The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-22
WOMAN WITHTHREE ROSES
A Cerman-American Romance. Written
for This Paper.
Written
BY f.. ID. BEACH.

ideals Of men among the others
should have been abe to maintain in
her cousins company an imagination
quite cool and u pulse quite equable.
The wine merchant was Il long remove
from an ogre: he would no more have
compelled his niece against her wish
in matter Of the heart. on in any
other matter, than he would have eaten
pudding before soup or sold .Stelnber-
ger Cabinet fer HOcheimt" out he had
a placid idea that Heinrich was to wed
! Nina. and Heinrich vas of the
same opinion. and Minna herself felt DO
assn, ance to the contrary The UNI
| touched heart Of Heinrich', cousin was
! frequently the cause of jealous spa-ms
, in the breast OF the young man. He
did not know that it was untouched
he relieved that he had touched it,
and that the machinery of its atfcc
tions was in full responsive opera ton.
! But untouched it was. nevertheless,
| and in its conn ardtivclv unsyn pa-
! thetic state l. failed to he warned of
things calculated to hart Heinrich.
and permitted words and acts which.
quite unintcntionally tirr d the W ne
mer iiant's son to bitterness. Thu,
stirred was he when his cousin asked
! him if Alex Martcr.tei@ wd- hand
some. and when she pens;vcly ex-
pressed wonder as to whether the
young collcgian loved poetry. The
wine merchant tad read in the ne rs
papers that mo ming the name of Mar
tcra:cig among the arrivals by the
Bremen st amship TIave and had sent
Heinrich over to the Hoboken docks
to see If it was. Il, he suspected, the
:, n of his old friend. Nicholas Marter-
steig. of Stcttin. The voyagcr proved
to re, sure enough. Herr DIR. Alex
| Martci steig. Pm. d.. of GOttingen. son
Of the hi. dsome Nicholas afore-
said. friend and menace of the
worthy wine merchants youth. The
Trave had succeeded in making quar-
antine just before sun1own the day
previous, and had run up to her dock
at once, enabling her passengers to
land the same evening. The Herr
Doctor had gone to a HobOken hotel.
and there Heinrich found HIM Helm
rich had reported the meeting very
briefly at first, saying merely that he
had found Nlartersteig, and that Mar
tcrstcig had expressed delight and
promised to present himself at the
earliest opportunity to his fathers old
friend. When Heinrich gave that
brief account he was not particularly
interested in Alex Martersteig, but
his fathers bantc: and the thOughtless
| curiosity OF his cousin awakened al
interest in him. He found himself dis
liking the young doctor of philolOgy
rapidly and with great heartiness
There was considerable bitterness in
his comments upon Martersteig's per-
sOnal appearance, and his cou sins play.
full invitation to read poetry to her
embittered him still more. He did no,
reply directly to the queet:On of his
cousins remark. but it was the CUES
ton which prompted his answer never
theless.
Il don't believe you'll get DR.. Alex
to cad poetry to you right away. Min
ma. he said. Hes got somebody over
at the hotel that suits him pretty we'll
l think. You'd like to know who it is,
wouldn't you: Well, it is the cham
bermaid. | came on them little sud
denly, l suppose. They thought il
would take me longer to get up stairs
no idea there was poetry going on al
that hour in the morning. Talk about
poetry: that was poetry. | tell you
They stood in the doorway togethe"
she had his coffee things on il tray: he
was all wrapped up in big dre-sin.
gown that went three Or four times
around he had his glass in his eye and
his cigar in his fingers: and he held
the chambermuid's face between hi.
hands, with her chin tilted up. and l.
"Eesnrich.' reared the wine mer
chant, did he kiss the servant girl?"
He did. replied Heinrich. looking
at Minna
Just like his father" c, led Her,
achsmuth. 1t was that COMPOUNDED
propensity. my dear continued the
wine merchant, turning to his niece
(which kept me so concerned abou
your aunt. He didn't stop at servan
girls, Nicholas didn't. Every mothei
in Steitin was on the watch for Nick
And Alex issa chip of the old block
l shall be proud to welcome the boy"
Heinrich continued to look at hi
cousin. She may have been just tritlt
troubled: some vaguely crystalliZins
ideal may have been shaken anl
spoiled: but she was evidently moi
deeply concerned by hec ausin's story
Oh. Heinrich was that story worth
while? Wa, it a ali decent thing t
tell Minna that the young Herr Doctor
servant girl: Especially when there
| was III X utIl III IL sat al. was IL OcScu
to tell such story? Oh. Heinrich
the true story Of that incident in The
!. Hoboken hotel is very different from
the tale you tod your cousin. and it i
necessary that herr DR.. Marters.ei.
should be eNonerated, and necessary a
we'll that the picturesque transaction
. which you described should BE- so re
, ported as to show the true Ia born
in it by Her., WachSmuth' 5 Jealous son
. CHAPTER IL.
, The first American day on which tn
, young Herr Doctor OF Philology opene
his eyes was gray aud nlpplns. II
i had slept well At the Hotel Bruckb bauer
, though so far III different fashion iron
t that to which he wa, accustomed a
t home that all the bed had been be