New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-22
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the Danish tongue.
The monk listened.
"Ha! Rautzen. You got warm
Yule bath. Ali right! Ran down on
the Bnllar sea. Don It stare that way
at me with your contemptuous eyesl
COmradesl yes, to be sure, it Was on
q holy day; but the duty, the IRON
heavy duty! Yes, it was the red.
bearded devil served. was bound
to serve Prince Christian-Carry!
Carry! you are faded from me. In
the dark grave. Come hither and
warm thyself on my bosom! There is
burning heat! No, no; away! But
why did you take our son with your"
At length he fell into a sound sleep;
but the rattle in his throat it was
thought to be his last.
During these outbreaks the counte-
nance of the monk had undergone all
possible changes. Surprise, resen tment,
sorrow and pity swept over it like
clouds foreboding a storm. 1t seemed
as though he fought a fearful battle
with himself. At last he rose and
measured the floor of the room with i'm.
petuous steps. Now and then he
stopped, while his eyes were directed
toward the dying pilgrim, with aglance
that now cracked with hatred, and
now expressed the deepest tcompassion.
At last, with his hand raised toward
heaven, he prayed with trembling
voice:
"Forgive us our trespasses as we
forgive them that trespass against US"
"Who speaks about forgiveness?
Where is such? Say, answer holy man.
Is forgiveness to be found for me?
Me, who in vain have sought it in the
holy city,"
"For thepenitent there is always for
glveness," replied the monk.
eyes," exclaimed the pilgrim, ''per.
haps for all, but not for what COM
mitted when l disturbed the holy
peace at Olsburg on Christmas-eve,
compelling the chieftain to end his life
by run from the pinnacle of the
castle down to the frozen sea. No, no!
even if God and the holy Virgin would
forgive me, Neils Rautzen would never.
Woe unto me-"
"Silence, Knight! Neils Rautzen
sends you the words that Joseph said
to his brethren, when he by their
malice had come to might and honor:
You thought evil against me, but
God turned it into good Neils Raut-
zen forgives you, Otto Rud.'
'But-but-how do you know me,
pious father?"
"From this very night nineteen
years ago."
"And you are
"Neils Rautzen, then your enemy but
now your ana all sufferers friend"
A subdued outcry came from the
patients lips. He flung his arm
around Ruatzen's neck. For
the last time the brilliancy OF his
eyes famed up, tears burst forth,
and at the same moment the
first sound Of the vigil ringing from
the abbey reached the hospitium and
the ears OF the dying man.
II see you, beloved Carry, above
there in the skies. Rautzen has for
given mel"
"Glory be to God in the highest.
and on earth peace and good will to
men,"
"Amenn' sounded the moved voice
Of Rautzen, and in the same moment
Otto Rud sank back on his couch.
Rautzen nntied the crucihx from his
neck and laid it on the lips of the
dead Knight.
X X X X
A few days later a. wide grave was
opened in the crosswalk Of the abbey.
Into it two cotfins were lowered; the
one enclosed the remains of Otto Rud,
the other Of Niels Rautzen, whose
soul, affected by the meeting Of his
former enemy, had a few hours later
gone to the land of peace to confirm
the conclllatlon effected beneath.