The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-05-20

as keen as mine; but his face betrayed
nothing.
think it was in Heidelberg that we
met again our friend of the steamship
Mr.. Finch. We had climbed to the
Schloss, and found him seated in loop
hole, so to speak, behind its curtain OF
ivy, sketching the scene.
MIR. Finch !" cried.
@Yes, said the doctor; "a 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; q
am just sketching the valley of the
Neckar in passing"
what a lovely old ruin this is !" said
Ladislaw.
Il like to think of the lords and ladies
who made love on that old balcony in
the sweet June weather." Mr. Finch re-
piled, Cor when the moonlight overlap
the valley, who are only handful OF
dust to-day"
81 suppose their ghosts walk there?"
asked Ladislaw.
Certainly. What's an old ruin with
out ghost ?"
"Oh wish could see one :" 1 cried.
The doctor "pshawed." "You base
materialist! you do not deserve the
vision"
"If you will come up here with me
some starlight night" vo1ichsafed Mr..
Finch, "we may be able to unearth one. y
"And Mrs. Adams will come too" said
.Ladislaw.
1t was Mr.. Finch who "pshawed" this
time but beneath his breath.
Certainly" put in the doctor. "Mrs.
Adams is as anxious to see a ghost 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 stair
case 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
room. Was it very wrong? I dare say
Mr.. Finch thought so. wandered up
and about the old place with its haunted
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 I had my reward. 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, 1 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
sat;on that possessed me was fear or
pain. 1 had recognized one of the shad-
ows as that of the Herr Doctor" As
they stirred and walked slowly out of
sight, saw the lady was yelled and
leaning conidingly on the doctors arm.
But what business was that of mine?
What was the doctor to me, or 1 to the
doctor? Plainly, nothing,
II think we had better go down."
1 said, presently to Mr., Finch,
"Those shadows that passed." he said,
"are noble lady who eloped one dark
night with her physician. They have
been dust these hundred years, but as
punishment are doomed to retrace 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" answered, frivol-
ously. "If Mrs. Adams finds 1 am not
in my room"
"What will she do?"
"Send the Herr Doctor after me-"
"And the Herr Doctor is not favorite,"
eomPlacently, as we went slowly down
the steep,
1 lay 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 Involuntary fixed upon him for
some time, trying to unrayel the mys-
terry.
a was looking into vacancy" I an
swered briefly.
speaking of vacancy, have you seen
Mr.. Finch to-day 2"
"B1r. Finch is highly aesthetic nature"
began.
And you love the asthetic-birds of a
featherI"
"By-the-bye," yentured, @why didn't
you come up and play cards with us last
EVENING""
did you wait for me?" he asked, re-
garding me gravely.
" can't say that did. But hate to
play with dummy"
"And did you play with dummy"
as this the New England catechism,
Herr Doctor?"
"The New England conscience and
catechism went out of fashion, believe,
some time ago."
ayes; fancied yeu no longer had any
use for Them" said.
"Noy when am with the Romans,
do as the Romans do;" and then we both
laughed, and Ladislaw said we were like
two quarrelsome children. Il expect
you will be boxing each others ears the
next thing"
NO." said the doctor; Il always give
kiss for blow"
But for all that, couldn't help being
a little distant TO him afterward, when
ever 1 remembered the yelled lady at
Heidelberg castle. He used to call me
Lady April" was SO innocent in my
moods. don't know hoW IT happened,
but after this, wherever we went, Mr..
Finch was sure to be there before us, or
to follow later. The doctor called him
my shadow, and Ladislaw said he
thought my shadow was the only thing
about me which the doctor disliked. But,
for my part, Twas growing rather tired of
Mr.. Finch and his everlasting prating
about his medieval art, and color, and
what not; and couldn't go to picture
gallery unless he attached himself, and
explained the pictnres lQnd enough fel
all creation to overhear, while / was
anxious they should suppose that l
had been familiar with the master.
pieces all my days, and was only looking
at them out of a sincere appreciation of
the beautiful. I'm afraid / liked better
the doctors method of going through a
picture gallery in ten minutes, and the
scientific air with which he regarded
school of Anatonomyn in
for two minutes, and re-
marked, patronizing, that "the arm and |
hand were well laid open," as if REM
brandt was a pupil in the dissecting-