The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13

cles of Herr Schwalb on her nose. When
| the books were shut, she became q
| charming girl again; and, the transfer
nation having taken place, Alexander
did not, after the first, make point of
leaving directly. On the Saturday
morning which brought the tenth les
son, time being up, Hedwig looked gay
| ~ at her pupil, and said:
Don't you tink you proceed?"
"Tm astonished at myself" said Al
| exander.
Herr Schwalb nodded blandly from
| his chair.
"Ah, told you my womanliness was
noting" said Hedwig with a trium-
| phant air.
Alexander looked at the sweet. mod
est figure in the shabby brown dress, at
| the round face, flushed with the July
| heat, and with her pedagogic exertions
ON his behalf.
Her womanliness nothing? Well,
| poor little girl!
He asked If she had ever been to
Hampton court No? Would she like
to go? Hedwig's eyes spoke. Would
| Herr Schwalb trust Alexander to take
| her down on the MONDAY coach and
bring her back by 6 in the evening?
Allerdings-which meant she might go.
But how long would the fraulein take
| to get dressed?
Hedwig laughed, ran across the pas
sage and in five minutes reappeared,
having pinned a lace collar on the
brown dress, loosened the tight ball
of shining chair and mounted a fresh
little hat, like her face, one nest of
roses.
Oh, fairy day! Happy, happy hours!
The very sight of the great gates and
great trees set Hedwig's heart dancing,
and then the flaming flower beds and
cool alleys and emerald grass and dia-
| mond fountains made her cry, Zach!
heavenly! heavenlyw again and again.
| And Alexander conducted her through
the rooms and courts of the famous old
| palace, and Hedwig chartered of Car
dinal Wolsey as If he had been her un-
Gle, and of Henry VIII. as If she had
been his grandmother; and the next
| thing in order was to order tea in a
queer little shop parlor looking on the
park, and while they were at tea a
! beautiful tame deer, with sad eyes,
came to the window and asked to be
| fed.
''Take care" said Alexander, as He'd
| wig leaned forward to touch the crea-
lures head. He caught her by the hand
and pulled her back.
"Hirsch-we call the animal so," said
Hedwig, standing meekly by his side.
How do you call him at ala"
Deer, fraulein," said Alexander. He
had forgotten to let go of her hand and
he spoke very gently, and any ignorant
| intruder, hearing what he said, seeing
how close the simple, pretty little Rhine
| maiden and the woman hater stood to-
gether in the alcoye Of the parlor win
dow, might have fancied-. But it
was time to go home.
OF course Alexander saw Hedwig
safe to the door Of May street.
81 can enough tank you never" she
said earnestly. "Gute nacht."
"Gute nacht, fraulein; CUTE nacht."
Turning away, he ran against an ac-
Qud1ntance-JOneS.
Jones surveyed him with a twinkling
eye.
Changed your views"
Don't understand"
81 thought according to you the best
woman that ever breathed was only to
ba tolerated You seemed trifie over
flowing with liberation just now Neat
little article! Made in Germany? Hal
| 10! no offense, old chap! Alexander! no
offense, say"
But Alexander, resisting the tempta-
ton to knock Jones, who was a small
man, into the gutter, stalked away.
And, after dinner, in his luxurious
study, he sat solitary, and thought
and thought.
He thought Of the girl to whom he
had given his heart in early days, and
who had deceived him.
He thought of the undisturbed, regu-
lar, independent life to which he was
accustomed.
He thought Of his 40 years.
And the end of these medita tions was
that he went to his writing table and
penned a letter to Hedwig
He said that he was Unexpectedly
obliged to go abroad. He thanked
Fraulein Schwalb for the pains she had
taken with him, and begged to inclose
the sum due to her for the remaining
lessons of the course. He much regret
ted being unable to receive them. He
sent his best compliments to Herr
Schwalb and remained hers very sim
cerely, Anthony Alexander.
He went to Switzerland, intending to
do a mountain or two. But in ridicu-
lous defiance of the most elementary
rules of physical geography mountains
proved fiat, so did other things when he
tried them. A blooming face under a
hat with roses. an old brown dress. a
happy girls voice, followed him every
where.
At last, leaning dismally over a hotel
balcony one fine evening in Chamounix,
he heard German lady say to friend:
"Gute nachtp'
He couldn't stand 1t any longer.
"Gute nacht." The words called him
back to 8 May street, and he packed
his traps that night, and to May street
he rushes as fast as train, boat and
cab would take him.
The same maid, apparently with the
same dirt on her face, answered the
bell.
"Air Squalp7 'E's deadw
"DeadY
'Yes! 'e died. e got worse, and then
e died"