Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-05

burned winch lie CIOo6SO- lie ocean
in order to remove? [ cannot restore
his fathers honor. nor replace his
fatherland. I pray you, cousin, say
nothing! He will know what he has
to do as we'll as I know it. And f
upon that terrible night he forgot all
his father, his home, all, in order to
remove me from this persons vicinity,
for nv mothers sake, it was a
magnanimous act, which I shall blush
for having accepted all my life!"
'sBut, if Robert desires to forgiven"
ssHe cannot, dear cousin, for he has
not this right. His future wife, be
she who she may, will require an IN
sullied name; his children would not
thank him for his weakness. And
now | must tell you something else,
dear cousin-if you have in your
possession the requisite proofs and
withhold them from him, you are
Wollmeyer's accomplice! That is my
opinion!"
Heavenly Father" evaded the old
lady, what do you mean, Anneliese?"
'sAnd if you have anything in your
hands-and you have-the sooner
you send it to him the better, for you
will hardly have an opportunity to
speak with him personally at the mill
he will not come, that is certain"
I paused; the door slammed in the
anteroom.
"Anneliese, he has been listening"
cried the trembling old lady.
''Well, then he knows what ground
he is on
"Anneliese, o God, if you knew how
be watches me, spies upon me, does
not let me out of his sight! He
knows that stand by Robert, and
knows what influence I have over
him; for that reason, Notwithstanding
all, he treats me pleasantly for that
reason he wants us to go to the mill
in order to meet Robert there"
Gle must think, too, that you have
something in your possession"
She looked in another direction and
was silent. "He knew that Hannchen
had something of the kind" she con-
! fessed.
ssDid his wife know of his knavish
trick!" I exclaimed.
did Hannchen know of it,"
"Ah, she knew all, Anneliese, and it
almost killed her. You see, when the
warrant of caption was issued against
Nordmann-it is difficult to speak
about it, child; Wollmeyer himself &C
cused the fugitive Nordmann as being
the purloiner of his sons fortune
his wife was nearly crazed, for
and cousin dropped her voice to
whisper-"for Wollmeyer was the
thief himself, Anneliese! He took
the few paltry bonds out of Ham
chen's chest at night when he thought
the good soul was asleep. The oaken
chest stood in the adjoining sitting
room, she awoke and crept in, and
there she saw him rummaging. That
very night she was taken seriously i'll,
and when, in few weeks she re-
gained consciousness, the deed had
been done-it had been published in
all the papers"
and his wife-his poor wife," |
stammered.
i
know; to me she said nothing, only
later did / learn many things. But
she was as if crushed after that; the
child, Robert, she loved, almost wor-
SHIPPED, as if she wished to make
amends to him for the sin committed
against his parents
We'll, and the warrant of caption?"
"Ah Anneliese, it was arranged so
wisely by Wollmeyer that it could
only be delivered when the poor man
had gone to America and could no
longer defend himself"
ut is dreadful, cousin. And the
other, the terrible affair of the bank
ruptcy-did Hannchen know of that
too?"
"She accidentally discovered this
guilty act of her husband too All,
Fraulein Anneliese, what have we
poor women not endured since that
day though his wife would die then
and there, when she came upon the
thing on looking through the old
Wr1ting-desk. 1t was at the time that
we moved here from the mill Woll-
meyer had himself arranged his
papers in a box which he bought for
this purpose; he was always so par
ticular and careful with his records,
his books; not soul, least of all
Hannchen, could touch his desk.
Once she came with trembling limbs
and pallid cheeks to my tiny room, the
gabel-room, where the elm-tree peeps
in at the window, you know. was
sitting there resting myself, the clea--
ing up had been so hard.
'Dorchen, Dorchen!' she moaned. |
o, Almighty God, what I have done
to be so severely punished? It is
not enough that he robs the child and
accuses the father of being the thief?
And now this too? I shall never be
happy again, for, you see, Dorchen,
every morsel Of bread we eat is ill !
gotten. You can imagine, F'raulein
Anneliese, that when I heard this my
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