The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-08-17

sun always very busy making more
ana more money in your rich Eng
land"
1T is now / answered. "a lawsuit
that keeps him in England
"A lawsuit? A trial." she exclaimed
with a strange anxiety. is he in dan
GER"
Indeed Fraulen. | do not know.
The other party in the trial thinks him
self in danger from Herr Steinhardt
he accuses Herr Steinhardt of using
and making much money by using his
patent for chemical dyes
i think said She, simply, you are
not Emmanuers friend
TO this had nothing to say for a mo-
ment. took refuge in an evasion.
Herr Stcnhardt" | said. has sent
me TO act as his representative But
it appears there is nothing for me to
do Il was standing uncertain. but
ready to go, What shall | say TO him
when | return:'
4 wonder" said she, more than half
TO herself, If you arc the person |
have seen lately"
| was startled | stared in blank be-
wilderment. Was the woman a man
lac? The pupils Of her keen eye seemed
to rapidly dialatc and contract, while
she gaZed into vacancy. and at the
salne time kept referring glance OH
me
"A man" she continued who goes
about and about and evidently causes
Emmanuel great anxiety about some
thing.
Conceive the sudden turmoil Of
thought and feeling Of imagination and
hope into which | was thus thrown.
The LacroN mystery was until then
almost absent from my mind: | seem
cd 10 have left it in England. and
though ! certainly thought Of it some
times. it was as of something waiting
in the distance for my return Now
here was | presented with an allusion
to it-a vague and uncertain alluSion,
perhaps. but still unmistakably for me
an allusion--here in an attic OF an old
house in Basel. What strange coinci-
lence was this! Who was the woman
that brought it before me again. | was
afraid to speak or to stir. lest | should
break or aispel that tilmy something
her fancy or her vision had got touch
Of
.You are a pastor" she continued,
looking a NE With more natural eyes.
Emmanuel calls YOU Reverend Mr..
Irwin It is surely, sir, 4 pastor
duty to bring repentance and forgive
and not pride and fear and eondelniia-
ton
You say very strange things, Frau
lein." | answered.: Il think hope !
understand what You mean. Perhaps
deserve your rebuke. But are YOU
sure YOU altogether know the terrible
mystery:
.Ach,' She cried There is. then. 4
mystery and part Of the burden OF Y
is with ne, Ach mcin Gott. mem
Gott.'
.sIf Won know | impulsively be
can. in i'll suppressed excitement
II do not know anything, she cried,
slllIenly interrubtillg me ana spring
in. to her feet. She paced nervouslN
M and down the room. her fmsefs
wildly playing with each other. or about
her arms and her head. She stopped
and looked at me, trembling IN every
limb and nerve. You must 90 away.
sir
fingered uncertainty
Please To 90 away. SIT sne urged.
y cannot bear more now. .oine again
tn-morrow It may DC that my I'd
has sent YOU TO me.
withdrew without q word, some
what awed by the emotion or the
strange woman As | closed the door
| caught a glimpse OF her with hands
,.lasped and face raised, as II IN en-
treaty or thankfulness.
After leaving the house | walked Tor
j Ion. time. without knowing whittier
| went. about the streets OF Basel anu
alon. The Rhina bank. 4 northwest
wind swept up the valley rutiling the
waters Of the famous river: It sounded
- mo os the voice from England OF
that divine vengeance whtcn surely
had sent me to this distant .orel@n
town as its messenger. Strange ana
awful it would be if fresh or conflrma-
t,,v evidence of a deed done IN obscure
Timperley. in Lancashire, We're indeed
forthcoming so far away as TINS. !
exhausted all my ingenuity IN suesses
ne to what E'raulein Haas could know,
and how she could have come by the
knovledce But she had declared she
knew nothing. Was that the truth! OF
was it. merely. an emphatic use of the
,,n,1 ..knoY"? Or was the woman.
perhaps. a harmless maniac-a maniac
Of the pietest kind? !,
IN spite Of my excitement slept well
that night l spent the next day until
evening wandering about the town, eX-
amining the windows Of it's sleepy
shops wondering at the cCntented, ~
lingual shopkeepers, and gazing at the
glorious Swiss mountains which ! was
50 near. yet which | must not think
Of visiting. u,
was again at the old house with the
watchful but heavy eyes soon after 9
o'clock. Poor Fraulein Haas seemed &c
have passed both sleepless night and
! weary day. She was evidently III IL