Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

speechless. Think, therefore, o men of sin,
that the shadow of these holy walls is a veil
50 thin that the eye of God, or that of Ills
vicegerent, were he here, could penetrate it to
the discovery of all iniquity: and fearfully will
such niquity be punished"
Woman," said Musgrave, I" you are the
same that was in company with a certain man in
this neighborhood tonight"
"Iwas," she replied, " in company with one
Johannes We're, man of many goodly parts,
whose heart the finger of God has touched, and
therein now burns zeal for the cause of the
Holy Church, like Goals of living fire. You
shall see, you shall sec, ye men of witkedness,
and the whole heathenish region hereabouts,
in good time shall see, how great o matter
little fire kindleth.' For by the labor of Johan-
nes We're, and that of the unworthy vessel be-
fore you, the Church that once iiourished here
like fruitful vine, now decayed to the very
root, shall spring up again fructifed and reviy-
ed, to bear again its golden fruit thousand
fold"
Where is johannes We're 2"
Going going, still going" said she. - where
the hand of God leads him. Seek him not,
men of Belial; strive not to quench the FIRE
that is in him, for when he shall have imbbed a
little more of zeal for the Cause he will be
ready to 60 unshodden over beds of flint, or
molten lava, for the purifying and upbuilding Of
the Holy Church. So seek him not, ye Profana-
tors but turn you from the error of your
ways abandon your evil purposes, and your
wicked works, and flee, flee, for your lives from
the wrath to come"
Her voice and gestures which were quite
wild and earnest, indicated that sho was one of
thos, enthusiasts in religion, the even balance Of
whose mind had been disturbed by too much, or
rather, by too imprudent, contemplation of the
subject. Yet her sudden discovery, and the
tenor of all her language, implied to the suspi-
cious and affrighted minds of Musgrave and
Barker, that, whether by design or chance, she
had been anaudtor of their whole conversation
and was therefore the depository of very i'm
portant, and to them, dangerous secret. And
while Musgrave, by her answer to his enquiry
was in great degree relieved from his appre-
hension that the person seen in that vicinage
was Clovis, he was doubly alarmed for the de-
yelopmcnts he had made unwittingly to the fc-
male; and his first impulse was to bar theil
publication by her murder
Barker was man of nerve, but he had ney.
er been engaged in SO heinous an act as murder
either as principal or accessory and he shrunk
appalled, when he saw what Musgraye contem-
plated doing.
=" 1t is our only safety, !" said the latter
Avaunt man of sin, and touch me not y
said the female. " You may slay the body, but
you cannot kill the soul And know you not
that if my tongue be silent to your defections,
yet the eye of God is on you, and the hand Of
God registers all your deeds, whether good or
evil, the one with blessings, and the other with
curses, thereto annexed? What then If this
clayey tenement should be broken by your
hands? You would but double the labors Of
johannes We're; yet the holy cause will triumph,
and you will be confounded in your iniquitics
So peril not your soul again, but flee flee ]
warn you delay not to flee from the vengeance
that is at hand"
! Musgrave was alarmed at her firm and earn
est manner; yet he interpreted the language Of
all her warning and menace to have reference
to the conspiracy in which he and Barker were
then engaged. Resolved to cut off SO far as he
could, the chances for detection, he drew a
long and sharp-pointed knife from under his
vest with the purpose to slay her
Clovis, toward whom the backs of Musgrave
and Barker were turned, having thrust his
head without the wall, saw the INTENT and
crawling cautiously out, he picked upa stone
and hurled it with such force against the head
of Musgrave as stunned him, and he fell to the
ground. Then rushing upon Barker the latter
fed.