The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-14

| Anna, wretched mother that bore you! I'm l
fortunate little ones. Unhappy Rita! Kuo~,
Infamous man." continued the count with We
| bemence, "that your wife has worked with
incessant zeal aud activity to procure your
pardon. She was always at the feet OF the
! indges. Ventura forgave you before he died !
Pedro has forgiven You. My poor brother was
the zealons and tireless agent of your friends.
He obtained your pardon of the king All
were an1ious,y seeking you, and he more than
| all the rest, and would to God / had never
found you"
Diego, who saw the immense grief which the
GOODNESS and pallor of death painted upon the
changing countenance of Perico ard noticed
that be was tottering, said to the count:
"Sir do you see that you killing him y
81 will not anticipate the executioner," an
swered the count, mounting his horse.
"Courage!" murmured Diego in the ear of
the sinking Perco. Look at us. We are all
going to die and we all serene"
They entered Seville amidst the maledic-
tons of the populace, horritied by their recent
crimes. But the Indignation with which the
crowd saw that the vile traitor who bad sold
his companions, walked among them free, was
= beyond measure.
This traitor was the convict, who by betray-
obtained the reward promised to the person
\ who should secure the arrest of the notorious
i robber Diego, who had SO long laughed at the
{ efforts of his pursuers.
CHAPTER Xxx.
The prison of Seville at that time badly
situated, in narrow street in the most cen
trail part of the city. 1t was an Unlocking
. structure, scaly and mean wanting in its
:; style the dignity of legal authority and the
utward respect which humanity owes to mis-
- fortune, even when it is criminal few steps
from this centre of hardened wickedness and
- beastly degradation the street ends in the
49, grand plaza of San Froncisco-an Irregular Oh
-, long area, bounded by those edifces which
make it the most imposing plaza of the famed
80 deanery of Andaucia. On the right are the
-; chapter houses whose exquisite architecture
,-a renders them in the eyes of both Sevilans ant
90 strangers the finest ornaments Of the city. o.
te. the left, forming projecting angle, stand
-, the regular and severe edfce of the Audienci0
- the tribunal to which justice gives all power
Surmounting it, like signal of mercy, is 1t
clock-ten minutes too slow venerable lille
An gality, which gives ten minutes more of life t
" the criminal before striking the cruel hou
-, uamed for his execution. Thus all the law
and customs of ancient Spain have the seal
$50. charity. Ten minutes, TO him who is passlr
TL trauqnilly along the road of life, are nothin
bnt to him who is about to die, they are prc
less. Upon the threshold of death, ten mi
" utes may decide his sentence for eternit
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exist though this impressive souvenir of o
mod of ten minutes of existence to him who is abo
to die, it would still prove that, even to thu
the most severe DEGREES, our ancestors knew HI
way, 70 S'i'A 'ne seal Oh onaFi'y' AS euon IL ~
oted, cognized by the people, who understand a
the appreciate it, for it is of the Customs hi
they hold in highest reverence. o Spsi
A. what examples hast thou not given to t
lego world OF all that 10 good ana wise tnou u
Let's day art asking them of strangers
On one side of the town-hall, forming q
!, and ceding angle is seen the great convent of
came Francisco with it's imposing church. 7
nvct other fronts form arches that, like stone
with toons, adorn the sides of the plaza. At
en q end opposite the point first mentioned is
,self; immense marble fountain, of which the {
ed to of waters is changeless and lasting
dded, material of the basin which receives it.
n our One day the plaza of San Francisco and
taken streets leading to it were covered with
md Of usual multitude. What drew them togeth
Why were they there : To a man die
eature no, not die to man kill his brother
to be die is solemn, not terrible, when the a
gently closes the sufferers weary eyes
sud gives his soul wings to Use to other regi
their But TO man killed, by a human h
" Sur in travail of spirit, in agony of soul, in
lures of pain, is appalling. And yet men
Ivalry. and hasten, and crowd each other, to wit
breast, the contamination of legal doom. But
Diego neither pleasure nor curiosity that att
COM the awe-struck multitude. 1t is that fata
horse, sire of emotion which takes possession of
ew his contradictory human heart. This might
nd cut been read in those faces, at pale, anx
led his and Mortified. An indstinct mHrmur
Is, and, through the dense multitude, in the mid
o, save which rose that pillar of shame and angr
that usurper of the m ission of death; that