The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-20
WHIT ANSWER? ;
A Love Crisis in the Life =,
of a Girl.
LAS the Gnadiges Fraulein forgo
Ill ten me?"
BY Helen Hamilton.

LAS the Gnadiges Fraulein forgot
Ill ten me?"
Margaret Iistemann turned quickly,
as the crowd of students thronged
from the lecture-room of the Berlin
university, and somewhat desperately
Wilhelm repeated audibly what had
at first been a mental question. A
swift upward glance at the tall fell
low beside her, whose brown eyes
We're looking down into hers-then
Margaret, hlushing, answered, laugh
ingly, as she cordially offered her
hand, Indeed [ have not. Mother,
let me present Herr Sternberg, to
whose patience three years ago, in
giving form and coherency to my
Deutsch sentences, 1 owe my rapid
progress"
Mrs. Listemann's frank, unaffected
greeting instantly proclaimed them
Americans, though one glance at Mar
garet's intelligent, animated ace and
indescribnbly distinctive style would
have made known her nationality.
"How natural the room looks"
Margaret said, glancing around at
the time-worn desks and benches.
Her voice was steady, and really
admirably controlled, considering the
unusual rate at which her heart was
beating. The consciousness of the ex-
IRENE absurdity of it's accelerated
throbs only increased their speed and
deepened the flush upon her cheeks.
ALI this was very unusual for Marga-
ret; blushing was not her habit, and
SO seldom had she felt the beating
of her own heart that she had almost
~concurred in the dictum OF many
friends of both sexes, Margaret
Listemann has no heart" Impress
sionable she certainly was not; all
her power and depth Of loving were
reserved, held sacred for one. s'Per-
haps we may never meet" was her
subconscious thought, "but if he
comes I shall feel-I shall know I am
his alone for all eternity"
The n absorbing occupation of
her tWenty-thfee years Of life had
been study-natural inclination made
her turn to books, necessity made her
specialize.
Her father had been a genius whose
inventive power lacked practical
force, SO others reaped where he had
own Leaving the fatherland when
but a4lad, in America he found wife,
child and home. Imaginative, high
souled, in a word, a dreamer, he could
ill cope with poverty and life.
At IL Margaret realized that soon
she and her mother would have but
each other, and passienately she
sought 10 absorb into her life the
thing which would recall constantly
her idoIized father--his language. She
thought, dreamed, talked only his
loved German.
Tt was found at Mr. Listemunn's
death that nothing wns left for his
wife and child, so both must become
sbread-winners. Berlin, with its count
less advantages, became the goal of
Margaret ambition, that she might
qualify herself to teach, and friends
leaving almost Immediately for the
herman capital, she decided to go
with them for three years study.
What this separation meant to
mother and child none realized but
themselves.
Alto Margaret was equipped for
sher work with the born teachers
enthusiasmf for her. profession. Teach
ngs almost unremittingly for three
years, She now felt the necessity for
fresh inspiration, and had returned
WIN e mother To ner Berlin.