Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-29
CHAPTER TX.


old heart was fearful for what must
come now. | loved both the children
so much, and, God knows, | would
have given years of my useless life If
| could have blotted out the last few
months. And ! was cropping about
and wholly in the dark, for Anna
Maria was reserved and uncom>
municative, and Klaus--what would
he do? He could not come and say,
Aunt Rosamond, | love Susanna
Mattoni, and ! wish to marry herr
should have had to throw up my
hands and laugh, Klaus. the last
Hegewitz, and Susanna Mattoni, the
child Of an obscure actress! And
Klaus would have had to laugh with
me.
II was a rainy day, just beginning;
wonderfully cool air came through the
open windows and the leaves rustlea
in the wind, and the rain battered on
the roofs; the maids we've running
across the court with their milk-pa Is
the poultry was being fed, and
Brockelmann talking to the maids,
and there went the 'bailiff in the
PASTURE every tiIuS WAS On uSudi anu
yet so different.
Then carriage came rolling into
the courtyard. Heavens. that was
our own with the brown span. II
stopped before the front steps. and
Klaus came out of the house and
greeted the gentleman getting out
| had leaned far out of the window,
but now drew back in alarm-it was
inc doctor, our old Reuter-, and at this
early hour. Anna Maria was my first
thought. | ran out; but no, there she
was. just coming out of Susannas
room. She still wore her blue dress
OF yesterday. but there were blood
stains here and there on the large
white apron.
Susanna? | faltered She nod
ded. and gave me her hand. Go in,
aunt: ! wish to speak with Reuter-
first she said softly; Susanna is ill.,
Almost stunned, let myself be push.
ed through the open door. The cur
tain were drawn. but on the. chimney
piece candle was burning, and threw
it's dim. pickering light on the girls
face, so that | could see the dark
feverroses which had bloomed upon
II during the night. Her eyes were
wide open, but she did not know me;
she thought | was lisa
lisa, | have sung, too; lisa, don't
be angry; It was so beautiful In the
moonlight, and it did not hurt me at
an And she began to sing.
Home have come. my heart buns
with pain
oh, that | only could wander again.
And then she passed her smah
hands over her white nightdress'
Take away the red flowers. lsa'
81 laid a white cloth over 1t for
her Poor child! The swoon, the
laughing, the sweet singing, that was
already fever,
"old Reuter- came into the room
and stepped up to the bed. Anna
Maria stood behind him, the torment
of expectation on her pale face, and
from outside. through the Unmatched
door, came the sound of heavy
breathing. that must be Klaus. The
old gentleman felt Susanna's pulse
long and cautiously; he was not a
man of many words, and one could
scarcely find out from him what ones
disease was; but he turned at last to
Anna Maria:
"A pitiful little lady. Fraulein; the
good God made her expressly for a
lrnick-knack table; wrapped in cotton,
sent to the south. and treated like a
princess. without making any sort OF
exertion herself, something might yet
he made of her. d, But first-he crew
his watch from his pocket and ,ook
hold of her hand again-'fiist we have
enough to do here, Who will under
take the nursing
Doctor do you think tSat b. dlN
exerton--l mean, very early rising
and domestic activity-could be the
causes, asked Anna Maria. with falter-
ing voice,
up at four, and from the Kitchen
into the cold milk, cellar. and the
again in the glowing sun. at the
bleaching place. and so alternately
was il note asked the old gentleman.
BY all means the surest way to co.,,
pletely PROSTATE person of such q
constitution: moreover. YOU might
have perceived 1t before. Fraulein.'
Anna Maria grew a shade paler,
But day before yesterday she Wake !
for an hour in the heat and sang a
great deal l interposed, for felt
sorry for Anna Maria,
"'Then one thing has led to an,
other declared the old gensleua 3.
Singing is poison-no more OF that.
VIII you undertake the nursing Fra,
lein HegewitEe' he asked me,
"'No. L. replied Anna Maria,
lisa! Isa,' called Susanna.
Where is she staying? asked
Anna Maria, while Or, Reuter- had
gone cut TO write a prescription
81 Dambitz, | returned. oppressed,
but she did not look at all surprised
She only begged me to stay with SN.
sauna till she had changed her dress,
and sent a messenger TO the old
woman.ls Then she came back, so as
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