The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-11-10

The turnkey took the animal round
the Jail, so that, if needs be, he nigh,
recognize the prisoners.
Father" said Rosa, there is the ia.
nous prison from which Mynheer Croft.
us escaped. You know Mynheer Gro
thus p
'Oh, yes, that rogue Grotius; a friend
OF that villain Barneveldte, whom saw
executed when | was a child. All! so
Grotius; and that's the chamber from
which he escaped. Well, III answer for
1t that no one shall escape after him in
my time"
And thus opening the door, he began
in the dark to talk to the prisoner.
The dog, on his part, went up to the
prisoner, and growing, smelled about his
legs, just as though to ask him what right
he had still to be alive, after having left
the prison in the company Of the Record
er and the executioner.
But the fair Rosa called him to her
side.
"Welli my master, "said Gryphus. hold.
ing up his lantern to throw little light
around, you see in me your new jaller.
l am head turnkey, and have all the cells
under my care. I'm not vicious, but I'm
not to be triied with, as far as discipline
goes
my good Master Gryphas know you
perfectly WE'LL" said the prisoner. APP
preaching to within the circle OF light cast
around by the lantern.
"Halloa that's you, Mynheer Van
Baerle," said Gryphus. That's you;
well, I declare, It's astonishing how peo-
pie do meet"
"Oh, yes, and tit really great pleas
ure to me. good Master Gryphus. to see
that your arm is doing well, as you are
able to hold your lantern with it"
Gryphus knitted'his brow. Now that's
just it," he said; people always make
blunders in politics: His Highness has
granted you your life; I'm sure should
never have done So"
"Dontsay sc" replied Cornelius; "why
not p
Because you are the very man TO con.
spire again. You learned people have
dealings with the devil"
Nonsense. Master Gryphus' Are you
dissatisfied with the manner in which
have set your arm, or with the price that
| asked you? p said Cornelius, laughing.
ION the contrary" growled the jailer,
"yOu have SET Il only too we'll. There 10
some witchcraft in this. After six weeks.
| was able to use it as if nothing had hap
pened; so much so, that the doctor of the
Buitenhof, who knows his trade well,
wanted to break it again, to set it in the
regular way, and promised me that
should have my blessed three months for
my mciey, before should be able to
move it."
"And you did not want tlktg'
81 said, Nay, as long as 1 can make
the sign Of the cross with that arm (Gry.
Phus was Roman Catholic), 4 laugh at
the devil"
"But if you laugh at The devil, Master
Gryphus, you ought with SO much more
reason to laugh at learned people"
"Ah, learned people. learned people.
Why would rather have to guard ten
soldiers than one scholar. The soldiers
smoke, guzzle. and get drunk; they are as
gentle as lambs. if you only give them
brandy or Moselle; hut scholars, and
drink, smoke and fuddle-ah, yes, that's
altogether different They keep sober,
spend nothing, and have their heads al
ways clear to make conspiracies. But |
tell you, at the very outset, it won't be
such an easy matter for you to conspire.
First of all, you will have no books, no!
paper. and no conjuring book. It's books !
that helped Mynheer Grotius to get off,"
IL assure you, Master Gryphus," re-
piled Van Baerle, that if | Rave enter.
tanned the idea of escaping, most decid.
eddy haveit no longer"
well, well" said Gryphus, "just look |
sharp that's what shall do also. But. |
for all that, l say His Hlghness has
made great mistake
mot to have cut off my head thank
you. Master Gryphus."
Just so, look whether the Mynheers
De White don't keep very quiet now"
That's very shocking what you say
now, Master Gryphus," cried Van Baerle
turning away his head to conceal his dis,
gust. You forget that one OF those un.
fortunate gentlemen was my friend, ant'
the other my second father"
"Yes, but | also remember that the |
one, as well as the other, is a conspirator.
Aud, moreover, am speaking from
Christian charity"
''Oh, indeed, explain that little to me,
my good Master Gryphus, do not quite
understand it."
swell. then, if you had remained Oh
the block of Master Harbruck
"What?'
"You would not srfzer any longer;