The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-02-26

When | left the university, l had,
as il, duty bound, to go through my
course of military service and in due
time found myself enrolled as soldier
in an infantry regiment then stationed
at the town of Torgau. in Thuringia.
The officers were extremely kind to
me and invited me 30 become men,
Der of the club they had formed among
themselves, so that soon became quite
at home. In the morning there was
the everlasting" fright, left; right, left, y
at dinner The soothing perfume of the
"Maibohle" and in the evening dreamy
repose and excellent cigars in the shady
casino gardens.
The civil and military society ming
led freely, contrary to the usual GUS
tom, and the legal world and such
landed proprietors as lived in the nei gh-
borhood made themselves particularly
agreeable.
The chief magistrate, old Herr Ham
mer, was president Of the club. He
played a good game OF bowls, emptying
a good many schoppens in the course Of
it, and kept the whole company enter
tanned with his cheerful fund of fhumor
OF course I Was presented to him, and
he recognized in me the son of his old
comradc in university and volunteer
days. He was delighted to see me,
and at the close of the evening he took
me across the gardens to the casino
veranda, where his wife and daughter
were drinking true Thuringian mocha
with number of other ladies. | was
presented to the fair circle. Frau Ham,
mer was still pretty woman. She
knew my good mother, greeted me
with charming friendliness to come ard
| pay her visit as soon as my military
| duties would allow.
NO stiff evening call, dear Herr
Eisenstein, l beg. When you have no
better way of spending your evening,
of tea with u.s."
"Well, well" muttered her lord and
master, ''you will get something better
than tea can tell you, my deer fellow.
Don't be afraid. Wife, you frighten
all the fellows away with your tea"
We laughed at this comical express
sion as he uttered this warning. |
thanked Frau Hammer for her friend
ly invitation and decided at once to
take advantage of it. Had l not look
ed into the blue eyes of the magistrates
l7-year-old daughter, the fair Agnes2
Did | not read in those liquid depths
that visit from me would not he er-
tirely disagreeable to her? OF course
l would seize the first happy chance
that left me free to spend an evening
in her society.
The happy chance did not occur for
some days, but at length had free
evening and decided to make prompt
use Of it. | called my soldier servant,
who, as the stern captain Of our ccm-
pany was fond of reminding me, was
in reality my fellow soldier, and sent
him in the afternoon to the Frau Dirpk-
TORN with a carefully worded message
saying, if it would not Inconvenience
her, | would do myself the honor of
calling on her that evening
After much explanation Gottlieb
Feuerstacke at length understood
where he WAS 10 go and turned, gig
Cling in an idiotic manner, and inform
ed me with a scarcely suppressed smile
that visit from me at S.45 O'Clock
would be ''cNtrcmely agreeable"
1t struck me that this was rather a
late hour TO fix for sociable evening
call-in fact, rather a ceremonious
hour-but no doubt the Herr Direk tor
liked to stand upon ceremony even in
so small matter as the present. |
thought no more of it, but when the
hour came for departure | waxed my
mustache in the correct style, cast a
few drops of"new mown hay" on my
pocket handkerchief, placed it in my