Show AND RUDOLPH no evening tho young musician idolph Orn arnholm holm and bertha tho girl ol 01 may once wore alono i t cy were betrothed and yot yet the fol ring ig day would hud find them separated dolph was going to a distant provo prove for two 5 years care ho he would follow lessons of A closer master then on return borthne Br thres father would mould give n u his daughter and bur burvender render hie his uon an choirmaster choir easterla master in hie his favor 6 rtha eald said rudolph lot let ua us play ether once morn more this air abrou 3 ou lovo love so 11 41 when wo we ahr shell 11 be bo separated at end of each day at tho the hour of uvo thoughts we both shall play our arta u and it will bring ue us closer ono to 1 other 19 took hor bar harp rudolph Ilu doph tw a her upon hie his fluto flute and they bod several times berthae berthas favorite 10 at last they began to cry and led one ono another rudolph departed I 1 loth A ere truo true to their worde words each toning at tho the hour when they had t for fur tho the last time bertha went to too r harp rudalph to hie his flinto and rh ch one placed their part this ovon even 7 r hour la Is solemn and mysterious it to musing in reddish pors which arise upon tho the horizon it us that ono all tho events apar ina vi id picture that ono one can e over all his last days somo some gay A d brownel with roses others sad and pod in mourning at that hour tho the last breath of tho the ad nd among tho the loaves leaves seemed to modulo tunes to which wo we affix amx sweet and i d remembrances musio mu sio I 1 Ls tho souls lice rudolph sometimes stopped playing i thought ho he hoard heard tho the vibrations berthaa berthas harp mingling with th tin i unde of his flute two care cars passed us one evening bertha and her father ere re under tho the arbor in their little gar a this arbor was formed by five adas which spread over their bead head a eath nath of fol foliage lago strewn with whit white were tho the dark wreaths of lilacs isaid tho the distance between their anke anks while three or four climbing made the spot a perfect iwer through h the narrow entrance the irple line produced by tho the setting sun as visible it waa was the hour sacred remembrance bertha played the wito tune upon the harp but sud aly a ay iy she stopped to listen everything was allent silent tho the breezes on bad had ceased to move tho the ica leads as irtha again played the tune again le je beard heard flute it was rudolph coming back two years later rudolph and bertha id ida beautiful little da ahter offspring a union blessed by berthas father fore his death rudolph as a choir aster and the income from his situa m n was ample for the 3 oung people rudolph had bought a pretty little at the back of tho the bouso house was ack growth of lindens lindena lin dens in front a re rge green meadow upon which the ald pla placed ad largo large den bengal roso rose abes crept all over the white walls id A everything was so cozy and bright nere was not a crack through which re could peep from tho the rutilde ou tildo tilde happy ople lovo retirement then tho the child passed away and ono one onto later bertha died of grief II 11 hen ben eho she felt the end drawing near ie ae said to rudolph in vain do I 1 seek to ding cling to lifo life ough rough my prayers I 1 must rejoin our ud abandon yuo yua await ou in a iter world if tho the dead havo have tho the mer er to reappear upon this earth ou lall me again my shadow shall ter 1 around you for my heaven la Is tho the ace aoe where you are when abo tb day A come como when we can bo be united again 14 bh ahall all com como to seek you and our two concentrated ie concentrated in ono shall riso rise from this earth eherd nothing ore will bind them each year on 7 birthday whether you ou shall bo be appy or unhappy lo 10 lov od ad or abandoned 4 or r gay at the hour when the sun betting setting when prayers mount to wren ven a amid ld tho the sound of tho the a ov ening us and tho the perfume of tho the play this wac which for so a na a timo time has mouthed the pains of co cc this will be the only consola I 1 shall havo have in thio long empara 12 this music shall bo be me more har las calous to my soul than all the con arts of the churches then ilen she 1 kissed him mm and died rudolph became crazy amz Y they mado made travel for sometime on his 1 his head was more calm but a CP melancholy took possession of h him im d left him no more llo loft left bershas Bor Ber thaB thas oa M remain as it was at the timo of death the bed still ido tho the T n a carner when berthas thae birthday dressed himself all ived he with caro cr which ho he hod nover never shown since her desol iio filled the room with flower flow siT and 14 when evening camo came ho he locked hims elf la tho the room ind nd pitted upon tho the fluto fitte tho the tuno tunu they had so often played play ad together ther tho the next day they found him stiff upon tho the floor when ho he had ro revived byod ho he had become crazy and it was noco seary to mako make him travel again at tho the end of a a 3 car ho he camo came back to hie his house lila his mind appeared rational enough only ho he wae was end mad and allent once more his ulles birthday camo came once more ho lie filled tho the room roo m with flowers and toward towards evening locked himself in dressed as fop for marriage then ho lie pin pla cd ad tho the same tuno tune upon his fluto flute again tho the next daiy diy d ty found him unconscious upon the floor hut but when they wished to lead him away ho he coolly announced that if it they did not allow him to remain in tho the house where hi his wife had died bo he would kill himself As bis bla reason did not appear to bo be shaken by this accident thoy they yielded this Is what had happened on tho the first annl annh omary as soon as ho he had pro cd ad tho the cords of tho the harp vibrated and of their own accord had accompanied tho the fluto flute when bo he stopped the bound sound of tho the harp also died away on tho the enmond anniversary thinking that hu had been tho the victim of an illusion ho he played again again tho the harp pla ad its part he placing ing and tho the harp cohsed playing ho he placed hi his hand upon tho the cords and could foci fool their last N on both bell occasions ho he ard fallen z r ken with terror and bad had passed tho the night in a deep eloon but he enderby becoming accustomed to this violent ci emotion notion in which ho he found on an acuto pleasure pleos uro all his evenings ani an i tho greater part of his nights acro passed thus ills checks became hollow hia his eyes alone sunken in their sockets appeared alivo and shone with a supernatural brilliancy just enough life to feel and to suffer was retained in his body A friend whom through chance or fato ho he had retained became alarmed and wished to know what rudolph did in tho the room ho ila replied that he played tho the fluto flute and that berthas played tho the harp that in reality death was but tho the beginning of another life that while he felt himself dying ho he also felt his intimacy with the wife he had lov boned od so well grow steadily and that during this mysterious harmony it seemed to him that ho he saw bertha at her harp that ho he was happy desired nothing more and requested nothing either from heaven or from men it was tho the third anniversary of berthas birthday rudolph onca onea more filled tho the rooms with flowers and aad a ad wore a boquet in his buttonhole lie ile had covered the bed with roses then at sunset ho he took his fluto and played berthas tuno tune tho the friend was hidden behind a curtain ho he trembled when bo be beard heard tho the sounds of tho the harp mixing with the so of tho the flute rudolph kneeled and prayed then ilea tho harp played alone the cords could be seen v 1 Ibro brating ting without any hand touching them it played celestial music such as no one heard before nor will over overhear hear again then it played again berthas tune and when it was ended all the cords broke at once and rudolph fell upon the floor for some moments tho the friend remained bained as motionless as rudolph Ku dolph when he stopped forward to ralso him rudolph was dead from the french of alphonse karr |