Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-08

He Immediately broke open the chest ant
was soon engaged in rummaging its contents.
1t was but the work of moment for her tt
turn the key in the wards and lock him in
This done, she rushed forth to the outer dool
of the mill and gave the alarm.
"Fly! fly" she shrieked to the child, bel
masters little boy, an infant five years old, ane
the only being within sight or sound. "Fly
fly to thy father! fly on your life!-Tell hin
we shall all be murdered an he haste not back
Fly! fy~
The child, who was at play before the door
at once obeyed the energetic command of the
brave girl; and sped as fast as his tiny leg:
could carry him on the road by which he knew
his parents would return from church.
She sat down on the stone bench by the mil
door to ease her oyer-cxcited spirit, and she
wept, as she sat, at the thoughts of her happy
| deliverance.
A shrill whistle from the grated window O.
the chamber in which she had shut up the
ruffan, Heinrich, caught her ear and made hel
start at once to her feet
"Diether Dicther p' she heard him shout
catch the child, and come hither! l anu fast
Come hither! Bring the boy here, and kill
the grip
The little messenger held on his way un-
harmed, however; and she thought to herself
| that the alarm was false one, raised to excite
| her fear and overcome her resolution. Just
however, as the child reached hollow spot in
the next feld-the channel of a natural drain,
then dry with the heats of summer-shs saw
another ruffian start up from the bed of the
drain and catching him in his arms, hasten to-
ward the mill, in accordance with the directions
of his accomplice. In moment She perceived
her danger; and in q moment more she formed
her future plan of proceeding. Retreating into
the mill, she doubly locked and bolted the door,
the only apparent entrance to the cdficc, every
other means of obvious access to the interior
being barred by means of strong iron sratings
fixed against all the windows; and then took
her post at an upper easement, determined to
await patiently either aer masters return, and
her consequent delivery from that dangerous
position, or her own death, if it were inevita-
Bile.
She had barely time to secure herself within,
when the ruffian from without, holding the
hapeSs child ir one hand ,-and a. hong slserp
knife in the other, aSsailed the door with kicks
and curses, and imprecations Of the most dread
lul character.
"Confound thee" he cried, applying the
foulest epithets of which the frec-spoken leu
tonic languages are copious; "opcn the door OF
I'll break it in on ye!"
"Cut the bl:at's throat ]" roarcd tile impris-
oned ruilia!. above that Will bring her to
| reason"
Stout hearted as poor Hannchen was, she
quailed at this cruel suggestion. For moment
her resolution wavercd; but it was only for a
| +l,o+ ho,o
tain if she admitted the assailant; and 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. II
was to risk all against nothing. Like discreet
girl, she consequently held fast in her resolve
to bide as she was while life remained, or unit
assistance should reach her.
can ye open not the door," shouted the vii,
lian from without, accompanying his words
with the vilcst abuse, and the tiercest im7rcca
tions "Tl hack this whelps limbs to piece:
with my knife and then burn the mill ovcl
your head. twill be merry blaze, trow.' ,
~ put my trust in God replied the daunt
less girl "never shall ye set foot within these
walls whilst have life to prevent ye."
The rufian laid the infant for a moment OF
the sward, as he sought about for combustible
wherewith to execute his latter threat. II
this search he espied, perhaps, the only possible
clandestine entrance to the building. 1t was ;
large aperture in the wall, communicating will
the great wheel and the other machinery o
the mill and was point entirely unprotected
for the reason that the simple occupants hac
never supposed it feasible for any one to secl
admission through such a dangerous inlet. Ella
ted with this discovery, the ruffian returned II
the infant and tying the hands and feet o
the little innocent, threw it on the ground HI
then stole back to the aperture by which III
hoped to effect an entrance. All this was un
seen by the dauntless girl within. A though
struck her.
"It is Sunday" said she to herself; tht
mill never works on the Sabbath suppose
set it agoing now? 1t can be seen afar off
and haply my master or some of his neighbors
wondering at the sight, may haste hither t.
know the cause. A lucky thought" she ex
claimed "'tis God sent it to mel"
No sooner said than done. Being all he
life accustomed to mil-gear, it was but the wori
of moment for her to set the machinery il
motion. y brisk breeze which sprung up. as
were by the special in'erposition Of Providcnc
at once set the sails flying. The mill was il
full operation.
1t was in that very instant that the ruffia
Diethcr had succeeded in squeezing himse
through the aperture in the wall, and gettn
safely lodged in the interior of the great drur
wheel His dismay, however was in deScriba
BILE when lie began to be whirled about by it
rotation, and found that all his efforts to extri
cate himself from his perilous situation, wer
truit!cSs. His cries were most appalling; hi
shrieks were truly fearful his curses and i'm
precautions were horrible to hear Hannche
hastened to the spot, and saw him caught, reE
tile as he was, in his own trap 1t neei. not b
added that she did not liberate him. In val
did he promise the stout hearted girl to wor
her no harm; in vain did he implore her pit
on his hapless condition; in vain didhe pray
all the powers of heaven, and adjure all til
powers of hell to his aid. She would not hea
nor heed him; roand and round, went the Ut
firing wheel, until, at last, feeling and perceE
!, ton failed him, and he saw and heard no NOR,
, He fell senselcss on the bottom of the engine
, but even then his inanimate body continued t
be whirled round and round, as before.
A loud knocking at the door was shortly afte
heard, and she fastened thither. . 1t was he
master and his family accompanied by sever;
of their neighbors. The unaccustomcd appear
ance of the nill-sails in full swing on Sunda,
, had attracted their attention; and they ha
fastened home from church for the purpose
ascertaining the cause of the phenomenon.