The Saint Paul globe., 1899-01-22
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| QGette; She was beSet with admirers
| and lavished smiles on them one and
all. Latterly there was one whom she
had seemed to favor more than the
others-a cousin, a young doctor, who
| had just returned from lengthy trav-
| els. To him, every one said, Anna
Liese was sure to be bethrothed before
very long.
The lady's tactics succeeded in their
primary object; Leopold became furi-
ousl y jealous. He did not believe the
| part about Anna LieSeS coquetries
| (Which was indeed an utter fabrica-
uon), but the idea of any man daring
to look with covetous eyes upon his
treasure made him wild with anger.
Pretty Anna Liese, the innocent cause
of all these heartburnings, was sitting
one day at work beside one of the
quaint old windows of her fathers
house. 1t was in the front of the dwell
ling, and looked out into the street. for
which reason it was a favorite place
with the girl, who liked to watch the
| passers-by
To her entered her cousin, DR.. Will
helm, with some curious old coins and
other articles amassed on his foreign
travels
"See, cousin" he said. 81 have
brought the things promised to show
you.
Anna Liese put down her work and
drew near to the young man. Their
heads were bent very close together
| over the curioSities- and to any one
passing in the street and CHANGING to
! HOOK up their attitude might very we'll
pass for that of lovers
AS misfortune would have. 1t so han
pened that the princess and her son
rode past on their way to the castle.
| Leopold's eye, of course, sought his
| loVed ones dwelling, and his mother's S
gaze followed his. AS her glance fell
upon the scene in the window her eyes
lit up, and, touching her sons arm, she
said:
Look there, my son, and see for
yourself the truth of what I told you.
Your Anna Liese loves not YOU. but an
other"
The effect on the passionate young
man was tremendous, and the result
very different from what the short
sighted mother had foreseen
| Uttering cry Of rage, he sprans
from his horse and dashed into the
mouse. With drawn sword he flew u,
the stairs and into the apartment
| where the cousins We're.
AS Anna Liese saw her lover enter.
sword in hand, and with a face dis
| torted with passion, she uttered a ter
rifle Shrek, and the young doctor
eyed the intruder with amazement.
Leopold, for the nonce quite mad
| rushed straight at him, and the torrent
OF ABUSE which he poured forth, to-
| gether with his wild demeanor left no
doubt as against whom his hostility
was directed
Inc doctor was man of peace, and
t1mid. He turned and fed into another
room. The prince followed him. ana
before Anna Liese-who had rushed
a1ter them-could stay his arm he had
STABBED the unfortunate Wilhelm
shrough the heart The young man
len' oathed in blood, and Leopold, all
his fury suddenly abating before the
dreadful sight, looked down horror
stricken upon the victim of his mad
wrath, while the household of tn-
apothecary, aroused by Anna Liese's
frantic cries, crowded round speechless
and terrified
The despair of the princess at the
outcome OF the Jealousy which she her
!! sen sen nao aroused in her son can be
imagined. True, she had no need To
1ear for him. Prince of the land. he
STOOD In too high and unassailable :.
poslt1on to be called to account for
MS crime; besides which such affairs
were looked upon with much less So
verify IN those stormy times than thew
are now, and this particular unhappy
iiie'ttei Hdu peen so carefully huShed
up that few beyond those immediately
concerned knew all the facts of the
| case. What affected the princess most
deeply was the bitter reflection that
the Whole terrible episode was of her
own bringing about. She had known
SO Well her sons passionate, undis.
clphned nature, and, Notwithstanding
that had played upon it in so danger
GUS style TOO late she realized the
tremendous power of the love against
which she had tried to battle. and now
her dearest wish was to bring about
that marriage which she had hitherto
str1ven with all her might to prevent.
FOR 1t seemed to her now that in tha,
alone lay her sons salvation.
1t was a matter which REQUIRED som.
delicate handling. The apothecarv's
family, firm and deep as was their
loyalty and affection for their prince.
couid not fail to feel both these sent1-
ments deeply shaken by his fatal act
and to give Anna Liese in marriag ge r.,
the very man who had slain her cousin
would no doubt seem to them too
dreadful thing to contemplate.
AS for the pretty maid herself she
was very much in Juliets predic.
ment. She had loved her cousin and
mourned him deeply, but she loved
MS destroyer still more, and that love
noth1ng was powerful enough to kill.
How could she forget that his fury had
all been born of his love for her. and
VINO knew better than she. his play
mate of old, that terrible side of his
character, which, once brought into
play, led him into acts for which he
was hardly responsible?
Many were the tears poor Anna Iiese
shed IN the solitude and silence of her
little chamber, both for the dead cousin
had not seen since the fatal day, and
whom she knew would be now suffer-
| Ing all the agonies of unavailing re-
morse.
She was sitting thus, some weeks
later, with her sad thoughts for sole
| companions, when the door opened and
| her mother with tear-stained ewes
stood before her
Daughter, I have come to fetch
thee she said in tones that trembled.
The princess is down below with thy
father, and thou art wanted
Anna Liese turned pale.
The princess mother"
es, my child And then the moth
er took the girl into her arms, and her
tears welled forth afresh. "She comes
10 ask thee of US for her sons wife,
she murmured. 'She says she was to
plame Tor all his jealousy, and be-
seeches us to consent to the marriag ge
She told us that she sees now that thou
alone canst guide him as he needs to
| be led and make him a good man: that
MS lie, FOR good or evil, is in thy hands
| to make or mar"
| And you and my father-w1,at did
you say?" faltered Anna Liese.
Her mother gently Stroked her hair
as she answered:
Thy father said at last that thine
own neart should decide, my child IT