The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-24


Take me upon your back and carry
me after them. /"
You are too heavy for my weak bones
side of GyertyHos. And | can not carry
you as far as that. not even If you were
to present me with the whole Seeker
Stone"
You shall not carry me as far as that.
Only drag me out from here. / am
afraid the Torczko people will come to
extinguish the fre, and then they will
ind me. Take me upon your back and
The gypsy stepped INTO the ditch to
the crippled fugitive.
well. there shall take hold of you?
BY your broken foot?'.
The fugitive. who was lying on the
ground. groaned and swore when the
gypsy took him upon his back. He said
that he was enduring excruciating pain
We'll. then, lima CINE how much greater
your pain would be IL you had the tooth
ache. Cling with both hands to my hair;
The man, who was beside himself I'M
precated all the hosts of Heaven.
Whittier: then, do you want me to
carry your
serted church,
Into the deserted church, exclaimed
the gypsy, laughing. You want me to
take you to into the empty church? But
lows himself to be insuited In his own
house. And why must take you thereg'
Because the deserted church has no
roof which could burn and then fall in.
There you must set me down, and then
run to Gvertyamos and hire wagon.
with which you must come to fetch me
Immediately. You shall receive one
thousand forms. and the driver the same
amount. or every hour which you ar
rive before sunrise YOU shall have an
additional hundred forms"
You will not see the sun rise MUIR
INJURED the musician. and then he started
with the fugitive. Benjamin was not too
heavy for him He could have carried
him even to Gyertyamos. But the gentle
man himself had desired to be taken into
the deserted chuch; and the gentleman,
and not the horse which carries him,
In the meantime. while a man stood
weeping burning tears against the wall
Of the church. horse had strayed In.
The noble animal which liz the compile
rnent of the warrior. when 1t noticed
man in the deserted ediice, went to him
with outstretched neck and bristlng
name. and blew warm breath through
Its expanded nostrils; when 1t noticed
that the mans face was turned toward
the wall. It began to neigh softly and
to scrape the ground. It did this as if
wishing to attract the mans attention.
The man was Manasseh
But he was not now In this world He
was far. far away, where the faint glim-
uer of our planet does not reach. where
terrestrial passion does not follow the
soul which has recovered from disease:
In the empire of Him whose name is
Justice and love; of Him who. when He
wishes to perform miracle. quenches
an ocen of ire with tear drop, and
breathes awav an army of warriors with
sigh. There he found his better self.
which, when he went forth to kill, he
had frightened away.
There comes man irt1 the building.
carrying another upon his back.
There, Manasseh. there is Diurbanu."
with these words the gypsy throws
down his living burden before Manasseh.,
bowls with pain and fright This howl
Ing was so dreadful that the horse began
snorting and running about in the church.
ana tried to jump out through the win
dow: Manasseh, in auiazement. stared
at the enemy, covering at his feet; that
race, formerly so beautiful, was now ter
rtbly distorted by pain and fear. As he
Jay on the ground, he gradually subdued
his terror; his. bowling moderated into
subdued grooming. and. leaning on his
INST. he partly raised himself
If you are human, kill me quickly"
cried the PROSTATE man, in a voice half
stified with pain.
Before him stood ,Nanasseh, with his
hands crossed over his breast 1t would
cost him, but q word. but sign with
MS niger. and the hated flame would
be extingutshed. And this miserable Gre
allure, wailowing at his feet, begs death
from him as a satisfaction. Inundated,
broken down, ANONYMOUSLY defeated in
his devilish purpose. tormented by pangs
OF conscience, the maiefactor was obliSed
to plead for death as his salvation.
Manasseh gently shook his head
No, BENJAMIN Vajdar you shall not
meet your end at my hands. Whoever
kills Cain 10 acursei seven times. From
the death-stroke of my hand you are pro-
tected by my word given to an angel
whom you destroyed. / will not kill you,
and will not allow any one else to do So
Look around. This destruction, this de-
VISITATION, is your work. You can not by
closing your eyes, forever fee from this
awful picture. You will yet live long,
and continue in the path you have chos-
en-; will heap evil upon evil; will perse-
cute those who have shown you pity;
will be cruel to those who have been
merciful to you. This your mission: full
I'LL It., You rest like curse upon US.
Through you, God will test our hearts.
Fulfill your task: invent for US all pos
sible suffering. Then i've until your ac-
cursed fate brings yoa back here, broken,
Inundated. and banished from the world,
that you may here find a last refuge, that
you may beg for the bread of compass
sion at the dnors Of the houses you have
now destroyed, that you may find a word
Of consolation only from those whom
you have prosecuted even, unto death.
May God fulfill this"
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