Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-08-09
BY PRED LANG.
CHAPTER XIV,

CHAPTER xxv-
The word was taken up. and like
lightning it flew from lip TO lip. In
an instant every eye was turned up
on the prince, and all heads were
bowed.
"Ay." uttered the young man,
while passing emotion made him
look pale, I am Charles OF Austria.
am young. and some villains
thought / might be a fool. You
Moritz Kraunich. / at first trusted
from your representation as soldier,
and when you assured me that the
heiress or Rosenfels loved you,
thought would make you master
T here; but on that evening when you
visited me in person, / first suspec-
ted you. / saw that you were more
and more for the power OF Rosenfels
than for its lovely heiress. knew
that the Bohemians were fomenting
an insurrection, and l suspected
that you were in their pay. But yet
/ let you come here, and then l
watched you. At length / received
a letter from the Baron Leopold, in
which he informed me that he was
lying sick at the cot OF Rupert Ellen
dorf. He wrote that he had slain
two notorious bandits Waldeck, and
Beverwick of Hardick, and that
might easily pass for the latter, II j
would throw off my robes OF state
and come up here. / did SO. BY
fortune I me. an old bandit named
| Werth. l had known him before. i
told him that il all the bandits of the
Black forest would renounce their
calling aud come TO me. I would par
don them and give them honorable
employment. Their leader Waldeck
and his lieutenant Beverwick of Har-
dick were gone, and they accepted
my terms, also promising to keep my
secret and assist me in watching you.
The result has been as l expected.
1 have found you to be traitor and
a villain. The letters which you
wrote to Martin Hergott, l have safe
in my possession. In them 1 learned
that you were to deliver Rosenfels up
to the Bohemians for two hundred
and fifty thousand ducats and a
dukedom. Martin Hergott is In
prison. / did not hang him at once,
for wished that you might keep
him company"
Moritz Kraunich did not speak, for
he had nothing to say. All1his sor-
did and wicked hopes were dashed
down, and his strength had left him
His soldiers. too, had forsaken him
and ranged themselves on the side OF
Archduke Charles OF Austria's men
even Ludolf, his lieutenant forsook
him and joined the archduke's force
leaving the Major solitary and alone
tostem the now approaching and una
voidable and Inevitable ruin Of his
high and lofty hopes. Had the fall
been more gradual. he might still
have shown his rage; but the blow
Z had come so suddenly and complete
and with such crashing power
4 that he was completely fallen. And
to make his tall more complete ant
degraded IL possible, the Archduks
ordered him to be placed in fetters;
and when a few momente afterwards
he was led from the hall, he tottered
like a drunken man. The priest was
dismissed by the archduke with the
admonition never again to lend his
holy and sacardotial Office to suct
deeds of violence and viIlainy. Wher
they were both gone. Beverwick O.
Hardick, whom we will now cal
Charles of Austria turned to where
stood the beautiful Eudocia Ellen
dorf.
"Eudocia," he said, as he took hel
hand, will you love me the less, nov