Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-25
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| passed her in the garden awhile
ago"
Elizabeth bent low over her work
at mention of the hated name. The
blood poured to her face at thought
of Won HoIlfeId's violence, of which
she had told her mother nothing fOl
fear Of doing harm. Perhaps this may
not have been the only reason. Al
least, she avoided clearly formulate
the fact that she greatly feared hel
parents might forbid her future visits
to castle Lindhof because of Ho'L
fields impertinence. But that woul
cut off every possibility of seeing
Herr Won Waldo.
Meanwhile the .hammering ali i
rolling went on increasingly in the
jutty.
Presently Ferber entered the gar.
den. He had been at the Lodge and
brought the forester home with him
to coffee. Ernst ran excitedIy to meet
them. The small boy, though carefully
remaining within the bounds set for
him, had stood almost constantly In
the broad path watching with great
interest in the removal of the jutty.
Papa, Papa!" he cried, "the ma
son wishes to speak to you. You are
to come up there; he says they have
found something" One of the masons
was eagerly reckoning the two men
to come nearer.
we have come upon a chamber, or
whatever it may be-" the man called
down; and if l see Alright there is a
coffin in it. Will you look at the room
Herr Ferber, before we 90 on further
with the work? You can come up
safely; we are standing upon a firm
roof"
Reinhardt had heard the summons
and came fastening down the ter
race steps. A hidden room containing
a coffin sounded intoxicating in his
antiquarian ears.
The three men climbed cautiously
up.
The workmen stood at the point
where the jutty projected from the
main building and pointed into a
rather broad opening at their feet
Hitherto they had come upon nc
closed room. The main building had
lost part of it's roof. Now. standing
upon the jutty they looked in all
directions through a labyrinth Of open
rooms and half collapsed corridors
and peering through a slit in the 1iO0r
they could see into the chapel. The
jutty itself looked not hail so IN
canny from within as IT had looked
from without. The blue sky shone
down everywhere up01 It, and the
fresh air swept through at will. But
suddenly, far below, there came to
light room apparently surrounded
by firm walls and protected by j
rather well preserved roof. AS far as
they could judge from above, the
room was inserted like a wedge be
tween the chapel and the room lying
behind the jutty. In any case there
must be window at the extreme
point formed by the walls and open
ing into the corner of the iutty and
the main building. for from that point
feeble rays came through the coloreG
light and played over the object
which could be partly distinguished
and which the masons held to be a
coffin.
A long ladder was brought at once
as the room was a deep one, and in
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of the men descended. In climbing
down they passed close to a black
brown mural tablet discoIered by age
The eye despaired of deciphering the
hierOglyphics which had here pro
ceeded from the carver's hand. A
plain narrow moulding of much later
date ran around the ceiling, from
which tattered black draperies hung
down. The other half of the mourning
lay upon the floor in mouldy, form
less heaps.
The room had undoubtedly, from
the first, been meant for purposes OF
concealmPnt for not the slightest
consideration had been spent upon
It's IOl III All iIlSSuIdI IIlduSIS, III
whose rather blunt point the expected
very narrow window was found. chung
so closely to the chapel that Rein
hardt's supposition of its having
been used for the chapel treasure III
the old catholic days seemed probable
the more so as five or six worn stone
steps led from within it to an OLD
walled-up door which had once given
access to the chapel The window was
behind the oak, which pressed its
strong boughs firmly against the
stone. and some ivy stems wove a
tender web across the panes. Yet
the rays of the sun stole family
through the dainty stained-glass win,
dows which bore not a trace Of de
cay.
1t was indeed a coffin, a small, mar
row, Ieaden coffin, which, standing
out bright against the black. velvet
cover of the postament, rested, for,
gotten and alone, within the three
walls. At its head arose a mighty
candelabra, upon whose branches
there were still to be seen .remn.nts
of thick wax candles. At its feet was
a stool with a mandolin lying upon it
The broken instrument strings dang
led at one side It mus
have been an old instrument in the
time of its last owner for the daTb
color Of its neck was worn avav in