The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-07-09


STOOD silent and unmoved-the noise of the
horrible operation alone was heard soon both
the knife and the hand fell together. The
doctor was deadly pale; he looked at the un-
known with haggerd eyes. The latter
stopped, picked up the hand, took the ring
from the finger, and presented it TO the doc
or.
Take il DOCTOR said he-slet it be q
souvenir; no one will ever demand it of you
again.
He then added, in loud voice-'It is
done.' Immediately the two other masked
men entered again bandaged the doctors
eyes, and led him away. The same car
rage that had brought him carried him back
TO his own door. The doctor took off his
bandage, and saw the berlin disappearing in
the darkness. 1t was five O'Clock in the
morning.
For three months M. HUBERT sought in
vain TO discover by every means an expla-
nation of this terrible adventure. Had it not
been for The ring, an Endenable evidence of
the reality OF his membranes, he would
have supposed himself the dupe of some IL
fusion. But hoping that this very ring, the
only token he had preserved of that terrible
night, might sooner or later bring about some
explanation, he wore il suspended TO the
chain of his watch. A few days since., the
doctor was invited 10 the ball gaiveH by the
Countess of P, at her hotel in the
Rue de Varennes. All the elite of the titled
fashionable crowded thitber The greatest
names of France elbowed the most distia-
gushed of the German diplomacy. IN. the
commencement of the evening, the attention
OF all was attracted by young man, with
pale face, sad expression, who from time 10
time wandered through the saloons, in an
anxious manner, and then sadly withdrew
from among the crowd.
This young man Glanced in the course
of the evening, TO stand in front of M. HUI
burti. His eyes which had lighted upon,
him at first mechanically, now seemed fixed
upon him, andfested with fearful pres
sion upon the ring which shone above his
waistcoat.
Suddenly, the young man passed abruptly
through the group that separated him,
from the doctor; he went strait up 10 Nj. HUI
BERT, and jostled him rudely and in DELHI
crate manner.
The doctor very politely expostulated.
The young man, without making any an
swer, struck him. The proar produced by
this scene may be easily judged. A duel is
to take place between this young man and
the doctor. We are guilty of no indiscretion
in speaking ofths afair,which is known to all
ill fI The duel VIII have taken place. and
very probably it will give rise TO explanations
that may throw some light upon this mystic
rious affair, and upon the sad history which
Doctor HUBERT has been one of the actors.
The Brussels Observaieur gives the fol-
lowing explanation of this mysterious and
horrible adventure:
TRUTH is TRANGE-sTRANGER THAN FIG
TfoN-This, the following relation will
prove:
1t turns out that the story recently pub
lshed, of the hand cut off, and which was
so strongly tinctured with the jealous hidal-
90, the revengeful Spaniard, and which our
readers supposed TO be designed as some
puff, and which, we confess, we did not our
selves believe, SO little it seems like Paris, is
true-true from one end 10 the
other. One of the actors in this affair has
been in Brussels the last two days. Ii is from
him that we have the particulars, which we
hasten 10 relate.
The Young Matilda de-. Jour readers
will understand why we do not indicate her
name even by her initials,) is the daughter OF
one of the most distinguished soldiers OF the
empire. Her father gained an elevated sta
ton, glory and high grade in the army, but is |
one of the few generals whom the Emperor
did not enrich. Matilda had, therefore, no
fortune to give her husband.
Napoleon de- is the grandson of the |
Duchess de-. The Duchess has only
her rank, an empty title without fortune. The
Duchess and the General, who had long
been friends, had promised each other the
union of their children, but they soon repent
ed Of While Matilda and Napoleon low
ed each other, the GeneraE and Ethe Ouch
ess, both uneasy as TO the welfare OF thelr
children, and looking somewhat to their own
interest, performed together scene borrow
ed from genteel comedy,
III my daughter said the General, 'mar-
ries this poor devil OF Napoleon, then fare
we'll to all chance of luxury or pleasure"
If my grandson said the Duchess 'mar-
ries maiden without dowry, how shall we
be able 10 restore the dignity OF the noble
houser
The General therefore sought TO alternate
Matild from her lover, and the Duchess TO
seperate Napoleon from Matilda. But in |
this they were unsuccessful. Napoleon and
Matilda loved each other too sincerely not TO
avoid all the snares that were spread for their
youth.
Unable TO succeed in separating them from
each other, the General and the Duchess
succeeded in bringing about the departure
and his prolonged ABSENCE