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KONRAD WALLENROD.
My spies have been for a long time watching his actions. Last night they lay in wait under the old tower, and heard hi m speak with thcRecluse;—they could not understand the conversation , but, Mighty Judges, they heard well that he spoke the Lithuanian language ! "Therefore, considering what we have lately heard of that man through the agency of the secret tribunals; — what my spies now report , and public rumour confirms, — Mighty Judges, I bringagainstourGrand Master thecharge ofperjury, murder, heresy, and treason." The accuser now knelt down before the book of the Order, and, lifting his hand to the crucifix, swore by God and the Saviour's sufferings, to the truth of his charges. He then remained silent. The jud-
