Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-06-20

light, timidly, as if about to do some
wrong, and looked over the latticed
gate into the garden.
The idyl was played out. Deathly
stiffness lay over all. How cold seemed
the silvery moonlight upon the path!
Light waves of perfume from the
rosebeds were waited over to him;
MORALLY weary seemed the plash of the
fountain; cool breezes rustled through
the tree-tops, and as in a dream he
murmured the refrain of the little poem
hat had been so dear to the absent one
"As If within that garden
OF roses, white and red,
She still for me were waiting,
My darling long years dead"
"Adieu, dear little Hortense! l shall
never see you again." he murmured,
softly.
1t was indeed a final separation.
They never met again. No tidings
passed from one to the other. Arnim
had scarce entered the university when
his parents died, thus severing every
link with the old home. Serious student
years absorbed him. His powerful in
clination toward medicine had made
him a physician despite his fathers
protest.
He had scarce graduated when he
made the acquaintance of wealthy
Russian, i'll with Inflammation of the
lungs. This happened as he was about
to settle down in his native town with
a view of building up practice there.
He had the good fortune to cure this
foreigner who, grateful for his recov-
cry, and touched by the decided fond
ness of his half-grown son for the
young doctor, invited him to share
their southern travels as family ply
stefan and German tutor. In this way
Arnim saw great deal of the world.
Finally, at the solicitation of his new
friends, he settled in Russia. Every
where he had taken with him the lace
handkerchief of the charming Hor-
tense. After the lapse of thirty years
when, as a busy, successful physician
he had lived a life far removed from
that youthful idyl, he still cherished
it as q precious memento.
His heart remained strangely I'M
touched by love. Not that he had
| striven against the charm of wom-
OIL VI Ou0 Va
way of that spell old as creation
itself. Still no woman had awak-
ened in him more than passing inter-
est. When he pondered over this I'M
usual reality, II have no time for love, :"
was the refrain of all his thoughts,
"and without love there is no happiness
in marriage"
A woman had always presided over
his bachelor household. Ivan chung to
him with canine fidelity, and years
passed without his noting the swiftness
of their flight. Little by little there
had awakened in his heart longing
for his native land, for the quiet of that
quaint old town, for the rustic of Ger
man forests. These longings deepened
until they made him ill. He learned
through correspondence that the vine
wreathed house stood vacant and was
for sale. He purchased it gladly, and
settled down within those four walls
to him the most beautiful possession in
the whole world.
The little place was unchanged. He
found his cousin already there. With the
sums he had sent her, she had arranged
| every thing to his liking.
Marianne expressed some surprise al
sight of the tall cousin she had not me-
for twelve years, and whom she haG
imagined younger. VANS aspect filled
her with horror. She wanted him sub
mitted at once to the shears of the hair
dresser, but the shaggy Russian secuted
this idea, and his master only laughed
at it.
With strange sensibility the docto
now wandered through his native town
Whole streets had been laid out, mod
ern houses had risen, railway station
stood just outside the gates. But TO
the vine-wreathed house, to which s,
many memories chung, he would agail
have wandered forth. Here a swee
melancholy spell detained him.
The linden was yet standing-th
tree beneath whose shadow he had rea,
'Kathrine Won Hebron" with hi
pupil. Roses and lilies, syringas an,
, carnations, whose perfumes had pei
vaded the air of university lectur
rooms and greeted him from tn
orange gardens of Lorrento-all wer
, here.
, Every tree and rock on his own dc
r main was known to him; but outside h
felt himself a stranger. Familiar face
had vanished. The elderly people G
/ his boyhood were in their graves-th
! young had usurped their places. !
} "Casino" had taken the place of tn
) nine-pin alley at the Red Lion. TIL
! hills were dotted with the summe
J villas of rich city people. Not ia
: from the vine-wreati.ed house stoo