Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-15
Continued.

I asceaded the stairs to fetch Frau
Sellmann-the dear old fur cap was
made of the skin of martin trapped
bv papa himself, it had grown a little
shabby on the edges, but only little,
and [ loved it so dearly. found
Frau SelImann in her mOrning-gOWn
deep-red plush-a genuine fez upon
her Titan hair, smoking cigarette in
the Turkish tent.
"Good-morning, dear little one!''
she called out to me. Heavenly
Father. how fatigued I am! This
Westenberg induces sleep, choral is
nothing in comparison with it.
Did you not intend to driver" | in
CURED in surprise.
eyes, at first, that is, said yes to
rid myself of that kind Wollmeyer
with his eternal praises of the charms
of Westenberg. No, thank you-l
feel very comfortable here!"
Then are we to remain here?"
asked.
"You? oh no. Otto would be simp-
Iy furious! No, you must go, do you
hear, you must go if you do not want
to force me to dress and to take a
severe cold on that open carriage.
Excuse me-of course no one will
force you to expose yourself to any
danger
[ left her. For mammals sake |
dared not remain at home.
Wollmeyer and BrankWitz wee
standing at the carriage, examining
the turnout, which Brankwitz had
bought for Wollmeyer from we'll
known sportsman. I mounted, as
sisted by my step-father, Herr Won
Brankwitz swung himself up on the
other side, seized the reins and the
fine animal started off.
why, wait" l exclaimed. Fried
rich has not got on!"
do you care so much about Fried
rich? he asked. without stopping.
what do we need the good man for
We are not going to drive in the Ber-
lin Tiergarten, or''-he looked at me
through his eye-glass-''are you afraid
of me. Fraulein?"
Certainly not"
II am glad to hear it."
''Oh, there is no occasion for it!
Did fear any man, 1 would at least
not bel paused, was about to say:
| would at least not be so utterly in
different as to whether he sat next me
or not
We Jew through the streets of the
town so rapidly that the children got
out of out way screaming and people
opened their windows to look after us.
Herr Otto Won Brankwitz wished to
prove himself to be "dashing sports
man." Ia trice we turned the cor
ners and ratified through the old gate
way out upon the high-road The ami
NAL literally flew; once we almost
ran over peasant, pipe in mouth,
trudging sleepily beside his peat
wagon, and the coarsest oaths were
flung after us.
We continued at this pace until we
reached the spot where the main-road
merged into the pine-forest which up
to this time had loved so dearly and
which today was to be made the scene
of unpleasant memories. Herr Won
was enthroned upon the seat much too
high for hint looked almost danger
ous-now walked his horse and re-
marked as an introduction to con-
versation:
This Westenberg is a God-forsaken
country"
/ had been thinking just the OPP
pOsite; my heart had expanded when
| saw the pines covered with light
mantle of snow. There beside the
ditch which ran along the right side of
the road, lowered toward the gray sky
a gigantic oak-tree with it's hundreds
of gnarled leaf1ess boughs, this gray
lowering sky betokening snow. With
discordant shrieks a flock of crows
scared aloft, and in the light mantle
of snow beneath the trees were in
Vulnerable little footprints, as if the
hares had held meeting there early
that morning. And besides all this
there was the aroma of the pines, that
aroma which had never inhaled with
as much enjoyment as in this God.
forsaiIen country"
I suffered his talk with Indifference,
leaning back and drawing in deep
breaths of the pure air.
Brankwitz gushed from the height
of his coachman's seat-about his
travels, about Nice, Cannes. Rome,
Naples, Palermo, Alexandria, All,
the South, the enchanting South! The
people were totally different, they
were more beautiful, more soulful,
more graceful! 1t was Incompetent
sible how any one could live in the
north after once having been there.
Nor was there any life in this country
it was only to be found there. 'If
you did but know it, gracious Fraulein,
you look IS if you had been born by
the Gulf of Naples Your name
should really be Comma or Victoria
or Beatrice!"
1T is no doubt very beautiful there, -