Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-21

anu heavy ana reuolont OF unSaVOry /
odors. Then she perceived that the room
20 which she had gained admittauce--a
} dingy, oblong apartment, hare OF ornS-
meutation, say five and twenty feet IN
breadth by forty deep was crowded with
people, who sat with their backs toward
, the entrance facing The opposite wall
: There were men and women old and
young; and not few OF the women had
their babies with them, The men, Tor
the most part, kept on their hats, and II
J flashed upon letta that perhaps the thea
I ter was a kind OF weekday synagogue
! only, where were the rabbi and the chax.
! zany And how came Il that the men aud
E women were seated side by slider But
I Yetta bestowed upon these questions only
Q a passing fancy. Her real business was
, TO think how she had better set about Il
, TO select from this vast assemblSge the
! person she had come TO search for.
I should she call his name aloud and
walt for him TO respondy She shrauk
= from doing That because II would render
her painfully conspicuous TO the rost
c Should she Inquire for him Of the woman
who was seated nearest TO her, should
| she elbow her way 70 the other end " the
|, room, and then turn about so that she
could descry tue peoples faces, and thus
| pick him out aud 70 10 himl Or--g But
S at this luncture her specuations were
abruptly cut short, There betell an oc.
Q currence which at once startled her and
q hopelessly perpleXed her. L0 and be-
hold, the solid wall of the house began to
! vanish upward into thin air one cutire
side OF the room the side that all the
< people were faclng--was lifted by some
d unseen agency vertically aloit through
a. tho ceiling Yetta uttered little cry Of
surprise. Certainly this was the most
ia extraordinary spectacle that she had ever
a Witnessed IN her life.
n. The wall having been effectually dis
4. posed OF, In its place Yetia beheld what
ID she afterwards described as an imitation
ie garden. She saw trees, which somehow
didn't seem like real trees: and grass,
~ which bore but remote resemblance TO
:, real grass; and aowers which woro soiled
y, aud unbeautiful, and, she suspected, un,
! fragranti and u landscape beyond, which
~ was sickly and pallid and unsubstantial
~ looking. The only objects in this coun.
> terfelt out-of.doors which struck her as
~ uuquestionably genuine were two human
!, beings. one q young girl, with yellow
- hair, red checks, scarlet bodice and q
Us laconic petticoat; the other, young man
~ decSed out IN the uniform of soldier
"a And mercy upon her-it did not require
~ q second glance for Netta TO recognize II
y, this martial parsonage no one else thar
-, Nahan Zacharel
"a But not the Nahan pale and sad, VIII,
~ had parted from her that afternoon. No
~ the despairing Nahan whom she had CONT
Nv to comfort. Nor yet the submissive, long
VI suffering Nahan who had langHished 70
'in the pest twelyemonth at her feet No
-, but dashlng, aggressive seli-assertiv
~ Nahan n t4hanrfNl uFnpYupiul
~ Nahan; Nshan with swapping eyes, i'm
's pertinent mustaches, and a smart goatee
~ q Nahan the sight OF whom caused Yeti
ny no end of bewlderment and admiratio
w. and disappointment.
Nl She was bewildered, because she coul
ny not understand the transformation tha
~ ~ he had ndergone--neither the reason fo
au- II nor the method by which II had bee
effected-~and because she could hit up0
SITS no adequate theory 90 account for his cd
ing situation, there In that paint and past
her board garden, by the side OF that youn
NY girl, Ia the presence Of all those pcopl
Ter She admired, because the improvement
-oi that had been wrought In Nuhan
AR costume, II not In his person, WI
ou- both Impressive and unmistakabli
uch though, at the same time, she could n'
1re help regrctting little the soberer al
for shabbier Nahin Of few hours ago. An
ma lastly, she was disappointed, becaui
lch- this Nahan looked so self satisfied and !
you contcnted that she feared he had no ne,
To OF her consultations and perhaps h
hazardous pilgrimage had been love
ced labor lost
rom So, between her various emotion
res, Yetta stood stock STILL uncertain VIII
iant course she had better take.
But, hush-Nahan was speaking
m" was talking TO the yonng girl In I
not scarlet bodice. Everybody kept We
still, and seemed 10 be listening. Yet
or, pricked up her ears and listened, too.
In that hybrid tongue, compounded
olsn impure German and Hebrew gone sta
lne mad, which is employed by the low
pSeu classes Of Polish Jews, and which pass
nueI under the nickname Judisch, Nahan v
E,rl addressing his companion, We
v me listened; and, as she did so, her
ey. parted and qulvered, her limbs gr
etIa rigid, her cheeks flushed crimson,
jew beautiful eyes blazed with indlgnatl
!. =. For this is what she heard
~ y "Naomi,p cried Hehan, selling
Young girls hand, ''need tell thee I
or2, since many new moon J have lo'
thee-adorcd thee-with soldiers
sion? Need remind thee that ! h
Nd M DFNNtu uil bOlhc Va FNiait' $50 49, -
.h,eh disobeyed orders--that | might visit
Tho from time 70 timer Is II necessary
ent / should enumcrate the foes whom ] b
hmse confronted and vanquished, that no OF
,his man might call thee hisp ] think
, nm. Very well the point is that our regin
,.as marches northward dep
cd Hf in from this neighborhood Tor good and
,ra,n Shall 10 with them and never see
.,'a ID Naomi AGAIN. Or shall desert, con
j &c myself for awhile and then, danger b
,hna passed emerge from my hiding-plaoe
,'a,,id claim thee for my ownf IT Is for the
o osnr decide. Open thy mouth, sweet mai
= IN W. and say Il In thy heart there be .
' 'an spark Of affection for thy soldier loy
y 49, ,I'm not sure" quoth Naomi, ''whe
". the sweet commotlon which thy w
~ arouse IN my bosom be love, or
the embarrassment OF virgin modesty
al 10 may, stay thy doubts. vow TO
''' IT'S loyel Let me but press one
ed upon thy lips, and thou Wilt doub
more
with which he drew her 70 him, IVY
.t,, his arms around her waist and gave