Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-02
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W. HeinD11rG. II
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Continued.


cousins room, one of them from
America, in Brankwitzs handwriting.
Now go to sleep, Anneliese," said
the old lady, 81 will stay here with
yuu. To be sure, it would be better
we're you to sleep in the pretty little
woorn with the Countess"
And leave you alone? Never,
c0usin!"
Sc we spent the terrible night to-
.geEhgr, in. silence. Neither OF US
slept Towards morning the old lady
smaaA some coffee. When it struck
five O'Clock she extinguished the
Camp, opened the shutters and stood
there waiting. Finally she left tire
room hastily. I heard her unlock the
housed door and then talk with some
one
/ raised myself in my chair. Robert
Nort1mann? Cousin must have taken
him into her room; could not see
him, I heard but the sound OF his
voice. He did not say much; she
TALKED more. Then silence again
reigned; he must have gone away.
lin the afternoon the Countess
came she wanted to take me forcibly
from The house. refused: the old
lady could not remain alone. Not a
soul, excepting me. knew what she
suffered at this time.
On the second day the man was
buried, very early in the morning.
Cousin stood at his grave, no one else.
Only one other woman approached
the newly-made grave, this woman
held child by the hand, a boy OF
several years, who looked half
q1efiant1y, half-timidly after the coffin.
Cousin told me about it when she
returned. Nov the poor wretch can
beg" this woman had said; ''who will
take care of him in the future? / can
uos keep him for nothing, and Button
Martha left him nothing"
~T will see that he does not starv =;
keep him until the estate is settled,
cousin had comforted.
Then we two lived alone in the
large house the upper rooms of which
were still sealed; only after the lapse
OF weeks could the juolcial proceed
ings be concluded.
Summer came, an unusually hot
summer, which | spent more in the
garden than in the house, in the old
melancholy garden, which was as if
fCrszated for a sorrowful, yearning soul
THE windows of the house looked
down so sleepily upon it, and the roses
bIo0med in magnificent luxuriance
without one hand being extended 20
pick them. Occasionally cousin
g1Ided through the shady walks and
seated herself beside me, idly, her
hands in her lap.
THE days dragged on. Once the
old lady asked me softly: us it really
true, Anneliese, thai you wish to go
awayg''
nodded with averted face. eyes
cousin You see, / shall become i'll,
Nf Z remain here any longer; I must
aSrTe something to do, / must work in
0rSfgr TO forget all, and think,
have been Robert Nordmann's guest
long enough. He is the heir"
EEn surely, you will stay until
%OdoOer?'' The old lady's lips
qIuIyered. ~Anneliese, until October!"
the first of OCTOBER came l lived
AS SF in an enchanted castle; | heard
nothing of the outer world-cousin
mad even given up the newspapers.
The Countess came one afternoon
when 4 was walking in the garden
according to my custom making the
round of the large square three times
with regular step like sentinel. She
ut oh ~
sstSseEzen my pace somewhat, and said:
We'll, you will soon be released
ncw, my chicken. Countess Arven-
ss2eben has obtained position for you
IN England. l am very much in favor
@of This engagement, for, you know, it
as better just now to be little far
away The entire province and the
surrounding villages are talking Of
nothing else but Of this story, and to
take up a newspaper is indeed terrible
-Wollmeyer and Nordmann, Nord-
1snaBn and Wollmeyer!"
I paused and looked at her IN
sziTrag51t.
Yes, my Anneliese, who would
haTE5 thought it," I only now see
why the man shot himself-there was
nothing left for him to do. These
sa'e great things which are coming to
aisfEt! Nordmann has acted very
@ae&fully and very nicely, for-listen
he has renowned all claim to Woll-
Enssgars entire fortune, with the ex-
eceTEIUn of the estate in Thuringen,
which belonged to his mother. But,
do y&yu not know all this 2" she cried.
II sazn telling it to you and you stare
7at En8 as if I were mad-it is of the
2nost vital Importance to you and"
& did not know, aunt, that the
Sa2aEfer was being transacted; more
egvgsgv 1t has nothing to do with me
WHIT claim have l on Wollmeyer's
~escSsss2''
~'Eg That SO! But you cannot right
&uIET maintain that you have not
FclalTn upon it. There is an old