flames. I purposed reatoring her to her father,
but when I returned to Nordhausen, I found my
. child lying on her bier, and my wife ia
fevered frenzy calling for her babe, I soogbt
the leech, who counselled me to show the Christian child to the bereaved mother as her own.
The pious trick prevailed ; the fever broke, the
mother was restored. But never would she part
with the child, even when, she had learned to
whom it belonged, and until Bhe was gathered
with the dead — may peace be with her soul ! —
she fostered in our Jewish home the offspring of
the Gentile knight. Then again would I have
yielded the girl to her parent, but Schnetzen was
my foe, and I feared the haughty baron would
disown the daughter who came from the hands
of the Jew. Now however the maiden's tempo-
ral happiness demands that she be acknowledged
by her rightful father- Let him see what I have
written. As a token, behold this golden cross
bound by the Lady Schnetzen round the infant's
neck. May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob redeem and biess me as I have writ the
truth."
PRIOR.
I thank the Saints that this has come betimes.
Thou shale renounce thy hate. Vengeance is mine,
The Lord hath said.
