New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09

AS to Damian. he, like the sun
seemed in better humor than on the
preceding evening, if he might be
Judged by the lively and frolicsome
manner with which he assembled the
terraces of the castle, followed by
some other fishers, all singing the
most villainous iota that had been
produced in their country. They
reached the drawbridge, crossed the
courts of the castle, still lying in ST
lence, and reached the plane fronting
Damlan's cabin.
Glow loud the cascade roarsT'
said one of the men.
But what has become of the
bridge2" cried another True for
you! Look! look! it has slipped from
each end! it has sunken into the cut
tingg-it has broken!''
But how can that be? Such a
beam 80 long, SO well supported by
it's length! SO heavy! and Of walnut
a wood as strong as iron!'
q shall have to buy.another said
Damian, Struggling his shoulders;
ssbut come, boys, let the bridge be,
and help me with the seines before it
grows later And, taking up the
thread of his interrupted song, he be-
gan with the others to draw up the
eel-nets.
''The devil! how. it weighs then!'
cried one of his comrades; thou hast
done well with this haul, Damian-
cito!'
"At the least it is ten arrobas, !"
said another; Ssoh, a fine catch! I'M
heard off,
81 believe your shouted third;
sit is more likely he has caught, not
cells, but the bridge of walnut wood!o
Damian only smiled with tspeak-
ing.
do you say that net is heavy?n'
called one of the men, pulling on the
second seine; swell, this one is not be-
hind it. This weighs not less than
twelve arrobas all of three hundred
weight"
ooh! it's a couple of big rocks that
have fallen in!'' said an envious-mind-
ed fellow.
Damian was gloomy, trembling,
covered with cold sweat. so one
seine weighs heavy as the other" he
muttered; Soh but it can not be!'
He stepped up out of the water and
took his way to the cabin.
By this time the seine was coming
up to the bank, and in it appeared,
truly enough, the bridge Of walnut
wood Not all oft, but the half. tt
was not to be doubted that during
the night the bridge had been sawed
across the middle. The men who
dragged it out were staring with sur
prise and terror; they started back
with horror-stricken faces, shrieking.
At the same moment, Damian APP
peared in the door of his cabin, with
his hair on end, his eyes fixed and
starting, and a look of utter stupidi-
ty, yet screaming with laughter a
laughter like a voice from Bedlam.
He had found his home deserted and
the couch of Carmelita untouched by
her since the day before. And the
fishermen had seen in the net with
the walnut timber the pallid face of
Don Jaime.
A moment after, their frightened
mates drewout the second seine, with
the other half of the bridge and the
body of Carmelita.
''She also?" Damian shouted; ooh!
[ did not look for that! thought
she would wait for him in the house!
| never dreamed she would run to
meet him! But she did, you see! She
was impatient to meet herlover, and
she went on the bridge to meet him.
Butt had been there before them.
/ sawed it! sawed it! sawed it! Oh!
what fine haul we have made to-
day, boys! a good catch Of fish is
this we have made, boys!" And
shrieking, he ran and shut himself in
the cabin.
When the officers of the law came
to arrest him they found him still
!ggrasping a saw, and the cabin
drenched with blood. The eel-fsher
had sawed off his left hand, and with
the right he still drew his weapon
across a gaping wound in his throat,
while he gasped, with dying voice:
q A grand catch of fish we have
made to-day, boys!" From the.
Spanish of Don Pedro de Alarcon,
by Z. III. Adds.
Drove Him Away.