Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-05-16

lay, ventured to descend from their
cave to the residence of a peasant,
who was under the greatest obliga-
tions to him, and informed him that
friend of his, who had escaped
from the battle of Worcester, was
anxious to get out of the country.
The old man was sworn to secrecy,
and the king was Immediately con-
fided to his care.
Mortimer retired to his hiding
place with the intention of passing
the remainder of the night, but his
pursuers, with their hot blood
hounds where then hunting about
the spot. He saw the light of their
torches glaring among caverns, and
heard the cliffs re-echo the bowling
of the wolf-dogs as they forded the
river and climbed the precipices in
the eager pursuit of their prey. He
attempted to retreat, but in vain;
the monsters of death were already
fast approaching, and after a short
but desperate struggle he sank down,
bleeding and exhausted, under their
greedy fangs. The pursuers called
off their dogs in order to save his
life, that they might extort from
him confession of the kings re-
treat. They succeeded in muzzling
the ferocious animals, but when
they lifted their victim from the
blood-stained sward where he had
fallen, they found him stiff and
cold in the arms of death; they
passed their torches before his face,
but his eyes were forever closed.
Even the barbarians themselves,
when they looked upon his we'll
proportional limbs and saw his fine
and manly countence, beautiful ir
death, cursed the cause that betrayed
from their allegiance, and compelled
them to the commission Of a crime
at which their hearts now shudder
ed.
AS they had gained nothing b,
their cruelty, they released their un
happy captive the next morning
without making her acquainted witt
the bitterness of her destiny. Sh
fastened towards the spot of he
lovers retreat, anxious for his safe
ty and yet scarcely daring to pre-
coed. 1t was in the month of Octo
! Der; the morning was chilly an
! cold, the dew drops were lynn
: thick upon the lank blades of grass
Z and gray mist was rising fror
II the earth which partly obscured tn
!. distant objects. She ventured on
!, ward, invoking heaven for the safe
= ty of her lover, when suddenly turn
+; ing her eyes to the ground, she sa'
Z the object of all her solicitude lynn
;; on a cold bed of turf before her.
70 He who had often hailed tn
n sound of her footsteps was no.
e needless of her appoach; his cheel
q with her pure kisses, felt not no
y, her pure and delicate lips as the
1s feed greedily upon the death damp
g of his face. She passed her whit
ID ID fingers over his brow, and when sh
n'ss saw them smeared with the unna
e. ural stain of lived gore, she laughe
in the delirium of her despair, ii
e. the sound of the mountain echot
- hooking her tone of misery, awob
her to the burning, realizing sens
4 OF her souls agony.
a. A fisherman who had witnesse
o the scene at this moment approach
o ed the spot. She looked Wild
., round and motioned him away, bl
when she saw him still advancin
2 towards her she uttered a piercin
. shrek, and in a few moments W;
on the summit of an adjoining pr
cipice. She waved her white arm
as in triumph, and then sinkin
upon her knees at the utmost vere
of the exchanging brow, she eros
!. ed her hands over her face, and il
- stantlv bending forward she san
2 into the dell below. Such was til
: aerial delicacy of her form that nc
: bone or limb was broken, an
8 nothing but the absence Of breath
= ing indicated the calm triumph {
5 death. The unfortunate love,
Q were buried in one grave, and notl
< ing is left to perpetuate their men
) DRY but the imperishable cliff, whic
{ rises, like the Genius of Histor,
\ over the spot, to consecrate the