The daily Alaskan., 1915-06-03

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 Hieleger was tried and convicted. The fact that Smith had disappeared after having been chased, that blood was on the shirt of the man who had chased him, was quite enough for those who tried Van Tromp without wasting words over any possible ex- plantation. The Dutchman of that peri Ol was not imaginative or ingenious. What wHs before his eyes he saw;r of what might be behind his back he took no note That Hieleger had killed the man who sought to take his sweet heart from him they did not doubt Some were inclined to Ieniency on ac- count of the provOcation, but these were ovcwuicd by the wise heads who declared lhlt murder was murder and that was all there was about 1t. So Uiclcgpr wIS condemned to be hanged one month from the day on which he was convicted.
 Annckc received the verdict stolidly. Al least she appeared to do so, though her face Was so fat that it is not prob able any change of expression could appear in her lincaments. Neverthe- less she loved IIiclcgcr, and her love for him had been much enhanced on seeing him chase away the man who had thrust his attention upon her. She f., l f,, ltr- ing room and, taking up her knitting, began ro think. for .Anncbe could never think unless her fingers were working the needles
 It would be mistake to suppose that because Aunchr's face was as rouul as an apple and her little eyes were set above pair of eXuberant cheeks she had no power of thought. She had considerable thinking appara- tus- that Is. for those tines In the stu u:d Dutch town in which she lived. And she was nut so slow in her thoughts aS cru would suppose. While she Nas kui,.iug a pair of stockings she tnnG-'. c"i l plan by which she might pn. fly Slvc E"r lover from the @a aH-s !, w@2 not a plan that would work j. "ay o.hur az, or among any ot'r.r u.n: '. lut for l..rm it was admi- r.a.r ad..1l .ur the Schenectady hW...r ..r+ a m9I accustomed to ma, ."., in d single p!:ue. Cut of that H'a,o la a. "a.o hccane hcfoggcd and rnU'H urt mnyr al alD
 Th.ra I.S iG those days one church in In. h a.l the people of Schenectady ..o~.n:u,L lu is strcplc was a clock tln. lumtSErI them the time The sun w.-# Hs. auj s.t irrcguarly, but the clock wru' right on just the same. In dpL. il would have been treason to doI'a ts a'ru"a.y, for it was the only ra,.ular ia .'Iu town. By the hour 1t ma'..l all things were decided. If p=u promised lo pay a sum of money ia thirty Ga.S tla expiration of the pc. ri8I wHS na, marked hy the fact that ,nc sUu .Gti risen and set thirty times. but that tine hour hand of the clock had noted a.. passage of thirty days.
 wAe rooni1 in Schenectady were used n t,asr Gl.s to getting up at G in the ma.u'u@. rua morning q large num- bcr oi persons awaking at their usual time were surprised that they remained awake an boar before the clock struck 6. Ent tEry were slow in comparing notes. aud uvou if they had done so they would not have suspected that there was anything wrong with the clock. They would have attributed the Cact ;hat 80 many of them had lain awake an hour in the morning to coincidence.
 The next morning when the people awohr they discovered that the clock Hstrad of registering 6 or 3. as 1t had done the morning before. registered 4. This circumstance created greater dis turbaure in the village than anything ,hu, had ever occurred there since the great Indian massacre. It was evident that the clock had lost considerable time. for two days before the sun had risen at 6. and now when the clock struck that hour the sun was high in thr heavens.
 Had the clock been q few minutes too stow or too fast. even had the burgaarS known it. they would not have wondered. As it was they did not know what to make of it. So great was their faith in their timcpiece that in- stead of thinking it wrong they laid the blame on the sun. though many of them preferred to believe that the devil had got into the belfry and had iutcrrered with the mechanism. A committee of three was appointed to sit up and watch the hands to see when the change took place. The dial was lighted by full moon, and they could see it distinctly. By 10 o'clock they had drunk SD much schnapps that they saw marvellous sight The hands spun round like the spobes of a rapidly revolving wagon wheel. first forward and then backward, stopping at 0. This settled the matter. The devil was at work in the bclrry.
 When twelve days had passed the burghcrs began to notice that each morning the clock was getting nearer their rising hour, though now 1t seem- ed to be gaining instead of losing, and before four weeks had passed 1t had come right again. Then they con