Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-03-09
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CHAPTER III.

The travellers hall was large and roomv,
well lighted, and furnished with heavy
bar in one corner, large oblong table in
the centre, and vast number of chairs
and settees scattered through and ranged
along the sides of the walls.
Behind the bar were two good-lOoking
females, whose tall, stout, well-knit frames,
and bold, well-shaped features, stamped
them of an extremely masculine character.
They We're, evidently, sisters, and could
not apparently have been over six or eight
and-twenty years of age.
The landlord was sitting at the large,
oblong table, earnestly engaged in perusing
newspaper. As we entered, he threw
down the paper, and rose to wait upon u.s.
He was tall and stout, with fine set of
Roman features-a lofty brow. grey, bushv
hair, and an eye filled with the spirit of
beneyolence. Still, despite his frank, gen.
erous look, there was something so repul-
slye in the ensemble of his features, that
felt my heart knocking against my breast,
as if warning me of danger. As his eye
met that of my companion, his lip for a
moment quivered. and a slight tremor ran
like shock of electricity through the
muscles of his frame.
My companions face, as he seated him
self opposite me, was flushed with some
mysterious excitement. Our feet met I'M
der the table. and his pressed mine signili-
canuy, for a moment, and was then imme-
diately Withdrawn.
The food that we had called for was set
before rs, together with a large fagon of
ioaming ale, from which we filled our long.
narrow glasses, as we despatched our meal.
What cheer, friends ? asked our host,
seating himself at the table, short distance
from us. What news ?
The King still reigns in Prussia re-
piled my companion, without looking mp
and threatens, in his last manifesto, to
look better 10 the laws!'
'Ah = observed the host, with laugh
the old tale. He has been threatening
that, 10 my knowledge, these ten years
Bnt he speaks emphatically, now con-
timed my companion, with a meaning, and
to me, mysterious emphasis. In which
case. parties who have long laughed at the
laws, will have prospect of punishment.
The whips and prisons of Frederick are
to perfect they are only surpassed by
What ??
His scafolds = was the sarcastic reply.
The face of the inn-keeper blanched.
and his eyes shot fire at my companion.
4 sensation of danger crept over me at
tins reply why, could not comprehend ;
but II stole over me like the cold crawling
q .,,I ID u}i
1t was evident that our host and my com
panion had met before-not as friends, but
rs enemies.
The whips, prisons, and scafolds of
Frederick are only for criminals, said the /
lAn-keeper slowly, in the tone OF man /.
who knew himself in converse with foe, (
and wished every word to fall upon hls ear .
like the repeated blows of sledge-ham- /
mer.
''Tis true,' said my companion coldly. /.
In which case continued the inn-keep- .
or, in the same long drawn tone, Prussia
will at last be rid of one of the most ras- /
caIly highwaymen that ever infested her
rJads.'
'Ahr observed my companion, calmly.
es, Prussia will rejoice, for then the
last Of the great rascals will have been
swept away.
Indeed to whom do you allude ?
IL is impossible for you not to comprc-
hend me. | speak of the highwayman.
Prussia unfortunately knows many; but
hey are small operators, mere nobodies,
compared with him Of whom all Prussia
speaks with horror and alright Men
speak Of him as the highwayman. Be
side his deeds. the crimes of the entire
rob5er horde of the country sink into IN
gnIicance.'
! am so very ignorant, persisted my
'ompanion, and so great a stranger to this
part Of the country, having but recently
arnrcd here, that must still plead my Ut
Ter inability to comprehend you.
What! you mean TO say that YOU do
not know this great robber, with whose
name every child in Prussia is familiar "
mean to say so.
And vet YOU are Prussian
lis true, | am PnIssian.