Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-03-08
NUMBER 10.

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freedom. The honest burghers had no
idea of setting loose q mailman in their
midst.
Several minutes elapsed before quiet
was restored. The strangers explanation
of hi, singular behavior satisfied every
one. At the age of thirty he had been
/ the family physician of n rich Bohemian
Count, whose favor and confidence were
yielded to him without reserve. The
Count had beautiful daughter shs
loved and was beloved by the physician;
was secretly married to him, and fed
with him from her fathers displeasure.
The lovers went 20 Breslau under an
assumed name, and lived for some time
quietly in the house Of the joiner Hal
lerbach. Hero the young wife gave
birth to daughter and died in the
same hour. In the m idst of his grief
the physician learned that the Count
had information of his retreat and found
it necessary to leave tho country. His
child was entrusted to Hallerbach IS care,
and sum fully adequate for lis sup
port-his all, in tact-was placed in his
hands. The father went into Italy,
There he succeeded SO well that ere long
he obtained lucrative situation in tho
service of Il nobleman in high rank.
Why did he not return to Germany
to reclaim his child Many obstacles
interposed he had, besides, no certain
intelligence that she yet lived. The
love of offspring Is far weaker in
fathers than mothers breast. The
journey, which he purposed some time
to make, was delayed year after year;
and of late u long continuance of i'll
health had untitled him for travel. 1t
was only within n month that he had
boen able to accomplish what had, in
the absence ofother ties, become the
wish OF his life. lle arrived at Bres.
lau; learned there whithor Halerbnch
had removed, and followed him. The
man must hnve betrayed tho trust re-
posed in him, or never would his
daughter have been reduced to condi-
ton OF sorvLudc.
d" lie has indeed done that !" ans
wercd tho host. "Tho poor sirl had
but wretched homo with him. And
he told me, when she was placed with
us us n serving maid, that she was tho
natural daughter ofan advocate long since
deAd."
The stranger groaned as he heard this.
Meanwhile two or three Of tho burghers
had go1o out with intent to search for the
missing girl. They returned in few
moments with Franz, who supported in
his arms the ha If lifeless form Of Margaret.
The young girl soon revived, and looked
bewllered around her. The stranger,
who had hung over her in speechless emo
ton, exclaimed
at is-it is--my lost child :" and
clasped her in his arms.
The mystery on both sides was soon
explained. Margaret had been found by
her frantic lover on the spot where she
had fallen, and still lay insensibs. She
was identified, not only bya strong re-
somblaNce in feature, but afterward by
the con fess ion of the guilty Hallcrbach
himself, as tho daughter Of the physician.
Her simple story of love was soon told,
and the young man Franz proudly ac-
knowledgcd as her husband by the grato
ful father. 1t may well be imagined that
Dame Martin, when she found tho poor
girl to be the lawful daughter and heiress
Of II wealthy man, was as we'll pleased
with her alliance MS she had formerly been
set against it.
Tho ring placed by tho heroic girl on
the Skeletons finger was found afterwards
within the tomb. She wore it as her we'd
ding ring and transmitted the relic to her
descendants.
There was difference Of opinion with
regard to the occurrence in the church
yard of which Margaret gave detailed
account as soon as she had become sutfi-
GENTLY composed. Some insisted that
she had been under delusion Of the ina
ginauon, OF that tho whole fancied scene
was but Il vision that passed during her
swuon.-S. Il. Post.