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                               COLLECTION

                                   OF

                            GERMAN AUTHORS.

                                VOL. 15.


                           *   *   *   *   *


                THE DEAD LAKE & OTHER TALES BY P. HEISE.


                             IN ONE VOLUME.






                             THE DEAD LAKE

                                  AND

                              OTHER TALES

                                   BY

                               PAUL HEYSE


                           FROM THE GERMAN BY
                                   BY
                              MARY WILSON.


                         _Authorized Edition_.




                              LEIPZIG 1870
                          BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ.
           LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON.
                  CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
          PARIS: C. REINWALD & Cie, 15, RUE DES SAINTS PERES.




                               CONTENTS.


      A FORTNIGHT AT THE DEAD LAKE
      DOOMED

      BEATRICE

      BEGINNING, AND END





                              A FORTNIGHT

                                   AT

                             THE DEAD LAKE.




                             THE DEAD LAKE.


Summer was at its heighth, yet in one corner of the Alps an icy cold
wind revolted against its dominion, and threatened to change the
pouring rain into snow flakes. The air was so gloomy that even a house
which stood about a hundred paces from the shore of the lake, could not
be distinguished, although it was white-washed and twilight had hardly
set in.

A fire had been lighted in the kitchen. The landlady was standing by it
frying a dish of fish, while with one foot she rocked a cradle which
stood beside the hearth. In the tap room, the landlord was lying on a
bench by the