Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-03-14
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colo Elsie

By e. MARLITT

JioI' SHc CdileQ Hef quickly 10 HeF
side and elizabeth began to tell 81
her to the recontre. But after the
first few words the forester turned
toward her. A deep furrow 60
tween his bushy brows, and made
his face gloomy and dark. ."
so, he sad, you have seen her
already Then | will tell yoG
who and what she Is. took her
into my house several years ago to
be help to Sabine. She Is a re-
lation OF my dead wife, and has
neither parents nor relatives. | wish.
ed to do a good work, and have pro.
scourgc that hays me without my
having snned | discovered, in The
first weeks, that there was not a
sound thought In her mind, nothing
but wilderness of exaggerated
ideas and an incredible arrogance
] was tempted to send her back
where he came from, but Sabine
lamented at that and begged me to
keep ner. though she had least oc.
casion Of all Tor SO doing, for the
young thing gaver her enough to DO,
was pert and kept acting the mas.
ter8 relation toward the old ser
want. | turned a blind eye as far
could, but gave her steady work to
drive out her demon Of arrogance
That answered thee purpose for Il
time. But up at Lindhof-formerly
the Gnadewit2 property, which the
sole heir has sold TO Baron Won
Waldo--a certain Baroness Lessen
has been living about a year. The
owner himself who has neither wife
nor children, Is sort Of student Of
antiquity, who travels about, and
leaves this lady as the chaperon Of
his only sister, who is unmarried
Mores the pity ror she turns every
thing upside down. OIL. Years ago
when any one was recommended to
mo rs pious, | felt respect and dotf.
ed my cap. But now | feel like
cIinching my fist and drawing my
cap well down over eyes and ears
for the world Is tOpsyturyy Bar
oness Lessen rs one Of the pious
that grow narrow and hard from
sheer piety, who prosecute more ten.
ciousy than my hound follows itg
prey, all their fellOw-creatures that
do u keep their eyes hypocritically
cast down, but venture to use them
to look up to seek their God above
into this herd my excellent niece has
strayed, and a better field
could not be found, for al
the weeds srrout in her mind, and a
pretty time we have in consequences
Sh emado the acquaintance Of a
walting-maid over there, and spent
all her leisure time there. At first
| suspected nothing until she began
one fine day with her attempts at
proselytzing She thought Sabine
was not pious because she did not
leave urgent duties Il dozen times a
day TO pray -the poor old woman
who goes to Lindhor to church every
Sunday, through wind and weather,
often despite her suffering from
rheumatism, aud has = life of labor
and duty performed behind her, that
certainly outweIghs lifelong kneel.
ing ana do-nothing piety ten times
over Then my young moralist at
tackled me, But there she found her
match, and dropped the subject after
the first attempt | forbade all in
tercoursc with the Lindhof people
but that did very little good for she
5ilps over secretly whenever she has
a leisure moment AS to gratitude
toward me for my care of her, there
/ Is no sign of that We have no unit
ing bond whatever and that makes
II doubly difficult for me to ,hield
her Heaven only knows what no
ton she has got fixed in her head
now but tor nearly two months she
has been totally dumb not here AT
nome only, but toward every one
Not one sound has passed her lips in
that time, Neither severity nor
Kindness Is of any avail. She does
her duty as she always did. eats and
drinks Ike every other hearty per
son, and is not one iota less vain
than before, But because she lost
her rosy cheeks and looked pale, I
consulted a physician about her. He
found her physically healthy. but q
most eNcitable and fantastic person
and there being insanity in her fam.
iIy he thought we should do best To
let her have her own way She woul i
get tired of her silence In the course
or time, and chatter like magpie
one of these til,e days. She may dc
as she likes as far as | am concerned.
Hut / certainly make heavy sacri.
nee, | never could endure an ill.te,n.
pered face about me, all my life, an
would rather eat bread and sait with
cheerful faces than the costliest del.
icaeies with morose people. Ha,
little golden.hair," he said, turning
to Elizabeth, and stroking her brow
oh /, h,pKyb