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

ipf some tlIne IN your forest before
opening my regular campaign; and I
am surprised that you did not hear of
I the death which met the executioner,
him / mean who dared to lift his
hand against my mother. This man
1 / met by accident in the forest; and
[ slew him. talked with the wretch
as a stranger at first, upon the MEM
orable case Of the Jewish lady.
Had he relented, had he expressed
compunction, I might have relented.
But far otherwise; the; dog, not
dreaming 70 whom he spoke, exulted ;
he-but why repeat the Villains
words ? ! cut him to pieces. Next
1 I did this Ny agents I caused to
Imatriculate separately at the college.
! They assumed the college dress. And
now mark the solution of that mys-
terry which caused such perpIexity.
Simply as students we all had an un-
suspected admission at any house.
Just then there was a common prac-
tice, as you will remember amongst
the younger students, of. going
out a masking-that is, Of enter
| ing houses IN the academic dress, and
with the face masked. This practice
subsisted even during the most intense
alarm from the murderers; for the dress
OF the students was supposed to bring
protection along with it. But, even
after suspicion had connected itself
with this dress, it was sufficient that
l should appear unmarked at the
head Of the maskers, to insure them
a friendly reception. Hence the IA
cility with which death was inflicted,
and that unaccountabie 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 academic
robes; and even when we drew them
out, and at the moment of applying
them to. the throat, they. still suppos-
I'd our gestures to be part Of the pam
tonime We were performing. Did I
relish this abuse ofpersonal confidence
| in myself? MOI loathed it, and
+ -grieved for its necessity E; but my
mother, a phantom not seen with bod
lily eyes; but ever present to- my mind
continually assembled 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,
and the cry OF anguish from her son
which you scofed at p Who [ was,
what l avenged, and whom, l made
every man aware, and every woman.
before punished Them The details
of the eases | need not repeat. One
or two l was obliged, at the begin
ming, to commit to my Jews. The
suspicion was thus, from the first,
urned aside by the notoriety OF nay
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 m;ckery
from the supplication Of the sou.
ut pleased God, however, to place
a mighty temptation in my path,
which might have persuaded me to
torego all thoughts OF vengeance, to
forget.my vow, to forget the voices
which invoked me from the grave.
This was Margaret Liebenheim. All!
how terrific appeared my duty of
bloody retr button, after her angels
face and angels voice had Gained me.
With respect to her grandfather,
strange it is to mention, that never
did my innocent wife appear so love-
ly as precisely in the relation of
granddaughter. So beautiful was
her goodness to the old man, and so
divine was the childiike innocence on
her part, coutrasted with the guilty
recoliectiens associated with him.
tor he Was amongst the guiluest to-
wards my nolher,- [ delayed
his punishment to the last; and, Tor
bis child's sake. I would have par
.d,ued him, may had resolved to do
so, when a herce Jew, who had deep
malignity towards this man, swore
that he would accom- piish his ven
geance at all events, and perhaps
aulgnt be obliged to include Margaret
IN The ruins unless adhered to the
original scheme. Then 1 yielded for
CIRCUMSTANCES armed this man with
,noInentary power. But the night
liked on was one in which had rea-
son to know that my wife would be
absent; for 50 had myself arranged
with her, and the unhappy counter
arrangement I do not yet understand.
Let me add, that the sole purpose of
my clandestine marriage was to sting
her gfandtather's mind with the be-
lief that his family had been dishon-
ored, even as he had dishonored mine.
He learned, as | took cure that he
should, that his granddaughter Car.
ried 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 for the marriage he had
previously opposed !; and this discov-
cry also embittered the misery OF his
death, At that moment ATTEMPTED