Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-01
for nv part have no longing for Der.

for my part have no longing for Ber-
| lin
"Anneliese, warned mamma.
| Herr Otto Won Brankwitz laughed.
cat present we will all remain here
and enjoy ourselves as well as we can,
my friends" exclaimed my STEP
farther. Il am preparing an ice carni-
val on the pond"
| 1T does not even freeze said Frau
ESellmann.
"A Westenberg councillor can do
.anything," said the Countess, "he can
even make it freeze"
Charming Countess, bravo" laugh
ed the Town-councillor, then sleigh
ling-parties, moonlight-balls, balls at
home, Christmas festivities, charitable
entertainments and so forth and SO
| forth. Let us drink to a gay winter!'
II will drink to something besides,
whispered Herr Won Brankwitz, glanc-
! ing at me, and he touched my cham
payne glass, which was standing upon
/ the table. where it too remained.
| I had shrugged my shoulders slight
/ ly and assumed a scornful air.
After dinner we forgot to wish each
other a 'Sgesegnete Mahlzeit." Coffee
was served in a room adjoining
mammals boudoir, which room had
been converted into a Turkish tent.
Frau Sellmann reclined upon the di-
van, smoking cigarette; the
Countess, with large, coarse piece of
knitting-work, sat in low chair,
while the men likewise smoked.
'Anneliese, play me my favorite
piece" asked the old lady; and I
went into the next room, to play the
OK Minuet, by Haydn, which she had
long, long ago played as a duet with
prince at a gathering at His Excel
| lency's,22and which recalled her youth
long since flown.
Suddenly a large, but welcomed
mans hand was thrust over my
shoulder and turned over the notes.
MANY thanks, but I prefer doing
that myself said in loud voice.
why are you so hostile, Fraulein
Anneliese?" was the whispered reply.
IF you knew how pleased was at the
prospect of seeing you again, pleased
since the time when I had the honor
of being your neighbor at tablet You
] were bewitching at that wedding, so
| gypsy-lilxe and withal so sweet, simply
sweet. / said to my sister, on return
| ing to Berlin, olga, you cannot con-
ceive what temperament that little
-pardon-that young lady pos
sesses, what /"
Biml BIN! BIN! | struck the three
closing chords, closed the piano, rose
and left the room.
| had altogether forgotten that had
vowed to be polite for mammals sake,
but really, she could not require me to
listen to such nonsense! It bordered
the best Introduction to one-but as
inelegant as possible. The most
| beautiful spot in the whole house was
my solitary room downstairs, the most
sensible society that of my good old
guardian angel, of whose especial
capacity to be sure I was not yet
aware of on this evening.
"Thank Cod" said /, as | stood be-
fore the old lady, who sat by the table
in her tiny room and by the light of
one miserable oil-lamp was rummaging
in all sorts of things. 81 can scarcely
looks as If she would burst into tears
/ any moment; he is like a thunder
cloud, and Frau Sellmann, nee Won
Brankwitz, should be under police
surveillance on account of her lavish
use Of perfumery; her brother has
learnt by heart either The Little
1Vest-pocket Sutton or The Art of
Pleasing the Ladies' and wishes to try
the effect upon me. Lastly, Aunt
Countess sits there and does not know
what to say to it all"
you should have stood it. AnneL
iese, it will only cause ill-feeling. Go
upstairs again, remember the promise
you made your mother!'
But | stubbornly remained where
was, fetched chair, seated myself
next the old lady and thereby called
forth a storm which for some time
had been brewing, but which now
broke abruptly and annihilatingly
over my peace and happiness, trifing
as they were.
The cousin had been rummaging
| in her chest of drawers, and upon the
table, as a result, lay books and
packages of letters. She held in her
| left hand an old blue-and-white stu
dents cap, badly worn by wind and
weather, while with her right she
stroked it caressingly, just at the mo-
ment that the door of the front room
was burst noisily upon and the host
interrupted our idyll. He may even
have heard me ask if this cap had
once belonged to Robert Nordmann.
| The cousin sat there in silence, in
terror
so you are here?" he asked. 81
must beg of you to rejoin the guests.
You are no longer a child, you are the
grown-up daughter of my house, and I
have rio tO demand fho+ y,ooyoo4