The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1846-02-25

them; he employed supplications, tears, even
menaces, but she was insensible TO ALL While
he was talking with her, she remained standing
at little distance, with her eyes gleedily search
ing for something she might appropriate, until
they accidentally fell upon the poor sailor at her
feet. That looked discovered to her prize
Eagerly approaching him, she said in low,
hoarse whisper:
"lf you would have me go to Locmariaouer,
you must give me yoar watch.'' AS she spoke
she seized the chain, but the wounded man,
throwing himself back, and repulsinp her with
all his remaining strength, cried: "Not now, not
now; when you return with my father, YOU shall
have the watch and the money.''
''lave you money, too?" asked the GIRL.
''Yes, ii shall be all yours when --''
"Where is the money!"
81 have it sale,''
f! "Show il to me-"
"Promse, then. TO save me-"
| "Show me the money"
| The poor fellow drew towards him the knap-
sack which he had flung off, and bent over it,
while his feeble hands began slowly to loosen the
| buckles that closed it.
| The glll made one step backwards TO give
force TO her blow and the next instant the sickle
descended upon his head with force that Glove
him 10 the brain. The victim never breathed
agan;-he stretched out bis arms and fell heavi-
y forward, with his face resting on the knapsack
The murderess only waited to be sure that life
was extinct, then deliberately despoiiing him of
his watch, money, and clothing, she quietly wash,
ed the stains of blood from her hands and feet in
the pool beside her, and went on TO her daiIy la
Dor IN the field. On her return home at night
she displayed her prize TO her friends, simply re.
marking that she had been lucky enough to find
the body Of Blue in her way--an explanation
quite satisfactory at moment when such chan.
ces were frequent in country filled with COM
motion.
On that same evening, however, the body of
the unfortunate soldier was found and recooni-
zed by bis family. Several circumstances con
joined TO throw suspicion on the girl, and ere
many days elapsed no doubt remained of her
guilt, The murdered marine was conscrpt-
one OF that numerous class of young men who
we're compelled in those days TO endure an opin.
ION along with uniform, and 10 wear the cock.
ade of the governing party, whatever that party
might happen to he. A native of Brittany, he
had been forcibly enrolled at Brest, and when his
regiment was sent into the inferior of the coun-
try, he was necessarily compelled 10 combat ON
his native soil, and against his own people, This
peculiar position was well understood by the
peasants for it had been the fate of many oftheir
children, and the dea III of the youth was lament
ed like that of friend.
This sympathy for the victim was of course
accompanied by the deepest indignation against
the murderess. There seemed such double-dyed
wckedncss in the deed, that every heart was re-
volted al it. He had fallen by the hand Of wo-
man, while he was appealing to womanly tender
ness, and the meanness of the motive seemed to
add deeper guilt to the henoug crime. As it|
always happens in those generous reactions of
feeling, when party spirit is suddenly queIed for
a moment by the voice of equity, the people
seemed as if they could scarcely express their
Indignation with sufficient force. As the laws
either could not or would not punish the crimi,
nal, public opinion took upon itself The task
The girl was driven out Of the community. and
avoided by all, as if the faint of Ieprosy was up
on her. No farmer would employ her 10 labor
IN his fields; proprietor would rent her cabin
on his domain. Her ronly refuge was the church,
porch, where she crouched like an accursed
thing at the door of The sanctuary she dared not
enter. Every one shrank aside as her shadow
fell upon them in her aimless wanderings. IfI
she approached the fountain, whence the village
drew its supply of water, the women usually as.
sembled there would instantly hush their idle
gossip, snatch up their halc6lled pitchers, and
hurry away exclaimng, snake room for the mur-
deress!n
TO sci the final seal 10 her public reprobaton,
ballad was composed, setting forth her horid
crime IN all the coarse but graphic language of
popularpoe Wherever the unhappy creature
ventured toalp pear, she heard the tones Of this !
vengeful song. Her punishment was now no
longer the ordinary penalty of crime, having its
limit of time and place, and demanding only the |
liberty or the life Of the offender, Her guilt by
this new species Of retributon, had become pub |
llc property, its punishment was identified with
the most durable memorials Of public morals |
and manners II was not recorded in the dusty
volumes of the law, but it was sent abroad on
The wings OF music and poetry, 10 reach every
ear, and TO turn from her every heart. The
mark of Cain was upon her brow; her fellow
beings were her tormentors, Withholding their 1
hands from her life, yet inllicting a daily death
upon her by their loathing and scom. In win
she sought TO fly from the scene of her guilt
Her crime seemed borne on The very winds of
heaven, and wherever the voice Of the shepherd
broke the stiffness Of natuFe, there resoundcd
The frighilul burden of that avengng song.
Once, as she wandered away from human
scorn, she beheld in ameadow, al some distance
from Auroy,a child at play among the dalsies- -
A snddenJearnng filed her heart ;she approacb.
ed the merry boy, and seated herself beside him.
For more than n year the desolate creature had
not touched human hand, or listened to the