Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-27


ed from the circle of gentle families,
pressing to her lips the outstretched
| hand with an expression of deepest
respect.
Good evening. aunt; how are you
| feeling?"
1t was the same rich voice that had
spoken before. and, like it, could be-
| long only to such a fresh young
| creature. Anna Maria Won Hegewitz
was just turned eighteen, and the
whole charm of these eighteen years
was woven about her slender figure
and the rosy face under her braids of
| fair hair. In contradiction to this
glrlishness, a pair of deep gray eyes
| looked out from beneath the white
forehead, seriously and with almost "a
look of experience, which, with a
| peculiar selfconscious expression
about the mouth, lent a certain
austerity to the face.
Thank you, my dear, | am WELL
replied the old lady, seating herself
at the round table before the sofa,
upon which were burning four can
dies in shining brass candlesticks.
Don't let me interrupt you, ma
mignonne. | see | have broken in
upon your writing; are you writing to
| Klaus?"
II have only been looking over the
grain accounts, aunt; | shall be done
in moment. | shall not write again
to Klaus, for he must return day
after tomorrow at the latest. If you
will excuse me moment"
"Oh, certainly, child. l will occupy
myself alone meanwhile" The old
lady drew her knitting-work from the
silk bag and began to work. at the
same time glancing dreamily about
the large, warm, comfortable room.
She had known it thus long since;
nothing in it had been altered since
her youth-the same deep arm-chairs
around the table, the artistic inlaid
cupboards, even the dark, stamped
leather wallpaper was still the same
and the old rocco clock still tickeo
its low, swift toand-fro as If it could
not make the time pass quickly
enough And there at the desk, where
the young niece was sitting, her only
brother had worked and calculated
and at that sewingtable on the
estrada at the window had been the
fayorite seat of the sister-in-law who
died so young. But how little re
semb,ance there was between mother
and daughter!
The old lady looked over toward
her again. The girls lips moved, and
the slender hand passed slowly with
the pencil down the row of figures on
the paper. Makes five hundred and
seventy-fve thaler, twenty-three gros
chem she said, half-aloud Correct
Now, then, Aunt Rosamond, | am
at your service She extinguished
the candle. locked the writing-desk
and bringing a pretty spinning whee
from the corner, sat down near hel
aunt, and SO the little wheel was
gently humming, and the slender
fingers drawing the finest of thread
from the shining flax. For while
the. room was quiet, the silence
broken only by the bowling of the
storm and the cracking of the burn
ing log in the stove.
Anna Maria" began the old lady
at last, you know | never interfer,
with your arrangements. so pardon
me If ask why you send Marieker
away"
She has love affair will
Gottlieb," replied the niece, shortly.
Il am sorry for that, Anna Maria
she was always girl who respected
herself; ought you to act so severe
! ly?"
she gives him her supper secretly
and runs about the garden with hin
on pitch-dark nights. will not hav,
such actions in my house. and know
that Klaus would not approve of il
either" The words sounded strange
|, ly from the young lips.
1 Eyes. Anna Maria "-Rosamond vor
, Hegewitz smiled-"if you will Judge
thus' These people have quite
different sentiments from us, and
and you cannot know. | suppose, Il
their views are honest?'
That is nothing to me-" replied
Anna Maria. They cannot marry
: because they are both as poor a,
. church mice. What is to come of it
2 The girl must leave; you surely Sc,
: that. dear aunt?"
, The old lady now laughed aloud
"One can see, Anna Maria. that YOU
S know nothing yet of real attach
I ment, or you would not proceed in 81
] dictatorial a manner"
a The slightest change came over tn,
young face. Il will not know Il
), either!" she declared firmly. almos
! turning away.
But. sweetheart" came from tn
!, old voice almost anxiously. do you
r think that It will always be so witt
: you? You are eighteen years Odd,
y you think your heart will live on thu
e without ever feeling a passion? An
Z do you expect the same of You
, brother, Anna Maria? Klaus is still
I so young"
The little foot stopped on tn
4 treadle of the wheel, and the gra