The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-10

A Love Story by Horace GrecleS.t'
fThjs story was written while Mr..
Greeley was a young man, ana, was
nublished in an obscure periodical In.
1897
Midnight: one; two; three; had been
successfully tolled by all the CLOCKS
of Gottingen: the most nveterate
bookworns had forborne for that
night, the further prosecution of their
,studies-the hardest jewellers had reel
ed to their turbid slumbers-the SOL
emn dullness Of the most Wakeful
among the professors had bowed to
the invincible soporitic of his own
meditations. Nature and men are
alike buried in darkness and repose;,
vet from single window cleaned
the taper Of a student who seemed
likely to outwatch the stars!
Adolph Bruner, had been dreamer
from his infancy. Born to penury and
rugged fortune, his life had been rem
.dered endurable not less by it's wax
ing dreams than it's stern exertions.
Step by step had he won his way
aided by that good Providence which
mel irreverently miscall fortune-from
the ignorance and restitution of his
Infancy to the higher sources of know
ledge and instructioE-to the most
learned university Of Germany. Here
his career had been a brief but a bril-
liant one. Single-hearted. enthusiast
tic and devoted-with no prospect in
life but such as flowed from or inter-
ested themselves with his achieve
ments as a scholar-his progress had
been most rapid, and his department
such as to win for him the undisguis-
ed appreciation of his fellows.
Yet now the thoughts of Adolph
more impetuous and engrossing in
their wide career had found a channel
far different from that which they had
hitherto traversed. An incident had
occurred the evening previous which
threatened to influence the whole
achara cter of his after life
Returning on that evening from his
usual walk, in which he was accrs-
toned to ramble wherever accident or
fancy should suggest. he had been at
first an involuntary specta tor of, and
ultimately participation in, a scene
not likely to be soon effaced from his
memory. A young female-alone and
obviously a stranger in the city-was
nah
picked and bewi!dered by the dark
fricnded condition. had addressed
some natural inquiry to three Of the
most graceless Of young collegians
whom she happened to meet. The OBJ
ject Of this inquiry and the character
Of the fair questioner it had suited
those accosted to misunderstood; and
their insolence being repealed with in
.dignation, they were fired to more I'M
,pardonable rudeness and insult.
'Those pretty lips shall answer fol
that impudence with a kiss" exclaim
ed the ringleader. 1--WE will see ii
their sweetness is equal to their tart
ness" and, with a single spring, he
had caught her so tightly in his arms
~as to repress the shrek Of mingled in
"ulS anu lCllOl lila IOSc " dul
died upon her lips.
Adolph stood for one moment root
ed in amazement to the earth. TIL,
next instant he had bounded with al
exclamation Of rage and horror int,
the midst Of the group, and the infur
lated villain felt himself hurled witt
lion strength from his victim an,
dashed to earth with the momentum
of an oak Of the forest
LADY! you are safe! my life sha]
answer it,
She heard; she doubted not; but tn
shuddering sensations Of one terrib1
moment were not to be dissipated b.
a word, and neither the scene nor it
associations were calculated to re
store her to composure. She shran