The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-11
With a rosy blush, SO that she appeared

even more charming than before.
May l call tomorrow and inquire
after your health7' l ventured to ask;
but she seemed taken by surprise at
the question and 'hesltated to answer,
while the blush depened on her cheek.
"Hi!" cried the coachman at this
moment; the horse started off, and as /
stepped again on the sidewalk the
vehicle was already rattling away.
AS If In dream entered my hotel.
| could not refrain from laughing at
myself; this ardor, this interes. about
a young lady entirely unknown TO me
more beautiful, more dazzling visions
than this childish, shy grl had often
during my life crossed my path with
out having attracted me particularly.
l was a riddle to myself; however, 1
made the firm resolve to find out by to
morrow some particulars about this
new street acquaintance.
A few hours later [ sat with
number Of pleasant friends in one Of
the best restaurants under the lindens.
The conversation was lively and cheer
full, and there were many ladies and
gentlemen continually going in and
out.
In the neigbborhood Of the table at
which we sat and made ourselves
merry was gathered large party, joy
GUS and gay like ours.
Some young girlish faces before us
having attracted me l involuntarily
looked around for my Unknown, but
there-yes, certainly, there he was next
to the little blonde coquette, with the
seductive little snub nose and the snowy
white felt hat-the officer of I.utzower
street, the same before whom my little
friend had taken flight, for although 1
had no foundation for the idea, since
we had met many other men on that
street, could not help thinking OF the
large, snowy, handsome, but utterly
blase and insolent looking Lieutenant
cf infantry in connection with her.
"Who is that pale offlcerg" asked 1
of my friend Erich.
"Where?"
l indicated the direction to him.
"The one with the black beard, next to
the little blonde lady,"
"HeP" said Erich, and laughed.
"Why he is the lately betrothed, the
handsome Paumwolf. I thought you
surely must know him."
mo, no; but what is the story
ABOUT him?" inquired.
"Well, nothing more than that
yonder blonde has-with some trouble,
it must be admitted-captured him for
life, after he has caused nearly ninety
nine others to dream of the same happy
fate. For myself l never could have
attained such an elegiac calm after
breaking off love affair. But he has
been unfortunate. Young ladies with
and without pedigree, with and with
out money bags, bow down to him after
he has devoted himself to them for
half an hour, entirely conquered by
his irresistible destinations. And il is
Just the same with the old ones. Many,
to be sure, allege, indeed, that behind
the titanic brow there is nothing but a
cornfeld, and that a thrashed-out onel''
While Erich had been speaking my
eyes had wandered away from Paum-
wolf. His pale face, framed in by
curling black beard and hair, remand
ed me, in fact, of the Zeus of Otricoli.
To me it was in the highest degree re-
pugnant.
Enough tears have recently been
flowing from beautiful eyes, since his
betrothal with Fraulein Josepha Maier
has appeared IN the Gazette"
'Maierp" | involuntarlly asked.
eyes, yes" laughed Erich; "simply
Maler with All but passably pretty
and immensely rich, Of course. And
since Fraulein Josepha does not look
Jewish, Paumwolf can endure that his
father-in-law in spe should have former
ly been cloth merchant in Frankfort
on-the-Main.
The conversation having once turned
on the handsome Paumwolf, it did not
soon leave the subject. On the other
side of our table the people were
whispering about him, and one SAID:
SIT is quite lncomprehensible to me
that he did not rather take the little
Gerdshof, whom he so recently courted.
The girl is of altogether different
stock from the Maiers, and she seems
to be head over ears in love with him.
"Yes, but the money-the money!"
cried another.
swell, at all events, this one Is a
blonde, too, and very rude one," re-
marked a third. An idea suddenly
seized me.
"Where does Fraulein Gerdshof
live?" asked of Erich.
He looked at me moment without
speaking and then laughed aloud.
"Well, you certainly are amusing
this evening, with your abrupt ques-
tions, Besides being called Won Gerd-
shof, of old Margravite nobility, her
father is a pensioned general, but
where she lives do not know. Do you
wish to console her for the loss OF
Paumwolf, old boyP"
I threw him glance full of rage.
A young assessor who sat at our table
and seemed to have heard our dialogue
called out to me: 81 can give you the
address, Baron-Kurprinzen street, No.
35."
Now that was the very dwelling of
my Unknown. l felt all the blood
rush to my heartj then thanking him for
the information, took my hat and stick,
and without waiting to repiy to the
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