The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-25

for some time in your forest before
opening my regular campaign; and I
am surprised that you did not hear Of
the death which met the executioner.
him | mean who dared to lift his
hand against my mother. This man
| met by accident in the forest; and
| slew him. talked with the wretch
as stranger at first, upon the mem
orable case Of the Jewish lady.
Had he relented, had he expressed
compunction, might have relented.
But tar otherwise; the dog, not
dreaming to whom he spoke, exulted
he-bat why repeat the villains
words? l cut him to pieces. Next
/ did this: Ny agents I caused to
matriculate separately at the college.
They assumed The college dress. Aud
now mark the solution of that mys-
terry which caused such perplcxity.
Simply as students we all had an un-
suspected admission at any house.
Just then there was common prac-
tce, as you will remember amongst
the younger students, of going
out a masking-that is, Of enter
ing houses III the academic dress, and
with the face masked. This practice
subsisted e,eu during the most intense
alarm from the ;,ur.lcrers for the dress
oi the students was supposed to bring
protection along with it. But, even
alter suspicion had connected it,vIf
| with tEi:: dress, it was sufficient that
should APPEAR unmasked at tie
head Of the naekers, to insure them
friendly reception. Hence the ia
cllity with which death was inflicted,
aud that. unaccountable absence Of
any motion towards an alarm. I
took hold Of my victim, and he look
ed at me with smiling security. Our
weapons were hid under our acad-nic
robes; and even when we drew them
out, and at the moment Of applying
Them to the throat, they still suppos-
ed our gestures to be part of the PAN
tonime we were performing. Did I
relish this abuse ofpersonal confidence
in myself? No,-I loathed it, and
[ grieved for its necessity; but my
mother, phantom not seen with bod
lily eyes, but ever present to my mind
continually ascended before me; and
still [ shouted aloud to my astounded
victim, This comes from the Jewess.
Hound Of hounds! Do you remem-
Der the Jewess whom you dishonored,
and the oaths which you broke in or
der that you might dishonor her, and
the righteous law which YOU violated,
aud the cry OF anguish from her son
which YOU scofitd at! Who | was,
what l avenged, and whom. | made
every man aware, and every woman
before punished them. The details
OF the cases | need not repeat. Ou4
or two | was obliged, at the begin
ming, to commit to my Jews The
suspicion was thus, from the first,
urued aside by the no1oriety OF my
presence elsewhere: but | took care
that none suffered who not either been
upon the guilty list OF magistrates
who condemned the mother, or of
those who turned away with N >ckery
from the supplication of the sou.
1T pleased God, however, to place
mighty temptation in my path,
which might have persuaded me to
Iorego all thoug ghts OF vengeance, to
forget. my vow, to forget the voices
which invoked me from the grave.
Tns Was Margaret Liebenheim. All
how terrific appeared my duty of
oloouy y relr button, after her angels
face and angels Voice had calmed me.
With respect to her grandfather,
Strange 1t Is to mention, that never
did my Innocent wife appear 50 love-
iy as precisely i'll the relation of
granddaughter 50 beautiful was
her yoouhcSs to the Old man, and so
dlvlue was the chliuilke innocence on
ner part, conlrasted with the guilty
recoilectlons associated with him.
for he was amongst the guiltie>t to-
wards my tr,-still | della,
hts punishment to the last and, tor
his chllu'5 sake. | would have par
d 'ued INN, m,-nay had resolved to do
So, when Il fierce Jew, who had deep
malignity towards this man, swore
that he would accom- plish his VEN
geance at all events, and perhaps
might be obliged to include Margaret
III The ruins unless [ adhered TO the
original scheme. Then | yielded for
circumstances armed this man with
ino.nentary power. But the III ght
fixed on was one in which | had rea-
son to know that my wife would be
absent; for so had myself arranged
with her, and the unhappy counter
arrangement do not yet understand.
Let me add, that the sole purpose of
my clandestine marriage was to sting
her grandtather's mind with the be-
lief that his family had been dishon-
ored, even as he had dishonored mine.
He learned, as | took care that he
should, that his granddaughter car
rled about with her the promises of
a mother, and did not know that she
had the sanction of wife. This
discovery made him, in one day, be.
come eager tor the marriage he had
previously opposed and this discov-
cry also emblttered the misery OF his
death. At that moment | attempted