The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15

ClODEh Id, loSU.
She had barely time to secure herself within
when the villain without, holding the naples
child in one hand and long, sharp knife in tn
other, assailed the door with kicks, and curses
and imprecations of the most dreadful charac-
| ter.
"Confound theel" he cried, applying the foul
est epithets of which the free-speakng Teutoni
language is 50 copieus; "open the door or Fl
break it on ye."
9If you can you may" was all the noble CIR
replied 1de9 is greater than you, and in Him
u pun my traist'
Cut the brats throat" roared the Imprisoned
fzan above .fthat will bring her to- hel
lson."
g Stont-hearted as poor Hannchen was she
quafled at this cruel suggestion. For moment
her resolution wavered but it was only for a
moment. She saWsthAt her death was certain il
she admitted her assailant, and she knew that
her master would be robbed. She had no reason
to hope that even the life of the infant would be
spared by her compliance. 1t was to risk all
against nothing. Like discreet girl, she conse-
quently held fast in her resolve to abide she
was while life remained, or until assistance
should reach her.
ssAn' ye open notthe door," shouted the villain
from without, accompanying his words with the
vilest abuse and the fercest imprecations.- "I'll
hack the whelp's limbs to pieces with my knife
and then burn the mill oyer your head. Twill
be merry blaze, l trow."
IL put my trust in God" !" replied the dauntless
girl; "and never shall ye set foot within these
walls whilst have life to prevent ye."
The ruffian laid the infant for moment on
the sward, as he sought about for combustibles
wherewith to execute his latter threat, In this
search he espied, perhaps, the only possible clan
destine entrance to the building 1t was large
aperture in the wall, communicating with the
fruhaa If fbon khoex Of thpv
and was point entirely unprotected, for the
reason that the simple occupants had never sup
posed it feasible for any one to seek admission
through such dangerous inlet. Elated with
this discovery, the rufian returned to the infant,
and, tying the hands and feet of the little inno-
cent, threw it on the ground even as the butcher
will fling a lamb destined for slaughter, to await
his time for Staying. He then stole back to the
aperture, by which he hoped to effect an en-
trance, All this was unseen by the dauntless
girl within.
In the meantime her mind was busted with
q thousand cogitatiohs She clearly perceived
that no means would be left nntried to effect an
entrance, and she knew that on the exclusion of
her foe depended her own existence. A thought
struck her.
"It is Sunday" said she to herself; "the mill
never works on the Sabbath, suppose I set it go
ing now? It can be seen far off, and happily my
master, or some of the neighbors, wondering at
the sight, may hasten hther to know the cause.
A lucky thought" she exclaimed, :" 'tis God that
has sent it to me"
No sooner said than done. Being all her life
accustomed to mil gear, it was but the work of
q moment for her to set the machinery in motion.
A brisk breeze which splang up, as it were, by
the special nterposition Of providence at once set
the h&ils flying. The arms of the huge engine
whqea around with fearful rapidity; the great
VI snHiy revolved on its axle; the smaller
n& and creaked and groaned, according
&2@Hkf8fE0fme into action. and the mill was in
IS that very instant that the ruffian Die
r had succeeded in squeezing himself through
DE aperture in the wall and getting safely lodg-
3fA In the interior of the great drum wheel His
aismay, however, was indescribable when he
began to be whirled about with its revolutions,
and found that all his efforts to put stop to the
powerful machinery which set it in motion, or TO
extrcate himself from his perilous position, were
fruitless. His cries were most appalling, his
shrieks were truly fearful, his oaths and inpre-
cautions were horrible to hear. Hannchen has
tened to the spot and saw him caught, like rep
tile as he was, in his own trap. 1t need not be
added that she did not liberate him. She knew
that he would be more frightened than hurt, if
he kept within his rotary prison and she knew,
also, that unless he attempted to escape, there
was no danger Of his falling out of it, even
though Ek#ess ie- ansible and inanimate all the
whiles &IM 1eantime the wheel went round
and p1Hd the ruffian along with it, stead
.ilyand 5giy, too. In vain did he promise
,the stDl3 Fta6 girl to work her no harm in
her nitv on his henless con-
aiti6af 81 $siiu did he pray to all the bowers of
s1sa adjure all the powers of hell, to his
afd She would not hear or heed hirn, and un-
fleaJa and anheeded of them likewise mutter-
in pescurses he was whirled round and round in
the untiring wheel, and until at last feeling and
perception failed him, and he saw and heard no
more He fell senseiess on the bottom of the
engine, and even then his inanimate body con-
tinued to be whrled round and round as before,
the brave girl not daring to trust to appearances,
in connection with the villain, and being there
fore, afraid to suspend the working OF the ma
o1 Sup see ssaf anu sseAie iio
h,3a L,,nel,;n. - tha nor ,ros sbort,v ffar
h card. and she bastened thither. Il was her mas
ter and his family, accompanied by several Of
their neighbors The unaccustomed appearance
Of the mill sails in full swing on Sunday, had
attracted .neir aI.enslon ana .ney nam ~ ~
rSanonenar r Tha f.ther bore his little how in
his arms, He ont the cord with which the child
was bound.
Hannchen in few words told all; and then
the spirit which had sustained her 50 long ana 50
wen wnne tne emergency iassea1 81, nei ~
onee a. - sS Ill., Idast sa,, en5 sas with
w ~.eat = d;t;cu,av u revived :,
The mach;nery Of the mill was at once stopped
and the inanimate rufian dragged forth from the
great wheel; The other ruffian was brought
down from ms prison. notn were .aen aar9 1oand rd
and SEM on - nnder .ha hand of sSa
a.,aou.;oyar -
+ was not LONG till Hannchen became a bride.
The bridegroom was the millers son, who had