The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1867-02-23
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hrgnn ~ give HE houae q bad ropdfe.
and " au4e q certain falling IN IN
ilc business. llc therefore ordered
bis son 10 marry.
Bernhard raised several ol,ia lions,
bat was oyctrulcd hy the aorn pro.
gcnior, aud NJ last look 10 himself a
wife, lie resolved nj the same time
10 abandon his evil ways and bcrotnc
correct member Of married .eictv.
All went well Tor some time; bat
after two or three years, he found
that ioctjou1 pcrdrir was monoton-
Gus and unpalalnblc lie therefore
began TO indulge secretly and mod
cratcly IN his old variations. lIis
wife vaguely suspected him, but
wisely held her tongue and approached
him not, though she herself was n
model of constancy and truth.
One day q travelling carriage drove
up, and n lady alighted at the hotel
and asked for n room for the night.
The son conducted her up stairs,
probably because she was young aud
good looking. But strange to say he
didn't come down again rs soon u,
he might have done, and the wife
wondered what could detain him
She waited patiently u few minute.
and then became suspicious Of some.
thing being wrong. She paced ur
and down the room with growing
impaticnce, looked at the clock tive
or three times minute, and at length
could restrain her impaticncc nc
longer and rushed up stairs. Imag.
aginc her Indignation at finding Tho
door boltcd from the inside. Sh,
listencd-all was quiet--and then
pushed and knocked AZ the door, and
raised hue and cry that caused all
the servants in the house to come
running TO the scene of the disturb.
ancc, and then there arose tremen.
dous screaming and shrieking insid,
the room that seemed TO deafeu
almost the cries of the wife and th,
noise of the attendants. At last tn,
door was broken open. The lad,
traveller demanded that the polic,
guard should be sent for, declaring
amid historic sobs and groans, tina
she had been inmlted and ruined b,
the inn-kccpcr's son. He endeavore,
to protest his innocence of tn
charge, but in vain. Amid the lam
cntations of the injured visitor an,
the rcproaches Of the yet more in
jurcd wife, not word that he uttere'
could be heard. lie was hurried Of
to the guard-housc, and closely i'm
prisoncd. A fortnight aferward, th
case came before the Judge of ih
commune. Witnesses were callc'
who proved the prisoners guilt Il
evcrybody's satisfaction, excepting
perhaps, that Of the prisoner himself
His antcccdents were fully laid beior
the court, of course with due regar,
to the feelings of absent pcrsonages
Bernhard, seeing the turn Attain
were taking, adopted sullen, dcfan
dcmeanor, and refused to say wor,
in defense. lie was declared guilty
aud the judge, who had manifested
great aspcrity toward the prisoner
asked him several times whether h
had anything to urge before sentcnc
was passed. Having been great,
pressed to speak, the prisoner ex
pressed his willingness to say some
thing, but told the Judge that !
would be better for his honor IL h
did not speak. Thcreupon the judge
somewhat ncttlcd asked him TO 81,
what he could.
"Wcll, then," said Bernhard, a.
am innocent Of this charge, but an
willing to accept the shame Of thi
trial, and the sentence about 10 be in
ilictcd upon me rs a punishment 70
the evil life | have led. Yes, Il /
true that | am guilty Of all the lai
} sons of which | have been accused
: and many morei and ! may say
Mr.. Judge, that the woman who fir
! led me as,ray was your wifel'
The confusion Of the Judge, an
: the hilarity in court may be imagined
Bernhard was at once informed tbs
!, he would be prosecuted for slandc
! Nothing, however, was heard, aiteI
e ward, either Of the transported Berr
J hard or Of the threatened trial e
z slandcr. The judge was shortl
: after promoted to a better post.