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The head OF the president bent affirm
Rtively before this importunate voice;
he dropped his eyes and touched the bell
for the tipstaf.
Accompany Anne Bede," said he, 'to
the house of the inspector Of prisons"
TIT man bowed, the child turned ODE
diently, but her little rose red lips
opened and shook TREMENDOUSLY, as il
words were on them that she could not
speak.
perhaps, my child" said the presi-
dent, noticing her distress, perhaps you
have still something TO say to u.s."
"Only-thRt 1 am Lizette. Lizette
Bede, NJ. lie President; Anne Bede was
my sister, and we buried her, poor girl
a week ago."
TWAS not you, then, that was con-
demned and sentenced7' cried the presi-
dent, surprised.
"Ahl bon Dieu, mol Why should l
have been condemned who have never
done harm to a fy?n
Then why are You here. mad child
that you are?r
Because, if you please, it is because
Anne died while this business was be-
fore the royal table" 0he lower court of
Hungary. at was when she was lying
in her coffin all cold and white that this
order concerning the six months arrived,
certifying that she must submit. OH
how she had waited and prayed for it,
and tried so hard to live to receive i'll
She had never dreamed Of this, NJ. lie
President, and when they had taken
her away with closed eyes. mute and
deaf for ever, my mother and 1 told our
selves that we must repair the wrong
she had done because of her fance, Ga
briel Karloney. 1t was for him, and
without knowing it, that she sinned,
and we thought
What, my childY'
THAT to let her rest peacefully in her
mortal ashes. and that no one should say
she owed them anything, hat we must
do as l said-repair the wrong done by
her. My mother has paid the amende
for the goods, and 1 have come, NJ. lie
President, to serve in her place the six
months in the county prison"
To serve in her sisters placei
What innocence, what simplicity
The jurors smiled broadly; the face of
the president was no longer cold or cere-
monious, nor was it precisely his brow
from which he mopped the moisture
with n large yellow handkerchief.
at is well, " said he; you were right,
my child, but-but, now that 1 think of
IT.
He stopped, frowned, and seemed to
reflect intently-"now that 1 think of
it, continued he, there was an error in
this affair. We have, my dear child,
sent you the wrong document"
1.-THE wrong document, NJ. le Presi-
dentT' faltered Lizette, raising her great,
sorrowful eyes TO his face with a gaze Of
heartbreaking reproach, "the wrong doc
ument?'
She could say no more, and the presi.
dent himself was no less moved.
The wrong document, my child, yes
said he firmly. rising from his seat to
tenderly pass his hand across the shining
hair, beyond there pointing to the
heaven above them through tue mist
yelled window-"Justice has given an-
other verdict?
$50 now TO thy mother and tell her
from me that thy sister was not a Grim
inal-that Anne was innocent"
Before God. at least" added he, in q
tone only audible to his own great heart,
before God, at leastl"-Translated for
Short Stories from the Hungarian OF
Mikszrath by E. @. Waggener.