A Conspiracy of the Carbonari

eonore had received no tidings from her father. For thre

o had no news from Kolbielsky, though the week which he had named as the n

s hour, and the first festival will b

e day, all through the night, and the cause of her present deep anxiety was not solicitude about her father, the desire to learn the resul

k? Was it really only a coincidence that the day which he had fixed for his return was

ames of the conspirators, especially those of the heads and leaders; she knew that Kolbielsky's name had not once been mentioned during the whole

d rush into his arms, rest on his heart, never, oh! never to part from him agai

ed at her door! It is

he door, she

r father, onl

ot see the sorrowful, almost pitying look he fixed upon her. She had covered her face with her

nore slowly removed her hands fr

isper, as though she feared lest eve

med joyfully, "y

d poured out its contents, shaking the various papers

iest diamonds. If you desire it, these papers will transmute themselves into a magnificent castle, into liveried servants, into superb carriages. Oh, I already see you standing as the proud mistress of a stately castle, in your ancestral hall, with vassals bowing before you, and counts and princes suing for your hand. For these magic papers will give you everything, everything; not luxury alone, but honor, rank, and dignity, the love and esteem of men. Take them, for the whole t

treasures of the earth avail, if I did not have him! What would I care for castles, diamonds, and carriages if he were not with me! I am expecting him-he may be here at any moment.

bout it; no one must deem it possible that people have dared to seek to take his life, to attempt to capture him. I never saw him in such a fury as when I first told him the plan of the conspirators. His eyes flashed lig

e fulfille

ts executed upon them; he could not at this time, for you know that negotiations for peace have been opened, and the treaty will be signed immediately. So the emperor did not wish to constitute himself a judge of Austrian subjects; it is a delicate attention to the

n?" asked Leon

s-lieutenants were shot this morning on the meadow

pallor overspread her face. "And I

ost terrible torture of imprisonment!" cried her father, shrugging his shoulders. "These men wished to commit a crime again

What has becom

he had entered the hut and been captured. But he rejected this plan, because he would have been compelled to arrest his most distinguished generals and subject the greater number of his staff officers to a rigid investigation. The whole army would then have heard of this bold conspiracy, and conspiracies are like contagious diseases, they always have successors. So the emperor rejected this plan, and, at the moment that his suite were moun

er. "You will not play the part of emperor to-day, but

ater he was disarmed and deprived of the papers which we found in his breast pocket, and the

an arm of Lejeune, who rode between us. At last we reached the hut and the emperor checked his horse again. Roustan uttered a low whistle and, at the same instant, six gray-bearded giants of the imperial

h bewitched his old soldiers, because it rem

he said, "but I should also like

le Corporal commands it," said ol

e a proof of it to-day. Clear out the nest

or. Shouts of rage were heard, several shots rang out, then all was still, and the old grenadiers dragged ou

ls among the prisoners?

ulmeister, "yes, h

you sa

I sa

Leonore tremble. She looked up questioningly into his fa

compassionately?" asked Leonore su

t I was doing so,"

I read misfortune in your face. You are concealing someth

d to the floor, seized her father's arm with both h

p, stooped, picked up the bills and divided them into halves, puttin

ke the magic key which w

, with a contemptuous gestu

eated. "Where is he? Answer me, father, if

d, what will it avail you? He

ly grasped her father's arm more firm

she asked. "Answer, o

n the prisoners were dragged out of the hut, one of them suddenly made an attempt to escape. The soldier tri

oudenfels?" asked L

But when the wig was torn from his head, we

shrieked with a lo

and let his head si

his morning?" she asked

not have him executed. He simply imprisoned him and punished him only by compelling him to witness th

wear that he lives?"

n of the courier whom Count Bubna, who is in Sch?nbrunn attending

e room, tearing at the bell till it sounded like a tocsin

eonore darted across the room, tore open the door of the adjoining chamber, opened a

asked her father, who had hurried after her and now seize

"To the Emperor Napoleon, to save the life

oney, L

he blood-money whi

m," she shrieked, raising the hand that held the papers toward heaven. "His blood clings to this money. But I will hurl it at the emperor's feet. I want no pay; I will beg his life for my r

t the door," said

g. Pray, father, pray for mercy