Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-11-25
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY,

The bearer of this letter is my greatest en-
emy. send him TO you that you may pocurt
him to be assassinated require from you this
proof of your tenderness"
Kebal's daughter, far from resembling her
father, was remarkable for singleness of heart
and very humane disposition. Considering the
'etter carrier, she could help loving him, and love
suggested to her means of saving the life Of
him who in moment, was become SO dear to
her, and of seeking with him and union that
was to last for life. Having ordered ths1youns
man to wait for short whlIegsEe wrote, coun:
terfeting her fatbefshandWriting, another4etter
conceived in these words
| " tie who shall deliver you this letter, is dear
or to me than my own son could be, considen
him myself eonlide to him the EnuF6iissa -
lali M business, and see him
Hoving wrote this letter, she sealed it. Step
ping afterwards into the room where she had left
the young man, she said
You are mistaken the letter you gave me
was for my mother; | will show you her apart
ment."
Young Kebal presented it to the mother, who,
not dJubting it was from her husband, executed
the orders he had given her, and had the young
man married to bis daughter
In the meantime Kebal having settled all the
business he had to transact set out on his return
to Bagdad. Nothing could equal his astonish-
ment, when coming home he found his son
quite alive and joyous. His surprise was still
greater, when he learned that he was his son-in-
law. All these events appeared to him incredi
Bile but fear of his discovering his iniQuities
made him 10th to dissGmble and disguise, under
the appearance Of friendship, the mortal hatred
he still bore his innocent son. Malabie, his
daughter, was not the dupe of his decetful
tranquility. Her tenderness, alarmed for the saof-
ty OF her dear husband made he pry into every
design and device of her father.
Kebal, some time after his arrival, gave a
sheep to his domestcs, with several nichers of
wine.
snake merry" said he, this night, and eel
ebrate my happy return in my native country 4;
but require of you the doing me service. A
secret enemy has a design on my life. This
night will inveigle him into my house about
the fourth hour or the night he will go down the
stairs leading from the apartment as soon as
ye hear him, stab him to death in the dark"
A. Al II. L:
into the yard where his domescs were and bring
one of them to him. He was just going down
the fatal stairs. when his wife who had strong
suspicion Of something intended against him,
stopped him and beseeched him not to execute
commission in which she perceived some mystery
=rd 20 gaYirg,-she pulled bin tlong With her.
In the mean time, Kebal agitated by di-
versity Of passions Half an hour was gone
without his having any intelligence of the sue
cess Of his perfdy and having become imPa-
iient to know in person if his domestice had
gratfed bis revenge, passed quickly down the
stairs those who were charged to execute his
orders, and who till then, had heard no one stir,
not doubling but ii was their victim, fell upon
him and massacled him in the dark. Such was
the well merited end of this barbarous father.
II to whom he had given life, and from whom
he had several times attempted to rob life, inner
tied all his substance AS his birth was a mys.
terry to himself he lived composed and tranquil
with his wife, and never knew that she was his
sister,
The eastern historian concludes this narrative
by an Arabian proverb =" He that digs a p
for another, falls himself into it,"