The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-16
Re-establishing
A Family
PyF. A. Mitchell

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and build up his family. which was
an old one. though impoverished Won
Bishoff chose valuable field for
money making in America He be
came brewer and by the time he was
/ fifty years old was in n position to re-
I tire from business with the fortune he
I had come over for. But business
life had accustomed him to active hab-
its, and he did not relish going back
TO Germany "a n life of idlcncss BE
sides. the pan-European war had come
on. and he thought he could be OF more
service TO the Fatherland by sending
money for hospital service.
! Won Bishonf had no son. but he had
daughter, Ililda. about twenty years
| old. Ii had been his intention To send
| for his nephew. the son of his older
brother, 10 come over 10 America with
| the hope of making n match between
| this young man and liiida. His for
tune would ultimately pass to IIilda
and through her and her husband the
| former influential status of the Nou
Bishaifs would he re-eStahliShcd. Eui
the war came on. ana of course Carl
! Won Bishof was needed in The army
and on this account the plan was de
| laycd If not altogether eXtinCuished.
IIilda Won Bishoff's associates were
native Americans, and she had not that
love for Germany that had remained
/ r.. \.
out she told him that she wished To 60
! abroad to do Red Cross work, and he
only consented ON her promise to de
vote herself to the care of sick and
wounded soldiers in Germany. But
| llilda. though she had learned the Ger
man language in her childhood had
| forgotten IT, and she did not relish the
idea of going among people whose
language she did not understand. Her
father would not consent to her going
10 any other country
lIilda had been given plenty of pin
money and. not having spent 1t all
had something in bank One day she
left for Europe without saying any
thing To her father as To her going
and on her arrival at the seat OF war
was enrolled In the American Red
Cross service. She found that the sick
and wounded consisted of all kinds
] There were English. French. Belgians
Germans, Austrians and citizens of the
Cnited States 10 be cared for and all
received the same attention. or course
the enemy sick and wounded as soon
as they recovered We're considered
prisoners and placed In concentration
camps. while the French. English and
Americans were returned to duty.
Illda remained ut her post of duty
a year when, her health giving out
she returned To America. Some OF her
friends suspected while nursing a sol
dler she had lost her heart to him. but
IIilda would not admit It. Her father
got hold Of the rumor, and it worried
him very much, for he had not given
up re-establisllng his family in Ger
many through her. lie questioned her
us TO the matter. but got nothing out
Of her. Indeed. she denied the story.
However. Won Bishofr's plan for
building up his family by marrying
his daughter To her cousin Carl was
dashed because news came to his un
ce that he had been killed In the war
One day IA young man who gave his
name as Ficgler appeared at Herman
Bishoff's residence and asked for I'LL
da. lie was the soldier that she had
nursed as prisoner He had been
sent to England as n prisoner OF war
and had escaped. He had then got
transportation To- America by securing
n berth as fireman ON ship about TO
sail for New York His object was To-
get back to Germany by way OF the
United States.
The first thing Won Bishoff knew
about the strangers coming was in
formation from his daughter that she
had given her troth TO the fugitive
aud desired her fathers sanction to
the match She and her lover planned
TO be married before his return to the
army. Won BiShoff. realizing by this
time that his daughter would have her
own way in the choice of husband.
gave a forced consent The couple
were married. and n few days later
the groom sailed for Holland. from
which country he expected to cross the
line into Germany.
six months after his departure his
wife received word from him that he
had succeeded In what he had under
taken and was again In the ranks
fighting for the fatherland. Then came
letter statin. that he was at home
badly wounded.
Hilda. now Frau Fiegler. determined
10 Join him. Her father. finding that
she was resolved on doing so. deter
mined TO 90 with her. They went by
way Of Copenhagen and in due time
arrived at the village from which Her
man Bishoff had departed thirty years
before for america. The schloss.
dilapidated residence that had once
been a noble pile. was still in posses
sion of the family. and there they