Jacksonville post., December 10, 1910, Image 4

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"Tol I us about it. Ted us under I Vlntuors and presses and prupt-rs wanted snarled.
secret b im dead us It ever was.”
' lie tried to kiss me." salJ Gretchen.
“Gott! For seventeen, eighteen year»
what circumstances you met her high- for the season. Find and ld>erai comp.-n-
“The man who tries to kiss a woman I have traveled hither and thither, al­
ness. Every one knows that this mar­ j jation. Apply Holtz.
Gretchen laughed Joyously; the vlnt- against her will Is always at heart a
riage ls to take place.”
ways on some false clew. Never a
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville, Oregon
Gret chen nodded. “Nevertheless, her ! tier grinned; the subchief swore under coward,” said the mouurai jeer.
band of gypsies I heard of that I did
highnt ss has changed her mind.” And ' his breath.
The colonel .-x-lzed the old man by not seek them out. Nothing, nothing!
“Tlie devil fly away with you both!" the shoulder to push bin. aside. He You will never know what I have gone
A weekly newspaper published
[---------- every
. Saturday at the county seat of Jackson she re< ounted picturesquely her adven-
| turn In the royal gardens. 1,1.4 nil hung j he cried, making the best of his cha- put out one of his arms and clasped through, and uselessly, to prove my
County, Oregon. 1). V/. B a GSHAW, Editor.
I grin. "And when you marry don't in- the colonel in such a n aimer that he Innocence. What benefit to mo would
i on her words In a kind of ir-.i.c
gasped. He wag in t'je clutch of a have been a crime like that of which
“Hur rah."’ shouted the vintner. "l4>ng 1 Vite mo to the wedding.”
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 13J7, at the ;x>st office at Jasonville, | live he r biglmess! Down with Ju-
After they had gone, however, he Carpathian bear.
I was accused? Was I not high in
Oregon, under Act of Congress of Mar :b 3, lb?9.
called for un assistant.
| gendhel t!"
“I will kill you for t'als!”
honor and wealth? What benefit to
“
Did
you
see
that
young
vintner?
”
“
So?
”
The
old
man.
thrust
him
back
There was a line chorus.
me, I say—all my estates confiscated,
"Yes.
”
several feet .without any visible ex­ my wife dead of shame!”
A police oi;i<»». and three assistants
■S’.-l TURBA Y, DECEMBER 1C \ 1910
"Follow him night and day. Find
ertion.
He let
i came down the stairs quietly.
“But why the clocks?” in wonder.
out
where
lie
lives
nnd
what
he
does
his staff slide
"Let no one leave this room!” the of­
was a pastime of mine when I
fc'JBSCRIi’TIOM: One year by mail 11.ö». Advertising rates famished on
and ransack his room if possible. He
into bis hand.
ficer said stern! y.
a boy. I used to be tinkering
application.
is
either
an
innocent
man
or
a
sleek
The colonel
The dramatic pause was succeeded
rascal. Report to me this time each
drew his saber
by a bab^-1 of confusion.
night."
and lunged to­
“Ho. there! Stop him, you!”
On reaching the street Gretchen gave
ward his assail­
It was the "vintner who caused this
reiu
to
her
laughter.
As
they
turned
ant. The old man
cry. and the ngillty with which he
laughed. He
scrambled th rough the window into into the Krumerweg they almost ran
into Carmichael.
turned the thrust
the blind allfy was an inspiration.
“Herr Carmichael!” said Gretchen.
with his staff..
“After him !” yelled the officer.
"And what are you doing here this
T h e n the old
But they Jiearched in vain.
time
of
the
night?
”
man struck buck.
“Out into the street, every mother’s
“I am looking for a kind of ghost, a
The saber rattled
son of you!” cried the officer. “This is
to the stone
your last "warning. Goldberg. The specter in black that leaves the palace
early in the evening nnd returns late,
flooring. The
next time you go to prison.”
victor put Ills
Gretchen alone remained. It was whose destination has invariably been
foot upon it.
her duty to carry the steins up to the 40 Krumerweg.”
The vintner started.
On his part the
bar. The officer. wither thorough for
“My house?” cried Gretclien.
colonel’s
blood
his kind, studied the floor under the
"Yours? Perhaps you can dispel this
suddenly cooled.
window. Etc found a cutting from a phantom?” said Carmichael.
“My s tvord,”
newspaper. This interested him.
"She was a lady who comes on a
the colonel de­
"Do you 1 .now who this fellow was?” charitable errand. But now she will
Copyright. 1000. by the Bobbs-Merrill Conwan»
manded.
with a jer k of his head toward the come no more. The object of her visits 'I WILL
"I coul d have
FOB
THIS."
window.
is gone,” Gretchen answered sadly.
broken it half a
the top floor of my grandmo tier's
[CONTINUED. J
"My luck!” ruefully.
"He is I,eopold Dietrich, a vintner,
dozen times. Here, take It. But be THE CLOCK MENDER FRIED OPEN THE CASE,
house was rich. She left me a I hou-
“Are you not afraid to walk about wise in the future and draw it only
and we are soon to be married.”
“Perhaps 1 am a fool, perhaps lam Btind crowns.”
among all the clocks in tho house.
in this part of the town so late?” put in the right.”
"What made- him run?”
willing to pay the penalty of my crime.
"And what will you do with all thi't
The grand duke bus a wonderful Frie­
"He is new to Dreiberg. Perhaps he in the vintner.
At least that was uppermost. I have money?" asked Ilans.
Outside the old man laid liis hand sian clock. One day it fell out of or­
“Afraid? Of what? Thieves? Bah. on the colonel’s arm.
thought you were going to arrest ev­
learned that her highness has been
“I am going to study music.”
der, and tho court jeweler could do
ery one.”
my little man! I carry a sword stick,
found, and the rope is not made that
“You must never bother her again.
“I thought you were going to be
“Ask him if be is not a spy from Ju- and, moreover. I know how to use it Listen, You are Colonel vrm Wal- nothing with it. I was summoned—I!
will lit my neck. Will you denounce married soon,” said Carmichael.
tolerably well. Good night.” And he lenstein; you are something :more be- No one recognized me, I have changed
genJbeit.” t he officer said roughly.
me, brother?"
"Surely. But that will not hinder.
so. I had begun to give up hope when
The stein s cllckrd crisply in Gretch­ swung along.
"1?"
sides.”
I shall have enough for two."
the gypsy I was seeking was seen by
The vintner was not patient tonight.
en’s arms. One of them fell and broke
“Why not? Five thousand crowns
do
you
infer?
”
“
What
The vintner scowled over the top of
one of my agents. He alone knows
“Who is this mysterious woman?”
at
her
fetf
t.
still hang over me.”
“I infer nothing. Now and then the secret. And I am waiting, waiting.
his paper. Carmichael eyed him
"I am not free to tell you.”
"Blood money for me? No. Ilans!”
there happens strange leaks ge in the But you believe, Ludwig?”
mischievously. Gretchen picked up
"Oh!”
"Besides, 1 have made a will. At her coppers and went away.
CHAPTER IX.
duke’s affairs. The man is well paid.
“Carl, you are innocent of it all.
“
Leopold,
what
is
the
matter
with
my death you will be rich.”
love ’ s doubts .
He is a gambler, and one is always Come to Jugendhelt.”
“A beautiful girl,” said Ilans ab-
you tonight? You act like a boy.”
"Rich?”
reasonably
certain
that
the
gambler
R1 CTCHEN. troubled in heart
"No, Ludwig; tills is my country,
"Yes, nermann. I am worth 200,000 stractedly. “She might be Ilcbc with
“I am wrong, Gretchen. You are will be wanting money. Do you un­
no trouble nt all.”
a nd mind over the strange right. Kiss me."
however unjustly it has treated me.”
crowns.”
derstand?"
e vent of the night, walked
At that day there was only one news­
"Yes, yes. But If your gypsy falls
She liked the tone; she liked the
Hermann breathed with effort.
“Who are you?”
s lowly home.
paper in Dreiberg. The vintner pres­
you?”
kisses, too, though they hurt.
“But riches are not everything.”
A l’ootsi.ep from behind caused her
“Who I am is of no pr> .-sent conse­
“Still I shall remain. I am only slx-
"Good night, my man!” she whisper­
“Sometimes they are little enough," ently smoothed dowu the Journal, to start. The vintner took her roughly
quence, But I know wb j and what ty-elght, yet no one would believe me
opened
his
knife
and
cut
out
a
para
­
ed.
Hans agreed.
graph. Carmichael followed Ills move­ in his iiritis and kissed her many times.
“Good night, my woman! Tomor­ you are. If you behave yourself you under eighty. Thero wero letters
"Ob, why did you do It?”
will be allowed to continu e in prosper- found in my desk, all forgeries. I fled
"Gret chen?”
row night at 8.”
“Have 1 not told you, Hermann? ments slyly. The vintner crushed the
She d.'d not speak.
He turned and ran lightly and swift­ ity, but if you attempt tc. molest that to Paris. I wrote Ilerbeck onco whllo
There Is nothing more to be added.” remains of the sheet into a ball and
girl again there will be no more gold there, lie believed that I was inno-
“What Is it?”
ly up the street.
Then, with rising passion: "Nothing dropped it to the floor, Then be finish-
coming over the frontier from Jugend- cent.”
“
You
a
ak?
”
ed
his
beer,
rose
and
proceeded
down
more now that my heart Is blistered
From the opposite doorway a moun­ belt. Now do you understand?”
1 t a crime, then, to jump out
“He kceps a steady hand on the
and scarred with regret and remorse. the stairs lending to the rathskeller of “Was
taineer. a carter, a butcher and a
the
wi
tidow?
”
He
laughed.
“Yes,” weakly.
below.
Carmichael
called
a
waitress
duke.”
God knows that I have repented and
baker
stepped
cautiously
forth.
Gretchq s’s face grew sterner. “Were
“Go. But be advised and walk cir­
“But you—what are you doing In
repented. I wept to war because 1 nnd asked her to bring a copy of that
“He heard something,” said the cumspectly.”
Dreiberg in this guise?”
wanted to be killed. They shot me day’s paper. Meantime he recovered you afraid ?”
mountaineer. “He has ears like a rat
"For
a
i
uoment.
I
have
never
run
The colonel, pale and distrait, saw in
“Well, once upon a time there lived
here and here uml here, and this saber the vintner’s paper, and when he final­
for hearing. What a pretty picture!”
cut would have split the skull of any ly put tlie two together It was a simple afoul the p< dice. I thought perhaps we cynically. “All the world loves a lover his mind's eye a squad, of soldiers, a a king. He was young. He had an
wall, a single volley and a dishonored uncle who watched over him and his
other man. But it was willed that 1 matter to replace the missing cutting. were all to .be arrested.”
"Perhaps you did not care to have —sometimes. Touching scene!"
roll of earth. Military Informers were affairs. This prince regent had an
Grumbach allowed a mild interest over
should come back here."
No one replied; no one was expected given short shrift. TJio colonel went
the police as. c you questions?”
Idea regarding the future welfare of
“My poor brother! You must fly. the procedure.
“What is ai l tills about?” He pulled to reply, More than that, no one cared to the barracks.
“Why do you do that, captain?”
this nephew. He would bring him up
The chancellor is suspicious.”
to
court
the
fury
which
lay
thinly
“A little idea I have. It mny not her toward him so that he could look disguised In the mountaineer’s tones.
to be a man, well educated, broad
“I know that. But since you, my
»»
minded and clean lived. The lad grew
CHAPTER. X.
brother, failed to identify me certainly amount to anything.' But the Amer- into her eyes. '"What is the matter?
“Tomorrow night; you heard what he
up clean In mind, strong in body, lib­
bls excellency will not. And you will lean was puzzled over the cutting. Answer.”
anuunAcn
picks
dp a locket .
said.
I
am
growing
weary
of
this
“Are you not a spy. from Jugend-
eral, a fine prince. In his palace few
not betray mo when I tell you that I There were two sides to it. Which bad
play. You will stop him on his way to “T AM going into the.«arden, Gretch- saw
anything of him after his fifteenth
have returned principally to find out Interested the vintner? “Do you care heit?” thinly.
yonder house. A closed carriage will
B
en.
Bring
me
a
stein
of
brown."
He
flung
aside
her
hand.
“
So!
The
year. He went into the world under
whence came those thousand crowns.” for another beer?”
be
at
hand.
Before
he
enters,
remem
­
I
Tile
mountaineer
smiled
genially.
an assumed uame. By and by he came
“No; I am tired and sleepy, captain.” first doubt that .enters your ear finds ber. She watches him too long when
“Ab! Find that out. Ilans; yes, yes!”
A
“But I am noit working here home quietly, in one month he was
"All right. We’ll go back to the ho­ harbor there. A npy from Jugendhelt! he leaves. Fool!”
Hermann began to look more like him­
any more,” said Gretchen.
That is a police suggestion, and you
to be coronate»!. And now what do
tel."
self. "But what was your part?"
“She has had a fortune left her,” you think? He must have one more
The quartet stole along in the dark­
A little time later Herr Goldberg believed it.”
“Mine? I was to tell where her
said Frau Bauer.
ness noiselessly and secretly.
"Do you deny it?”
adventure, just one. And one morn­
highness and her nurse wero to be nt harangued his fellow Socialists bitter­
“Well. well!” The mountaineer ing his uncle found him gone. Ah!
The vintner had indeed heard some­
“Yes,” proudly, snatching bis hat
a certain hour of the day. nothing ly. Gretchen’s business In this society
thing.
He
knew
not
what
this
noise
seemed
vastly
pleased.
“
And
how
The prince regent set It going that hla
more. My running away was the ex­ was to serve. They had selected her from his head an<l throwing it vlo-
majesty had gone a-huntlng In Ba­
pression of my guilt; otherwise they because they knew that she inclined lently nt her feet—“yes, I deny it. I am was, but it was enough to set bis heels much is this fortune?”
to flying. Ills room hold a cot. a ta­
“Two thousand crowns.” Gretchen varia. Then the prince regent put on
would never have connected me with toward the propaganda. The rnths- not a spy from any country."
“I hnve asked you many questions,” ble and two chairs. Out of the drawer was not sure, but to lier there always some old clothes and went a-venturiug
keller had several windows nnd doors.
the abduction."
These led to the biergarten, to the she replied, "but you are always laugh­ in the table he took several papers and seemed to be a secret laughter behind himself.”
Ilans rose.
burned them. Ah! A patch of white
clear eyes.
“And the end?”
"Ilans, have you no other greeting?" wino cellar and to an alley which had ing. It is a pleasant way to avoid an- paper just inside tho door caught his those
<« 'Handsome!
’
And what will y oil »do
swerlng.
”
“God knows,” said Ludwig.
Hermann asked, spreading out his no opening on the street. The police
l
eye. lie fetched it to the candle. now ?”
The vintner saw himself at bay.
“And fatuous fool that this uncle
has as yet never arrested anybody,
arms.
What
he
read
forced
the
color
from
"Gretchen.
I
have
committed
no
“Study for the opera.”
was. He tried to marry off his
The wanderer’s face beamed, and but several times the police liad dis­
his
cheeks,
and
his
hands
were
touch
­
The old man wns jubilant.
nephew.”
persed Herr Goldberg nnd his disci­ crime. But you must have proof. We ed with transient palsy.
the brothers embraced.
“Where wero you going when tbis
“I understand, But if you are dis­
“You forgive me, then. Hermann?” ples on account of the noise. The will go to the police bureau and settle
“The devil! What shall I do now?" popinjay stopped you?" he cried.
covered here you will be harshly dealt
"Must I not, little Ilans? You are window which led to the blind alley this doubt."
he muttered.
“When?”
“To the clock mender’s.”
with.”
all that Is left me of the blood. True, was six feet from tho floor, twice as
What indeed should he do? Which
"Now, tonight, while they are hunt­
“I’ve nothing to do. I’ll go with
The other shrugged and picked up
I swore that If ever I saw you again broad ns it was high and unbarred.
way
should
he
movo?
Carmichael,
you. I’ve an idea that I should like his watch. “Can I be of material as­
Under this window sat the vintner. ing for me.”
I should curse you.”
Carmichael! The vintner chuckled to talk with you about a very Impor­ sistance? No? Proud old Imbecile!”
“Forgive me.” brokenly.
“And what has become of tho prin­ He was a probationer, a novitiate.
“I insist. This thing must be righted softly as he scribbled this note:
tant matter. Will you come Into the said the mountaineer kindly.' “You
This wns his second attendance.
cipal cause— Tekln?”
If Herr Carmichael would learn the se­ garden with me now?”
have been deeply wronged, but some
"Brothers, shall this thing take publicly.”
“Bah! Site is fat and homely and tho
of No. 40 Krumerweg, let him attire
"And I wns thinking that the man I cret
“Yes, herr.”
day you will be right. I myself shall
place?” cried Herr Goldberg. “Shall
mother of seven squalling children.”
himself as a vintner and be in the Kru-
“So you are going to become a prlma
merweg at 8 o’clock tonight.
see what can be
"What n world! To think that Tek­ the daughter of Ehrensteln become loved was a coward!"
"I am braver than you dream, Gretch­
done with the
“So there is a trap, and I am to be- donna?" he began, seating himself op­
ln should be at the bottom of all this Jugendhelt's vassal? Ol>, how we have
duke.”
tangle!"
fallen! Where is en.” And in truth he was, for be ware of a mountulnoer. a carter, a posite her on a chair in the garden.
“He will never
“I am going to try,” she smiled.
the grand duke's was about to set forth for the lion's butcher and a baker? Thanks. Schar-
A rap on the door startled them.
be brought to
“Have you any dreams? I mean the
pride we have den nnd only amazing cleverness could senstein, my friend, thanks! You are
Ilans slowly opened tho door. Car­
reason unless In­
kind one hns in the daytime—when the
heard so much extricate him. The police bureau was watching over me."
michael stood outside.
dubitable e v 1 -
•
•••♦••
eyes are wide open.”
about? Are we, far away, but the distance was noth­
“Ah, captain I” Hans shook Car­
dence of my in­
“Oh, yes!”
then, afraid of.Tu- ing to these healthy young people. It
michael by tho hand and drew him in­
Colonel von Wallqpsteln curled his
was Gretchen who drew back fearful­
nocence c o n -
“Who has not dreamed of riding in
gendheit?"
to tho room.
mustaches. It was a happy thought
fronts him. The
"No!” roared his ly-
that had taken him Into the Aldergusse. carriages, of dressing in silks, of wear­
Hermann passed Into tho hall and
Tho subchief of the bureau received This Gretchen hud been haunting his ing rich ornaments?”
place once occu-
auditors.
•oftly closed the door after him. It
pied by my
"I have a plan, them with ill concealed surprise.
“Ah!” Gretchen clasped her hands.
dreams, and here she was coming Into
was better that the American should
“I have learned that you are seeking his very arms, as It were. Gretchen "And there are palaces too."
name is obliter­
brothers. It will
not see the emotion which still Illu­
ated. I have giv­
show the duke to me,” said tho vintner, taking off bls stopped, a cold flurry in her heart
“To be sure. How would you like a
mined his face.
en the best of
what desperation cap.
dream of this kind to come true?”
"What's tho good word, captain?” In­
“Herr, I wish to pass.”
my heart and of
Immediately the subchief did not
he hns driven us
quired Hans.
“Do they ever come true?”
"That Is possible, Gretchen.”
OLD
my brain to Eh-
at last. We will know what to say. This was out of
“In this particular case I am a fairy. FROUD CILE!
"Will you stand aside?”
Carmichael put In n counter query.
”
r e n s t e 1 n—for
then , mob the Jugend- the ordinary.
With one touch of my wand—this oak
“You haunt my dreams."
"What was your brother doing here?” " are
this! I am innocent.”
“
You
are
not
a
native
of
Dreiberg,
”
ArRAt.p
of
jcoend
-
belt
embassy
on
staff
—
I
can
bring
you
all
these
things
“
That
would
be
a
pity.
”
"I have told him who I am.”
“I believe you, Carl, Remember, Ju-
,,Elr'
the day of the he began.
"I atn not going to let you pass till you have dreamed about. How would
"Was it wise?”
will always welcomo you. I
"No. herr; I am from Bnvarla. You I have bad a kiss.”
you like a little palace, with servants gendhelt
“Hermann sleeps soundly. He will wedding. We will tear It apart, brick will
find that my pnpers were present­
"Ah!" Battle flamed up in Gretchen's at your beck and call, with carriages must be going.”
talk neither in his sleep nor In bls wak- by brick, stone by stone.”
*
*
•
•
•
•
•
ed two or three weeks ago.”
“Hurrah!" cried the noisy ones.
eyes.
to ride in, with silks and velvets to
irg hours. He has forgiven me."
The vintner's passports were pro­
Carmichael
walked
his
horse.
This
The
noise
subsided.
Gretchen
spoke.
wear and jewels to ndorn your hair?”
"For what?" thoughtlessly.
"Will you let me by peacefully?”
morning be had ridden out almost to
"Her sereue biglmess will not marry duced. Tho sutx'hlcf compared them
A shadow fell upon her face.
"The time for explanations has not
"After the toll—after the toll."
to
the
corresponding
number
In
his
the frontier and was now on his re­
the king of Jugendhelt.”
“
By
what
right
should
I
possess
yet come. captain.”
He
Too
late
she
started
to
run.
turn.
“Oh, indeed!” said Goldberg, bowing book. There wns nothing wrong about laughed and caught hold of her. With these things?”
"Pardon me, Grumbach. But I camo
them.
No longer did Carmichael take the
with
ridicule.
“
Since
when
did
her
“
By
the
supreme
right
of
beauty
­
to bring you the invitntlon to tho mili­
a supreme effort she freed herself and
"What is your business?”
south pass for his morning rides. That
serene highness mako you her con-
tary ball."
beauty
alone."
struck
him
across
the
face.
Quick
ns
"I am a vintner by trade, herr.”
was the favored going of her highness,
"Come, let us go for your clock," he and he avoided her now. In truth, he
The broad white envelope cmblnzon- dantr
"Why did you jump out of the win­ a flash she whirled around and ran up
"Her nereno highness told me so her-
the
street.
The
one
hope
for
Gretchen
said,
rising.
“
I
am
an
old
fool.
”
ed with tho royal arms fasclnnted
dow?"
dared not meet her now; It would
Gretchen had gone home with her have been out of wisdom. She was to
Hans, not by Its resplendency, but by self."
"I was frightened nt first, herr. I now lay in the Black Engle, and Into
A
roar
of
laughter
went
up,
for
the
clock, but still Herr Ludwig, as the
the possibilities which it afforded.
believed that we were all to be ar­ the tavern she darted excitedly.
"Frau Bauer,” she cried, "may I mountaineer called himself, tarried in marry the king of Jugendhelt; It was
"Thank you. It was very good of majority of them thought that Gretch­ rested.”
In the order of things that he ride
en was indulging in a little plensantry.
you.”
the dim and musty shop.
“You accused him of being a Ju­ come behind your counter?”
alone.
“
Ho-ho!
So
you
are
on
speaking
Wallenstein
came
in.
Ills
hand,
held
“
I
’
ve
a
watch
I
should
like
you
to
“It was a pleasure, comrade. What
gendhelt spy." broke In Gretchen.
The road to Elssen began about six
terms
with
her
highness?"
Herr
Gold
­
against
his
stinging
cheek,
was
telltale
look over,” he said to the clockmaker. miles north of the base of the Dreiberg
do you say to an hour or two at the
"I am here because of that accusa­
berg
laughed.
enough for the proprietress of the
The clock mender literally pounced mountain. It swerved to the east. As
Black Engle? We'll drown our sor­
tion." said the vintner.
“Is there anything strange In this
Black Eagle.
rows together.”
upon it. "Where did you get a watch Carmichael reached the fork he heard
“What have you to say?”
"Shame!” she cried. "She shall stay like this?" he demanded suspiciously.
The Black Engle was lively, as usual, fact?” she asked.
“I deny It.”
the faroff mutter of hoofs. Coming
"Strange!" echoed llerr Goldberg.
here nil day.” declared Frau Bauer
"It is mine. You will find my name along the road from Elssen were a trio
and there were Borne familiar faces.
“Read thia.”
"Since
when
did
goose
girls
become
lu-
?n graved inside the back lid.”
The vintner was there, nnd so was
It wns the cutting The vintner read decidedly.
of riders. Carmichael laughed weakly.
tlmate with her sereue highness.”
“1 can wait." The colonel made for
The clock mender pried open the
Gretchen. Carmichael hailed her.
It. hla brows drawn together In a pux-
Should he mount and be off before
"Does not your socialism teach that »led frown.
the door. But thero was a formidable case, adjusted his glass and dropped she made the turn? He waited.
“This is my last night hero, tlerr we are all equal?"
bulk
in
the
doorway.
It, shaking with terror.
”1 <aa make nothing of this, herr.
She came in full flight, rosy, radiant,
The vintner thumped with his stein When I cut this out of the paper it
Carmichael.” she said.
“What is going on here, little goose
"So this is the end,” the amazed as lovely ns Diana. With a short nod
in
approval,
and
other*
tainted
him
"Somebody has left you a fortune?"
watchmaker gnsped, “of all my labors, of her head she signaled for the two
was to preserve the notice on the girl?" asked the grizzled old niau.
There was a jest in Carmichael's eyes. Goldberg was no ordinary fool. He other side.” The vintner returned the
"Herr Colouel insulted me."
to me and to what little I have left!”
soldiers to fall back.
"Yes," replied Gretchen, her lipa un- sidestepped defeat by an assumption cutting
"Insulted you!” The colonel laugh­
"Fiddlesticks! I am here for no pur­
leo be aowi LSuin.) .
■Blllna. "The poor lady .who Jived on of frankness.
ed
boisterously.
“
Out
of
the
way!
”
he
.The subchlef rrad aloud:
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