The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-12-03

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least thing that can be done is to ne!I3
e-yu other"
Brethren!" murmured thinner liz
a bitter tone. You say that OUT Of
politeness. Alas! l am nothing but
apoor professor with absolutely moth.
ing"
i beg your pardon. but you have
mad yo+r i popularity.
have had talaAts.
i am obliged for your coul tass.
81 IS not courtesy. 1t is my :.
cere opinion"
You may perhaps have hearql
that and you repeat it to me to less
en- the bitterness of aims. You do
not, you cannot know anytime
about me-"
You are mistaken and Lam going
to prove it to YOU"
went to the piano, and I PLAYED
slowly the eight bars I knew so well.
The old man lifted his head at the
flrst notes. Stupefaction was fol
lowed by infinite delight. The artist
in him Strengthened himself up, and
q beam of joy shone through the
tears which flowed down his hollow
cheeks. His emotion affected me so
that l had the utmost difficulty to
get through the eight bars. AS |
arose from the piano he ran toward
me and took my hands, exclaiming:
"Ah, maestro, dear maestro! May
God reward you! You have done a
good deed. You have prevented me
from dying-that was nothing. You
give me strength to live-that is
everything. So there is indeed some
body on earth who still knows me.
and that somebody is you. All, how
can show my gratitude for this
delight, which is so great, so unex-
pected!"
I'm very simple manner" l re-
piled. ''You have but to play for
me the rest of the waltz"
'The rest the rest of the waltz"
eyes. It is the greatest favor you
could do for me. When have told
you why, you will see that all is not
settled between us and that am
still your debtor"
thinner sat down at the piano and
played, as had just done, the eight
bars. Then he stopped. was all
attention. He seemed to be trying
to recall it. His face changed from
establishment to pain. Suddenly he
clasped his brow in his hands and
exclaimed in terror: II cannot recol-
lect it! I cannot recollect it.! Good
heavens! I am going crazy! Per
haps it is THE excitement are
listening to me-and yet this very
morning I played it. That waltz is
my life, myself-a very mournful
life. Let me go home and I will
bring the waltz to you. Twill not be
gone long"
"Be still more generous, replied.
"Come and breakfast with me to.
morrow, and then you will play the
waltz to me and tell me your his
tory"
That very evening a telegram sum-
moned me to Paris A month later
I returned to Vienna. then found
that thinner had died in the interim,
leaving parcel for me.
Iconfess it was with emotion that
I opened the packet. It contained
the waltz, a small ring set with sap
phires, an envelope yellowed by
time, and these lines traced by
trembling hand:
MAEsTRo-I owe to you the sole pleasure
have enjoyed In forty years. Allow me, while
dying, to beQueath to you the three objects
which have recalled to me my past happiness.
l promised to tell you my history-herc it is:
At the age of twenty-five l had been betrothed
for three years. adored my love with all my
heart and soul. worked day and night to be-
come celebrated, that she might be proud of
nc and be happy. i believe there are still peo-
pie living who knew her. Were they asked
they assurediy would say that there never APP
peared on earth woman moro perfect than
she was.
One evening her mother said to me, "She is
twenty years old--you may marry her."
kissed both hands of my darling's mother.
My betrothed boked.at me in silence. There
was such happiness visible In her whole tx.
preston that felt too much to be able TO
speak. l left them to go to Prague, In order
that might bring my father to our wedding.
When returned with him fortnight after
ward, and buoyant with happiness brought
him to her house to meet her, u neighbor met
mo at her door and said: "Do not knock SO
loudly. She Is deadw
It was true. She was dead. entered the
house and found her old mother there weeping
all alone. She was dead. There are young
girls who die of consumption, Deaths id
vances are followed day by day, and in six
months the love of lifetime IL given them,