Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-10-05
VOL. XVII,

NuO uOOl' Dut JusI aS Sne was BOlnS OuI
: she stopped.
'Ah she cried, turning back. : L for.
got TO tell you. Have you heard-?'
What p
), The death of our pro-recteur Zahn :?
G Well what's that TO US p
r All, yes but take care, sir, take care
if your papers are not all right. To-mor-
y row morning at eight o'clock they will ask
!. for them. They have arrested, oh so
t many people during the last two weeks
e Inc pro recteur was assassinated yesterday
: evening in the library, at the Cloister of
s Saint -Christophe. Last week the old
priest, Ulmet Elias, who lived in the Jews
t quarter, was killed in the same way.
, Only few days before that they mur-
, dered the nurse, Christina Haas, and Self
mann, the agate-merchant of the Rue Du-
iach. SO my poor Kasper,' she added,
with tender glance, take good care of
yourself, and be sure that your papers are
all right
All the while she was speaking, the
cries below continued.
Annette oh Annette, will yor, ome +?
Oh the miserable creature. to IeaTr mo
i.~.o all uiorrv F.
And now. too, we could hear the guests
in the saloon calling for wine, beer, ham
and sausages. Annette saw that she must
60, and ran down the stairs as quickly as
she had come up.
! Mon Dieu Mon Dieu,' [ heard her
soft voice answering her mistress. what
can be the matter, madame, that YOU
should make such an outcry One would |
think the house were on fire.
Wllfred closed ha Joor - ]
came back to his seat. We looked at each
other with some uneasiness.
This is strange news said he at last.
AT any rate, your papers are all in
order?'
Certainly replied, and showed him
my pass.
Good There is mine had it vised
before we left. But still, all these murders
bode no good to US. l am afraid we shall
make but poor business here. Many fam I
lies must be in mourning, and then.
besides all these annoyances, the trouble t
the police will give us |
Bah cried |, " you take too dismal |
a view of everything" /
We continued to talk about these stranoe 3
events until long past midnight. The fire
IN our little stove lighted up the angels of
the roof, the square dormer window with v
It's three cracked panes of glass, the mat
tress spread upon the bare boards, the
beams overhead, the little fir Il
table, which cast an unsteady shadow on
The worm eaten floor. A mouse, attract ID
I'd by the heat, darted back and forth
ike an arrow along the wall. We couId "
lear the wind without, whistlinp and bell OF
owing around the high chimney-stacks. OF
weeping the snow from the cutters be- b,
leath the caves in misty swirls. was a:
reamIng OF Annette. Silence had fallen
pon us. Suddenly Wilfrid, throwing off it
is coat, cried: Y
= 1t Is time to sleep, put another stick ne
1 Wood In the stove, and let US. 90 to pl
ed r
Yes. that is +Lr L~-1 ar-ss vssf doc
,id l. and began to pull off my boots. M
wo minutes afterwards we were stretched
n the mattress, the coverings drawn up to
II chins, and great log under our heads hi
r a pillow. Wilfrid was asleep in a be
oment. The light from the little stove he
azed up and died away, the wind re-
'ubled its violence without, and, in the tn,
ldst OF my dreams of Annette, l, too, in thu
y turn slept the sleep of the just Sa
About two o'clock in the morning was gls
by strange noise. At first l saI
ought 1t was cat running along the gut Br
RS but, my ear being close to the raft
$, could not remain long in doubt. 1 of
uched Wilfrid with my elbow, to awaken out
N.
Hist" whispered he, pressing my Al
nd. bo,
He also had heard the noise. The fire one
Is Just dying out, the last feeble flame ful
ekered on the crumbling walls. was sea
the point of springing from the bed,
len at a single blow, the window, kept con
'sed by fragment of brick, was pushed Tn,
en-. A pale face with red hair, eyes of
'amIng with phosphorescent light, and poe
lverlng cheeks, appeared in the opening,
d looked about the room. Our fright and
S SO great that we could not utter eve
Ind. The man passed first one leg, then spil
other through the window, and de- me
nded into the garret so carefully that a q
board creaked under his footsteps. pre-
This man, with heavy round shoulders. bea
rt and thick-set, his face wrinkled and crat
like figure crouched to spring, was s
lie other than the rider who had over pas.
en- US on the road to Heidelberg. But max
at a change in his appearance since look
d! In spite OF the excessive cold, he thou
J in his shirt sleeves, a pair of breeches all
'eo ABOUT MS waist, woolen stockings, oper
snoes with silver buckles. A long with
re- necAed with blood, glittered in his folio
u: pres
Vilfrid and L gave ourselves up for lost. One
he did not seem to see US under the seen
low OF the shopping roof, although the CHIEF
was tanned again into blaze by the with
'96 RRtPudSr Fl iSrd seated sal T himself on % stool
ering and shlverlng in strange way Unhi
uehiy MS greenlsh-yellow eyes fixed stand
nseives on me, his nostrils dilated for sudd
'iiAh d minute, which seemed to me the ?
&c ne stared at me. The blood stood gard
IN my veins. Then, at last, turn unluc
toward the fire, he coughed with the v
- noarse SOUND ike cat, without it re
ing a muscle of his face. Drawing a office
n from the fob of his pantaloons, he him {
ed to look at the hour, and then. "A
ner from absence of mind or you b
other reason, l know not, laid it Ur
the table. AT length, rising from Of al
seat with an air of uncertainty, he upon
"a towards the window, appeared for doc, I
ment to hesitate, and then passed ont cious
door, leaving it wide open behind watch
ment
jumped up to shove the bolt. but grave
dy the mans steps were creaking on Il
talrcase two stories below. An ire his fol
ne curiosity overcame my terror. | 'Tis d
"inooW open, which looked upon der b
ourt, and, in a moment, was at the Tn,
.;aa a. 'ne ~, 1anding OF the stairs on the ing o
slde- The court, seen from this under
:, :, mao ihe a deep well: A wall spite
"a slAy ieet nlgn, divided it into two his so