cided natural gifts. Whether the high
est circles were right or not, it is a fact
that Carl worked night and day.
"What did 1 tell your" said his
friend. "'Who is more anxious to
make money than young Carl List
mann?: One does not hear so much
about his art these times"
Carl looked gloomily at his friend.
He gave a laugh out of which the boy
ishness had gone completely. He said
nothing, but in his heart he answered
that work is a desperate remedy, which
must kill or cure, and either result he
would welcome.
1t happened that Carl was one morn
ing giving a lesson to a merchant prin-
cess on Fifth avenu It must be &C.
knowledged that he had been sadly
false to his ideas when he accepted this
pupil. The lesson proceeded with many
afectations of humility and rapture on
the one side, and with logged endur-
ance on the other, when the sound of
another piano in the distance caught the
ear of the young German.
"Anoder l hear"
s.Oh yes," said Miss Mcfarland, vi
vaciously . Don't listen to that. That
is the nursery piano. The twins are
taking their lesson"
s.The tweens!" echoed Carl; ''the Nc
Farland tweens!"
Instantly two things connected them
selves in his mind, connected them
selves so wildly that it is to be feared
his eager pupil found him very unre-
sponsive during the remainder of the
lesson. By-and-by the distant piano
ceased, and there was a light step in
the hall. Carl glanced at his watch,
and pleaded unusual haste that day.
AS the stately hall door closed he had
his hand upon it, and as the twins
music-teacher reached the sidewalk he
was by her side.
"Can yu nefer forgf me?" he
pleaded.
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