The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-11-30

remain ana assist her Mltn the chill
dren.
One evening Mr.. Adams, whose resi-.
dence was in the country. came home
TO find n young man wearing clothes
of a German cut and smoking china
pipe walking in the grounds beside tho
governess. Mr.. Adams hurried to his
aunt.
whats that Dutchman doing hereY'
he asked angrily.
"You mean Count Ludwig Slaghti
He's not a DutchmHn. He's a German.
He's a family connection of Fraulein
Gretchen Lindersteln's."
He's seeming up the grounds with
his beastly pipe. What has he come
forT"
TT looks very like he has come for
the fraulein."
Il thought you said he was rela
tive"
mot near relative"
With something Ike a growl Mr..
Adams departed and was not again
visible till the next morning at break.
fast. Several days later he asked his
aunt what had become of "the Dutch
man"
Hes at the inn. He comes to see
the fraulein every day at her recrea-
ton hour. and she walks out with him.
'Do you really think she's going TO
marry the fellow?'
"The fellow She tells me he's a
member of the German parliament"
German parliament They have
no real parliament in Germany.
They're a set Of toadles to the en-
peror."
"Well. he wants to take the fraulein
back with him."
How do you know that?"
81 don't know 1t. / suspect it."
"What rascally proceedingw
what do you meanY
"Why, the children have got used to
her and love and obey her as they
will no one else. Besides. it's n pity
that such a refined girl should be tied
for life TO a brutal German husband"
But shes German herself"
81 don't care If she Is. We all know
what tyrants the Germans are with
their wives"
"Albert, never interfere in a love
affair. The couple will turn and rend
you"
Love Atari l can't conceive of a
dainty little thing like the fraulein
loving a garlicky Dutchman."
Mr.. Adams spoke the last words with
sovereign contempt and, turning on his
heel, left his aunt and mounted a horse
to ride off his Indignation. On his re-
turn he found the count walking in his
grounds with the frauein. The sight
was too much for him. When he reach
ed the pair he dismounted and said to
the count:
Perhaps you are not aware 81, that
In America ii is not considered honor
able to tamper with employees"
"Vat you say? not honorable? Per-
haps you do not know how we reply to
such language in Germany. will pig
stick you"
Ludwig" said the girl softly, "re-
member that you are in America"
Yes, Gretchen, but a gentleman can
not brook an insult wherever he be-"
at is my wish that you go away
from here and leave me. to. explain your
presence to Mr.. Adams"
"Since you desire it. But you must
procure me an apology"
Raising his hat in a dignifed man
ner, he turned and walked stlffly out Of
the grounds. Then the fraulein said:
"Why do you object to my brother-in-
laws presence herer
"Your brother-in-laww
"Yes. He comes with a message
from the family urging me to go back
to Germany. They guarantee me ST.
600 year to live on.
"Fraulein, am an ass. But you must
not leave us. My aunt has come TO
rely upon you, the children adore you,
and u
"You" she asked, looking up archly.
love you"
An hour later servant bore an apol-
ogy to Count Ludwig and an invitation
TO dinner. At the dinner he was in
formed that his sister-in-law would not
return at present TO Germany. but
would visit her relatives In few
mouths as Mrs. Adams The count him
self was induced TO take up his resi-
dence during the remainder of his stay
Mt the Adams home and when he re-
turned gave glowing accounts of the
new American member of the Under
stein family.
"Who made the match between your
nephew," Miss Adams was once asked,
'and the pretty fraulein"
81 did," was the laconic reply.
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