Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-07-15


/ exploring the pockets of his coat. With
a quick movement he succeeded i'm CRASH
ing the thief's hand, and wheeling round
/ found himself face to face with little
! hump backed man. That villaiuousIook.
ing fellow he had seen him somewhere
/ before. Where had he already observed
\ that scoundrelly face ana those apisb
| hands: Like q flash the recollection of
/ ms dream returned. and in his astoBish-
ment he would certainly have allowed the
man TO escape had not the police seized
num- just IN time. Trembling with ex-
cltement Mehul went to the police station
to make his declaration; he charged the
man with having tried TO rob him. He
wished to charge him with something
else, but dared not Was it possible to
accuse of murder a man whom he had
never seen except in a dream.
And notwithstanding the temptation to
do SO become stronger and stronger.
Mehul returned home, greatly agitated By
the souvenirs which this singular incl
dent mad provoked. He went to his bed.
but without any inclination TO sleep: he
lay thinking with his eyes wide open, he
argued with himself and violent strug
gle ragged i'm his mind Ought he. or
ought he not to tell the magistrate what
had happened 10 him: Dream or vision
was il not after all as a warming from
heaven that there had appeared before
him those CHASTITY shadows that double
apparition of which he had never spok-
en- TO living soul.
Once again exactly as She shone five
years before, the moon looked in between
the han-olosed shutters, and the bells of
the parish church chimed the hour of g
just at that instant a white shape made
itself visible against the luminous beam
it seemed to stand before the window.
And with its coming came the sound o. a
sepulchral whisper "Avenge met"
Yes dear friend. I swear % thee shall
ayeiige tnee,' cried blehuI rising in ms
bed.
Then all his hesitation passed away.
Next day he went early to the police head
quarters of the Champs Elysees and
frankly told all the circumstances of his
strange vision TO the Commissaire. The
police officer would probably have told
anyone else who visited him upon the
same errand to 90 to Jericho. But NJ
Mehul the choir master of his Majesty, the
Emperor, and a musician of acknowledge
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more tber ono rara n,astor,t;on5 TGa
police officer respectfully listened to his
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secret Interrogation and very
astute JUICE d'instructiOn harassed him
with every possible question that could
terrifV entity conscience
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to enoaoe a rlace in fine same
lijpence in which NJ - started Uat
.yening for Melnn. Sitting face 10 foce
With the unsuspecting traveller. VINO
showed signs of drowsiness nj am earIv
,ohr. he watched his chance. Amid The
darkness Of fine Forest of Sanart nro6t.
mo- bv tbe rumbling of tina wheels md .
he Io1d sino,inl, of The tenor he sudden-
v threw n rome around tbe sleener.s heel, .
md stranded him without any one bea,-
n@ tbe door ~ tha 5iIiganca Ie haa
brown the daa1 ho5v INTO The rood
capped out himself. and after robbing the