Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-04-25

there? Out with it; you have been
vexed, l know"
/ No, uncle, it was not vexation, but
it gave me pain to find how right
you were about Fraulein Won Waldo,
responded Elizabeth, while deep
flush of excitement spread over her
features.
Hurt that I was right, or that
Fraulein Won Waldo did wrong?" ask
ed the forester.
Well. 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 punishable offence to speak truth
to good-for-nothing superior. Nay,
what accident won the victory for
my despised wisdOm?"
She described to him Helenes 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 | have not been able TO
comprehend
But, uncle, you surely don't believe
OIL hic
ter convictions for such an inclina
ton?
For such an inclination, child, far
different things have happened. anG
however much may disopprove or
Fraulein Won Walde's weakness anc
nevertheless. That is a power that
makes us forget father and mother
for the sake of stranger
Yes, that is just what | do not
understand, uncle, how any one can
prefer a stranger to ones own par
ents,' replied Elizabeth, eagerly.
HIM observed the forester and
let the whip fall gently upon the back
of the brown horse to start him off.
After his HIM" came a 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 | spoke with
, the tongues of angels II was a
/ lin time since he craved a beloved
name in the bark of a tree ana forced
his hOarse voice to sing love-songs,
since he strobe for hours through
forest and over mOuntain-side to earn
: a single glimpse, and hated as his
bltterest 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, pointing to the noun
talnS.
Yes, indeed. That is the flag
staff above Castle Gnadeck. | dis
covered it before, and | am "unspeah-
! ably thankful at this moment that
there is one little spot On earth where
We De-Ong, a spot from which no one
in the world has a right to drive us
away. God be thanked We have d
| hOme!'
And such one!" said the forest
er, letting mis- eye roam over the re-
gion While | was still! a small lad
the longing for the Thuringian forest
was strong in ne 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, I
came hither. In those days the for
est here before us belonged to the
Gnadewitze's; but I did not wish to
serve them. | knew their sort of
human kind from my father. | was
the first Ferber since time immemor-
ial who had given up service under
them, and got work from the Prince
of L. The heir of the last Gnadc-
WITT divided the great forest because
OF the Prince of l., wished to increase
his wood domain and was willing 10