The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-11-09
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the air. Glad shouts proclaimed Maric's
enjoyment of the sport. When released
by her mother, she climbed upon her
grandfathers knee, showed him her
little ship, and begged him TO sail out
with her upon the Elbe 10 Hamburg.
The grandfather fondly strolScd the
child's head and promised 10 build big
ship in which they two would sail away
over the sea, past England TO the beau
tiful Odessa, her grandmothcr's early
home.
Marya began humming the melan-
choly refrain of simple, rhymcless
ballad, In which Marics thin. childish
voice soon joined for the child already
knew the song.
"a happy heart beats IN my breast
But q heavy weight upon II lies
The soft, monotonous voice and the
name. Marya, were all that might give
one n clcw to the young woman's east
/ ern origin. But they were sufficient to
cause the islanders TO bestow upon her
the name they had formerly given her
mothcr-"The Stranger" Her GRANDPA
ther greatly dislilSed her foreign name;
as he considered himself one of the pa
triarchs OF the community, he insisted
that the oriental Marya, should. for the
child. be translated into the German
Marie.
The old tower, the home OF Marya
and her grandfather. is rude. clumsy
structure. upon the island Ncuwert.
which lies upon the extreme northwest
crn coast of Germany. The islanders
/ III "a Al. AZ. IA
a point. which. at ebb tide IL connected
with the main island by a stretch of sea
marshes, at flood tide il stands a lone
sentinel in the midst of the surging sea.
Many and varied have been the services
rendered by this strange old tower.
While for ages its massive walls have
afforded shelter and hospitality. the
lantern surrounding the structure. with
its two-and-thirty lights, intensified by
polished refiectors, has been n beacon 20
numberless pilots, enabling them TO
guide their vessels safely among the
sands that lie at the mouth of the Elbc.
II has seen generation after genera
. ton pass away. In the five hundred
years of its history, war, murder and
other deeds of violence, as well as the
destructive force of the sea, have ragged
in and about It, All classes of people
have found shelter beneath its gray. old
roof; merchant princes, whose sway ex-
tended over the highways of the sea;
defiant sea-robbers, foes TO the com
merce OF the flourishing city of Ham
burg. who here awaited trial and judy
ment; shipwrecked sailors, who found
here safe harbor; even travellers from
e.
settled upon the island and made their
home in the old tower.
But all that is long past. Even since
the time when Maya, 1.-THE Stranger"
had so disturbed the peace OF the little
community within the dilSes thousand
tides have cbbed and flowed. and scarce
one old woman lives that can tell the
story of her strange deed Here and
there, however, may be found an old
gray-haircd sea-dog, who can still re-
call the events of that night. long past,
when the guiding star of the lighthouse
disappeared. and the death and deStruc-
ton that followed were attributed TO
the frenzied throbbing Of one woman's
heart.
Daylight was fading. From her high
outlook. Marya had watched the great
red disk of the sun sink below the hori-
zon. Every evening she did this. Only
after the last quivcring rays had van
ished and the dark blue canopy of twi-
light overshadowed the murmuring sea,
did she recall 10 mind her household du-
ties. Her grandfather prepared 10 dis
charge the duties of his position, for old
Peter Eilt was both keeper of the light
house and governor of the island. Lit
tie Marie accompanied him, still beg.
ging for more stories of strange lands
beyond the sea. where flowers grow as
large rs the plate from which she ate
her supper.
zone becomes child again with the
, little darling and would fain conjure
the sun from the heavens for her." said
, the old man as he assembled the stairs
again to polish the refiectors before the
lamps were lighted, Maya seized the
, little one again and embraced her with
such fierce fondness that Marie strug-
| gled TO free herself and ran screaming
after her grandfather.
, ~ am going TO get some water,
! called Maya after the two as she took
her waterpails and went down the
steps. AS she emerged from the arched
doorway below, she stood motiohless
for few moments before descending
the wooden steps that led down to the
we'll, the one precious fountain that
was inclosed with the lighthouse by
t the surrounding bikes, This, too
Maya did every evening, From the
: little landing AT the head OF the stairs
y she could look out across the nearer
d bikes and could herself be plainly seel
+, from the houses that lay between tn,
IL bikes beyond-that was the main thing
10 II was still light enough for that.
5 Why Marya so strenuously resiste'
4 the custom OF the island and would no
D. marry Hans Freril, her husband
e. brother, might have been easily under
stood had one seen her a little later
Dr. under the protecting shadows of th
winter evening, clasped In the arms q
sr burly, blonde-haired youth. The tw
81 had FASTENED 10 their trysting place o
"a the east side of the old tower, wher
ii THE shadows lay the deepest and wher
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