The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-21
"Ah, the aesthetic taste lacking. You

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call this waste; but you don't under
stand the art OF economy. This green
dish, that looks as if it were deformed,
and that cost me exactly five cents,
will look so foreign and fantastic in
tine garish light Of America that my
friends will think I have brought them
a bonanza. Besides, 1 like to spend
without counting the cost; / hate to
count my money. Ihate poverty, or
a genteel. s%ufficiency."
"In other words you love luxury"
"Have | ever confided my love to
you? ! love plenty, | confess. I
shoulddie ofeconomy;itis worse than
the govt for cramping one"
"You must marry @ millionaire"
said Mrs. Adams.
"Fi1st catch your hare" suggested
Ladislaw.
"There's the Herr Docter,"I heard
Mrs. Adams say i'll an aside to
Ladislaw.
"But he's not q millionaire, nor to
caught with chaff."
1 wondered if the Doctors ears were
as keen as mine; but his face betrayed
nothing.
l think it was in Heidelberg that
we met again our friend of the steam
ship, Mr.. Finch. We had climbed to
the Schloss, and found him seated in
a loop-hole, so to speak, behind its
curtain OF ivy, sketching the scene.
"Mr. Finch!" / cried.
EYES, said the Doctor; ga bird in
the hand"
"He looks more like one in the bush
just now" as he hoped down from
his perch to greet us with effusion.
"Welcome to my studio,' he said;
ri am just s%ketching the valley OF
the Neckar in passing"
"What a lovely old ruin this isl"
said Ladislaw.
II like to think OF the lords and la.
dies who made love on that old bal
cony in the sweet June weather." Mr..
Finch replied, cor when the moon
light overlap the valley, who are only
a handful OF dust to-day"
81 suppose their ghosts walk there?"
asked Ladislaw.
Certainly. What's an old ruin
without q ehost?"
ooh! l wish l could see one!" l
cried.
The Doctor "pshawed." "Youbase
m~aterialist! you do not deserve the
vision"
"If you will come up here with me
some starlight night" vouchsafed Mr..
Finch, 1--WE may be able to unearth
one"
"And Mrs. Adams will come too"
said Ladlslaw.
1t vas Mr.. Finch who s'pshawed"
this time, but beneath his breath.
Certainty" put in the Doctor.
Mrs. Adams is as eager to see aghost
as yourself. You should extend to her
all the advantages of foreign travel"
But, for all that, Mrs. Adams did
not see one. met Mr.. Finch on the
staircase the following evening, and
we slipped out OF the hotel and up to
the Schloss, while the others supposed
| was writing letters in the retirement
of my own room. Was it very wrong?
l dare say Mr.. Finch thought SO. We
wandered up and about the old place
with it's haunting shadows, startling
bats and owls and all sorts Of night
moths from the tapestry Of ivy, while
he repeated ghostly verses and
whispered a good many ghostly
nothings. And l had myreward. For
while we rested in recess that looked
out upon the dark sky and river, the
moon shot out a beam between the
clouds, and revealed the shadows OF
two figures on the balcony.
"There, [ told you you should see a
ghost. You are not faint? 1t is really
only two lovers" said Mr.. Finch.
Was | faint? Judge whether the sen
sation that possessed me was fear or
pain. I had recognized one oftheshad-
ows as that OF the Her Doctor" As
they stirred and walked slowly out OF
sight, | saw that the lady was yelled,
and leaned confidingly upon the doc
tors arm. But what business was
that Of mine? What was the doctor
to me, or | to the doctor? Plainly,
nothing.
81 think we had better go down." /
said presently, to Mr.. Finch.
"Those shadows that passed." he
said, fare noble lady who eloped one
dark night with her physician. They
have been dust these hundred years,
but as punishment are doomed to re-
trace their steps every night. Don't
you want to stay till we see the old
noble, her father, with all his retainers
and men at arms, stalk in ghostly
pursuit.
Smother night" l answered, frivo-
lousy. ''If Mrs. Adams finds / am
not in my room"
what would she do?@
"Send the Herr Doctor after me-"
"And the Herr Doctorisnot afavor-
lite" complacently, as we went slowly
down the steep.
Hay awake till late that night, won
dering who the yelled lady might be.
The doctor looked very innocent next
morning, and SO did II hope.
"Why do you look at me in that
tone OF voice?". he asked, when my
eyes had been involuntarlly fixed up
on him for some time, trying to UNI
ravel the mystery.
II was looking into Vacancy" !
answered, briefly.
Speaking OF vacancy, have you
seen Mr.. Finch today"
"Mr. Finch is a highly aesthetic ma
ture," l began.
"And you love the esthetic-bird
of a feather"
"By the way" | ventured, why
didn't you come up and play cards
with us last evening""
"Did you wait fer me?" he asked,
regarding me gravely.
II can't say that did. But I hate
to play with dummy"
"And did you play with dummy"
"Isthis the New England Catechism,
Herr Doctor"
THE New England conscience and
Catechism went out Of fashion, I be-
lieve, some time ago."
"Yes;;I fancied you no longer had
any use for them" l said.
HNn. when an with the Romans