News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
TEN YEARS OF DEVOTION.
LOVES FIGHT WITH POVERTY AT
LAST REWARDED.
The Romance of Henrietta Lillienfeldt md
Edward Camradt Frightened by an Old
Aunt's Legacy.
[From the New York Times. !

From the New YORK Times.
For many long years two German
families lived together in peace and
harmony on the banks of the Rhine.
The yellow sunlight left the same tinge
upon the grapes in the vineyards of
each, which lay side by side, with an
open gate swinging between them. The
elder members of each family went out
into the world early, and the youngest
son of one and the youngest daughter of
the other remained at home. They were
Edward Camradt and Henrietta Lillien-
feldt, and they grew up together.
Nothing interrupted the course of love
until the time when each expected it to
eliminate in marriage. Then there
was sudden rupture in the families,
and the stern father of each declared,
with sturdy German oaths, that there
could be no union between them. More
over, a wealthy aunt of Henrietta, who
had declared an intention of leav-
threatened to leave her without a shil-
ling should she marry young Camradt.
This strengthened the opposition of
Henrietta's parents, and the young
people were almost in despair. Unable
to endure living so near his sweetheart
without seeing her, Camradt, left his
home, just ten years ago, and started
for America, where he expected a ready
realization of the wonderful stories he
had heard about the great new country.
Henrietta grew pale. sadder and thin
ner as the days went by, and one morn
ing month or two afterward she was
missing. On table in her room lay
note stating that she had gone to find
her lover. As the years went by
rumor went over the sea back to the
Fatherland to the sorrowing parents
and the wealthy old aunt that she had
found her lover and that they were hap
PLY married. She had found him, but
they were not married. The world had
not gone well with Camradt. His wild
dreams had vanished, and he was in
the depths of encouragement when his
soul was rejoiced by the sudden coming
Of his sweetheart, who found him in
plainly furnished room at No. Is Avenue
b, IN New York city, with little of the
comforts of life and hardly enough of
its necessities. He was too poor to
marry, and accordingly she found a
home in No. 20, close by, and the two
struggled along together year after
year. They never married because of
their poverty and because Henrietta
still remembered her aunt's threat, and
she hoped that happiness would one
day be brought to each by the provisions
of the old lady's will. The other day a
neat-looking German with a pleasant.
kindly face and light blonde mustache
peered through the bars of the gate
10 oIr
prisoners to the Tombs. By his side
was a smiling-faced little German wo-
man, dressed in some dark cloth ma
terial, with bunch of violets nodding
from her hat. The faces of both were
fairly beaming with some hidden Joy
which possessed them as the little man
asked, in broken English, where he
could find the Justice.
Warden Finn Led the eager couple up
the stairs, and in a few moments they
had made their way with little ceremony
to the private room where Justice Ford
was sitting.
The little man took off his hat and
bowed solemnly. ''If you please, sir,
said he, "we w'ud like to ged marrid."
At this the little woman smiled modest
ly and began to look very earnestly at
the Justice.
"On Sunday?" asked his Honor.
EYES," replied the man; eve muss
marry ride away"
"But never marry anybody"
"Ah !" broke in the woman, in soft
voice; ''put we muss marry. We hat
waited SO long already, and we hat an
oder reason Wy we should marry ride
away"
"What is it? Why are you in such
a hurry ?" asked Justice Ford.
"Vell," replied the little woman,
quietly, ST hat just heard from Cher
many. One of my relatives is dead, und
she hat left me dwenty tousand dollars,
und 1 muss marry here before L can
get it.
Twenty thousand dollars !" ex-
claimed the Justice in establishment.
''Why, what do you mean p
cit is dis way, Judge" said the man.
''You see der will gifts it to her as hating
my name, as my wife, und she muss be !
my wife before she geds it."
Then the mystery was explained.
They were E lward Camradt aud Hen
'ietta Lillienfeldt. The rumor of their
which had gone back to the
Fatherland was believed, and the
wealthy old aunt, just before her death,
which took place a short time ago, had
forgiven them, and had bequeathed
go, 900 to her niece as Mrs. Henrietta
Camradt. The little woman told the
above story, and how for the last ten
years they had struggled along together
N New York. T1e had obtained en-
oloyment as a marble cutter, and she
lad sewed and worked 1T whatever she
could find to do; and together they had
ought poverty until the good news came
If the fortune which had been be-
lueathed her. Then she had gone to
Lawyer Wulfrau, in Twenty-second
treet, who told her she must marry be-
ore she could claim it.
"Und now am so happy" she con-
'iuded; 81 hat to do just what l hat
wanted to do for so many long years. SO
hat may ged $1,000 along with all
lie happiness that L haf ever wanted"
Justice Ford gave the delighted pair
he address of Alderman Fink, by
whom they were made one.
An English Coroner.