The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-14

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scene, and the Austrian soldier felt his
eyes fill with tears.
Heaven help us ALL" said the priest,
rising to his feet; get us 60" as if the
stint of his visit had been measured by
minutes The prisoner remained on his
knees praying in a now almost inaudible
voice.
Keep still-he'H be done too in a mo-
ment poor devil" whispered the adjutant,
when the sentry made motion to rise.
A minute passed and the sound of NUT
tered prayer died away. He's done now,
get up" said the adjutant. "What-say,
what the mischief does that mean?
Where's Brentano?"
why, he's gone, They must have slip
ped out together?" cried the astonished
sentry; Tets hurry and notify the guardr'
Don't you stir-stay right where you
are" said the pseudo adjutant. There
must be something wrong, and I'll see
where they went, but don't you stir or
you'll getayourself into serious trouble
I'll be back in a minute"
He hurried off and before the officer of
the guard had finished his dinner Bren-
tano, the supposed adJutant and the equal
ly spurious priest had reached the wilder
nessfA willow swamps beyond the city
gate~All the sentry at the gate could
tell was his recollection that the two
strangers (priest and adjutanD had gone
out together, and that few minutes after
he presented arms to another officer whom
he supposed belonged to the fort garrison.
The cicerones of Nimwegen still point
out the point where Jan De Hall, the son
of political outlaw, leaped over the river
ramparts and disappeared under volley
of bullets-whether MORALLY wounded or
with suicidal intent the marksmen were
for the moment unable to say He had
been confined in a basement cell of the
old fort for a month and had waited in
vain for a chance to communicate with
his friends, till they contrived to smuggle
in volunteer prisoner and sent him a
message from one of the upper tiers of
cells, The letter detailed scheme of es-
cape, but ended with the words: THE
winter rains have set in; wait till the
river rises
That week a heavyy rainstorm flooded
the lowlands and the next day Jan De
Han availed himself of the privilege to
join the fellow prisoners IN their monday
outing on the terrace of the ravelin.
isn't it getting quite chilly" remark
ed one of the Jail birds.
Chilly!' sneered De Hall. ct wouldn't
ask for finer weather-too warm II any
thing" suddenly taking off his coat and
vest.
Hold on there! What the mischief are
you going to do?" asked the sentry. and by
way of reply De Hall took short run
and leaped the railing that crowned the
steep river wall. The vertical plunge ex-
ceeded fifty feet, and there seemed moth
ing suspicious about the circumstance that
the prototype of Sam Patch sank out of
sight at once. The sentry had fred his
musket without a moments loss of time
and supplementary shots rang out from
the basuon and from the arch of the river
a 81 70,
gymnastics, and swan under water for
nearly minute before he Ventured to
stop, and, slowly rising, turn his face for
a breath of fresh air. By good luck the
swollen river was covered with rubbish,
and nobody noticed his brief emergence
nor the swirl of the current when he dived
again to continue his downstream voyage,
Unnoticed and unsupported, he thus reach
ed a promontory of anchored lumber boats
and, by rising at shorter and shorter in
tervals, at last found his way to the wall
of a cellar with a ventilation flue sloDing
out downward, to prevent the flooding of
the basement in every river rise As he
expected, a rope ladder dangled from the
bottom of that fiue and a minute later
he found himself in a snug cellar. where
dry clothing and supply of refreshments
had been waiting his arrival for several
days.
The Danes have a tradition about bold
sea rover, the buccaneer VOWED, who
eluded the pursuit of his enemies for years,
and, being finally captured by treachery,
offered his jaler a bet that no hangman
would ever get a rope around his neck
The day for his execution had approached,
when The turkeys one morning found
their prisoner dead and wondered how
and when he had contrlved to procure the
requisite poison. His wife the next day
got permission TO remove the body, and
only a week after indusputabe evidence
proved that the supposed corpse had re-
Joined his crew Of desperadoes in SWed-
sh seaport. He had once passed a year
with a gang of Greek bandits, who had
taught him chemical trick or two and
his wager was founded on the possession
OF a drug that had the strange effect 10
suspend the appreciate signs of ANNA
ton for about twenty-four hours
A Turkish outlaw persuaded his friends
to bruise his face and spatter his Jacket
with blood 10 secure his passage In
boat load of dead bodies that were going
to be sent across the Danube for inter
ment in a Mussuln1an cemetery, but a still
holder stratagem was that of the Cali
clan robber chief Rosen, who initiated the
wall of child on the roof of his bastilo
and then effected his descent from the op-
posite end of the building while all the
sentres stood crowded together trying to
catch another sound of the strange shrieks
that had repeatedly mingled with the
howls Of the night wind.