Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-23
By W. HEiMBUQG.

pictures of Antics parents did you
not read it. Frau Jussnitz? The will
is to be opened here after the
funeral, and on those two front chairs
you and Herr Jussnitz are to sit"
Ante turned quickly away and
went back into the great hall. With
clasped hands she went up to the
coffin.
Thank God she murmured. you
will not see me sitting there. so alone
so utterly alone"
CHAPTER XIX.
In the mean time. Hilda Won zwei.
dorf was presiding in the nursery.
The child had taken a little cold on
the Journey, and she cried constantly
and kept calling for her mother.
Hilda knew that Antje has as much
as she could do in making all the
preparations which are necessary for
such a sad ceremony as a funeral.
Therefore she did her best to pacify
the child, to put it to sleep, and to
amuse it when awake. But in vain.
Ante had come in several time in
her sombre mourning garments, with
her pale, haggard face, and the child
had cried aloud in terror; it was
afraid of the black dress.
At length, toward evening of the
second day, Hilda, quite exhausted by
her unaccustomed efforts, begged DR..
Maiberg to come an see the child.
He came into the light, comfortable.
old-fashioned room. Hlda was sit
ting before the table, with the child
on her lap. with unwearied patience
building up the blocks which the
perverse little reature insisted On
knocking down again. Mamma
come" was its constant cry; but not
the black mammal"
Probably there may be some child
ish disease coming on" said the
doctor, laying his hand ON the hot
little head. For the present there is
nothing TO do but to walt patiently.
Fraulein Won Zweidorf. Shall l send
some one to help you?"
mo, thank you" she replied, CURLY
you seem to be suffering yourself"
mot at all. But please tell me,
Herr Doctor" She stopped and
blushed. Tell me-" she began again.
why does not Herr Jussnitz Gomez"
IL should think you ought to know
that" was the sharp answer. But the
next moment he repeated it. She
looked at him so helplessly, so pite-
ously, and her proud head dropped
lower and lower; she looked utterly
crushed and broken. He suddenly
felt horrible certainty that some
thing decisive must have occurred at
Sibyllenburg. He caught at her hand
and was about to speak.
Don't" she said. harshly, getting
up. Taking the baby in her arms,
which burst into loud crying when IL
saw itself deprived of it's playthings
she began to walk up and down the
room, quite Incapable of pacifying the
child unable to choke back her own
sobs
He went up to her and relieved hei
of her obstreperous little burden
and she lied from the room, down the
stairs, through the hall.
She did not see Ante STANDING
there in front of the great linen-press
with the housekeeper. She had but
! one thought-away. where she could
hide her burning shame--away, never
/ to come back. never,
The wind tore the heavy door out oI
her hand. She left it open and rushed
down the steps, and then came TO 0
sudden stop and caught ut the iron
railing in her horror and Amusement
for carriage had just driven up, out
of which sprang TALL slender man.
She felt as it she would like the
earth to swallow her up. II was
Jussnitz.
She saw Ante come forward 10
meet him: saw by the light of the
lamp the young wife's eyes fixed re
proachfully ON her. as II TO say:
Gould YOU not wait little while
Could not even the presence of the
dead under this roof restrain you
from rushing out to greet him."
OF course she could not help think
ing thus when she saw Hilda dashing
down the steps to meet him in all the
JOY OF seeing him again whom she
! loved,
She had on neither cloak nor hat
she could not say: Il wanted the
fresh air: felt as IL should choke IL
that room upstairs!"
She only stood there. trembling like
a guilty thing.
"Win you come in, Hilda? You vii
take cold In that sharp wind sait
Antics voice. with perfect calmness.
And she obeyed.
Jussnitz was standing In the hal
with Kortmer. Hilda went past him
toward the staircase with her head
thrown proudly back
Leo bowed eivilly and formally c
the young girl. but she did not return
his greeting: she went upstairs ster
by step, and walked slowly along the
corridor, When she reached tbs
nursery, she said TO Dr. Maiberg
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