The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-26

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prudent, and did not trust So delicate bus
ness to a clerk, a. had done.
However at the end ola year had galne'
his confidence To such an extent that he pre-
posed To infinite me into it, mysteries. Bu
| had 50 many reasons for regarding such
custom with horror, that / honestly declined
at the same time showing deep rcpugnancc L
fraud Of any kind Wonderful to relate
probity, which is too often neglected IN TN
world, proved for me- as it always Is, an clc
mcnt of success, And, by the way let me as
sure you that this element is not yet worn
out, My master seeing that | was am homes
man, said to me.
Herman OhiS was the nance had "a,
ISumcd), | now appreciate You fully: "c shat
never part
He confdcd the casl-boN to my care an,
at the end of the second year he made mt
marry his daughter She was very quic
girl, iwcnty-cight years Of age, and endowed
with all those qualities which distinguish tho
women Of Holland. Her name was Imdlc
! was happy when towards the end OF the
third year my patron, who was my iathcrIh
law, and of whom had become the partner
gave dinner to his son, Capt. Thomas
Crommc, and recognized the father ofan old
acquaintance. | concealed my emotion, but
the sailor was more frank.
Halo, is that you Pochncl:' he cried.
for he had twice transacted business with me
at Lausanne, and had even sold ne some
| very bad tea
| fcigncd a,ioniShmcnt His father told
/ him that my name was Herman, and that in
me he bchcld his brothcrin-law. Thomas
/ Crommc appeared To be convinced. But my
voice troubled his mind, and my Swiss accent
added to his pcrplrXity and twas with very
| bad grace that he consented TO admit that
was not POChinet This singular incident
! disturbed my tranquility. The captain re
manned month at Amsterdam, and always
regarded me with a suspicious air He told
! his sister, who repeated it TO me, that re.
scmbled grocer Of Lausanne as nearly aS
| one drop of water resembles another and that
he was surprised to find in Germany two
persons 50 exactly formed after the same
model | had said that was from Stras-
Dours, and that my parents were Swiss, which
accounted for my Swiss accent. He asked
questions which put me to the torture. At
last | was relieved to learn that had gone.
But it appeared that his suspicious had cX
tended to his family, for they told me he had
returned to the Indies, when in reality he had
gone to Lausanne. The investigation, which,
unknown to me, he had made at StraSbOurg,
had convinced him that had told false
u
truth
Arriving at Lausanne, he learned that
Claude POchinct had been hanged few weeks
previous to my first appearance in Holland.
So clear fact would have been sufficient to
any other man; but Capt Crommc had the
ObStinanCc of the true IlOllandcr He found
that my first wife, who they told me had
died while | was in prison, had on the con-
trary recovered, and was yet living, which of
course made me guilty Ofthc crime of bigamy
He visited me, and by dint of questioning,
learned that my throat was ossticd. This
gave him ray of light, and, pursuing his
investigation still further, he discovered the
Young surgeon who had saved me, and from
him obtained full confession.
tie returned to the widow Pochinct, as She
was called, and abruptly offered TO restore her
husband to her The poor woman, who well
knew that had not intended to poison her,
was nearly overcome. The Captain, on his
part began to feel the difficulties into which
he had thrown himself. He thought of hi.
sister, his father, his family. He remembered
also, that he was rendering a very unwclcomc
service 10 my first wife, for il would be nee.
cssaIy to inform her that was married again
He could not bring himself to tell her this, 50
he contcntcd himself by saying;
Madame Pochnct, am Just starting for
Amsterdam. If you wish to accompany me-
| de- not deceive you | will show you your
husband
Iii, proposition was accepted, and one day |
|, who suspected nothing Of all this, bchcld |
before me Capt Crommc, who said to me:
Come here Il moment there i, some one
who wishes to speak to you
These were his very words
" But" SAID |, in establishment, thought
you were in Batavia
He did not answer but conducted me to the .
Hotel dies Armcs dc Manson, which was few .
step, from our house, We entered room
and there saw a woman, who threw herself
on my neck. | was so surprised that could .
not restrain an exclamation
Why, Rosa, are you alive: 4
did not then observe the movements OF /
The Captain, who FASTENED out Ny wife and |
had about quarter of an hour for cXplana-
ions during which had not vcnturcd to
ell her that believing myself a wIdower, |
lad married again, when the Captain re |,
uncd. He was followed by four policemen, II
q whom lac pointed me out saying Il
"Thcrc he Is," Then, apostrophilng me. II
IL said: You might have murdered, pil-
aged, robbed, you might have given Batavia
~ to fire and blood and would have par.
Toned all hut to have been hangcd-that j. ,
oo much To think that my poor sister mar.
ned man who has been hanged; to think {
hat have drank aud eaten with him; Iha,
my father has had him for a son-in-law, that
1ur house had been kept 10y him" I
lie uttered these words in So loud a tone |
ana those who heard him repeated with such i
an air ct horror the words, ." a man that has
been hanged that could not utter Il >inrIc \
word IN defense OF my innocence
Take him away ,aidthc captain "
The four men seized me, and without any 1
pity for Rosa, who had tainted, they drarrrd /
me 10 prison In
was tried more quickly than at Lausanne c
aud once more condemned to bc hanged thi, :
me tor The CRIME OF bigamy. had no hope L
If escaping again, for Crommc knew WHAT /
lad saved me the first time sadly made /
ny adlcu t" life in my dungeon, when one e
hight III was the night preceding the dnv an
pointed for my execution heard my door a
,pcn. man presented himself before me i
wd- my brothcrin-law {
Come said he, " | have arranged every. ,