Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-03-03

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Fla YOU know his name at last. said
the lnn-zeeper, with "a sneering smile.
Certainly" returned the other coolv.
. You dragged IL the detaiIs-details that
have heard so often-so eloquenlly. |
could not help recalling it. So. YOU think
that there is now hope that Prussia will
soon be rId Of RuaJaI-Rudder, for whose
capture aud arrez. there is Il standing re-
ward Of three thousand lhaIers."
"Of course. IIa is the greatest rogue
( IN the country, aua now that tie King has
resolved To put the laws relative 10 criln-
inaIs INTO effect, R3dder being the great
est, Of course cannot escape"
O, indeed Bur how comes it that
he Is so likely 10 be caughf rowl tho't
and report VIII sustain the idea, that Rud-
der has not been seen in Prussia for the
last seven years"
:. Il Is true returned the inn-kee3er
. bat / have good authority for supposing
that he has been $ IN in Prussia within
the last tru days.
He. exclaimed my travelling COM
rauioa with slight start = Is it SO So
Whence came the news
Tread Ir.as you came ia, il the news
paper.
The name of the paper 2"
The Auhalt Courier"
s., s.. On learning his arrival, why
did they not arrest him =
Thav learned it not till he had made
his way our of the town in which lie was
recognized
" la! lie was recognized then. BY
whom .
a former cJmrade."
Hampa. Then the authorities are,
lii IS 10 be inferred, by this time on his
track q
Doubtless. The reward IS great, and
/ the hlghWayman without money, arms ol
even friends"
And the inn-keeper bent his eyes upon
my companion with what seemed to me a
/ indignantly triumphant smile. The lat
ter, having his eyes down in thought did
not perceive it. At length. raising his
head, and gazing steadily at the inn-keep-
/ er, he observed:
:" 1t would be a rare sight if one prison
should receive mine host Of the Inn OF
i Sauvergue and Rudder the highwavman
Rarer STILL if one scafoId should hang
them.
= \ iery-very rare = returned the Inn
keeper with a smile so ghastly that
trembIed while looked at him.
If ! remember continued my travel.
+ ing companion, with a strange light in his
eye. five thousand thalers, and q free
+ pardon to any criminal, are offered for his
head. dead or alive. Am | not right 2"
There Is a report 10 that effect,
lmurmured the Inn-keeper, with a dry
cough.
. Together with a thousand thalers il
addition, for each OF his infamous family
Am | right q
= believe So.
. There are SIX persons in his family g
. Nay, only tive-his wife IS dead
:" Well, say they are five. Shall
name them p
Nay, that is your affair, not mine"
+ " Perhaps So. There are FIVE, then
the inn-keeper, two daughters and two
sons. Have | named them right 2"
: Granting that You have, what then 2?
: Here then are two parties, for whom
the King offers thirteen thousand thalers
three thousand for the highwaymar
and ten thousand for tho criminals of the
I Travellers Last Inn. Now then, here
are two parties, whose mutual interest i
I Is 70 sustain and defend each other; fol
both stand within the grasp of the law
and both viii, II arrested, be slung from
! the ScaffoId."
But how can they assist each other ?
'asked the inn-keeper, eagerly.