" Uncle Philip sat down quietly beside his sister and began: "As surely as I am now sitting here beside you, Maxa, so surely young Leonore of Wallerstätten was sitting beside me three days ago.

"How could you become so sure that the child you saw was Leonore's little daughter?" "First of all, because nobody who has known Leonore can ever forget what she looked like.

"How could you become so sure that the child you saw was Leonore's little daughter?" "First of all, because nobody who has known Leonore can ever forget what she looked like.

The child is exactly like her and looks at one just the way Leonore used to do.

Secondly, the child's name was Leonore, too.

For the fifth and sixth reasons, because only Leonore could have such a child, for there could not be two people like her in the whole world."

To all her various questions the brother could only answer that the ladies with whom Leonore was living came from the neighborhood of Hannover.

Leonore's name had wakened so many happy memories of her beautiful childhood and youth in Mrs. Maxa that she began to revive those times with her brother and tirelessly talked of the days they had spent there together with her unforgettable friend Leonore and her two cousins.

Leonore's image with the long, brown curls and the winning expression in her eyes woke her lively desire to see the child that resembled her so much.

"Her name was Leonore.

She knew that Leonore would otherwise be all alone in the world, and she hoped that a gentle sister would have an extremely beneficial influence on the two self-willed brothers.

Leonore was to continue her studies, of course, and take up new ones.

For that purpose a very refined German lady came to the castle very soon after Leonore's arrival.

"My godmother had arranged for me to share the studies with Leonore, and therefore I was to live all day at the castle as her companion, only returning in the evenings.

Once Leonore had become pale with fright when she had been obliged to witness such a scene, and Bruno had not forgotten it.

Then returning to us, she sat down beside Leonore and me and told us that we ought to know what had happened.

Now they both declared to her that their full intention had been for years to come home after the completion of their studies and to live in Wildenstein with her and Leonore.

Soon after that sad event the Baroness got ready for a journey to the south, where she meant to go with Salo and Leonore.

Salo had not recovered as quickly as she had hoped, and Leonore, instead of getting more robust in our vigorous mountain-air, only became thinner and frailer.

"Leonore faithfully wrote to me.

A short time after that Leonore became Salo's wife, but they were not fated to remain together long.

After Salo's death Leonore was left alone in life, so an aunt from Holstein came to live with her in Nice.

After Leonore's death this aunt took the two children home with her.

I heard this from Apollonie, who had been sent Leonore's last instructions by this aunt.

"Oh, mother," Mea joined in, "tell us more about your friend, Leonore.