The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-06-26

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had my portemonnaie In a bag
had brought with me and was opening
1t when he looked at ipe rrpronchfulla.
so reproarhfully Niat. though he spoke
not word. ! deSisted Rising and lift
ing his cap with the saine Difference as
before. he said:
Farewell, fraupin rnademDiSelle.
You English and Americans have no
word by which to address lady not
married This has been pleasant
episode In ruined life. shall never
forget it,"
Farewell wished he had said
adieu, goodby, anything but farewell.
1t is a word fit only to use at parting
with the dying And In this case 1t in
tensied the feelings I had at seeing
him stroll away from me down the
road. erect and with that swinging step
a soldier gets and once got can never
shake off
If when had sat down to transfer TO
canvas the first verdure of spring any
one had told me that man whom
had never seen and did not expect to
see again would come along and leave
sketch of his face and figure. taking
Sway in exchange my heart. ! should
have considered the prophet a lunatir.
Yet there | sat. with the picture in my
hand, and there walked away the man
with my heart. without once looking
lack
| saw him approach a rise in the
ground and hoped before he descended
on the other side he would turn with
last wave of his hand. But he did
not. He passed out of sight. treating
me as a woman with whom he had no
acquaintance
He has been ruined" said to my
self, Through no fault of his own.
but be will not permit any one else to
share his obloquy."
About year from this meeting on
looking over newspaper. | glanced at
the personal column don't know
why have always been accustomed to
read the personals. but do. ,suppose
it is because in some of them'1 think
can see romance. and love to won
der what that romance may be. For
the same reason | like stories in which
the principal parts are left to the inn
| agination. What know ceases at once
TO interest me. What | don't know and
imagine to he story in itself never
ceases to interest me
AS was saying. was reading the
personals In the newspaper when
came upon one under the heading of
Information Wanted" that described
my model The description of him was
perfect ! felt absolutely sure that
was right in my inference that it re
ferred to him. 1t occurred to me that
| in identifying the missing man the
sketch had made of him might be of
great assistance. | wrote note to the
advertiser that ! had met such a man
and had made a sketch of him. which
would be at his service If he re-
quired it.
received reply from a German
American firm of attorneys. who re-
piled that the person sought was want
ed abroad and the lawyers had letters
for him. took the picture to them.
which they referred to one who knew
| him and pronounced 1T his likeness.
loaned 1t to them, and they had it pho.
tographed and used with subsequent
advertisements.
One morning a card came up to me
bearing the name of Baron Carl Rich
ter. My heart leaped to my throat, for
| OWNED at once that the man | had
thought of by day and dreamed of by
night had returned to me. But how
should ! go down to see him with my
| heart tuttering like frightened bird? ?
Mastering my feelings as well as
could. finally went down. to see my
model. not in shabby genteel habili-
ments, but dressed like gentleman
But one thing uotced-hi present at
tire did not add one whit to his ap-
pearance of refinement
He told me that he had been vindi-
| cated-how, never knew and do not
( know today Nor do l care to know
From the first was as sure of his in
nocence as If an angel had proclaimed
| it. And 1t did not raise him in my opin-
ion. for he had never so required rails
ing But ! rejoiced that the obloquy
| had been taken from him. And re-
joiced, too, that his former rank and
Office had been restored to him by the
sovereign of his state
He had been discovered by means of
! the sketch had made of him and.
when shown it at the Office of the at
torneys. had asked for my address, and
| as soon as he could make himself pre-
sentable had called upon me.
| That brief meeting at which the
sketch had been made was as much to
him as to me. When he had walked
away from me-so he told me-the
world before him looked darker even
than 1t had looked before. 1t was the
trial of his life. when he stood upon the
crest, to avoid turning for a parting
glance before descending.
On returning to the principality to
which he belonged he took me with
him as his wife. He is now always
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