Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-29
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Elizabeth was glad when she saw
her uncle turn the corner to come
toward the house. Drawing a deep
breath of relief, she seated herself at
last at his side in the wagon. She
had aiken off her hat and bathed
her heated brow in the deliciously
fresh evening breeze that gently
1uttered by. The last ray of lie
sun shone upon family trembling pop
lar leaves at both sides of the high
way, and across the poisoning po-
tato fields a golden mist still brooded
but the forest that clasped Elizabeth's
beloved home in its trusty arms lay
dark and dreary as though it had al
ready forgotten the sunny life that
had that very day glided into its in
most heart.
The forester cast more than one
side-g .ance at the silent young girl.
Suddenly he took up the whip and
mes in one hand and Elizabeth's
chin in the other, and turned her face
to his own.
"Heigh, Elsie, let me see, he said.
What, the devil! she's got wrink-
les On her brow as deep as Sabine's
pillow furrow What happened up
there? Out with it; you have been
veXed, | know"
mo, uncle, it was not vexation, but
it gave me a pain to find how right
you were about Fraulein Won Wade, .
responded Elizabeth, while deep
flush of excitement spread over her
features.
Hurt th"t l was right or that
Fraulein Won Waldo did wrong?' ask
ed the forester.
We'll, to speak exactly, because
what you promised was evil"
linen ought you to be angry at
me, properly speaking? You might
have been living at a court where it
is a punishable offence to speak truth
to a good-for-nothing superior. Nay,
what accident won the victory for
my despised wisdom?"
She described to him Helene's con
duct, and repeated the ladies' sus-
picious utterances. The forester
smiled grimly
Yes, the women, the wonderland
especially those down there" said
he. They have people married who
are saying ''good-day" for the first
time in their lives. Nay, in this case
they may be right enough, and it's
something l have not been able 10
comprehend.
But, uncle, you surely don't believe
that human being gives up his bet
ter convictions for such an inclina
ton?
For such an inclination, child, far
different things have happened, anG
however much may disopprove OF
Fraulein Won Waldes weakness anG
yielding, I Judge her more mildly.
nevertheless. That is a power that
makes us forget father and mother
for the sake of a stranger
| Yes, that is just what l do not
understand, uncle, how any one can
prefer a stranger to ones own par
ents," replied Elizabeth, eagerly.
''Hm!" observed the forester, and
let the whip fall gently upon the back
Of the brown horse to start him off.
After his HIM" came slight chuck
ling, and the matter was dropped, FOR
he thought very truly, IF the land
lies so my dennition of love will not
be understood though I spoke with
the tongues of angels 1t was a
lin time since he craved a beloved
name in the bark of tree and forced
his hoarse voice to sing loYesongs,
since he strobe for hours through
forest and over mountain-side to earn
single glimpse, and hated as his
bitterest enemy him who he dared to
look approval at the forester's be
loved He now looked calmly back
and rejoiced over that mad time
But describe it, with it's raging waves
of excited feeling, its laughter and
tears, hope and despair. nay, that he
could not.
DO you see the black line above
the forest there?' he asked, after a
long pause, poinl ling to the noun
taIns.
Yes, indeed That is the flag
staff above Castle Gnadeck. l dis
covered it before, and l am unspeak.
ably thankful at this moment that
there is one little spot ON earth where
we belong, a spot from which no one
in the world has right to drive us
away. God be thanked, We have d
home!"
And such a one!" said the forest
er, letting his eye roam over the re
gion. While / was still a small lad,
the longing for the Thuringian forest
was strong in me because of my
grandfather's tales. He had spent
his youth in Thuringia. and shook
traditions and proverbs and stories OF
his old home out of his sleeves. So
when l had mastered my trade,
came hither. In those days the for
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