Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-06-21

starting from the socket. she read his
anguish in his ghastly. distorted features,
and guessed at last w"at had happened.
Hope animated her; she began to think of
deliveTance.
! "Avdotya! push the table nearer" said
the robber, in altered, but still harsh and
commanding accents, that terrified her
again, and compelled her to blind obedi-
ence. Once more she lost her presence
of mind, and pushed the corner of the
table towards him. The william reached
il with the toes of ono foot; he raised him
self up few times. 1t was for him m
ment OF heavenly enjoyment. Never in
his whole life had he known one like it
not even after the most successful MUIR
der. His agony was less intolerable he
drew breath again, but his left hand
which he tried to use to free his right,
was bcnumbed and powerless. The knot,
too, had grown too tight; the reprobate
felt that he could do no more without aid.
"Avdotya Yeremeyevna! kind friend!
good grill do me the favor! Jump upon
the table; unite my arm-pray do! | will
not kill you; | only meant to frighten you.
Oh! how my head swimsP'
The miscreaut's tortue touched the kind
hearted girI's soul. The feeling of COM
passion not unlrequen'iy ex;inguishes in
woman the thought of her OWE dagger
That woman thinks with her heart, has
been thousands of times said since the in
venrion of printing. In Dumas bosom COM
passion prevailed over icai, and sitled the
voice of self-preseivauon. She sprang
upon the table, and iaboret long and hard
AT the knot. She could not undo it.
"Do me lhe favor, sweet, sweet Dunai
Fetch Il knfe--cut the cursed rope-l am
! dying with pain"
| The girl jumped off the table and ran
to the pantry. Poor creature! she little
knew the return the red nosed guest was
prepared to make for her kindness of
heart. She found knife; she hurried
! back; she was on the threshold of the
scene of torture, when the table on which
the robber had rested his foot turned over
with a loud noise. He had upset it in en-
deavoring to change bis feet. Once more
he was swinging with all his weight in the
air. A piercing yell told the renewal of
his former tortues. Duna stopped short
at the door, His hideously distorted face
struck her with involuntary horror; she
thought it Satan's own features she
beheld. The sight rveted her to the spot
where she stood; she shuddered, and dared
not move a step forward.
She looked round and saw window
open. The thought flashed upon her that
she might avail herself of the circum-
stafTce. But lie suffers so dreadfully--
How frightfully he screams The rope
must be cut. Dupa advanced a few steps.
That hUrrid, gaping mouth! Duna tot
tered back, and mechanically unconscious
Of what she did, she raised herself to the
window ledge, and dropped from It into
the courtyard.
When she was in the court yard she
knew not what she had done. She had es-
capped the sight of that ferocious mouth,
but not the influence of her tormentor.-
He had fascinated her. He was still lord
of her life. Her knees trembed; she
dared not withdraw from the window.
"Ha! you young jade!' howled the
miscreant, savagely; lyon have done clev-
erly. I'd have slit your throat like Il
chicken's.''
These words, uttered in unspeakable
agony and despair. suddenly rallied the
girls energies. She ran to the gate
The monsters horrid jest had proved his
horrid punishment.
Could he have supposed that he tied
the knot for himself? Could he have
supposed that that awful moment, in
which her foot hung over the grave,
should be tie moment of delivelance to
the innocent, and of exemplary punish
ment TO the guilty? Here was the finger
of Providence. 1t is everywhere. it is
(alsehood to maintain that vice and crime
alone prosper in this world.
She ran, and ran. TIL her strength was
exhausted; no one was in sight. She ran
further; her breath failed; her limbs tot
tered; she dared not look round, lest she
should again see that fearful mouth, la ST
she should again fall into the hands of her
prosecutor. Nowhere living soul.
She struggled up a rising ground.
! "Ah! there is our hutler; and there is
Vaska. and Procher All! he too is with
them -
He, 10 wit, the incompatible Ivan, the
governors valet. They we're all return
ing home from the brandy shop, careless
and happy, singing love songs, cracking
Jokes upon their masters, with their caps
set jaunuly on one side, and tacking along
the road in easy zigzags.
Duna ran toward them, pale, with
staring eyes and flying hair; her neck un-
covered, her wits bewildered.
" Come along, quick, quick!" she
screamed. "He is hanging! hanging!
hanging!--the villain is hanging! Faster!
fasterl
Hey, darling little dove of the
woods thew ali cried TO her, with a
laugh; "who is hanging? Where is he
hanging? Give us kiss, Dumushka.--
'Tis merry world
"He is hanging, 1 tell you'll Don't
laugh. Run to the house. Take forks,
hatchets, guns "a thief-a murderer. with
great mustaches and red nosel He said
he would slit my theoat like chicken =
that he'd hang me-"
They fastened their steps, armed them
selves as well as they could, broke the
house door open, and went into the par