The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-09-01

brother Cornelius was resting, after hav-
ing undergone the preparatory degrees o.
the torture. The sentence Of Punishment
having been pronounced, there was nc
occasion for infiicting the torture extra
ordinary.
Cornelius was stretched on his couch,
with broken wrists and crushed fingers
He had not confessed a crime of which
he was not guilty; and now, after three
days of agony, he once more breath ed
freely, on being informed that the judges,
from whom he had expected death, were
only condemning him to exile.
Endowed with an iron frame and q
stout heart, how would he have disap-
pointed his enemies, if they could only
have seen, in the dark cell ofthe Buiten-
hof, his pale face lit up by the smile OIL
the martyr, who forgets the dross of this
earth after having obtained a glimpse oil
the bright glory of heaven.
The warden, indeed, had already re.
covered his full strength, much more ow.
ing to the force of his own strong will
than to actual aid; and he was calcula-
ting how long the formalities of the law
would still detain him in prison.
This was just at the very moment when
the mingled shouts of the burgher-guard
and of the mob were raging against the
two brothers. and threatening Captain
Tilly, who served as a rampant to them
This noise, which roared outside the walls
Of the prison. as the surf dashing against
the rocks, now reached the ears of the
prisoner.
But threatening as it sounded, Corne.
Illus appeared not to deem it worth hi:
while to inquire after its cause; nor did
he get up to look out of the narrow grated
window, which gave access to the light
and noise Of the world without.
He was so absorbed in his never. eeas-
ing pain. that it had almost become q
habit with him. He felt with such de-
lights the bonds, which connected his i'm.
mortal being with his perishable frame
gradually loosening, that it seemed 10 him
as if his spirit, freed from the trammels
of the body, we're lowering above it, like
the expiring fame which rises from the
half,extinguished embers.
He also thought OF his brother; ant
whilst the latter was thus wildly present
to his mind, the door opened, and Johr
entered, hurrying to the bedside of the
prisoner, who stretched out his broker
limbs and his hands, tied up in banda
ges, towards that glorious brother, whom
he now exceeded, not in services rendered
to the country, but in the hatred which
the Dutch bore him.
John tenderly kissed his brother on the
forehead. and put his sore hands gently
back on the mattress.
Cornelius, my poor brother, you are
suffering great pain, are you not2"
II am suffering no longer, since 1 sec
you, my brother"
"Oh! my poor dear Cornelius, fee
most wretched to see you in such (
state"
"And, indeed, 1 have thought more o
you than of myself; and whilst they wer'
torturing me, | never thought Of utteriDg
complaint, except once, to say, Poo
brotherr But now that you are here
let us forget all. You are coming Il
take me away, are you not?"
81 am"
81 am quite healed; help me to &c
up. and you shall see how well l car
walk"
"You will not have to walk far, as
have my coach near the pond, bebinc
Tilly's dragons"
Tilly's dragons! What are they neal
the pond for?'
"Well," said the Grand Pensionary
with melancholy smile, which was ha
bitual to him, 1.-THE gentleman at the
Town-hall expect that the people OF tn
Hague would like to see You depart, and
there is some apprehension Of a tunult.
"Ofa tumult?" replied Cornelius, fix
ing his eyes on his perplexed brother; "a
tumult?'
Eyes, Cornelius"
"Oh that's what I heard just now,
said the prisoner as if speaking to him
self. Then turning to his brother, h
continued
Are there many persons down befor'
the PRISON."
Eyes, my brother. there are"
"But then, to come here to me-"
"Well2''
How is it that they have allowed yol
to pass?'
you well know that we we're not yer,
popular, Cornelius, said the Grand Pen
sionary, with gloomy bitterness. II hav
made my way through all sorts Of by
streets and alleys"
"You hid yourself, John7"
II wished to reach you without loss Q
time, and ! did what people will do j
politics, or on the sea when the wind
against them-I tackled"
In this moment the noise in the squar
below was heard to roar with increasing
, fury. lilly was parleyins with the bur