Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-08-16

/ consent, even though he has no wealth, Tor
shall have so much Mon Dieul am so
happy. for everybody wants him, he is so
handsome, With me your congratulations,
rhere couisine. for in lew months shall be
| Lady Stolhulm. Andno mor0-thOugh yours
still in affection, ERENE L'ABTEE."
The letter came to me in the soft
| Southern twilight as | sat alone UNI
der the clear stars of the Italian sky.
1t pierced my tired little heart like
the unexpected stroke of stileUto,
| and, like it, brought the silence of
| death-death tn feeble, fading hope.
| did not moan or cry out, but des-
pair number all my senses, and me-
chemically, almost unknowingly, |
wandered off to u secluded spot amid
the lime-trees, and threw myselfupon
the warm soft turf. There | lay.
grasping in my hand still the letter
with its hidden sting, turning my
little, wan face up to the waving
| coughs above me, through which
came the CLINT of the lights ofheaven,
as ii they would iain comfort me.
mo, no, naught could comfort
mew moaned within myself; and like
the echo of my heart, sounded the
distant vesper hell-elear, but faint
and wailing-borne on the evening
air.
"Ach, mein Gott! what is this?"
1t was the rugged voice OF fraulein
that startled me, and realized that
the long twilight was spent and the
night was far on. She reused me
ard took me up i'll her strong arms
and carried me home. 4 long insen-
sibility followed. A month passed
under the power of the fever that
seized me. Upon my recovery we
again Travelled for six months. With
my brother who was in the Cniyer-
sity in Germany, came two students.
We all journeyed together. One
was Bavarian-handsom intellect
ual, and fiercely impulsive; the 9th
er a Hollander whom | thought in
tolerably stupid, for he smoked all
the time, and nothing more. Both
of these men made overtures to my
father for my hand in marriage, and,
though my father urged the suit oil
the Bayarian, | declined, not caring
for either of them. And upon the
Hollander essaying one day to make
love TO me, said very decidedly:
i can never marry you, so pray
do not harbor such an idea.
On the evening of the same day
ball was held at one of the pala
tial residences in Vienna for it was
in that courtly city that we were
now sojourning. Although | was nc
more in love with the Bavarian thar
with the Hollander, he was more
agreeable company, and he paid me
much court this night My glas:
: told me before l lett my dressing
!, room that my toilet was most be
!, coming. It's pale green sheen con
l trasted with my brown hair and eyes
and lent ali ethereal aspect to my
! pale, small-teatured face. 1t wa.
when the evening was far advanced
and l was dancing with the Bavariar
: that suddenly familiar voice strucl
upon my ear. | looked up and saw
: Lord Stolnolm. He stool near me
Il in company with some eminent gen
tlemen He saw me, bowed quietly
: and after the dance came and spok,
with me. He was changed and look
Z ed pale and worn. His manner wal
kind, but constrained. | felt tn
} barrier that existed between Erene
lover and myself ] asked il Eren
were still in Paris, and he briefly re
piled Yes" He disappeared sool
y after, and ! felt as though a tempes
2 had passed over me, and left m
I beaten down and half dead As tn
night advanced, feeling strange ant
: alien to this crowd of foreigners,
y stole softly out alone on a deserted
, = balcony. The stiffness of the moon
!; lit night soothed me, and as listen
ed to tbe soft splash of the fountains
u playing in the garden below, muir
! INJURED within mysel at the fate whicl
I carried me into foreign lands. The on
= longing of my soul was to return t
u America or England. | descended
;, the balcony anc wendell my wa,
y through one ofthe labyrinthine path
= of the shrubberied garden. Light
2 CLEANED everywhere amid tho dark
y green foliage and the fountains glis
tened and statues stood out cold an,
y white in the light of the moon.
gathered the sheen of my ball rob
E about me and seated myself on tn
= ledge of an artificial grotto. "Oh
!, why" | murmured, chad my Low
y shown himself to me for one fleetin
moment and then vanished? NWh
= speak to me when he was no longe
Z mine? Did heever think of me, or ha
/ been merely the toy OF the passin
u hour? It would seem that | had; an
y yet how strangely he looked at m
l tonight! Would it have all bee
~ well il had sent him a note when
lg left Paris? But surely Erene woul
= have told him where ] was! Surel
:! she would not be so cruel as to witt
y hold my address had ne asked il
y But why do talk thus, forsootIl
q Foolish heart, do not harbor such
81 thrill OF hope. He is bound to al
other-he cannot be yours. To yo
he is lost-lost-lostw And TIL
y shuddering night air soughed ava
~ through the frs in sad echo tina
re sounded it's sepulchral murmur dee