The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-09
The FrAlricide.

Long ago, when the Turks were sill in
quiet possession OF the country, he lived in
this village with his father and his only SIS
ter. The Cd man was very aged and 10
the instructive hatred which the Greeks
seem al ali times 10 have felt towards these
fheir bitter enenies,te added all tie rancour
which long life OF compulsive submission
10 az ebnoTed yoke and u continued insult
could MOI fai. 70 produce. His son shared
these feelings VITA all the strength OF fierce
proud spirit: not 50 his daughter, The gentle
sszelle-tyed Daphne. Doubtless, Ike at
uue Creek, she DEF loged her coUnuy's sla,
veTr. ard her Hellenic blood boiled within
her when hol father had 70 crouch before
detes:ed -yIant, or SIC herSel. II shrink
trembling from SOME fierce Moslems gaze
but the eyes Of the Young AcImet. the only
son Of The village Aga, Were very mild and
gentle; they never turned on her but with
gaze both eloquent and tInlid-his voice
al leas. was soft and low, and that voice had
told hel thai he loved her better than any
thing On earth: and Daphne. though she
knew tia. % love h!m was 10 love persecu-
ton and misery and death perhaps, yet
learned 10 feel for him 50 deep and passion
ale tenderness, that country, father, friends,
and home, ali los; theil hold on her young
heart and left him reigning there alone,
Not less profound was the attachment
felt for her by the young AIosen; but care
fully, liz trembling did they conceal il from
all eyes, knowing too well that the disclo-
sure would probably insure their mutual
destruction-ior Daphne had but TO look al
that vind.ciive old man, and stern, unyield-
ing brother, TO feel sire they never would
allow their blood TO flow unarre.Ied in the
veins OF one allied to their coun;ry's foe.
The young lovers succeeded, however. in
keeping their attachment secret, ill they
found means to bring matters to a crisis
Some suspicious had, it appears, long rank |
led la the mind OF the son; but the father |
himself had never dreamt that few soft
Whispered words had made his child already
a renegade To her country, till one fatal
morning, when he called for her as usual, |
to bring him his pipe when he rose, and for
the first time was unanswered. When this
seemingly tfIfilng circumstance occurred. her |
brother, who was seated beside him. started |
up as though moved by some strong i'm
pulse, and flew into the inner room, where
she Ought to have been, but he found that she |
was not there. 1t required but moment
TO complete his search, still Intellectual, |
round the Little garden and vineyard, whose
limits she had never dared to pass before;
and he then returned to his fathers pre-
sence TO announce her disappearance with |
50 perfect conviction of the truth that his
furious rage knew no bounds. He scrupled
MOI to communicate his fears to the father.
and the bitter iidlngs were as the falling of
q thunderbolt TO the wretched old man
with cry Of rage and horror he bid his son
90 forth to seek her, and tear her living or
dead from their detested enemy. The in.
furiated man required no second bidding
he dashed from the house, mounted his horse,
and was soon careering through the village
seeking the smalles, indication of the route
the fugltves had taken. This for some time
seemed VAIN attempt. Achmet Aga was
known to be absent, but none could tell
whittier he mad gone; al length a sufficient
clue was gwen HIN by an old woman, who
hsd passed the night on the plain, gathering
herbs by moonlight, the necessary ingredi-
en-; Of some infallible remedy. She said
that che had been greatly terrified by WIS.,
ion which had passed her-she had first
seen whrlwind of dust approaching, and
Is she knew, according to popular super.
stition in Greece, that each one of these
soiies, which the wind sometimes raises in
fantastic circles along the road, contains a
demon, who wEea:hes himself in them that
be may dance therein unseen, she crouched
behind bush, and made The sign of the
cross necessarily, whilst huge black horse,
besrng double burden, few past her at
furious pace. The outraged brother only
paused 10 ask in which direction they had
gone, and when she had pointed to the road
which led to Marathon, he vsnished from
her slght, still faster than the ghos,lv horse
man of the night before.