Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-25
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Then Wollmeyer tried severity, punish
ment, starving, and then, when we liV-
ed here in Westenberg, he threatened
TO take him from the gymnasium and
TO apprentice him to a shoemaker.
1t all availed naught. Yes, those were
terrible times, Anneliese."
"He was probably idle in schools"
HE? He was the best in his class!"
replied the cousin Indignantly.
well, why all this then?"
'T have told you, there are some
times problems which cannot be
solved. The more Robert matured,
the more did he scorn his uncle, so
much so that he scarcely raised his
blue-and-white students cap when
they met upon the street. There was
not a meal without dissension. Woll-
meyer scolded, and the boy had way
of pulling the corners of his mouth
which said more than words. Then
the storm broke. We women tremble,
but we dared not interfere. Hannchen
tried it at first, but she soon gave it
up. The boy himself came to her and
implored: 'Auntie, do me the favor and
say nothing know, you mean WELL
but you only make matters worse; the
more you defend, the harder it is
sAh, Robert, Robert, you might be
more grateful she sobbed. Then the
young fiend said he could see no cause
for gratitude, he could claim more
than he received. Hannchen, at these
words, sat there and stared at him as
IL he had told her. tomorrow at such
a time the heavens will fall or some
such thing. But she said nothing to
her husband lest it might irritate him
still more. and
AT this time the Wollmeyers had
money again, had they not?" in
terrupted the old lady.
''Ah, my God, money flowed in in
streams directly after the failure!"
cried the cousin, pausing in her spin
ming. "From that time everything was
successful-he had found some one to
help him: Herr Won Brankwitz, he
has been dead number of years; he
who was at the wedding was his son.
The father bought the mill at auction
made Wollmeyer inspector, and it was
not two years before the mill belonged
to him again. Where doves are, more
will come, Anneliese-he grew wealthy
up there, a strange luck lay in all his
undertakings strange, | say"
She paused and absently set her wheel
In motion. Eyes, yes!" she again re-
peated.
"And Roberto"
Went away" was the reply, away!
do not remember what happened
do not ask met And as glanced at
her in silence, she muttered, as if
speaking to herself: HE did not come
breakfast waited and waited, and
finally went up to his room-it was
empty, his Sunday clothes were not
hanging on the wall and his linen was
gone out of the drawer. The snow
fakes were falling on this dark Deem
Der morning: it was so cold, just
two days before Christmas. My old
arms were almost paralyzed. I could
not have baked any Christmas cake
for whom, thought Nor have there
been any Christmases for me since
them"
Cousin l asked, drawing nearer
her, Cousin, did he not write to you
Once?"
She started, the cleanliness van
ished from her old eyes, she again
looked as cold and severe as ever.
Write to me? who? Robert? No, why
should he write? And now it is late;
must see if the girls have locked the
doors and closed the shutters. Good
night, Fraulein Anneliese!"
She shook the lint from her apron
and carried away the spinning-wheel.
The door closed behind her and L was
left alone with my thoughts of Robert
Nordmann, whom my imagination
painted for me, and about whom it
woVe an entire romance. 1t seemed as
if on this evening, the cousin had
talked herself out. In the time
which followed we sat side by side in
silence, and the storm which ragged
around the old building, was the only
sound we heard.
My acquaintance gradually desisted
from interesting themselves in me.
1t was, too, thankless job; besides,
something else occurred by which
their attention was attracted from
me: Lore Won Tollen had betrothed
herself to Adalbert Becker, of whom
nothing was known except that he had
money and that he had forced himself
with incredible assurance into the
first circles" of society.
Six months before / would have
been surprised at this news, that the
proudest and prettiest maiden in West
ernberg had made such choice; but
now / no longer wondered; after
mammals marriage / was surprised at
nothing.
One day at the beginning of Novem-
Der, telegram reached me with the
intelligence that the family would re-
turn on that day. l sat in an easy