Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-14
father 10 see tho daughter.


| this DeborahI The malediction Of the Eter-
nal weigh upon her head! May her beauty
fade as the rose Of August May the earth
open and engulf her as Core Dathan and
| ADRIAN! Nav my eyes close to the light of
| day if ever she comes before them! May my
hand wither away IT ever she touches it with
| her own!s
Iwould rather have managed regiment
of Bedouinsl But l persisted, painting for
| him the despair of Sarah, the tears she had
shed in my presence, and found the way to
| eloquence, who had never been able to say
two words without stammering. The mother
was there, too. listening without a word,
stony, and, at first, equally pitiless
l was red as my kept and sweating like .
sponge with my exertions, when, at last, after
tai ing together in long Hebrew phrases, l
received the consent for the interview had
SO ardently demanded. Too happy for the
moment to notice anything, l remembered
afterward, in recalling the scene, how strange
had been the expression Of both of them In
giving their assent, something devilish, tri-
umphant, but nothing parental at the return
of a repentant soul
The interview was fixed for the same even
ing, at the fall of night Sarah was to come
alone, and they would then decide If she was
to remain In the house. All, had l but
known when I dispatched the missive to her
announcing my success!
The day passed TRANQUILITY rs usual several
times / was on the point of returning to
Sarah's house, but still had strength to re-
frain, and night had come and the hour for
the interview struck before l yielded to the
irresistible desire to know what was passing
at the Jews house-the desire of seeing for
myself the reconciliation and the JOY which
had brought about
At the top of the Troisieme-Bataillon I
stopped moment to regain my breath. Not
a sound troubled the silence. A ray of moon
light fell in a straight white line upon the
pavement, the shadows thickened about the
corners of the angular roofs, and l. planted
like picket, listened with all my ears and
heard but the paintings Of my lungs, the pre-
cipitate throbs of my heart A sudden thrill
of uneasiness had seized upon me; there was
SO little of the air of festival at the return of
a child about this closed dwellingl Not
murmur, not a ht-nothing-gloomy as
funeral! l was cold to the bone; the silence
and shadow weighed upon me; | was not
actually alarmed, but decidedly uneasy.
Suddenly a cry came to me, stihed by the
still walls, but which struck me like the blow
of a hammer. My excited blood leaped
and ebbed, and then my ear was glued to the
lock Of the door. The sounds, yelled by dis
lance, were Enthusiastically voices whose tones
| heard but not the words / still listened.
If only had guessed what passed beyond
there, l should have cried out as now these
voices cried out, the one with fury, the other
cold and clear, the third supplicattng, with
accents of infinite tenderness, broken by tears
and sorrowful as a sob itself! 1 held my breath
in the effort to hear all, my soul and being
concentrated in the struggle to learn or guess
the drama enacting behind that closed door.
A tragedy, perhaps-I was sure of it.
AL at once it seemed to me should go
mad-the voices had hushed, and in their
place came a sound like great steel scissors
slipping and clipping ceaselessly, slowly, care
fully, with firm, strong strokes, which stop
ped my heart beats, for with these sounds
came now an echo as Of strangled signs and
groans.
heard them plainly; an inner door had
doubtless opened, and though still unable TO
comprehend the words-that devilish Hebrew
tonguel-I heard them distinctly; the growls
and curses Of the Jew, the orders Of the wife
III menace OF eDlOtfOIi, anu liIc
tones-they were from that voice Of gold to
which l had listened in the drapery hung
boudoir. That marvellous voice which grad
ually quilted its tone of prayer to rise In pro
test moment, and then-to come no moro.
She was dead, perhaps, and 1-tonn-rre de
Dieu!-had allowed it to be donel I put my
saber to the lock, pressed it home and entered
like a cannon ball
All, what a spectaclel The old Jewess,
erect and pale, with shut teeth and glazing
eyes, in the center Of the floor, Aordecai be-
side her, his lips still trembling with maledic
tons, red hot iron n his hand, and Sarah
upon her knees in front Of them, with many
and bleeding wounds upon her visage, her
face scared with burns-her beauty lost for
everi
The old hyenas, fell upon them with the
fat of my saber: saw and knew nothing IN
my fury and Indignation, and undoubtedly
would have killed one or both Of them, when
suddenly was caught by the leg and STUN
bled and fell Il was the victim who had
come TO the assistance Of her e1ecutionersl
What are you here forr she cried; go,
I say; go a. once, Immediately, and leave
justice to Us done"
She had CONSENTED, then; the sufferings IN
ficted upon Der by these monsters, the ravag-
ing Of her beauty, the loss Of all that was her
pride, Yves done for the sake Of justice, and
she raeekly bowed to the barbari.y Of this
man, the pitiless wickedness Of this woman,
the harder and more cruel because they were
her father and her motberi That which had
passed, then. was rot an assassination IL was
family judgment 20 which the cuiprit bad
acquiescei! The cries l had heard, and which
had turned my head were physical suffering
her VIII had nothing TO do with them
Horror and the actual sight of these afro
cious excuses Of parental power turned my
brain / Regarded Sarah for moment with
the ewes Of a uasdman-then WIS cut q
the house and fying through the streets Ike
thiaf II the night
After thi.-and fifteen days Of fever On q
hospital cot bad bad enough Of CocssAn-
tine; they sent ne % France for cnur.le~
cenoe. and il France have sinos rexnainsd
Translated for Tie Argonaus from tie
French OF Chaiou by Z C Wsgsensr.
Couae 10 Stay.