Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-18
CHAPTER TX.

OCTOBER came WIN us nn0, clear
days, days rarely so clear and sunny,
and was again allowed to go out.
For week had carried two letters
in my pocket, without being able to
decide to open them, letters from
mamma. What should / do with the
letters? | thought she would come
herself, for was convinced they had
written her of my illness. Once
asked the Countess: AUNT, does
mamma know am ILL.," And she,
who could not tell an untruth, turned
as red as schoolgirl, when she re-
piled: ooh, of what are you thinking?
You were not so ill as that! She
would but have worried about you'll
No, it was not so! They had writ
ten to her, and she did not come! /
did not care for her letters. But final
ly read them. In every line spoke
tween the lines, fancied / could read:
"But for your sake! For your sake do
bear life And in the last letter
the prayer for a few words; a truly
humble prayer. I fastened to the
desk, flung upon the paper the most
ardent assurances of love, and spoke
Of my longing to see her; that I did
not want to live without her and that
she should come! She replied, she
could not come now, for-she had
hesitated, could plainly see-for he
intended to remain in Brussels for
some time yet, and as I was better
but then, then they would return;
then she would fetch me and travel
with me.
did not ask her again, nor did she
come for a long time. One day the
Countess received a letter and had to
go away; cousin of hers had died, a
cousin of whom she was very fond.
And as she was afraid to leave me
alone, she contrived to get me back to
our old home again. Cousin HimmeI
was there. So packed up my effects
and rejoiced to think of returning to
the dear, familiar room and to my
guardian angel, who received me in
the hall. Thank God, Fraulein
Anneliese, that you have GOMEZ" She
tripped beside me through the hall
and assembled the stairs, continually
gazing at me with a certain bitter
sweet expression quite foreign to her.
In the anteroom | paused and looked
around me. My God, had made a
a mistake! I was surrounded by veri-
table magnificence. What had become
OF the old room with it's blackened
walls, it's worn floor: My feet sank
into soft carpets; costly tapestries,
copies of old masterpieces, ornament
ed the walls; at the hearth stood oak
furniture carved after old models,
and the doors, decorated with arms,
seemed to me like new.
Your mamma will find an elegant
home, Fraulein Anneliese! No ex-
pense was too much for her. Now
come, would like to show you your
room; you will sit within it like a
chatter in a rose, Fraulein Anneliese."
She preceded me to that portion of
the house which formerly had been un-
occupied, and there she opened the
door next to the large drawing-room.
Nov, Fraulein Anneliese, enter"
And drawing me over the threshold
with her, she uttered loud, pious,
God be with us!"
Like chatter in rose-what an
appropriate comparison! I, little
brown creature in this boudoir SO ex-
travagantly furnished in the daintiest
rocco style and hung with pale pink
silk! 1t was SO fairy-like. as was the
bedroom with its bow-window. I,
turned from these charms to the
cousins face.
cam to live here?"
Eyes, Anneliese!"
"But have no thought of such a
thing!"