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The Lonely House
Franz and Anna
The
Lonely House
From the German of
ADOLF STRECKFUSS
Author of "Too Rich," "Castle Hohenwald," etc.
By
MRS. A. L. WISTER
Translator of "The Old Mam'selle's Secret," "Gold Elsie," "The
Second Wife," "The Happy-Go-Lucky," etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY
CHARLOTTE WEBER-DITZLER
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1907
Copyright, 1907 By J. B. Lippincott Company
Published October, 1907
Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A.
I TAKE PLEASURE IN INSCRIBING THIS TRANSLATION--THE LAST I SHALL EVER COMPLETE--TO THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF THOSE WHO SO KINDLY WELCOMED THE FIRST, PUBLISHED A LIFE-TIME AGO.
ANNIS LEE WISTER
"Lindenshade,"
Walungford, Pa.
September, 1907
Contents
| CHAP. | |
| I. | The Professor's Persistence |
| II. | The Professor's First Excursion |
| III. | The Professor's Return |
| IV. | The Investigation |
| V. | The Investigation Continued |
| VI. | Two Wounded Hands |
| VII. | The Two Requests |
| VIII. | Quiet Weeks |
| IX. | An Exploring Party |
| X. | An Accident? |
| XI. | Forced Seclusion |
| XII. | An Arrest |
| XIII. | An Old Chest |
| XIV. | The End of the Professor's Holiday |
Illustrations
| Franz and Anna Frontispiece |
| "You Must Help Me!" |
| Then Began a Struggle, a Fight for Life and Death |
The
Lonely House
CHAPTER I.
THE PROFESSOR'S PERSISTENCE.
Ukraine! Ukraine! For years I had longed to spend some weeks in Southern Ukraine. The descriptions I had read of its wonderful mountains had greatly attracted me; I was certain of adding there many valuable specimens to my collection; that section of country had been so rarely visited by entomologists that I might even hope to enrich our German fauna with a new species. Some years before a butterfly-collector from Vienna had discovered there the caterpillar of the beautiful Saturnia cæcigena, found previously only in Dalmatia. Why might I not hope for something equally interesting!
The scenery of Southern Ukraine is not thought to be very fine: the mountains are much less imposing than in other Alpine districts, but the Carpathian range is said to have many very interesting caves, and strange formations of rock, while for the naturalist its fauna and flora offer a rich field for investigation in its mountain fastnesses and deep valleys.
If travel in that section of the country were only not attended with such risk and inconvenience! Travellers who seemed thoroughly familiar with its political and social condition warned me seriously not to attempt going thither. The only tolerable accommodation for strangers, they said, is to be found in the larger towns--Laibach, Adelsberg, etc., and on the high road followed by tourists; as soon as the traveller attempts to penetrate the interior he finds only wretched inns, no comfort of any description, and a poverty-stricken peasantry, speaking the dialect of the country, and understanding not one word of German. All expeditions into the valleys