The Portland daily press., 1895-10-16

| kind to her, and instead of telling in the
| fields Gretchen sat in her handsome house,
| TO be waited on by her maidens, and wore
| silk in place of coarse stuff, and golden
| rings upon the fingers whence she hao
| slipped poor Carl's gift, the little silver
| circlet which was all that he could afford
| to give her.
And in a year a little baby lay within
| her arms and looked into her eyes and
| taught her to love its father, who had been
| SO tender and so kind to her, and she was
| the Baroness Claussen, and wife ana
mother, and not the peasant girl grievlng
| for her lover any more.
Just at this time Carl, with his two
| years pay in his wallet and some hard
won possessions besides, stepped from the
| ships deck upon dry land and hurried as
| best he might toward Hesse Darmstadt to
| find Gretchen. That she might be dead
| was a fear that crossed his mind, but CHAT
! she might be married never occurred TO
+! him. He had sent her information OF his
| intentions. He had toiled, drenched by
| rain, beaten by wind, pelted by hall, IN
| danger of shipwreck and assaiied by the
| fever laden breezes OF southern lands, to
win the little pittance which seemed SO
great sum to him. He had done it for
the sake of her love. He boated it and
footed it homeward in an ecstasy of yearn-
ing, and the mermaid, who had followed
the vessel over the ocean, waited for it at
foreign ports and followed it back again,
made her way along the Rhine.
The baron's castle hung over the Rhine,
and the nursery wherein the baroness
watched over her baby looked out upon
the water. 1t was under this window
that the mermaid stopped, her fossy hair
all tangled her eyelids heavy, her Lutte un-
| strung. And Carl hurried down to the
| cottage, where Gretchen's grandmother
dwelt, and rushed in and cried, for he
was so brown and so long bearded that
| they did not know him3
81 am Carl Steyer, come back to marry
| Gretchen Tell me where to find her
But the old granddame answered:
"You can't be Carl, for he is drowned
| and has had masses said for him. But even
| if YOU were you have no business to call
| the Baroness von Claussen your Gretch-
| en-"
| "The baroness!" faltered Carl. "How
| the baroness?"
| "Ayep' said the old granddame. "She
married the Baron Won Claussen and has
as fine young baron as any one ever set
| eyes on"
lsWhere is sheP' gasped Carl. "Pn
| believe no one but her.
| o.s+1a ,, sa;d tho old woman nRut you'd
Iss'u.o' aa ~ se-ll ~ +hora >,
Oo parhans 1l,.,u Nc CarI was mad for he went. He
Mt ap' asidl, nortar @ "s and ma maid and mage and
aa puv aoL liz ~ -, tLe room, where Gretchen
.a4 e;,a.,aa ~ ber babe and she. seeing
hi,,, forerot eye,ytbing else and rushed to
- n.n. - - IL - bor in his arms
.r ,,d 49,. 1,.sr,t R,t soon be mt her off
a,d aalraa o hay.
-'Da mI ',p .ho~aht vo, dead - she said.
rha,, a,.aot ho1ror came unon her
.sWhH ala Won come9,, she cried. aI
Wy -;fa had laarned 10 love NV bus-
I 80 ~, +1,oro ,niI1 he orly yon again -
"a +,,oeo 1,,ordc tbov hoard a clstter
"a ha,.aa,s hoofS and voice below bidding
A. sa,r,a,,t CO.., ;f II uara trua that Carl
S+ora,. Nv ,yora oIoseted with their mis-
s.sy 800 tho h.ro,rs yoica
ssSoon, or;ad Crotcbe, .Saai He is
ia.1orSi Ha will hate me must not
;' 'o,ro o,, ~ a-,, yg;fe cannot love
-, fon ~ hoa,,s mo from von Oh cruel
49, - oo,,,o haoIy md seal me and bring me
| s,,ch eban,e and sorrowrn
| ~, orioa Carl aAb she calls me
,,,o1I BIT eaa Gretcben am kinder
49,, vo,, have bean to me THE baron
sha11 ,,ot find me here Tell him Carl
Sta1ar,s Ghost came tn Won You will
oo,1 +ha +r,,th Gov 7 shall be dead wher
,1o,, ,,t+o, 5ha words Foroet me. since
49, lii ,al-a yo1, bannv rewellp
A,a as ha 800 be ,1nss the lattice
omen and iumned into the ming waters
The Jealous baron rushed in the moment