Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22

doors and mounts even to the shrine ol
Gambrinus, exalted on account of its
cheapness and its common aspect to the re-
mote quarter of the top floor. But the dis
ciples of Arion always find the shrine oi
Gambrinus, remote though it be,
and Heinrich In. time finds the
mysterious object of his search.
She is enshrouded in a domino
of sable with a broad silver border, and
three full blown Jacqueminot roses are
PINNED upon her breast She wears black
silk half mask, with deep fringe of heavy
lace, and the hood of her domino is turned
over her head. Heinrich follows her all
about, and finally to the corridor of the
grand tier, to the door OF box 81. into which
| she disappears; whereupon the wine mer-
chants son feels that he has her located,
and considers himself at liberty to rejoin
Lousia, who is patiently waiting for him in
a nook near the shrine of Gambrlnus, at
| which, in his absence. she has twice sur
reptitiously refreshed herself. Arm in arm
Heinrich and the pretty chambermaid go
sailing on the ball room floor, tacking in
and out very skillfully, pushing there and
yielding here, bearing themselves with
great self-possession and circumspection,
and seeing about as much as any four eyes
| in the house. Once tall, athletic man,
with the shoulders of prize fighter and the
strut of an actor, puts Heinrich in fearful
rage by showing him up against the wall of
box as rudely as if he were drygoods,
merely observing, "Sorry, sir; extremely
SORRY" in the most offensive tone imagina-
BILE, as he passed on, but Heinrich is too
small to be able to do anything except
stomach it.
Louisa turns MANY heads. She is dressed
presumably as princess, of kind pertain
ing to an epoch somewhere between those of
the 'Mascotte' and the "PIrates of Pen
zance," in brass crown with large glass
| Jewels, short red decollete frock loaded
with gold lace, old gold stockings, and the
prettiest slippers in the world. The lace of
a diminutive mask falls jrst to the tip of
her little nose, revealing delightful mouth
with small white teeth, and her plump white
neck and arms are bare and altogether dis
tracing. Heinrich is dressed as brigand,
and believes that he is disguised quite be-
yond the possibility of recognition; con-
seuuently he is both astonished and
chagrined, as he is wandering in the crowd
with the buxom Louisa, her arm through
his and his hand upon her hand quite affec-
tionately. to be accosted by the Fraulein
Minna, his cousin, whom he wishes to
marry, and on whose account he hates Herr
Martersteig with great bitterness.
Chow in the world did you know me,
Minna?" cries the brigand, b!ushing vio-
lently under his disguise, and dropping
Louisa's hand.
'By your size" says Minna. "Come with
me at once, Heinrich;" and Heinrich is
her to go again to the nook near the shrine
OF Gambrinus and await him there.
Minna is enveloped from head to foot in
gray domino of the most tinconspicuous kind.
Her face is entirely covered BY funereal
cambria mask. Not even a lock of her hair
is exposed. She inquiries breathlessly of
Heinrich if he has seen Herr Martersteig;
he has not. Has he seen the woman in
black and silver?-he has; he knows the box
where she is; he will conduct his cousin to a
place where she may observe her.
Minna stands leaning upon Heinrich's
arm and gazing into box 81. The woman is
there-alone. Is it possible that Martersteig
is indifferent to her? She said at II. and it
is now nearly /. She is sitting well back in
the box, tanning herself, just as she sat and
famed in the theater. For ten minutes
nothing happens. Heinrich would like ex-
ceedingly to get back to Louisa. bui he does
not know how. He suspects that she must
be very tired waiting for him near the GAM
brinus shrine. She has to go at 3, or at the
latest at $3.50, and he suspects that there will
not be very much time for supper.
Minna begins to wonder if she is to be
disappointed os sight the most painful to
her Imagination. She has come to the
Arion for the first time. She never cared to
come before, the amusement being some
what too boisterous for her taste. Two hours
before, at IL o'clock, Herr Martersteig left
Lod 80 har Of IL
the ball, not a word about the woman in
black and silver, with Jacqueminot roses.
When he went away she astonished her old
uncle beyond measure bv pulling him off
the sofa where he lay blissfully snoring and
insisting upon his escort to the Arion ball.
1 was useless to protest. The wine merchant
was compelled to souse his head with water to
flush away the cobwebs of sleep, and to ac-
cimpany his niece. She had mask and
domino already provided for him, and
mask and domino already provided for her.
self. Two tickets for the ball she also had.
The wine merchant wondered at it, but he
believed he would be just as wise if he
asked no questions. She brought him to
the Opera House and ensconced him in
box; and there he is now, mildly wondering
what time he will get to bed, while his
niece stands watching the woman with the
three roses and OBTAINING Heinrich, who is
fretting and fuming about the neglected
chambermaid away eff among the philis-
tines on the top floor.
Heinrich thinks, at least, that Louisa is
away up on the top floor; but the truth is
the demon of jealousy has entered very sud-
denly into her Imagination, and she has
been unable to keep herself in the nook near
the shrine of Gambrinus as she did an hour
previously. She has come down to see
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the pertidy of men, and she fears'that Helm
rich may be as bad as the rest. When the
woman in the gray domino came and stole
Heinrich, he whispered something about its
being his cousin; but what if it was? Cous-
ins could be in love with cousins. When
she had paraded cousin before Heinrich it
had been a settled man of go years, with
wife along. The woman in the gray domino
did not look to be any such age as that. So
Louisa is grieved and jealous as she comes
back into the ballroom, looking for little
brigand, slightly bowed in the legs, in COM
pany with a tall, closely masked woman in
gray.
After brief search Louisa discovers the
pair. Heinrich has his arms about the
woman and is tenderly supporting her. Der
head is on Heinrich's shoulder; she is Civ
ing way to hysterical emotion. Her body is
racked by the violence of her sobblng. Helm.
rich is also very strongly agitated. The rea-
son is that he is small man. and that the
physical task OF supporting his cousin is
strain upon him. But Louisa does not un-
derstand AS she looks she feels her own
tears coming, and fastening to Heinrich,
throws her arms about him, and weeps upon
his other shoulder.
The spectacle of small brigand thus lugu-
briously beset affects other people differ
a.
pathize either with the brigand or the weep
ing women whom he precariously supports,