The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-02
IN THE ALTNtRkT.

loTef Nhea Mrs. an BURN CaIr-t
I've just hal letter from NIX otI friend
Frau Shilling. in Dr. lrn.' 81, S,id she
wants m u TN lf-r a ,,anldnial IN. Nnley-
lea who can SIM n ittte teubl ANYTHING
he NOR fortunate. fTnr,>e "a sui YOU.
Iiolet
You are very kind Ia think 0t IN But
in Urier Ia 20, | shall h.. obi set "a uSe all
the money ! hay ~, ash H. q rainy
hay"
But il is not exactly fair uelrhec now,
Is 1t: Besides, il viii he capital well in
vested You will s.. the world yOu will
learn German, AMI Won viii forget Mr. Dab
reg, and perhaps marry German baron"
Il don't want q marry a German haron.
hut think viii 20, thank you"
And tho next ourwari-bound Grynlsn
steamer carriel her to Hamburg Not
knowing syllable Of the German tongue.
she ensaseda Young German woman who
was returning home to travel with her To
Dresden, where Frau Schilling ut her. She
found her situation no sinecure. to be sure
Frau Sehillns's English WIS 50 broken as
10 b. almost teyond rtpiir. Once or twice
Violet went out with her 10 afternoon tea.
where she sat Ike statue. tryias with
all her might to grass the thread of the
conversation in vain: the loneliness Of
a stranger in foreign land. unable to
speak the language, pos ssed her, IL some
times seemed to her that she should die un-
les, she could find somebody TO whom she
could rehearse her thoughts and trials in
.ood terss English. Frau Schillins livel in
the eastern part of the city, III street
lalins cat Of DurerStrls& Although it
| WAS re3,ots from the central market pla rs
and the shops, and from almost everything,
il made up for this in Convenience in being
heap, hut Frau Shilling convinced every
| body that she lived there for the pure
air ami the view. Of course the tram
way ran near. OH its way To Blasewitz, but
Frau Schilling and her companion always
walked when they went Quit was omuch
halth,er. Violet hal been to til, Royal
gallery AMI the Altmarst but once, in the
convoy of Fran Schiling, when one after
noon, after she had been fortnight in the
city, il occurred 70 her walk out alone, and
make acquaintance with the place 1t was
quite late in the day, however, before she
got stirted. and the sky was already deep
saffron color in the west. She remembered
that Frau $ killing had coniuttd her
down DurcrstUs,e, past Holbeinplatl,
through TIL uarrow It'll Heigel.
strass, lau,ins to loo. az the old
SaxOn monument al the corner of the botan-
ical garden. WHERE Death, with his hour
glass, stands Ike shalow behind til war.
rior. The stream of rassciS scarcely 90.
served her as she l,tere upon III, Terrace
II Bruhl, and stopped to count tho spire, in
tho Neustadt; banl was playing in the
Relveicre some honesicli train that pur-
sued her II, she went Oh toward the gil lcti
groups Of statuary that adorn tho flight of
stsis giving upon the Schlossplatz.
The sunset light was upon everything; n
steamer was towing a fleet Of barges up the
river, the hills across the Elbe looked blue
and enchanting in the distance; bu. it all
made h, 2 feel more alone AMI bereft II was
. fair, great world; but what did /, sis-
nifty to her now that John Dabney had for
gotten herr SIZE crossed the Plate and went
slowly up Schloss,rassc and into the AIT.
markt; it was the longest way round. but
Il was the only way she knew. She ven.
tured into ole or two shops, and struggled
70 make herself understood, yainIy: she
stoppsi with the crowd to gaze in at the
windows Of print-shop at somc effort OF
tho modern masters. and wondered if |.
il was wrong ~ think them quite a.
satisfactory as soma of the mast ,rpiaccs |,
Frau Schilling hal pointed out to her in the /
royal gallery; the Altmarkt was thronged !
with people; carriages fastened, who knows |
where; every one s'emsl gay and cli crful |.
she wished with ali her heart tina: she knew |
few of til Sc pretty women, th so kindly !
matrons: she oagcd t. hear somebody speak
her name over her shoulder. to happen sub !
denly upon some familiar face Once she !
passed two people speaking English. and she .
turned back and male believe an interest in
the embroileries in neiyhboring window !
that she might listen to the delicious sounds. .
~ was 81 surprised 10 sec him. the lady .
was saying. "lIc said ho had come t.
Dresden on important business; can't ,
think what It Is
"Perhaps he will tell you, laughed hor
companion.
ooh no; nothing of the kind he was
never sweet upon M; We are first cousins
"And cousins are dangerou, things
When did lie leave New York
New York! Violet's heart bounded:
here was somebody straight from home.
Perhaps she knew him. At any rate, he
must know John Dabney and she found
herself wondering what this strangers "im.
portant business might be- but at the
thought Of John her ''oll sorrow walked and
cried" 1t was such mere triile that had
separated them, 1.-THE little rift within the
Lutte" How foolish 1t had all been, and yet
how irrevocsbe How sorcly she missed his
kindness, his presence, the right to think Of
him rs belonging to her, how bleak and
barren the world seemed without him. Life
was endel for her; that is, all that made life
worth living had left her; nothing .ignifled
after that: she could think OF nothing that
she could substitute for bis love- nothing in
oil the world could make amends to her for
oil she had squandered, and she had doubt
II Heaven would BE- Heaven without
him, In the distraction Of her thoughts
she had walked on till she was
tired, and now she turned back into
the Altmarkt How the scene had changed
the people, the shops, the carriages, were
still there. to be sure, and the figure Of Ger
mania in the center of the square still
seemed to soar into the violet heavens 1t
was all another world by gaslight such
uarronlancy had been wrought that Violet
could not tell which direction to take TO-
ward home: 50 many cross lights puzzled
and blinded hers Everybody was fastening
hompwari, every body had some one waiting
for his approach. some one thinking Of him
Only she was forlorn and alone and desc
late. She forgot that