The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-18

lover: . But she |'s. had t.. filial tender
ness for the old man, ,as, the father of
her sainted mother, and on his own
account, continually making more
claims on her pity, as: the decay Of Of
his memory, and q childish = fretful.I
ness growing upon him from from day to
day, marked lis increasing; il l5s lb5secility.
. Equally mysterious it seemed. that
about this time Miss Liiebeenheiml 4 Be Be-.
gan to receive anonymous letters
written in tie darkest and i a INC most men,
aaa66inga TERMS 2za'sorne IF them she d
showed q me:: I'ceald not: guess CUE Gat It
f@he,F dr;Ht.i ID Evidedtly thssys L = 'gglaitnliesd
ii ?@a4imilian, aahhd bade hKer BEWARE Iaaa
so9f o6naectioni: Win him +; and dreaa.'f
-tfGl things were iasinusted about him.
Could these letters I be : written by Fer
dinand? Written they were not; but
could they be dictated by him2 Much
I feared that they were; and the more
80 for one reason. IT.. -. =:
= ALI at ones, and most inexplicably,
Margaret's grandfather showed a to-
tai change ofopinion, in his views as
to her marriage. Instead of tavoring
Harrelstein's pretensions, as he had
hitherto done, he now threw the fee
BILE weight of his encouragement into
MaximiGan's scale; though, from the
situationl Of all the parties, nobody
attached any proaieaI Importance to
the change in Mr.. Iebenheim's way
Of thinking. Nobody =? Is that true?
No; one person did attach the great
est weight to the change poor, ruin
ed Ferdinand. He, so: long as there
was one person to take his part, so
long Is the grandfather of Margaret
showed countenainee to himself, had
still felt his situation not utterly des-
perate. ~ A>>
Thus were things situated, when in
November, all the leaves daily blow.
ing off from the woods, and leaving
bare the most secret haunts of the
thickets, the body Of the jailor was
left exposed in the forest; but not, as
I and my friend had conjectured,
hanged. No; he had died apparent
ly by more horrid death-by that
of crucifxion. The tree, remarka-
bic one, bore upon part Of its trunk
this brief but savage inscription; ''T.
H., jailor at--; Oateifed July l,
1916"
A great deal Of talk went on
throughout the city upon this discov:
cry nobody uttered one Of word regret
onaccount OF the wretched jailer; on
the contrary, the voice Of vengeance,
rising up in many cottage, reached
my ears in every direction as walk.
ed abroad. The hatred in itself SEEM
ed horrid and upchristian, and still
more SO after the mans death but,
though ,horrid and fendish for itself,
it was much more impressive, consid.
cred as the measure and; exponent Of
the damnable oppression which must
have existed to produce it. :
| At first, when the absence, of the
jjaeiler was a recent occurrence, and the
pEese4ppce l,s 4p Of. the n lmaur,defrers amongst
" pssNls, Nss, in ia censeqgenee. a!. revived to ON
esln,lfi29us sl,lf tho theougblA, uybl,a, 1T vas, an, event
which, few alluded, le.l,, :te without fear,
But a!tc! matter. q = were re sh changed now; the
Ejailer had been dead for months and
81 interval, dqring v'hich. tie pur: q ::
derers hand had slept, encouraged
everybody to hope that the storm had 9
passed over our city; that peace had
returned to our hearths; and that
hepeeorth weakness might sleep in
safety, and innocence without anxiety
Orce more we had peace within our
walls, and tranquility by our fire.
|Isides. Again the child went to bed
in cheerfulness, and the old man. said
his prayers in serenity. Confidence
was restored peace was re-establish.
ed; and once again the sanctity Of
human life became the rule and the
principle for all human hands
amongst US. Great was the joy; the
happiness was universal.
20, heavens! by what thunderbol,
were we awakened ;,>A;l t'r security
! On the night Of the twenty seventh o.
December, half an hour, it might be
! after twelve o'clock, an alarm was B
given that all was not right ID The
house Of Mr. Liebenheim. Vast was
the crowd which soon collected in
breathless agitation. In two minutes
a man who had gone round by the
back of the house was heard unbar
ring Mr.. Liebenheim's door he was
incapable of uttering word; but
his gestures, as he threw the door open
and beckoned to the crowd, were
quite enough. In the hall, at the
farther extremity, and as if arrested
in the act of making for the back
door, lay the bodies of old Mr.. Lieb
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