Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-02-21
OOOOSOOSOOzs
! FOR AN0THER'S FAULT. :
-BY- T.
w. Hei11burg.
w. HeiIllburg.


sought light shawl, and crept down
stairs.
a lamp was burning in the hall;
Cousin Himmel was sitting with the
cook, preparing beans for picking
With a passing "Good-eyening"
passed her and left the house The
clock at St. Marys struck nine. A
faint moonlight which with difficulty
penetrated the storm-clouds, flooded
the silent court; the garden-gate was
wide open and a light burned in the
gardeners house. The mans little
children sat upon the threshold m
their nightgowns, and called their
"Good-eVcnlnE, miss" after me
In the large park-like garden
drew a deep breath from the pond,
which marked the boundary between
the meadows and the garden, came a
humid, perfume-laden air In the
distance, beyond the village, 1t light
encd necessarily Slowly | walked
towards the water. Upon its brink
was "a small mOss.cOttagc, there
could sit and dream. IT was fairy
INV DlBult ~ b''hllli W. 1' "fii hlf , ~
so bracing, and | was eighteen; re-
turning health and hopes lcaped up in
my heart, the expectation Of some
thing strange, magnificent the long
Ing for happiness.
The shadow of the trees. beneath
which was the tiny cottage, was very
dense so much the brighter did the
surface Of the water. upon which the
| lightning played, stand out. ! had
gided there almost noiselessly,
| There my feet hoBitatcd. From the
moss,cottagc, at whose side wall |
was standing, upon the point of reach
| ing the entrance. came the hushcd,
| nutc.ilte voice Of Herr WoIlmcyer;
| "Oh. do not be in such haste. stay a
while, shall not see you for weeks
had already halfturncd to go,
! when paused as If rooted to ,hc spot.
a cry of horror was stillod in my
throat by conclusive sob. My
mother, my mother had replied, still
remember every one Of those words
which rendered me so unutterobly
wrctchcd, for they destroyed the con
hdonce, the love, the devOut respect
OF child for it's mother in one single
moment, like powerful blow of a
hammer may destroy the picture of a
saint.
Not for weeks. but | shall return
ana thcn---" heard my mother say
THEN" he asked, in Il halrstiflcd
tone.
Then | will redeem my word and
| become yours
Helene" | heard him cry passion.
atcly. "Hclcnci" But fled across
the lawn and far away knccled at
the foot of a gigantic elm flung my
arms around the old trunk, leaned my
head against the bark. and wrthed as
If in bodily pain, "Oh, papa! papa,
More could not say, but | repeated
these words over aud over meChan.
! ically Had | only died with you,
were | with You. papa
At length | rose just In time to con
seal myself, for they passed close be.
side mo, the slender, Queenly form,
and next her the dcspisCd, vulgar
creature with his arm about her
| waist Then they paused, he picked
rose, which cleaned pure and white
amid the darkness, and offered 1t to
her with words that drove the blood
to my checks and she took tiny
mother took Il, She did not fling 1t
in his face. she did not rcpulse him,
| she did not think Ur the man to whom
she had once belonged, she did not
think of her child, "Oh, papa, papa"
with u determination which far CN.
cceded my physical strength, ! fol
lowed them. They parted at the
gardcn.gato; he turned back in an.
other direction, mamma entered the
! house, almost Immediately behind
her stepped into the room.
You are still upH' she asked com.
ing towards mo in the darkness, will
YOU not go to bed darliug?' And she
extended her hand in order to caross
! my check Thcn-t then | was seized
by madness flung aside this hand.
"Lot mo alone" | cried, "do not
| touch met" For n moment heard
but the painting of my own breath
"Annolioso?" she said softly in
Albright
"let me so away from here. do
not want to stay with youl" and In.
capable of mastering my agitation, |
| Eraspcd the white rose which she held
in her hand, east II upon the floor and
| tramplod upon It,
!
AN" said she IN low voice, as
II Just awakening to comprehension of
the situation, aud she turned away
! hastily, At the door she paused hut
spoke not a word II was MS though
| she had lost the power of speech in
| her shame of her child Then the
| door closed and was alone, seated
myself upon the wiudow-sill and
buried my face In both hands. | camo
to no other conclusion than this; You
have no longer n mother! wanted
to leave her, she did not need me, she
had a love, wou,d soon have a hus-
band, a rich husbands | could so my
way alone. felt as II had "A giant IS
o rApvtb nnI,r not - r,rhnBY b,v,