Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 3, Vevay, Switzerland County, 4 October 1831 — Page 1

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forth all tin- energies vt his enerou? ann en-; men, getitrallv ol larjie ftatu.T. J l.eir ro:i- radl v d;:irp

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even at tr.e riMC l his lite. tn vouiTUJt cap-.uun. i ii(') svernca in Muii mice, and ta.k-i! ;;til. a!" ;..:ii!v -cariod lives. lie tmaiedi-itcly despatched a carri-'0' havii,; ihai day taken a ;iu bo;.'f. On ;ri! A i i ir-ft the oilie. .-i .!"il! r . r .1.., : 4 I ...... . ' I . . - .

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desolation

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liiin-k-vcm ,:! f urn an escape, np r m-;.ic-J onif

to remove to the palace the wounded m m, 'lorroi -! Caiios at recognizing ns one of tin m -aitd ai'te

ani the rest of tin: household; ronsi-tint;, as

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'i u;tii search, liie He t: -;ird, as i n aliiingiiiii: vt o((--

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iMHiahcld! He seemed rooted to thejes ov.-rthp hollo Hounding trreuiid."3

it was found, of only an aged woman, living jP(' ; ""d his eye was fixed, as by a chat m, ilii e)e had

BY A LADY. (CONTUCCED.) There was something singularly venerable ard attractive in the appearance irf the Jew. JIi exhibited no trait of the character un justly attributed to his contemned race. His

spect and manner won the confidence of

Cailo, He void his stoiy, and his wonder rt:-i'i?ciini the ring. ''The mystery mar yet

b( solved" ?aid the Jew. Carlos asked if

an branch of his mother's family were living. "Ailaie giihered totheir fatherg1 the Jew n phed, "eave your gnvnd falhcr. He stands in his solitude like an aged tree. I wish vou to present yourself before him. Your liker.'ss o nis daughter, will touch his heart. His displeasure has long ceased; and he has souudit h?r even with tears. His own, and not s ranger-, shall inherit his estates and honors.1' Carlos desired uot iucrease of wealth, but the tiiotight if meetir.g in pence his moth. r"5 father, w is delightful to his ardent and trader spirit. He learned from the Jew, that the casi le of Aloiina, the residence of the auefl Anv'.zdli, was situated fvur leagues fr.)-i the ity, and having enijHg. d his new Trend to accompany him, he proposed setting tF on a visit to his grHnd-fatlier the next m o ...i-g He gave his address and returned to hi palace, whither the Jew had engaged to f-dlow him in the eveiiing. The thoughts of Carlos were now deeply occupied. He alm'-ut hoped tliat his friend was in Spain; bo? w here fhould he seek him? lie h id no chie. to direct bis steps. He walked upon bit) terrace, lost in thought, till the city wa wrapt in midnight silence; and then recol I cting the engagement of the Few, he won dered that he had not yet arrived. All around ws beautifully illumined by the light of a fall moon. Wis! ing to commence his journey early, he immediately left the palace, and turned his steps towards that part of the city in which the Jew reside d. He had not w alked far, when the venerable man met him. li i i i rni i .

tils neaa was uncovered, itie mgr.t air

bl.-w ihe white locks from his aged temples,

and he wrunc mi withered hands in anguish like one moaning fer beloved children, refus

jng to be comlorted because they are not. "With the tendercst sympathy Carlos asked respecting the caus of his affliction. "My daughters! my daughters! exclaimtd the son

in the capacity oi house Keeper, j tie wife

of the J (w had died many ears be lot e. After houis vf anguish, the unhappy father sunk, exhausted, into a troubled slumber; and Carlos directed that every attention should be lendered to the strangers during his absence. Morning had scarcely with its first faint gloamings, appeared in the eastern skr, when twelve armed men, mounted on noble steeds, issued from the palace gates. Carlos gave them directions, and having linjjerfid a few moments, again to assure the be

reaved Jew, who had awakened to renewed

phrei.zy, that he would restore his children,

or perish in the attempt, he left the court,

well armed, and mounted on the beautiful

horse which had been the gift of his friend. The horsemen soon separated into companies and took different roads. Carlos, in the en

thusiasm of his resolution, plunged, unattend

ed, into a deep wood. He felt that eleva

tion of soul which gave him courage to supply what he might want in numbers. As he

vdvanced into the forest there was a gradual

opening, admitting the cloudless light of the

pure ether; and belore he had travelled ma ny miles, leaving the forest on his left, he pursued his way through it winding, obscure road, amidst wild and romantic scenery. His keen eye, as he travelled on, glanced into every grove ftnd coppice; over every woodcrowned hill, and frowning precipice. Two or three times in the course of the day, he stopped to refresh Chesnut with the sweet herbage which grew by the way side, and the pure water of a mountain stream; and for many, many miles, he had not seen a human habitation, when just at night, he came within view of what appeared the turrets of au ancient castle. Black clouds had gathered, and the aspect of surrounding nature presnged a tempest. Carlos believing that he could no longer, to advantage, puisuc his

nay, thought it proper to stek a shelter for

the night; and Keeping constantly in view the possibility of finding the objects of his search, he turned his course towards the old

pile, whose towers, as he approached , frown

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on the countenance of his friend. That ci:ii-darki.ess that it had recovered its power of tenance was pale and Wan, m of one whojvisioe, he perceived at a distance, a faint hated his path. The eye of Carles could j sl.mmei mg, and groping his way toward

his friondithe appearnnc he lound that ;hliwb? .-.f,l-.

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not deceive him. It w;h indeed

Henry, of a more manly stature indeed, than

wnen ttiey parted; but still there was that

striking identity, which the eye of friendship

vu.u ii. , i HMiidivc. "iou nave oeen tame to day," said one, who appeared the leader of the band, addressing himself to Henry "a tame, mean-spirited wretch. You don't take hold of your work like a man: have a care, or I will recall the moment, when I rescued you from death." The look of the captive was firm; but he was silent. It was evident that he was a prisoner, in the h inds of men who acknowledged no law, human or divine. It was evident, loo, that his life had been spared through the interferance of the

leader. "I despise a mean soul," said one of

the rulhans. "one that can't do the work

which is set before him." Henrv was or

dered to close confinement, so that the damps of a dungeon, as the leader expressed it,

mignt teach him to do something for the privilege of living in the open air. The first impulse of Carlos, was to rush from his placed

concealment, and defend his friend with his

life: but he instantly thought that bv so do

ing he should vainly sacrifice both, r.hich checked his impetuosity of feeling, and deter

mined mm to watt, in hope that he might yet save his friend. Henry was guarded through an opposite door, and the sound of receding steps soon died on the listening ear of Carlos. "We'll soon show him a little of life," said one of the band. "He'll be a fine fellow yet." -'He does'nt want for bravery, I can see that by his looks," said another fiprce looking being: ''some foolish thoughts about conscience kept him from his work; but if he does'nt show a better will, and become one of us, I'm for making a good riddance of one that may turn traitor. The dead tell no tales 'tis a wild night." After much rude conversation, with savage burst of laughter, the ruffians baring

maoe ineir repast, laid down on the lloor.

ed darkly amidst the gathering gloom ofntnd Carlos soon found by their breathing

night and storm. The old castle, almost entirely in ruins, kept its perilous station on the giddy height of a tremendous precipice, overhanging a deep, black river. Fit place it seemed for the commission of murderous deeds. Imagination never painted a wilder

scene. With undaunted spirit Carlos gallop

of Abraham they are lost! and I will go'ed over the drawbridge, and having led his

down to the grave sorrowing' "itave they horse through the ponderous gate, which

been called to another world? "worse, worse turned'gralingly on its rusty hinges, he se-

thandead!" the distresceil father replied

"They are carried into captivity by those who held them.'' Some time passed before the phrentied distress of the old man would suffer him to tell the story of his calamity with any degree of coherance. Carlos at length gathered from his distracted replies, that his daughters, in returning from an excursion intothe country, attended by only one servant, baJ been seized, and forcibly carried away b) a company of armed rutiians. The faithful 6ervant, w ho had nearly lost his lifo in vain endeavors to defe d them, had returned wounded, and heart-broken, to his master. "Have you any suspicions," asked Carlos,

uw ho the vile men can be who have commit

ted so black a deedt" "I believe," replied the Jew, "that the plot was formed and directed by one, who was a fellow servant with me in

the family of your grand-father. He always

hated me for my supposed interest in that family, and Sung the ground of his subsequent enmity in falsehood, for some pretended injury, he has, through my whole after life, mani

fested towards me an inveterate antipathy,

endeavoring, in every possible way , to wound

my reputation, or inv happiness, i es, it

was the ctnel Yhr.iiler! Ah, this is indeed the death blow," continued the Jew, in a frantic tone and dashing himself oi the earth, la vain did C;trloe endeavor to comfort him with the hope c I soon finding his daughters. Return with me to my house," said he, in the southing tones of kindness and sympathy ,

cured him beneath the shlter of an ivy-

grown wall, gathered lor him a parcel of the

long grass which waved :n the court, and

then boldly entered the habitation of departed centuries. Solitude rsigned within, and

the thought of man never presented a w ilder

desolation than that which breathed through

the dismal apartments. I he hollow winds moaned through the broken walls; and all wns full of melancholy and ruin. Carlos by gloomy twilight, calmly surveyed the dreary place, and having (aken some refreshments, with which he had furnished himself, he entered an apartment a little more remote from

the outer air, and wrapping himself in f lis

cloak, he endeavored to compose himself

and sleep. But for hours, thought was too

busy for his repose. Just before midnight,

he sunk, exhausted, into an uneasy kind of

slumber, from which be was startled by a loud crash. He listened a few moments all was silent, and supposing that some bro ken part of the wall might have fallen, he

tried again to sleep. Soon, however, his at

tention was aroused by the indistinct sound; of trampling horse, and mingling voices

stealing upon the silence of the night. The sounds approached: surprised, but not ap

palled, Cailo stalled upon his feet, and list

ened with intense interest. In a few mo

ments a party of horsemen evidently wound their way around the lull on which the ruin stood: rough voices were now to be distinctly heard; and directly a considerable coin-

that they w ere asleep. How to save himself

from discovery by day ligh, he knew not:

and could he even have found his way out of

the castle into the storm, which now raged with uncommon violence, without passing through the room occupied by the robbers, worlds would not have tempted him to leave his friend to the peril of his situation. He resolved to keep his station till morning, and then, if possible, to conceal himself. By the hour of dawn, the tempest died away in low mournings; and the sun arose in his brightness on the wild desolation of the scene around the old castle. When the ruffians began to move, Caiios glided from the vicinity, where probably discovery would have been death, and through a doolies passage, enter ed what appeared to have been a spacious ball. An opposite passage led to the open air; but there Caiios dsemed it unsafe to venture, till the departure of the robbers. He soon heard footsteps passing through the room he had left. They approached the cue to which he had betaken himself, and hastilyconcealing himself behind an old pillar, he escaped the sight of three of the bandits who left the castle by that way. Judging, by-

voices ia a different direct ion, that the restol

the parly had also left the cai-tle, he ventured cautiously to return to the inner apartment, when in a few moment, amidst a sudden shout, and a rurh of voices, his ear caught the words, ''we'll find the rascal." Poor Cites nut had innocently betrayed, that a traveller was in the castle. Footsteps were heard hurrying in different diret tions, and three or four persons suddenly entered the room where the party had slept, and hastily approached ihal in v? hioh Carlos was concealed.

j At that moment of extreme jeopardy, when,

i the desperation ol a courage which Knows

no medium between freedom and death, he

wa admitted here and there through the crevices of the decaying walls. This circumstance excited a hope that he might discover an aperture large enough to admit of hij escape; but he resolved rather to die amidst the desolation of that ruin, than go thence leaving his friend a captive. Yet the thought of the poor old Jew, and hi? lost daugh; r, excited almost the energy of despair. H..w did he long for emancipation, ai d a giant's arm! Still to leave Henry in captivit uis utterly impossible. While engaged in 'forming a plan of escape for himself and his friend, he heard a low sound, as the voice of a boneless prisoner. He believed he felt that it might be the voice of him whom he had loved a? a brother, though the sound was so faint, so indefinite, that he could not, by the hearing of the ear, distinguish the identity of that which his soul felt. He moved forw'aid in the darkness till his hand rested on a wall and then in a low, but audible voice, pronounced the name of Henry: for a while there wassilcr.ee it was the silence of astm.irhment and delight. .The next instant there was a soul-thilling response. the single V7ord Cnrhs. conveyed in ifssouu.I. the unutterable feelings of.a full heart. When the friends had recovered from the deep emotions of such a moment to the power of conversation, Carlos asked Henry if he ceuid direct him to a passage which' might iva them a meeting. He knew of but one; 'and Caiios, remembering the direction in uhul; he had seen his fr iend led off on the preceding night, almost despaired of speedily obtaining an interview face to face; for he knew not how. even could he regain the stairs, to find in the darkness, the secret spring which would ope: his way to the apartments above; and besides, he thought some of the robbers might return to watch for the possible appearance of the traveller or spy, who, as (hev h-id reason to suppose, wns concealed in some part of the ruin. In a low and cautious voice he assured his friend, that he would not leave tiie castle without him, and after waiting two or three hours, he found he flight of steps, and ventuiing to ascend; and "impatient of farther delay, be passed his hand carefully over the place where, according to his recollection, was the secret door. No opening passage admitted the light of day, till almost despairing of success, he fcaa about to give over for a season the attempt, when the spring met his seeking hand. The door opened and determined to resign his liberty, and the cause of his friend, but with life, Carlos manfully, with his sword drawn, proceeded onward. Solitude and silence reigned throuph the apartments, and knowing not where to find the passage leading to the ph.ee of Henry's confinement, he ventured into the court. There remained his poor horse, as he had left him. . This circumstance renewed his suspicions that some of the robbers migh' be about the castle watching for his departure. He ventured to h-nd the poor animal to a little stream, and after replacing him, and gathering for him some grass, he returned, at. 4 with a keen glance, and cautiou step, moving from room to room, he at length ascended to an old ruined tower at the western pari of the castle. From this height lie descried on the bridge, a smail party of men, evidently in the attitude of watching; and he felt that could lie even gain admittance to Hcniy, this was not the lime for escape. He descended and again returned into outer air. As he slowly walked around the castle, avoidi .gooly that side which mig'it give a view of him to the party on the bridge, he discovered a large aperture in the wall, and it was evident that the stoivjb composing the heap on the earth, had fallen very recently; probably occasion ing th.' noise which had awakened him the night before. He suddenly heard approach-

firmlv grasped his sword, his hand, guide 1 b ink steps some of the watch had left their

n unseen power, placed in dauntless reso!u i tfaiioa, and were near him. By a slight

,4I will collect the men of my household, and pany appeared to enter at a different part of tion on the w all, torn heii h secret ppring. llti glance he saw Ihat as yet he was undiscover

ed Me dawn wc mil set offin search cfyour the castle from that where Carlos had found saw a moving, as of a Fiowiy opening door, ed ; nod hastily entering the opening in thr daughters; and not a nook will I leave unex- admittance. They entered the apartment and with tiie velocity of thought springing wall, he escaped their sight, jdored , till they return to a father's r.rms.The adjoining that in which he stood; ami the into the passage, lie closed the door, which T? f: CiniinueJ oorJew at length yielded to the fentl ur- light of a tare soon glean ed through the wm insUy in :?? f,; t sliU'Ui n, v l?:p