Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-12

ing for revenge, and wretched and ex-
hausted | returned home.
I tried to spend as much Of my time
as I could alone in my own room, but
this solitude in the end became pain
full too. I began to play the piano, to
practice Friedrich Immediately ap-
peared with the request that cease.
Herr Wollmeyer could not bear music.
I would have liked to read, but what
I knew papa's library by heart, the
old. thumbled novels Of the Weston
berg Library did not attract me,
had read all of the Countess S books,
they consisted of Schulze's Charmed
Rose" Tiedge's "Urania," several OF
Jean aul's W works., Frederika Bremer's
.'Neighbcrs," and of course Schiller
and Goethe we're there as we'll. /
would gladly have written to papa's
bookseller in Berlin, but I had no
money, not a groschen.
My acquaintance visited me oc-
cassiorally. Friedrich ushered them
into mammals reception-room, | sat
on the sofa with them, and the painful
memories engendered within me by
these rooms and the sight of the OBJ
jects once used by her, made me in
capable of being pleasant and
courteous. No one stayed long,
neither little Katie Tollen and her
companions nor the old ladies.
Come and see us" they said. eff
you will allow me-" replied, but had
no idea of going out to chat about in.
different things. All, leave me, leave
me alone! would have liked to have
cried. Occasionally the Countess
came, but she came to my room at
once, where she seated herself in the
chair at the window and I at her feet.
Come, see here, child" she chided
one day, Everybody knows that you
are secretly engaged alone know
nothing of it,"
IT? 1t is not true!- Aunt, who said
so?"
81 believe it was started at the
Council meeting; Wollmeyer's neph-
ew, who has several millions, is said
to be the fortunate one. It is prob
ably this Robert Nordman, Anneliese,
to whom you once wrote? Well,
people always know more than we do
ourselves. Melitta Tollen brought me
the news; you see / am here to ques~
ton you"
I became thoughtful; could my step
father have mentioned it? At supper
it all was made clear to me. He must
have had some pleasant experience,
or perhaps it was the daintily-served
board at which we were seated
plovers' eggs, early asparagus.
salmon, fresh norris, the tenderest
radishes, and with all this delicious
Salvador beer, which Friedrich poured
into the cut-glasses. A bunch OF
sweet woodruff stood upon the table
and scented the comfortable room.
The windows were open in the next
room.
It was very warm spring evening,
weather in which one can almost ee
the leaves grow and the buds unfold.
May is coming FAST" began my
step-father, breaking a plover's egg,
before we are aware of it, Whitsun-
tide will be here, Anneliese"
looked at him in establishment and
was silent.
cat the mill Whitsuntide is nicer
than Christmas" said he, wiping his
beard with napkin-he had emptied
his glass at one draught. ''Who
stood this green stuff here?" he asked
pointing to the woodruff. ''Is it only
to smell? Friedrich; tell cousin to
send us some Moselle and sugar and
whatsoever else belongs to the punch
bowl 1his is thirsty weather, An
neliese. Ha, has cousin received any
word from Robert Nordmann?"
Il do not know"
He leaned back in his chair and
laughed. els one to believe that, am
to believe you Well, all right
secrecy in love is the greatest charm
His health, Anneliese!"
He again drained his glass; I did
not stir.
The one, continued he, ''you have
driven abroad with your brown
witch's eyes; the other, it is to be
hoped, you will always hold fast in his
country" And he laughed at his wit
ticism.
"You know" said I very slowly,
taking up dish to help myself, Il
will marry no man who has u blemish
upon his name, own that to my
name"
How can the poor fellow help it
that his father did wrong? Bah, that
was forgotten long since!"
"He cannot help it, but he has to
suffer from it. Moreover it is not so
quickly forgotten as you think, es-
pecially not in his home; the entire
affair is as fresh there, as if it had
happened yesterday"
'The entire affair? What AFFAIR.""
'The story Of Nordmann's mis-
fortune!"
Dear Anneliese,' said he with
dignity, there is no question of a