Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-11-09

''' nv WI u "e"'eu all knoWleuge al IL, as OlO
the rest Of the company.
Every one had seen it, every one had
handled it, but none could now produce it,
The room was searched, the servants had
not even entered the apartment, the door
had never been Enclosed, none had stirred
IRON The table. The affair began to wear a
serious aspect. The old baron felt his ho-
nor wounded, but still hoped j. nigh, prove
to be an ill-'imed pleasantly. Under this
impression he rose.
"Gentlemen, some person amongst you
has, doubtless, concealed the box, intending
thereby 10 i've our ilnstrious friend fright,
and, in good faith, he deserves it for thus
carelesslv forgetting to look after trlnket
SAID 10 be worth fifty thousand forms but,
as he seems really uneasy about it, ] must
beg the person who has taken 1t instantly
to return it. and confess the joke"
And the noble affected to laugh. None,
however, responded, and Hartmann saw, with
increased uneasiness, that he must now take
up the matter more seriously.
MY friends, you cannot feel offended
when | offer myself as the first person to
undergo the ordeal-an ordeal, almos,
blush to say, we mus, all submit. to. We
must be searched i! None bu. the guilty can
feel annoyed at this proposal"
Professor eyden started up ''By heaven
I'd sooner die %
Another was of the same opinion, and
objected to undergoing such an operation,
which, at the very least, implied doubt.
Poor Hartmann looked like ghost. He
glanced appeaingly towards Leyden, who
now rose.
"Les the door be locked" he said, in a
grave voice "Iet it be we'll secured."-
This was done. snow, gentlemen, you
must either acknowledge the correctness of
the measure adopt, or !, the disciple Of
juggling science, perish - and he drew from
his pocket small pistol MAY, star, not,
my friends against myself, alone, | mean
10 use this weapon, and that only in case !
wrongfully accuse an individual now pre-
sent. You may remember, before dinner,
phrenologically examined you ALL There
| was Iille 10 say abou. you, generally but
| there was one amongst you in whom lcould
not be misaken-one whom ! wished not
10 have named, whose presence ever since
has made me shudder. Isee the gentleman
to whom aIude already turn pale. Nay,
atenp. not to smile. am either a william
for allowing false theory to mislead me.
or you, Carl Hoffenon, are both robber
and a murderer -
A hunderbo't would have caused less
CONSERVATION. The baron started up in rage
and agony the prince believed the profess
sor had student y gone mad; while the 9th
ers looked, with searching gIances, alter
nalely at Leyden and Carl. The former
had coolly resumed his chair; the latter sat
pale, immovable. What could it mean?
Old Hartmann was about to speak in no
gentle terms 10 the man who thus had in
suited bis future son-in-law, when, waving
his hand, Leyden quietly added, "Search
him.
The baron. in his eagerness to defend his
lely The snuh-box fell on the table. The
worthy old man sank, overcome, in chair
In the breast-pocke, Of CARTS blouse he had
found the box, which the other had, unre-
sistingy, allowed him to draw forth.
Fora few moments there was dreadful,
death ike pause. The party seemed pe,ri-
fed, while the trembling Carl seemed TO
sstugge with his feelings. At length, as if
suddenly awaking, he started up, and inco-
heren,y pronounced
''Ttr hand Of God is on me! Iwould,
but cnnot, fly his judgment. Professor
Leydel speaks the truth! am robber
and murderer! Under the name of Gra,z,
wood and won the peasan. maid of whom
we spike jus. now. Ia madness, espous-
ed her. Tired, however, in a few short
days, being tied, for life, to one uneduca-
ted ant low born-hearing tina, Clara Hart
mann possessed unbounded wealth, and
knowig that my rustic wife alone present.
ed an bsiacle 10 my wedding this fair heir
ess, lew her-aye, cruelty slew her -
and cssed her lover to be seized, to turn
the flyer of suspicion towards him. Had
he notified. Tomorrow he would have been
slabbd. As for robbery, can only say,
long hive headed bold band, whom, even
now, II not betray, although they'll laugh
at meHilh scorn, when they first hear how
fooIisly fell into The heIlish net that Sa-
tan Lad for me, and call me fool for not hav- |
ing III power to resist temptation. That
curse'box was far too brilliant Some spell
lurke,in it, which drew me with a force
coudno, stand against, and made me rush
at ono upon my ruin. But why thus mo-
ralize Let monks go pray. is too late
for m: let common felons suffer on the
block 1T is too mean death for me. Thus
Iaua at Fa,e-I'm never unprepared %
And, fe a single arm could move to pre-
vent I'm, he had swallowed the contents of
a sma vial, which, afterwards, proved to
have zen filed with prussic acid.
Th unhappy wretch, who confessed him