Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1857-07-30
INDEPENDENT FAMILY A@Rz AND BUSINESS
FREEHOLD, N. J., THUI s,Y N

mill door to ease her oyer-exeited spiris,
and she wept, as she sat, at the thoughts
of her happy deliverance
Thank God!" she calculated, "thank
God for this escape. The deadly william,
aud [ so fond OF him."
A shrill whistle from the grated win
dow of the chamber in which she had shut
up the ruffian Heinrich caught her ear
and made her start at once to her feet.
"Diether. Diether!' she heard him
shout; "catch the child and come hither!
| am fast. Come hitherl Bring the boy
here and kill the girl
She glanced hastily up at the easement
from which the imprisoned villains hand
beckoned to some one in the distance;
and looked anxiously after her infant en-
missary. The little messenger held on
his way unframed, and she thought to
herself that the alarm was false one, and
raised to excite her fear and overcome
her resolution. But just as the child
reached hollow spot in the next field
she saw another ruffian start up, and
catching him in his arms, fastened toward
the MILL in accordance with the direc
tons of his accomplice. In moment
she perceived her danger, and formed her
future plan of proceeding. Retreating
into the mill, she locked and bolted the
door and then took her post at an upper
easement, determined to wait patiently
either her masters return, and her conse
quent delivery from that dangerous posi-
ton, Or her own death, if it were ineyita
bic.
Never" said she to herself, "shall
leave my masters house prey to such
villains, or to permit his property to be
carried off before my eyes by them, while
| have life and strength to defend it,"
She had barely time to secure herself
within, when the rufian without holding
the hapless child in one hand, and a long
sharp knife in the other, assaile& the door
with kicks and cufses, and imprecations
of the most dreadful character.
Confound thee he cried, open the
door or I'll break it in on vel"
IF you can you may" was all the no.
BILE girl replied. "God is greater than
you; and in him put my trust"
Cut the brat's throat!" roared the i'm
prisoned rufian above; that will bring
ner to reason"
| Stout hearted as poor Hanchen was,
she quailed at this cruel suggestion. For
moment only her resolution wavered.-
She saw that her own death was certain,
lif she admitted the assailant she
knew that her master would be robbed
She had no reason to hope that even the
| life of the infant would be spared by her
compliance. Like discreet girl, she con
sequently held in her resolve to abide as
she was while life remained, or until as
sistance should-reach her.
An ye open not the door," shouted
| the villain from without, accompanying
| his words with the fercest imprecatons.
I'll hack this whelp's limbs to pieces
with my knife, and then burn the mill
over your head. Twill be merry blaze
| trow"
put my trust in God,' replied the
danntless girl never shall We set foot
within these walls whilst | have life to
prevent yc."
| The ruffian laid the infant for a moment
on the sward, as he sought about for com
bustibles wherewith to execute his latter
threat. In this search he espied, perhaps
the only possible clandestine entrance to
the building a large aperture in the
wall communicating with the great wheel
and the other machinery Of the mill a
point entirely unprotected, for the reason
that the occupants had never supposed
any one would seek admission through
such dangerous inlet Eated with his
discovery, the ruflian returned to the in.
FAINT. and tying the hands and feet Of the
| little innocent, threw it on the ground
even as butcher will fling lamb des-
tined for the slaughter, to await his time
| for Staying, and stole back to the aper-
ture by which he hoped to effect an en-
trance. All this was unseen by the
dluntless girl within. Meanwhile her mind
was busted with thousand cogitations.
She perceived that no means would be
left untried to effect an entrance and
she knew that on the exclusion of her foe
depended her own existence. A thought
struck her.
1t is Sunday" said she to herself, 'sthe
mill never works on the Sabbath, suppose
set it going nowl 1t can be seen afar
off; and haply my master, or some of his
neighbors, wondering at the sight, may
haste hither to know the cause"
No sooner said than done. Being all
her life accustomed to mill-gear, she quick
| ly set the machinery in motion. A brisk
breeze which had sprung up, as it were
by special interposition of Providence, at
once set the sails flying. The arms OF
the huge engine whirled round with fear
full rapidly the great wheel slowly re-
volved on its axle the mill was in full
operation.
Thatvery instant the rufian Diether,
succeeded in squeezing himself through
the aperture in the wall, and getting lodg-
ed in the interior Of the great drum wheel.
But his dismay was indescribable, when
ne began to be whirled about with its ro-
tation, and found all his efforts to stop
the powerful machinery which set it in
motion, or to extricate himself from his