The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-12

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"What do you do in the daytime
| while your husband is hunting?" asked
! Count Mefried Of his daughter.
.T?' replied the young woman,
blushing. 81 take care Of the house
and read tales Of adventure"
'sShe is more obedient than I thought
she would be-" said Almann. II ex-
pected her to be restive, but she is
docile, as if she knew that could tame
her"
"Oh, I have often seen you tame
horses and dogsw laughed Jetta.
sDo you think of raising your chill
dren in the same way?' asked Gott-
| hold.
Naturally" replied Almann.
| Jetta blushed and then grew pale.
Gotthold said to her: do not worry.
| You have no children yet, and he does
not know what his sentiments will be
when they come"
| GotthoId related all these things to
Henry. He saGdled his horse and went
| to the Sayn castle at the breakfast
| hour.
Almann chided him cordially for l1av-
ing delayed his visit so long. Then
Almann said tllat he had to go hunt
ing. He said: II am glad you have
come. You will talk to my wife while
| T am away
| Henry took mandolin at Jetta's re-
| quest and began to play. Then he sang:
! wandered savage and free Now that I have
! seen her an ardent grief scizcs me, my JOY
| has fed
The world is too large for me-. Ny native land
| kept my heart, but my fate as traveller cX-
| pclled me from my nest.
1t was not too late yesterday. Tier could love
that young girl incomparabl, Lca,itiiul.
| Now the dream has gone by, .hs one whom
| wished to serve has been revealed to ME TOO
| late. am going away, free as air
| At the first verse Jetta changed col
or. At the last verse he did not dare
raise his eyes. Jetta said nothing.
At last lie looked at her. She had
frowned, and her glacial look met the
| young mans. She stood before him
like an angel in anger. He did not
dare breathe. "You are doing wrong" ;"
| she said at last, slowly. "My brother
is child, but you know the world.
You should not have done that"
He would have liked to throw him
self at her feet and beg her pardon,
but he lacked the courage to do that.
81 thought" he said that my jesting
would make you laugh. 1t was only q
| jest"
.It was lacking in taste." she said.
Sic said that she was awkward in
writing, and he offered to help her.
She showed him her work, and he told
her its faults, like peda1t.
Tae days came and went, and Henry
was still in the castle Of Sayn. The
pupil progressed rapidly. At last Hen
ry had to return to Kruft. Jetta wor-
ried when she found herself suddenly
alone at her work. She asked Almann
to aid her in his turn, but he said that
was too difficult. Then, he had to go
hunting. Alone, she read or reflected
about love. She was saying to herself
one day, "Oue must love enough to
forget ones self and the world entire
ly," when there was knock at the
gate. 1t was Henry. In that moment
she understood that she could not live
without Henry.
Why had Almann married her with
out love? He did not love her. She
knew that since she had looked into
the eyes Of Henry. She knew that
Henry loved her. She had tried to ig-
more it, but he loved her madly, and
soon he would forget the world entire
for her, and then what would she do?
Then the words Of her father came
back to her mind, "a spotless life, a
proud submission, q humble attitudew
What had become Of her pride:
Where was the way Of duty? Where
was humility? All had disappeared.
In her heart was sin, on her lips was
untruth, if she did not confess all to
Almann. But if she confessed Ito Al
mann, it would De condemning Henry
to certain death. She was full Of an
guIsh and Of remorse. Dawn brought
reason to her. 1t seemed to her that
she might come out Of her struggle VIC
torious.
The abbe of Rommersdorf called on
her. He said, "Eave you nothing to
ask of me, my daughter? There Is dis
quietude In your features. Sin is at
your door,"
SIS thought SIM" asked Jetta.
"Yes, certainly. Even thought is a
sim" answered the arbe.
Jetta fell on her knees and covered
her face with her hands,
"Oh, my daughter, what would re-
! main to you IL you lost purity! Moth
ing, nothing. If you fell, you would
be less than servant, for you were
better educated, and your will was
firmer"
Almann had gone out at dawn. Jet
Ia saddled her horse and galloped
down the mountain alone. There was
thick fog. "Dishonored, infamous"
whistled the wind in her ears. dis
honored, infamousw cried the soil un-
der the hcofs of her horse. Suddenly
she found herself at the Wied. but the
tide was so low that she could have
crossed the river on horseback. Why