Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-12

could do Tor me. When have told
You why. you viii see that all Is not
settled between us and that / am
still your debtor"
Zimmer sat down at the piano and
played, rs had just done, the eight
bars. Then he stopped. / was all
attention. He seemed TO bc 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 Ill cannot recollect i'll Good
heavens! | am going crazy. Per
haps 1t is the excitement--you are
listening TO mc-and yet this very
morning | played it. That waltz Is
my life, myself-a very mournful
life. Let me go home and will
bring the waltz TO you. Iwill not be
gone long
"3c still more generous" I replied.
"Como and breakfast with me to-.
morrow, and then you will play the
waltz to mo and tell me your his.
tory"
That very evening u telegram sum.
moned me to Paris. A month later
/ returned TO Vienna. then found
that thinner had died in the interim,
leaving n parcel for me.
confess il was with emotion that
/ opened the packet. II contained
the waltz, n small ring SGT with sap
phircs, an envelope yollowed by
time, and these lines traced by II
trembling hand
MArsrno-i owe 10 you tho sole pleasure
have enjoyed IN forty years. Allow me, Will
dying. 10 bcquoa'h 10 you tho three objects
which have recalled to mo my past hnppinCss
/ Promised 10 tell you my hlstory-horn u l.
~ the age Of twenty-five I had been bctru,hcd
for three years. ! adDrcd my love with all m
heart and soul. worked day and night 10 be
come celebrated. that she might be proud 81
me and be happy. | believe there arc still PEG
pie living who know her. Were they askc'
| they assurcdy would say that there never ap
poarcd on earth woman more perfect that
shc wns.
one evening her mother Eall 10 me. "She q
twenty years old-y may marry her."
| Kissed both hands Of my darling's mother
| sy bctrothcd looked At me IA silence. Their
|
| preston that | frlt too much TO be- able Il
speak. | ltit them TO 20 10 Prpguc. In of'lo
that might bring my father to our wedding
| When | returned with him n fortnight after
ward. aud buoyant with hagplness brough
him 10 her house 10 meet her, IA ucghhor me
me ut her door and said 40 not knock y
loudly. She ~ deAd.'
II was true. sho was dead. entered th
house aud found her old mother there weepn
ain alone She was dead. There arc youn
girls who die Of consumption. Deaths al
vanucs are followed day By day, aud In ~
months the love Of lifetime Is given then
but my bctrothcd died without an hours III
ucs-, all suddenly. without any warning. wilt
no time for last words. with no time Tor fare
wells. My father sobbod. lic led me Rwaj
saying "Do not despair" llo had mover zee
her.
sinee that day have yegctatcd, hopeless
dl.hcarioncd. gfieylng aud ob.ourcd. The IL
closed envelope contains her halr Socln
death approach have wished 70 burn n. By
then reasoned. III you do not dio you wi
mover console yourself for IT, loss." bcsecc
yon 20 burn II without uusening the enyciopi
The ring I gave her on the day Of our b,
trothnl. II cost me hundred norlns. In,
been starving for mary day as cared on I
still II leaves me only with life. hcqucath
10 you that IL may remain unsold. Once MOI
thank yol. May God keep all those you low
/ burned the envelope containin
| her hair without opening 1t. III
ring shall not DO sold. | hnvc pul
lished tho waltz. Translated froi
the French for Romance by Ralp
/ Edmunds.