The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-20
ssThe Princess I" CALCULATED her h,is-

ssThe Princess r. CALCULATED her hlls-
| band, bewildered at the sight of her dis
guise, and her violent emotion; and
! raising her from the ground. "What
means this frenzy, and why are you SO
strangely disguised %
But she answered him not. With her
distended eyes wildly fixed upon him,
she passed her hands repeatedly over
his bosom, and muttered TO herself.
ssNo poniard, no wound and yet
struck him there, and felt his hot blood
gnsh forth upon my hands Alb! see,
she continued, shuddering, ''there it
is!' and, holding up her hand as she
spoke, the crimson drops that stained it
attested the truth of some fearful deed
being connected with her mysterious
self -accusation.
"Thyra, dearest love-" said the Bo-
yard, in soothing accents, something
has terrified you; buf you are safe now
Il am here to protect you. Tell me,
what is the meaning of this agitation 2
What is the meaning of this blood9"
"You, Media the sycamore grove !"
she uttered in broken cries. "Were you
not there, now-just now to meet her ?"
The Prince shook his head in silent
CONSERVATION.
| ssWhom have I murdered, then ?"
burst from the lips Of the unhappy wo-
man, with thrilling shrek; and, start
ing from her husbands support, she
fed with the speed of a maniac toward
the fatal spot from which she had re-
Gently returned.
The Prince and his attendants quickly
| followed her. some Of them bearing
| lighted torches, but such was the speed
which the frenzied state of her feelings
| lent to her movements that they only
overlook her at the moment of her
reaching the fountain. There she sud
denly stopped, IS though rooted to the
spot, and, shuddering pointed to the
ground. The Prince advanced hastily
to her side. His attendants followed,
| and, raising their torches, discovered at
the margin of the fountain the body of
a man extended on his back and welter-
ing in his blood. The CHASTITY face was
turned upward, and as the glare of the
torches fell upon it an exclamation Of
horror fell from the lips of all present,
and Thyra, leaning forward, recognized
her victim with thrill of agony which
caused all the blood to chill in her veins
and her pulse to stand still. At that
one glance the whole truth flashed upon
her with terrible clearness, until she
comprehended, when too late, the fatal
error into which her blind and mistaken
suspicious bad plunged her. There lay
her son, her only child, her beloved
Demetri, bathed in the blood that vel
led forth from the death-wounds her
murderous hands had inflicted. He it
was, then, whose boyish passion had
been reciprocated by her young attend
ant; he it was for whom Media had de-
vised the love meeting which had that
morning changed her own jealous fears
into dreadful certainties. He it was, 0!
God, upon whom her imaginary wrongs
had just been 80 barbarously avenged
The similarity Of names, of dress, had
deceived her. Why had she not
thought of this beforea Why? Does
suspicion ever pause to reason or re-
fleet? Is not jealousy blind as love
(whose dark shadow it is said to be)?
ALI this passed through her mind with
the rapidity of lightning, as that one
awful glance revealed to her the extent
of her crime. No words escaped her
lips, but, as if struck by thunderbolt,
she fell heavily forward by the side of
the beloved son whose life had fallen a
sacrifice to the rash and ungoveznable
suspicious of the Jealous wife.
The first use that Thyra made of her
returning faculties was to cast herself
at the feet of her husband, and make
full confession of her feelings which
had driven her to commit so desperate
deed, imploring death at his hands in
expiration of her crime. But death,
which would have terminated her earth
~ torments, was boon which the ex-
asperated husband was resolved not to
grant her. "Woman," said he, ssyou
shall live to die thousand deaths every
day. You shall live to curse the day on |
which you were born. You shall live to |
expiate, in lingering torments of mind,
the misery you have inflicted on me-"
And, infeMble in his determination. |
he caused his unfortunate wife to be |
conveyed to the Rock of Babake, where,
IN rudely constructed stone chamber, |
she was condemned to drag out miser- !