The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-01-20
MD, FRIDAY. JANUARY IS9!

tween us Now, Paul stand just Ii
front Of Braun-that's right-doD
you let him stir. or you shall not have
omething have in my pocket for you
And now. Goldylocks-how nice you
look! !--put your hard on the saddle
so-now the other on my shoulder and
let me put my hand under your foot
When | say three you mdlst spring
up. You under stand? One
two-three! that's it. Capital. Why
you're as light as feather! Is the
stirrup right? No? can alter it in
second. There is that comforta BILE p
"Oh. perfec;ly!" said the girl. in
voice trembling wit h excitement.
''Take the reins like this-you see:
The whip you will hardly want but it
makes an effect. Now. wait till am
up, and then No! Wait. Goldylocks!
Pull in The reins,!-lrene!- Stop he
horse!-Irene!- Good heavens! She'll
be off"
The horse, perhaps touched by the
whip. had broken almost immediately
into canter.
"Ah! How NIGEL" cried Irene, look.
ing back.
Stop. l tell you! Draw up the
reins!" Herr Won Kreuser was running
as fast as he could after her. stop
Irene!" The horse was going at an
easy canter, but Irene's seat grew less
and less secure. while 10 Herr Won
Kreuser's' horror she seemed una blc
even TO attempt to check the animal
"Irene!-Ah!-"
who are those misera be-lookiug
people in deep mournng?" said
young man to his compa nion. They
could not look more wretched if they
had lost all the relatives they pos
sessed."
THE Kreusers> You know them,
don't you?"
NO. Do I? Oh, yes, they had some
thing to do with the tragedy at the
Leyden's."
Everything to do with 1t, seeing
that but for him poor Irene would now
be alive and still probab defying her
mother"
81 never heard exactly what hap
pened," said the first speaker. 81 was
away from home at the time. He was
a great friend of Irene's. wasn't hep"
"4es. Both the KreuSers made a
good deal of her, and she certainly was
extremely pretty. Baroness Leyden
never was at all nice with her-some
people said she was Jealous of her
beauty. but that would have been too
unnatural"
Yet one has heard, of such cases."
"However that may have been, she
could not understand that Irene was
no longer a ba by, and vas always fret
ting her by forbidding her this and
that. Then she went to the Kreusers
for sympa thy. and they spoilt her. AS
to the last affair." Baroness Leyden ID
Solutely forbade Irene to mount a
horse. and she had set her heart on il
with the usual result Baroness Ley
den happaned to be in Munich one day
down came Kreuser, of course en-
tirely by chance-grand opportunity
not TO be lost. Irene die the forbidden
thing and mounted a horse. which foI
some reason started off before Kreuser
intended, The animal doesn't seem to
have gone beyond a canter, but Irene
could neither stop it nor keep her seat:
and after swaying backward and for
ward a few moments she fell heavily to
the ground. I suppose she dslocated
her neck. When Kreuser reached her
she was lying fiat on her back. both
arms stretched out quite dead. Oh, it
was terrible thing!"
"Who broke the news to Baroness
Leyden?" said the other, after a
pause.
"Kreuser did. Some one asked him
how he could, and he said that after
what had happened nothing else sig
pifed."
"Well, he looks as though he had
gone through an experience. never
saw such fixed expression of melan
choly in my life"
They are both dreadfully cut up
You saw the way they hurried off the
moment the train stopped. They can't
bear meeting anyone. There-do you
see them below there, by the river?
! suppose they think they will have
that walk to themselves. and so doubt
less they will, since it tisswarming witt,
adders. and doesn't lead anywhere"