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Updated: May 29, 2025
And some who dared to follow her saw that she went slowly down toward the fountain. Now when Father Heilman heard that the knight was dead, he hastened to the castle to comfort Bertalda. The priest, who but the day before had married the maiden to the knight, had already fled from the haunted house. But Father Heilman found that the haughty spirit of the bride needed no comfort.
They all rose eagerly to welcome him, but Father Heilman began to speak without delay. 'Sir Knight, I have come with as great haste as my old limbs would carry me to tell you that I do not believe the beautiful Undine is dead. Last night and for many nights before, she was with me in my dreams, wringing her white hands, and crying, "Ah, holy Father, I live, I live.
On the day that had been fixed the mourners walked slowly toward the churchyard, Father Heilman in front carrying a crucifix. Then slowly a figure clad in snow-white garments, and wringing her hands in great sorrow, came to join the mourners, who all wore black clothes as a sign of their grief. Those who noticed the white-veiled figure drew closer together, terror-stricken.
It was now, when there seemed but little hope of his return, that Huldbrand, to the surprise of every one, appeared in the city, bringing with him a wife of wondrous beauty, as well as Father Heilman, the priest who had married them. Huldbrand's servants rejoiced to see their young master alive and well.
At length he spoke to the fisherman and begged him not to take Bertalda away. 'Let her stay with me and be my wife, said the knight. And in time the fisherman yielded to the wishes of the knight, and the wedding-day was fixed. Then a letter was sent to Father Heilman, begging him to come without delay to the castle that he might perform the wedding-rite between the knight and the lady Bertalda.
'Father Heilman is my name, answered the priest, 'and I am journeying back to my monastery, after an absence of many days. 'Now I, said the stranger, 'am named Lord Kühleborn, though sometimes I am called Kühleborn the Free, for indeed I am free as the wild birds of the air to go hither and thither as I will. Meanwhile, Sir Priest, I bid you farewell, for I would speak to yonder lady.
The goblins in the cavern beneath the earth might come forth to do you harm were I not here to keep them quiet. The priest, who is named Father Heilman, speaks to me more kindly than do you. Know you not that it was I who brought him in safety to the little island to be ready for your wedding-day?
On April 1st, the Government took charge of the flood situation. Captain W. K. Naylor hastened to commandeer steamboats and patrol the river to pick up flood sufferers. Mayor Charles Heilman left for Mount Vernon to take charge of rescue work in that section. Thirty thousand persons within a radius of ninety miles around Mount Vernon were calling for help on April 4th.
Then the old fisherman, who heard her cruel words, hushed her, saying, 'It was God's will that Huldbrand should die, and Undine alone, forsaken, weeps for his death in great sorrow of soul. But if Father Heilman was not needed to comfort Bertalda, his presence was wanted at the burial of the knight.
Now Father Heilman was the very priest who had wedded Huldbrand to Undine in the cottage by the lake. When the priest had read Huldbrand's letter he hastened at once to the castle. Huldbrand and Bertalda were sitting side by side under the trees, the fisherman near them, when they saw the priest enter the court.
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