Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-03-21

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manifest maid in the village, had
mounted into the gold frames, In a
/ SILK train, and with so many jewels
upon her breast and in her hair, and
the Moor with the silver tray stood
behind her snow-white face. as he did
In the picture of the noble woman,
she would have been a thousand
! tunes more beautiful than the lady
mat was really bitterly ugly, and lad
two straight black lines above her
eyes, that she drew up to her hair
with sheer insolence. But she was
Just the one that the whole family
was proud Of She was said to have
been naughty rich countess, but
hard and unfeellng as a stone.
Among the men there was but one
That liked to look at He had a
GEAR true-hearted face and a pair Of
eyes black as sloes. And It was
true him, that the best suffer most
III The world. As far as anyone knows
al The rest Of the whole long line
hourlshed and throye. Many of them
Drought misfortune enough in the
world, and laid themselves down on
their death-beds none the less as
qnietly as If everything had been ac.
cord'ng to the letter of the law :.
10 come back to Jost Won Gr~a.
WIZ he met right sorry fate Nv
observation-disclosures grandmother
knew him when he was a little child
ihey called him the wild huntsmqn
IN NOSE days, because he never came
OUT OF the woods the whole dav long
ne was painted in green hunting.iac.
| T. 100, with long white feather in
us nlt' that | always admired so
greatly against his curly black hair
but he was gCod and never womb
nave harmed a child. The paonle
III ire village pIospered in his dav
"''u wished 1t might last forever.
hut once he was absent for q
l',he; no one knew where he was nm.
~ d. IaSt he returned one nighttime
Que knew whence or wherefor
nut from that time on he was like
~ 'iHti' re TOOK none of
'ne'r privileges from the Lindorf peo.
p'e' It's true, but they never saw bei,.
MASTER again, He sent all the SER
wants away, and lived alone nv him.
se,l IN the old castle with his favorite
valet. ''e
al hist' the people grew suspicios
VI MS practising the black art nm
'nere and no living being venturaI
up the mountain in bright daylight
TO say nothing o. the night pnf
,ne ora graitgrandmother was a dar.
ing thlng in her youth, and let hor
s"ats pasture close to tho castIo
wall One day he was sitting oiot
n,on an'nh'hg' under tree looking to
""'d the wall, wondering how high
1t might be and what was behind r.
ana all at once there comes q SNOW
"nite arm over 1t, and then p faco
NY siahdmother's great grlndmothar
S"'d IL was more beautiful than tho
"un' moon and stars-and at I,et
win a leap there STOOD a younp girI
UP lhere, stretching her arms in tho
ca" ' ana calling something the goat
siIl could not understand, and in an.
otlier moment she would has sprunp
'"'o tlie water that stood In the moat
'Iouhd the castle in those DAYS
but' all at once, there was Ioot h..
nina her, grasped her, struggled with
her' struggled with her, besought and
ontreated her till it must have novel
heart of stone, and his coII-hlool,-
nalr stood straight upon his head fo,
a''N'ety and terror, Then he seized
heF IN MS arms and ulrried her off
IKE child away from the wall Rut
the girls veil fell from her head and
"oated down to the goat-birl nv an.
Io''of' and she carried it home to
ner rather with great joy But he
was terrified, and threw it .y,aIrbt
INTO the fire for DEVILS spooll, ami he
never let the girl go up the mountain
again. ''''''
'Later-'it must have been q ruIi
year mat Jost lived so quietly No ar
the castle-down the nluuntain no
comes on horseback. But no me
would have known him. So altare u
was MS lace. And it looked all the
winter for his bein 6 dressed in coal.
plack Clothing. He rode slowly and
nodded sorrowfully to every one he
met, He rode away, and never came
BACK. g.. . He was killed in hat
Tie, and his old servant too. that was
with him. 1t was in the Thirty Years,
War"
Mnd the beautiful girl?" asked
Elizabeth.
'No,--.ng more was ever seen or
heard of her. Jost deposited a large
sealed package at the Rathhaus. m
l., and said that It was his will, TO
be opened when the news Il his death
came. But there was great fire in
L., and many houses, the churches
and even the Rathhaus, were burnt to
tIe ground with everything that was
In them
IneN say tho nactpr Of I i,,.tt..e