Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-24
home again.

nome again.
where surprise was possible into one
where music, light, color, marvel
were the proper atmosphere.
The most prodigious marvels occur
in dreams and excite no astonlsh-
ment. Eve had passed into ecstatic
dream.
The curtain rose, and the scene
was a forest, with rocks and the
full moon shining out of the dark
blue sky, silvering the trunks OF the
trees and the messy stones. gyp-
sy camp; the gypsies sang chorus
with an echo. The captain smote
with hammer on a stone and babe
his men prepare for journey to
Valencia. The gipsies dispersed,
and then Preciosa appeared, entering
from the far background, with the
moonlight falling on her, subduing
to low tones her crimson and yellow,
holding guitar in her hands. She
seated herself ON a rock, and the
moonbeams played about her as she
sang and accompanied herself on
her instrument.
Lone, am I, yet am not lonely,
For | see thee, loved and true,
Round me fits thy form. thine
only,
Moonlight gliding Ger the dew.
Wander where I may, or tarry.
Hangs my heart alone on thee,
Ever in my breast l carry
Thoughts that burn and torture
Unattainable and peerless
In my heaven a constant star,
Heart oerfowing, eyes all fearless,
Gaze l on thee from affair.
The exquisite melody the pathos
of the scene, the poetry of the words,
were more than Eve could bear, and
tears rolled down her cheeks. Mr.
Coyshe looked around in surprise; he
heard her sob, and asked if she wera
tired or unwell. No. she sobbed out
of excess of happiness. The com
hined beauty of scene and song op-
pressed her heart with pain, the
pain of delight greater than the
heart could obtain.
Eve saw Alonzo come, disguised
as hunter, having abandoned his
father, his rank, his prospects, for
love of Preciosa. Was not this like
Martin? Martin the heroic, the self
sacrificing man who rushed into peril
that he might be at her feet-Mar-
tin, now laid UP with rheumatism
for her sake.
She saw the gipsies assemble, their
tents were taken down. bales were
collected, all was prepared for de-
parture, Alonzo was taken into the
band and fellowship was sworn
The moon had set, but see-what
is this? A red light smites betwixt
the trees and kindles the trunks or
ange and scarlet, the rocks are so
flushed, and simultaneously with a
burst, joyous, triumphant, the whole
band sing the chorus of salutation to-
the rising sun. Precosia is exalted
on litter and is borne on the shout
ders of the gipsies. The light bright
ems. the red blaze pervades, trans
forms the entire scene, bathes every
actor in red the glorious song
swells and thrills every heart, and
suddenly, when it seemed to Eve
that she could bear no more. the
curtain fell. She sprang to her feet,
unconscious of everything but what
she had seen and heard, and the
whole house rose with her and roared
its applause and craved for more
It is unnecessary for us to follow
Ewes emotions through the entire
drama and to narrate the plot. 70
saw. how the gipsies arrive at the
castle of Don Fernando where he is
celebrating his silver wedding. how
his son Eugenio. by an impertinence
offered to Preciosa exasperates the
disguised Alonzo into striking him.
and is arrested, how Preciosa inter-
cedes. and how 1t is discovered that
she is the daughter of Don Fernando
stolen seventeen years before. The
reader may possibly know the drama;