The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-22

No, he must not go to her until h had don
what he could to find the woman he waite
on in the shop.
He hAsteHed to the statioH, iEerl lie hoti
| fed the police ms to what had Occurred
isW hdFbid teAattiaa it'd 4Eisf e. had be se
plunged these last few days. a horror of tn
outcome of it. An that night there we're vail
fattempts to discover the elderly woman in ;
black cloak and vail who had asked for
small quantity of bismuth. Every minut
Clark became more ,atsiogs. The Ending =
the Woman SEEMED to be thepivot upon whicl
hung his future happiness or unhappiness-i
her, and l am yours. find her. not, and tax,
my blame" Criers were sent out who RAJ
about the. Streets SttFiaiH.its ths ittradrrt,
g.. Al light long CLARK did what he could t.
reotify his mistake. At day break; haggart
and worn, he left the station and went home
His mother met him. She had heard of al
that he had, done. With a shock she realized
that his task was undertaken for love of tn,
actress-it had not heHh mere infatuat'cn Will
him: She knew that she herself was placed
aside forever, that henceforth he was removed
from her control And she had loved him al
the only thing left her to love; she had come
from her natixe land for his sake If she hac
only thought that more than infatratida fol
| the actress had beer ths s5tifes 8
his admiration But no, she could
hot bring herself to say that her sons wife
| should be as Lili was-and Lilli had spoken
coldly to her, had smiled with an ennuied ali
and mentioned the Baron Volrsthl O., hel
Whsf he came in she dared not sympaathiza
with him, she dared not say word to him
She could only question him with strieken
eyes: -.
~ am doing what cam. he said to her
and passed ON to his own chamber where be
locked himself in and where she feared to go
to him.
That day red placards were placed on the
bill boards; Extras, were thrown about the
City with sensational headingsS''A Lifts En-
dahgered, "a case Of. poisoning" Wanted
all women who bought bismuth last evening, -
and the like; until the whole city was excited
and everybody was hunting for the elderly
woman in black cloak who had purchased
small quantity of bismuth. The station
was crowded with people who wished to have
their medieines esaitiihed, Women became
hystarical and declared themselves boisoiied;
and were dissatisfied when it was proven that
they were mistaken; 1t would have taken a
barrel Of bismuth to have given even the
smallest quantity to each of those who
claimed that he or she might be the unfor-
tunate victim. The day went on to noon,
evening came and the elderly woman in the
black cloak remained undiscovered.
The Fraulein Lilli naturally heard Of the
commotion. Her maid spoke much of it
when she carried the chocolate to her bed
side In the morning.
Greta thought that her mistress looked
poorly these two or three days, and that
her acting last night showed perceptible
falling off. So with the chocolate she carried
fresh news of the strange excitement in the
city and hoped that it might provoke a
smile. Instead, the fraulein asked her to be
Silent and read the items in the morning pa
per-
Greta set the tray and the chocolate jug on
the stand iu reach of her mistress and picked
up the paper She had little more than IN
folded the sheet when she uttered an exclam.
alton.
"Fraulein, cried she, "what do you think?
The mistake took place in the shop of your
American friend, Herr Clark"
Lilli gazed blankly at her. Greta went On
and read the papers account Of the affair in
all its minutia.
The Fraulein Lilli arose and slipped on
peignor of rosy silk. She crossed the room
to box on the table at the further end;
she raised the lid of the box, only to let 1t
fall.
where Is the letter wrote to the Baron
FOlrathf she asked.
81 posted it while you were at the theatre
last night-when l came home after taking
you there" answered Greta. "Did you not
tell me, fraulein, always to post the letter
found in that box?"
The actress turned her back to the maid
Her acceptance of the baron, then, had gone
to him and she had meant to recall it.
Why?
The story which convulsed the town told
her more than it told the town, and she owned
to herself that she loved but one man, and
that was not the one whom she aad accepted
as her husband, but he who had
made deadly mistake through
thought of her. If that letter she had placed
be posted at once, she fumbled at the pocket
of her peignor.
"Greta," she said, 'the letter that was
here?"
81 found it when hung up the dress last
evening" answered Greta. 1T was stamped,
SO l posted it along with the other" Lilli
laughed. The second letter went to Clark in
it she told him she had accepted the Baron
Volrath. Well, it was right that it should go
after the other letter; and yet she would have
given the world to have had them both in her
hand at this moment.
"Greta," she said, "Why do sit there
reading nonsense? Do you not know that
we leave Munich after the performance to-
night?"
Greta threw down the paper.
"But, Fraulein," she cried, ~ thought We
should wait until tomorrow, when the Baron
Volrath would come to Munich and go to
Berlin with us.
"We leave Munich tonight"
"Yet they say the baron will not be here
till tomorrow.
"We leave tonight"
-"Greta- could not understand her mistress
that day; she was tyrannical, nothing pleased
her, and she started at the slightest noise, re-
used to see any callers, and grew more I'M
oearable each moment. She was glad enough
when it was time to go to the theater. Even
mere her mistress brought that days mood
With her; nothing was right, her costume was
Of she was curt to the manager
and delayed the rising of the curtain much
beyond the usual time The house was
packed from pit to dome on the occasion of
her farewell to Munich. Moreover it was an
specially jolly house for the affairs ofthe drug
yist had assumed ludicrous proportions and
people were accusing one another of wishing
20 purchase a small quantity of bismuth.
The gamins of the city were already using
;he name of the drug as q catch word.
Many wise heads declared that it was all a
.lever American mode OF advertising the drug
hop. In the theater there were small jokes
)anulel 1rOm one I'd dHOUueF, anu oil tOuCu-
ng upon the topic that absorbed that days
attention in the town.
Therefore when the curtain arose and the
avorite actress came forward she faced a
rood humored audience. Yes, they were
merry and happy even saying farewell to her:
tragic incident made them cheerful as need
)e.
Had they known of the tragedy in her own
,reast would they have been as cheerful?
She enacted the role of q merry maiden with
puzzling number of lovers from which to Sc
ect husband, coquetry in her smile and on
Or lips; and all the time she was thinking
hat she had made herself vile in the eyes of
he man she loved and whom she had let see
hat she loved. And yet his mother had
proved to her that she was nothing to him, had
,egged that she would set him free from her
tolls" Her tolls? She had told the
Lnxious mother that her son was
ree had promised that she would write to
i'm and tell him of her engagement to the
aaron. And she had done so. and by this
lime he must be thinking her the basest
voman in the world. And here she was
making peoplelight hearted with her piquant
citing as worldly maiden with more happi-
less than she knew how to dispose Of She
,ot through her part and made tableau of
oy and beauty as the green cloth rolled down
It the end of the performance,
When she was called before the curtain,
ver her gorgeous gown she had slipped on a
ong black cloak For she had tried to escape
rom the theater without responding to the
ecall