The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-13

priest, and when the unhappy donna
discovered the fate in store for her, she
fell upon her knees and prayed Wolf
gang to send for him and have the mar
riage solemnized according to the
terms of her church.
Nothing 10th, he complied with her
request; and so, clothed in costly APP
parel and sparkling with Jewels, one fine
morning the Spanish girl found herself
honorably married to the robber king
In little more than a year, however,
the lady died, leaving little daughter,
and exacting with her last breath VOW
from the chief that the little one should
be sent TO a convent and reared in
ignorance of her fathers occupation.
Wolfgang passionately loved his
wife, and the promise was faithfully
carried out The infant was taken TO
France, and there was carefully nur-
tured and reared in one of the most
| celebrated converts. She grew to
maidenhood in that favored land en-
dowed with a glorious beauty and n
gentle, loving disposition that was at
the same time the wonder and admira-
| ton of her associates. At the age of IL
she was taken from the convent, and,
through the influence of "A friend of her
father, home was secured for her, for
a time, in the family of wealthy noble
man in her native county. She was n
reputed heiress, and suitors flocked
about her, attracted by her wonderful
beauty, her guileless manners and her
fabulous riches. At stated intervals,
clothed in SPLENDID attire, Wolfgang
visited his child, lavishing upon her all
the love of his barbarous nature. For
his child nothing was too good, and he
poured out his gold in unstinted meas
ure. And she deserved it all, Though
clothed in magnificent array and en-
dowed by heaven with an almost UNI
earthly loneliness of face and form, her
heart was kept unspotted from the
world. She succored the poor and the
needy, and the fame of her goodness
went through the land. The stern old
robber chief, hearing the laudations
| lavished upon his child, grew still more
proud and fond Of her, and guarded
from her knowledge with sedulous care
the secret of his dreadful occupation.
And she worshiped him. Seeing her
father only at long intervals, and en-
couraged by him in the dispensation of
her charities, enjoying his society only
when he was in his best and gentlest
moods, the Lady Christobel grew to
womanhood, believing him to be the
best and greatest of men.
She went about doing good. Emulat-
ing the example of the gentle Nazarene,
she left the crowded city and went into
the byways and forgotten places.
In this manner, quite unknown to
Wolfgang, she unconsciously made her
way to st. Quentyn's.
The hamlet then, as now, was but a
collection of rude huts-the abode of q
still ruder people. None knew her to
be the daughter of their terrible chief,
and she labored among them, teaching
them and otherwise endeavoring to
alleviate the distress she saw on every
side. Wolfgang himself, with some OF
his most valued followers, was away on
a journey, when his daughter came to
st. Quentyn's. So there was none to
oppose her in her work for the saliva
ton of souls. 1t was at this time that
she caused the bell to be rung i'll the
old monastry; the bell which, since the
awful tragedy enacted there a little
later, has never ceased to send out It's
solemn warning whenever there is to
be any severe storm upon the sea.
1t was there, high upon that rocky
headland, in the very shadow of the
ruined monastery ruin almost as
great then as now, that the beacon fires
were lighted by the wreckers to entice
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The Lady Christobel saw with horror
what the real occupation of the people
was, by the frantic hurrying too and
fro, the many anxious eyes turned sea-
ward, and, above all, the low half-mut-
tered words which inadvertently
escaped their lips whenever ships
sails showed themselves in sight.
To turn them from the wickedness of
their ways, she strove with mind and
soul; but it was with sick heart that
she discovered the lawless wreckers
acknowledged a superior authority in
the commands of their ferocious chief,
o being to her, terrible and dread.
There came, at this time, one of those
sudden, unaccountable hurricanes,
which, sweeping the sea, hurl ships
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twinkling of an eye.
She saw preparations going on on the
shore that BODIED no good for any YES
sci left afloat by the storm, and she de-
termined that so far as lay in her power
she would succor the helpless. Night
settled sullenly over the troubled
waters. The wreckers begun to more
quickly to and fro on the beach, and,
sadder than all, there pealed out over
the sea the sound of the minute gun
the signal of ship in distress.
Once, twice, thrice, the thunderous
gun sent its message upon the air. From
her small retreat the Lady Christobel
peered dimly over the broad expanse
of shore, and saw the CHANGING torches
of the wreckers as they engaged in
council on the beach.
Light up the beacon fires" roared
strangely-familiar voice, in the com
manding tone of one accustomed to
authority Light the great fire on st.
Quentyn's Point.
The girl shook as if with an ague fit.
at cannot-cannot be-" she cried
with white lips.
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