Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-08

| command, and fell on his knees before thS
saplng and looked earnestly omit. John toos
this to mean that he greatly admired Nag-
ner, as indeed he did, but still more deeply
did be adore certain fraulein who sang EiSa,
and this was what he meant, and when ne
rushed forward to embrace the saphng, and
then fell back suddenly and in great dejec-
tioion, he meant to express the hard hearted
ness of the prima donna. 1t was astonishing
how many condolences they gave one to the
other in song, and that neither understood
made no difference, because it is always sweet
to tell, even if we are not comprehended.
1t was, however, to very pretty Spanish
woman that John sang Schubert's WAN
derer," and SO explained why they were on
the road. She lived in a little house up high
among the rocks, where the goats seemed
more at home than human beings; but when
John he'd sung to her, and the sailor had by
the drinking song from "Lucretia BOrgia"
asked her for wine, she went into the house
and brought out her guitar and sang to them.
This pleased them greatly, because her
voice was as pretty as her face, and she had a
store of ballads they had never heard One
of them she taught John, Who had used a
guitar in the days when he was Z chortster
and had soprano voice. It would he hard
to tell which of the three was best pleased,
and they were as courteous to each other as
grandees of Spain could be.
When the sun set they separated. John
took the road down the hill to a village where
he meant to spend the night, and the sailor
struck out for the high road where a coach
passed each evening before dark. When they
parted the two men embraced each ether,
and the German kissed John on both cheeks,
and John kissed him on the lips as he would
m. TN1,-
his silver match safe, and the German fol-
lowed it by silk handkerchief. And then,
exchanging walking sticks, they parted
They made, each in his own tongue, many
promises to meet again, and this each well
understood and thoroughly meant. And
they never forgot each other. John never went
near port or on vessel without looking for
his German friend in Spanish service, but he
never found him.
His chances however, would have been
better had he gone in search of q German
baron who had followed an opera singer to
Spain, and who, having failed to win the
lady by his love and his rank, had schemed
to try love and romance. And it would have
greatly pleased John, who wished his road
mate good fortune, had he known that the
story Of this adventure, told with enthusiasm
and eagerness, had made the singer pardon
the intrusion or rejected Sultof, ana that
the baron, losing no advantage, had at last
bent the sapling and won a wife. And it
would also have amused John had he known
that wherever American millionaires, who
are known to be as eccentric as they are rich,
were congregated, there did the baron look
for his friend But, after all, it probably
was the Spanish woman who had the best in
the end because when she went to Granada
with her husband, who was matador, how
many operas and how much music did she
not hear while she and her friends were look
ing for the two foreign singers who had
stopped at her house and rested while they
practiced their parts.-Louise Stockton in
Harper's Bazaar.