New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-01-11

ilLtto fellow, ana soon Understood al
that vas required of him, 80 in hall az
hour Heha 4 become very good friends
BY tbs time We were closs to The
frontier, and as the train rolled into
the station I anxiously scanned the
faces on the platform, to see 4 any.
one seemed on the lookout for us;
but appareEtly my fears were qroand.
less, so, leading Victor by the hand,
made my way to the Custom-house
and offered my bag for examination.
:Inis was sooa over, and then / fer
into conversation with an official-an
Ola friend OF mise-who patted Victor
on the head, and told him he was q
credit to his faths7:.
Just then q man, who had been
loucging about cycling US for some
time, pushed his way past me and
asked the child abfuptly-'sWhat's
your name, my boy?''
For one awful monnent 11av heart
seemed to stand stilI;;but then that
blessed child answered. quite. readily
-"Karl Stein, SIR"
and where are you going to, Mas
ter Karl Stein?'' -.
'pm going with my papa; to- NJ
to see my grandmamma." Here Vic.
tor. feeling 9 trifle uneasy. put his
hand into mame with confiding ses-
ture, which apparently convinced the
detective, or spy, or whatever the
creature called himself, that he made
slight mistake. so he lounsed away
again, putting:an immense cigar; and
casting a glance towards us from
time to time,.
l thought that half-hour. at the
station the longest l had spent in all
my life; but most things come to- an
end, and at last we were told to, take
our places In the train. I sat down
by the window, with Victor on my
knee. and watched all the hustle and
confusion on the platform, feeling
heartily thankful that my anxieties
were safely over.
Nothing further occurred to alarm
me, and by the time we reached NJ,
Victor, child-like, was chattering away
as gaily as ever.
Directly we stepped upon the plat
form a singularly handsome young
man in a long cloak advanced to
meet us, and was delightedly. well
coined by the child, who hung on to
his hand in a sort of ecstacy of Joy,
as though he could never bear to let
it go again.
When l had received my packet of
notes, together with many warm ex-
pressions of thanks, from the gentle
man o. the cloak, and had taken an
affectionate leave of my little charge,
] lost no time in setting out on the
usual round of business, feeling some
how as though I had been living
through q chapter in a. novel, and
that very anxious and uncomfort-
able one.
A week later, as l was sitting at q
restaurant, glancing through news
paper, one paragraph caught my, eye;
it wapheaded:
ABDUCTION OF THE Due DE UIEvRE;
RETURN OF THE STOLEN CHILD;
and ran as follows:
"Great excitement has been caused
during the last week in Paris by the
successful capture of the little Due dc
Llevre, who was restored to his all
most heartbroken mother early,
last Saturday morning. Many of
our readers may doubtless remember
the circumstances of his disappear
ance six months ago, and few can
have forgotten how public opinion
pointed to the Comte d'Etienne,
cousin of the late DUO de Lievre, and
heir to the immense family estates, in
the event OF the death of their YOUTH
full proprietor, as the certain author
nf fhIa hoo VI lose oh 1,,aH:~o -.
we'll known that a life of riot and ex-
cess had reduced him almost to
perjury. and that ruin stared him in
the face.
1t is now conclusively proved that
his was the villainy that plotted
against the liberty of an innocent
child, for on hearing that his young
cousin had been restored safe and
we'll to his mothers arms, he retired
to a distant part of the house and
blew out his brains. From all, that
Is known at present, it appears that
the young Dukes whereabouts was
discovered by Herr Anton Becker, an
old family friend, who succeeded in
tracing him to his prison, g.. half-ruin-
ed country house near Kleinstadt, in
Alsace.
"Being himself an Alsatian bv birth,
and therefore a master of the German
language, Herr Becker was able to-
form an acquaintanceship with the
woman whose duty it was to wait up
on the young Duke, and,to succeed at
length in bribing her to allow him to
carry off the child; for the Comte
d'Etienne had of late grown rather re-
miss in the payment of wages, and his
servants were growing proportionate-
~ lukewarm in their fidelity to his
interests"
Herr Becker, my friend of the rail-
way carriage, called on me next dav;
bringing with him a. letter from the
Duchess, Victor's mother. in which
she thanked me thousand times. for
all that had done TOR her little boy,
and offered to defray every expense OF
Karl's and Otto's bringing-up until
they should be fairly started in life;
and may as we'll conclude by saying
that she, the Duchesse de Lievre, and
her son have always remained faith
tul friends to me and mine; and that,
thanks to them, though am now an
all