The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-07-19

IulIeSU Ills OWN WeukneSR ana nef SLTenHtH.
She had always governed him with her love
| until she had destroyed him in the will to op-
pose her.
And now the strongest feeling of his life
swayed him-his love for Lilli He knew the
| actress other than his mother knew her deli
| cate sensitiveness which contact with the
world had not blunted. 1t was this delicate
! senstiveness which gained for her the chval-
| ric respect of gentlemen, which often made
! her representations on the stage too refined
| for the general taste.
| His mothers last blow was the hardest
| Lilli would blame him for an nstant's delay
| in the adjustment of the terrible mistake he
| had made; she would blame herself for it!
| No, he must not go to her until he had done
! what he could to find the woman he waited
! on in the shop.
| He hastened to the station. Here he mott
! fed the police as to what had occurred.
| There came to him an awakening from the
| low morbid condition into which he had been
| plunged these last few days. a horror of the
| outcome Oft. All that night there were vain
| attempts to discover the elderly woman in a
| black cloak and vail who had asked for a
| small quantity of bsmuth. Every minute
Clark became more anxious. The finding oil
the woman seemed to be the pivot upon which
hung his future happiness or unhappiness-it
| seemed almost as though Lllli said Find
her, and am yours; find her not, and take
my blame" Crers were sent out who ran
about the streets. proclaiming the incident.
| All night long Clark did what he could to
! rectify his mistake. At day break. haggard
| and worn, he left the station and went home.
| His mother met him She had heard of all
| that he had done. With shock she realized
that his task was undertaken for love of the
actress-it had not been mere lnfatuatlon with
| him. She knew that she herself was placed
aside forever, that henceforth he was removed
from her control And she had loved him as
@l,a. =, lnffh fol love Cha hrI
from her native land for his sake. If she had
| only thought that more than infatuation for
the actress had been the source of
| his admiration! But no, she could
not 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 air
and mentioned the Baron Volrath! o, her
poor boy!
When he came in she dared not sympathze
with him, she dared not say word to him.
She could only question him with stricken
eyes.
Il am doing what can,' he said to her,
and passed on to his own chamber where he
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 headings-''A Life En-
dangered, "a case of poisoning" Wanted
all women who bought bismuth last evening" -
and everybody was hunting for the elderly
woman in q black cloak who had purchased
a small quantity of bismuth. The station
was crowded with people who wished to have
their medicines examined; women became
hysterical and declared themselves poisoned,
and were dissatisfied when it was proven that
they were mistaken. 1t would have taken q
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 Frauein Lili 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 a perceptible
falling off. So with the chocolate she carried
fresh news of the strange excitement in the
city and hoped that it might provoke q
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 i'll reach of her mistress and picked
up the paper. She had little more than un-
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 it's minutia.
The Frauein Lilli arose and slipped on a
peignor of rosy silk. She crossed the room
to a box on the table at the further end
she raised the lid of the box, only to let it
fall
sWhere is the letter l wrote to the Baron
Volrath?" she asked.
pCrfol If whilo yoy, x,oro bo fhao
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 a deadly mistake through
thought of her. If that letter she had placed
in the box was posted there was another to
be posted at once, she fumbled at the pocket
of her peignor
':Greta,'' she said, ''the letter that was
here?'
Il found it when hung up the dress last
evening"" answered Greta. "It was stamped
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, 81 thought we
should wait until tomorrow, when the Baron
Volrath would come to Munich and go to
Berlin with u.s."
ave 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-
fused to see any callers, and grew more un-
bearable each moment She was glad enough
when it was time to go to the theater. Even
here her mistress brought that days mood
with her; nothing was right, her costume was
complained 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
especially jolly house for the affairs of the drug
gist had assumed ludicrous proportions and
people were accusing one another of wishing
to purchase a small quantity of bismuth.
The gamins of the city were already using
the name of the drug as a catch word.
Many wise heads declared that it was all
clever American mode of advertising the drug
shop. In the theater there were small jokes
banded from one to another, and all touch
ing upon the topic that absorbed that days
attention in the town.
Therefore when the curtain arose and the
favorite actress came forward, she faced u
good humored audience. Yes, they were
merry and happy even saying farewell to her:
a tragic incident made them cheerful as need
be-.
Had they known of the tragedy in her own
breast would they have been as cheerful?
She enacted the role of q merry maiden with
q puzzling number of lovers from which to Sc
lect a husband, coquetry in her smile and on
her lips; and all the time she was thinking
that she had made herself vile in the eyes OF
the man she loved and whom she had let see
that she loved. And yet his mother had
proved to her that she was nothing to him, had
begged that she would set him free from her
"toils." Her tolls? She had told sthe
anxious mother that her son was
free, had promised that she would write to