The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-12-21

. dred francs riches. TGrt4re. Anuik,
J indeed il is well SiIvestik sough
! our advice. ADnIk''-she stOcC
thinking. while the eat nestled ia
head sgaiDst her face and purrsd loud.
ly-
"Boy !n she turned suddenly q
SLlvestik, "yOu hSvs 40 ehsnce With
Annik give her up, ann choose
sOme one who ik less sure Of lovers y
81 will net give her up" Silvestik
said stOu;ly 'if you cannot help me,
| will find out myself whether she
will 6e my wife"
He turned to g,, for he vas pre-
vOksd by Ursule's mOekeEy-
She bsDt forward and caught al his
sleeve her eyes CLEANED with an
ger.
Listen, fool since you will UOt
take friendly warning listen, aud
be sure you do as 1 tell ycu You
shall try tae spell. knoz Aunik /;
and If you viii succeed with her you
/ must not give Q word OF a look OfiOve
till you have tried the spsll-not even
! IL you see others vooing her"
/ The spell r'-Thouzots uf Father
Pierre, of the warnings he bad often
spoken against belief in the Pagan
traditions that hauBt the Iandss aad
stones OF the country, came baek, and
/ made SiivestiG hesftzt-.
Ursuie read his face easily.
"GO your ways. fool, and never in
tTude here again tell you the man
Who approaches Annik without first
having tried whethsr he can master
her love loses her forever OnIy by
the spell can he learn mis- fate, and IL
tie spell says Yes, It binds her also to
Ue his" e1 Z
"Well." he said GROSSLY, "ShEt Is
the spell ?''
before I tell you, you mUst swear
to do ss bid you-sWezr on the head
OF TartAre
And shs kept her eyes fixed, win
strange constrAining power, on Sill
vestik-
As II the cat understood her mis-
trtss' words, it lesped down on TO the
stone, and sat there, upright and with
closed eyes, ike black idol.
UTsule stretched ont her lean I'm
gers for Silvestik's hand and placed
it on the eats head. "5ay nv
words" she whispered. She pAOsed
and fixed her eyes on the youth, who
repeated her words like q parrot.
"I, Silvestik Kergeo," she said,
''swsar by the soul OF my mother,
and by my own salvstiOn-"
AT tue word 'tszlvation" ShVestIk
hes:tated, but the witch grzsped his
arm warningIy, and he went on
That 1 will, on the night CT S4tur-
day, 20 alone, without telling my
e., lswr TO ha D1nA-
Ing Stone Treguene. Piefs I will
strive three times to move the stone,
by gentle pushes Of nv body and
hands. II 1t remains firm, ] may
ask Annik with sure hope; but II it
rocks ever SD little. her love Is not for
me; 1t has given u more than one
before me-"
As Silvestik repeated the last words,
the cat open, d its great yellow eyes,
aud lsaped back u its Testing-plaee
on Ursule's shoulder.
Ursule took something from pOck-
ct in her apron, and streged IL on the
stone table then she struck sparks
over it with flint and steel. A sud-
den light fsred cut and lit up the den
with lurid glare, Ia which the old
woman looked like an animated
corpse.
She csaght hold of Silvsstik's hand,
and held it over the flame.
"Swear TO do this" she said bosrss-
Iy.
"I have sworn already" Silvestik
felt sullen and ashamed be shivered
too, for be believed in the witch, spite
of himself.
"But mother Pierre Mao did ali
this" be seid, land week after bis
corpse was washed up by the waves
on the rocks beyond the Stone Of
Tregunc."
U:sule did not answer for some
moments.
''SiIvestik," !" said she, as the flames
died out, and left them in semi-dsrk-
ness, "thst poor fool, Pierre, dlsobey-
ell my commands, and so he PERISH
ed II you speak to Anuik in tie in
terval, the spell is broken, and the
stone will rot speak truly, nor can
say what may befall you but keep
your tongue quiet, and all win be
well go on Saturday, when the light
has faded out OF tho Eky-remember,
slTpe if the stone does not rock, II
will bold The maiden's heart fast to
yours forever"