Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-08

ing but you and your future; | devise
plans and take pains to make your lot
happy; | take up my abode in a
wretched peasants house with a
single roof, and everlasting smell OF
the stable only TO be near you; sew
my eyes and fingers sore-and
you-?' And she broke out in violent
sobbing, which, however, it seemed to
me, made no impression upon Su,
sauna, for she remained still as d
mouse.
Go, Susy, be good the old woman
began again. L have just given you
the pretty little dress today: look at
it by and by and see how carefully I,
is embroidered And now her voice
sank to whisper and Immediately
after Susanna's little figure ran quick
ly from the thicket and passed close
by me; she carried white parcel in
her hand, and her round hat on her
arm. could distinctly see her fash
ing eyes and red cheeks. | rose
quickly, l must speak before any one
else saw her. Susanna tried to
call, but the name remained on my
lips; for in the path along which she
new stood, as if charmed thither, the
tall figure OF a man, and Klaus's deep
voice sounded in my ears:
Susanna! Thank God!'
Had | heard Alright? They were
only three simple words, words which
perhaps every one would say to d
person who had been missed ana
anXlously sought. But here a per
rect torrent OF passion and anxiety
sushed forth, as hot and sitting as
the summer night in which the words
were spoken.
Swimming head on my hand. nv
God, Klaus, Klaus! stammered.
What is to come of this? This child,
Their circumstances compare SO I'M
favorably, he cannot possibly want
to marry her; what. then. draws him
TO her? What conflicts must arise il
he really thinks of it! God preserve
him from such a passion! 1t is sure
ly impossible; it cannot, must not
be. Oh, Susanna, that you had never
come to this house,'
And round about me whispered the
night-wind in the trees; the full moon
mad risen golden, and bathed field
and wood with blush light And
Susanna is so young, and Susanna is
so fair! Was it, then. strange if
Klaus loved her? What cared love
and passion for all the considerations
which | mad just brough up. And
their-Oh, God! what would Anna
Maria say?
And | rose, quite depressed, to GO
TO my room and collect my thoughts.
Klaus must have taken Susanna into
the house long ago. Now Anna Maria
would ask where she had been. And
she would not answer. as often be-
Tore, and Anna Maria would speak
harsh words and Klaus walk restless
~ about the room: Nothing of an
thls. AS | went slowly along the path
| caugth sight of dark figure on the
stone bench under the linden. Anna
Maria?' | asked myself. is she
waiting here for Susanna? She look.
ed fiXedly out toward the darn
country, and the moon made her face
look winter than ever.
Anna Maria.' | called, Susanna
has come back She sprang up sud.
denly, hastily drawing her lace veil
over her forehead; but | saw, as
came nearer, that tears were shining
in her eyes.
Have you been anxious? | asked
and put my arm in hers, to support
myself las we walked on.
Anxious? she repeated question
ingly. 'Yes-no, she replied absent
ly. All, you said Susanna has come?
knew perfectly well that she would.
aunt, she is so fond of rowing about;
that comes from the vagabond blood
of her motheS, no doubt
Anna Marla!' exclaimed,
startled.
Certainly, Aunt Rose, she re-
peateG, it is ia her, it ferments in
her little head and shines from her
eyes. So often l have noticed when
she is standing by me or sitting OBJ
poslte me, busted with some work.
how her looks wander away, in eager
lmpatience; how only the conscious
ness must obey compels her to
stay still by me- Then she naturally
makes use of every opportunity to
rush out, TO lie down under some
tree and forget time and the present.
Happy being, thus constituted, through
whose veins runs no slow, pedantic.
duty-bound blood!
We were standing just at the
bottom Of the terrace. and in
voluntarily seized hold of the railing
to steady myself. Was it Anna Maria
who spoke such words? Was not the
whole world turned upside down
then? And | saw in the moonlight
that her lips quivered and tears shone
in her eyes. Had Anna Maria some
thing 10 regret in her life? And, like
flash of lightning, Edwin Sturmer's
handsome face came before my
minds eye.
Anna Maria | whispered. what
did you say? Who But | got no
tlTf her for Tho cn,,pd nr -