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kindled from floor to root of 117 when
the Herr Han sprang from the .hansom
"at itfttibr.' "Until sow I did'cot know!
Until now I did not know!" be had
murmured all tfae way. He aaid ao
dreamily to the cabby, halt dizedly to
Mr. Guligan on the third floor, and
reached the little landiBg with the Are
of hie sonata still hot upon him.
Then the door of the blue room open
ed for the Fraulein Dorothy all dre9eed
for her journey. At the eight of Herr
Baueru.ektef, bow in hand-before her,
he stopped confused, and put out her
hand with a new shyness. "Good bye,"
she said; "I reckon I must leave you for
awhile for a long while." The lore
song was throbbing louder and louder
in Herr Hans' brain; he beat it down
and bent over her band with foreign
courtesy; then, all of a sudden, a great
wave of emotion swept through him, the
violin flew one way, the bow another,
and, on his kBeee,"Meine Dorothy!" he.
cried; the violin went bing-banging
down the stairway, and the Sbaughess; s
could be heard scurrying about at the
clatter. Dorothy, with a frightened
little cry, jerked her hand away and
fairly run down the steps. "Now have
I ruined all," groaned Herr Bauermeist
er, and got to his feet like a man who
bad lost the world and played the fool
besides.
But Dorothy had stopped at the land
ing. "Not all Hans," said she, softly.
"I reckon I don't know but three words
in German, but" she blushed to the
eyelids "Han, Ich lithe dick.''
Nick Lensen, toiling upward, gasped
as she 2ed past him, and found a mad
German, dancing, Binging with a half
dozen wild red-heads on the little land
by the blue room door. 'Henry Seidel
Canby, in the Outlook.
HERMANCE.
(mariax smith. Santiago de Chile.)
As I sat in my room one Sunday after
noon with the warm Chilean sun (out
for its firstlholiday after the gloom of
the wet season) streaming across the
floor from the western window, an
orange came rolling in across the floor
and with it, through the open door, the
sound of t subdued giggles. A moment
later the giggles were no longer sub
dued and a young girl in red came
bounding into the room, deluging my
face and neck with the warmest of vol-
VOL KlflBBO
She had come to ask which of the
three onewou!d say in English, "From
ise to love," -Swear to love," or "Vow to
love," and also if I had not some extra
tickets for the school concert, and while
she talked about other things 1 recalled
a Etrange caballero who wanders along
oar streets at night and either whistles
plaintive airs or warbles tender verses
with an ardent refrain of "Amar," and
there came to mind also the photograph
of a young man in the fancy drees of a
cavalier, the center of the elaborate
boarding school decorations in her
room.
The school gossip subsided, and the
little things of her home life, which are
so dear to a girl away from.it all. came
into the conversation; her home in Peru,
thegay brother at school in Paris, the
box of linenforher own trousseau, her
mother's beautiful embroidery, and
than her mother's young romance, all
told in a qaaint mixture of Spanish and
English, but svsry gesture and every
line of the dress which her mother had
fashioned for her bespeaking her be
loved and glorious Frapce.
Her father and' mother had been mar
ried on the Isthmus in the early days
of the French excitement. I could re
member so wsll Colon and Panama and
a quick trip between them on the little
railroad, every tie of which had casta
human life; a trip through bristling
alsMaad beat and houses built on
-stilts, with a station forevery mile; with
Gsuaese'shops and bleached Europeans
and languid negroes in every stage of
dress and lack of dress; then the long,
hot docks at Panama, with the blue bay
all fringed with palms and dotted over
with fisniDg pelicans.
Her grandfather had come to Panama
to join his friend, the French consul,
leaving his own motherless children be
hind in France, but bringing with him
the youngest, a daugher, Marie, and at
the same time came seventeen young
engineers and assistants sent out by the
French government for work on the
canal. The consul's wife undertook to
complete the convent education of
Marie and taught her the most wonder
ful embroideries and the demureness of
behavior becoming to the only young
French girl on the Isthmus.
When tbey had been there only a year
a .feast was given in the big white
French consulata in honor ot the great
day, the "Taking of the Bastille," and
the seventeen heroes and one heroine
assembled. The negro servents warned
the company not to eat bananas, which
are the principal fruit of the Isthmus,
f jr fear of the yellow fever, but Marie
was wilful and passed them to her fath
er and to a young can near her whom
she had found to be "Mury sympatica,"
and they three ate the forbidden fruit.
In ten days one young man fell ill
with the dreaded fever, and one by one
they all sickened and died like sheep, all
except one, Hypolyte, who had eaten
with Marie.
"From that day," said Hermance,
''they two began to love, and, one day,
the consul, dressed in his finest clothes,
appeared at my grandpapa's and said;
'Epoleeta today has been saying that he
can be no more happy without Maria.'
and my grandpapa be say, 'He ia a good
young man. He make my daughter
happy and I am gettiDg old, so set the
day.' And now myapa he laugh and
say to my mamman, 'I marry you be
cause of the banana."
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