Year: 1873

blow from the robber made the door trem-
BILE


"Back'' cried she, cor I will shoot you
downln


Hejumped back few steps, and quick
ly pointed his gun up toward the window;
but at the same moment there was a flash
and report from above, and the rObber
first sprang up, and then fell backward in
the snow, a stream of blood pouring
from wound in his breast.


kate's courage now gave place to an
guish and sorrow of heart Her eyes were
fixed on that terrible sight of the dead
body. Her ball had killed him.


What maiden's heart could bear such a
thought as that?


In her despair she fired the other bar
rel of the gun out of the window, and
then both barrels Of the second gun
Quickly she loaded them all again, and
fired them off one after the other. This
she did five times


Then she perceived, with dismay, that
her supply of powder was getting low,
and she was not sure that the robber she
had wounded would not collect his COM
rades.


But her distress lasted only a short
time. Two mounted policemen were riding
up the road from Weilheim, having
heard the day before, from peasant, that
he had seen three suspicious men lurking
about there


If the policemen had not met the we'll
known forester and his family at the gate
at Weilheim, they might have heard a hun
dred shots fired in succession, and taken
| no notice of them, for they would have
thought that the forester was chasing
wolves through the deep snow; but now
it struck them that there might be an at
tack and danger to the forester's house
SO they at once turned from the road, and
fastened thither
When Kate saw the two policemen, a
new terror seized her, as she took them at
first for robbers in disguise but when they
came nearer, she recognized the two men,
whom she had often seen before.
katen' cried one to her, yours was
mastershOt, and a good deed, too, for
this is one of the worst rascals among the
mOuntains-a robber whom we have
long been pursuing, but never able to
catch. 1t is ali over with him now, for
you have shot him through the heart !"
A shiver passed through the brave girl
at these words.


"Oht God be thanked and praised that
you have come, otherwise | should have
died of terror; for in the room below |
have another, with whom our Sultan has
been fighting"


Come, then, and open the door quick
lym exclaimed both.
Kate moved her barricade of wood from
the door and opened it.
The dog barked for JOY when he heard


the girls voice.
Scarcely was the room-dOOr opened
when hn INN nod ont tp l,,+
she pushed him back, filled with horror.


when she saw that his mouth and throat


were stained with blood. There was not
a sound in the room.
, One Of the police went in and opened
the shutter. Then they beheld dreadful
sight On the ground lay man, with
his clothes hanging in tatters upon him,
while his face and throat bore terrible
| marks of the dogs teeth
The floor was covered with blood, and
everything showed that there must have


been fierce struggle between the man


and the dog.


The latter was unhurt, for the robber
had not been able, in the darkness, to find
the knife which lay upon the table, and
was dead.


Kate had now to tell all the oircum-
stances to the police.


Before noon they arrested the wounded
robber at an inn, where rogues and thieves
frequently found refuge.


kate's fame was spread abroad through
out the whole country; but it was some
time before she recovered the shock of
this dreadful event


Kate afterward married brave forester,
who became her fathers successor; and
saw her in her maturer years, the mother
of blooming family Of children, still a
handsome woman, in whom masculine
courage was united with female tender
ness, and who enjoyed the esteem and love
of all who knew her