Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1930, Page 35

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THE EVENING STORY One of World Famous Works of Literature The Severed Hand. BY WILLIAM HAUFF. (William Hauff was a famous German wovelist of a little more than & century g I was born and brought up in Con- stantinople. Trained as a physician in France, I later took up my residence | in Jtaly, where I combined treatment of Yhe sick with the profitable sale of Oriental merchandise, and was grad! ally becoming wealthy when an ex- traordinary adventure befell me, the like of ‘which I have never heard. A mysterious message was left in my shop one day, inviting me to be on the bridge called Ponte Cecchio at midnight that evening. I thought I was to be conducted secretly to some patient, which is sometimes done. At midnight I was there, and met a man in a beautifully fur-trimmed scar- let cloak. He refused to reveal his errand, to give his name or to let me see his face. Alarmed, I determined to know him before going with him, and snatched at his cloak. He got u$ly from me, but left his cloak in my hands. The cloak was a handsome garment. It was made of thick Genoese velvet, of a beautiful scarlet color, trimmed with nsl“ukhln fur and richly embroidered w gold. How could I use it to dis- cover the identity of the man who had killing her! I convinced myself that she was now dead, beyond recovery. Fear took possession of me, and I fled. I found the house apparently empty ) | My nocturnal guide had disappeared. And in my fright I left behind me my |own cloak and other identifying traces. 1 should be arrested for bruial mur- der on the morrow, and I did not even know whom I had killed. Horror upon horror! The next day 1 learned that Bianca, the most beautiful girl in Florence, daughter of the gov- ernor, had been killed by a madman, who had cut off her head during the night! What could I do? They found my things; they identified them: they came for me. I was arrested and put on trial. My story was fantastic enough, and they did not believe me. Yet the trial The governor was asked if nything in the past life of | his daughter which might lend truth |to my tale of the tall man in the red cloak. He denied it, but had turned pale and scarlet by turns. In a later investigation it was learned that a stranger had been wooing Bianca, who was to marry another on the fol- lowing her brutal murder, and she had received threats, warning her not to go |on with that marriage. That was all that was ever learned about the stranger in the red cloak. And it was not enough to save me—I was imprisoned and con- demned to death. suffered the death penalty. He came to Florence, heard by chance of my pre- dicament—though I and my crime were common talk in-the city—and came to hear my story. He believed it and said he would do what he could. His uncle was an influential man in Florence. Try as he would, my friend was not able to save me from punishment, but he did succeed in saving my life. He told me that the governor had been in- exorable in having the affair investi- gated a sccond time, but that finally, 10 be just, he agreed, saying that if a similar case to mine could be found in the legal records of Florence, he would change my punishment to the same as had been m:ted out to my predecessor in ‘the annals of misconduct. So my friend and his father searched the law books night and day, and they found a case like mine, in Which the penalty had been the loss of the criminal’s right hand. I was therefore to have my right hand severed, and my life would be spared. I need not describe to you the ter- rible experience of losing my hand—for I had to lose it, in the public square, by a public- operation, which was more effective than merciful. I was taken to my friend’s house until the stump of my wrist healed. Then, since my pen- alty also included exile from Florence, I returned to my brithplace, the great city of ‘Constantinople. Imagine my astonishment, on my ar- rival in Constantinople, at being recog- nized and asked to live in my own housc—I, who owned no house! Some unknown man had bought a house in my name, and had informed the au- thorities of my early arrival. Indeed, the stranger had left a letter for me, which read as follows: 'wo hands are ready to work in contents are yours. Each year, In ad- dition, you will receive a sum of money sufficient to make you well tp do among your neighbors.’ ‘There was only one person who could be my benefactor—that was the tall stranger in the red cloak, whom I had twice met on the Ponte Vecchio, at: midnight, in Florence—and the second time had brought about my undoing. I knew . enough to understand that the stranger was, after all, not entirely without feelings and obligations to- ward me. Ten years have passed since the loss of my hand Everything has gone well with me. I have always received the yearly income from the same mysteri- ous source. But there is one injury that the London Gaining in Health. D. C. THURSDAY, my former days in Paris, I should hlve'o! one of yours. The house and sll its | for which no one can make restitution, and that is the horrible impression memory of the murdered Bianca has left on my soul. London expects 1930 to be one of its 2 | healthiest years ever known. In the months _deaths numbered 20,358, a decrease of 12,000 from the same period of 1920. Deaths from in- fluenza decreased from 2863 to 208. The exceptionally mild Winter is given credit for the improvement. first four ‘The trees to be in homes. government of Crechoslovakia has planted large numbers of willow in making baskets | JUNE 26, NEW BED ROOM DESIGN SHOWS ORIGINAL IDEAS Interior Decorations Planned for Mrs. Guy Elwes by Her Husband. LONDON (N.AN.A).—Guy Elwes, a son of the late Gervase son of jmmense energy and has many original ideas. He is very much inter- ested in house decorations, and the - bed room which he has designed for his wife and which has been carried out by his own workmen, is one of the wonders of London. | sense of humor, who is much in de- | The ceiling, which looks like silver, 1930. Clwes, is a per- panels L\'ll-llg manner witl FRESH FRUITS & VEGETABLES! | \{-H B L L L R R S e S e RS E ey SWEET SUGAR CORN is composed of sheets of very thin tin; the walls are painted blue-green and the floor is of black composition, veined with lines of silver. Curtains of bright | blue, lined with cherry red, hang from | angle. the shiny ceiling all round the golden | bed, to which steps lead up. TI telpiece and doors are made of looking glass, the former having an elaborate | golden pattern inlaid to match the bed. | Elwes is now designing a bath room in shades of red, which will have glass | in the eighteenth century | “chinoiserie” patterns, ‘The morning room is adorned with | 1874, are considerin frescoes painted by Miss Margot Gil- bert. 4 young woman with a puckish mand just now. tasies classical style. an maid Me Man- | mancion, site. The frescoes are shan- | for the site, in a mid-Victorian preudo- In one panel the Goddess of Plenty and her two companions wear classical robes and decorated top-hats at an hile the center panel shows the of a house party, with a house- aving welcome from a stately (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- - paper Alliance.) High Offer for Club Site. Members of the | founded in London as a Liberal club in Devonshire Club, g an offer for the The price Is said .to be in the region of $1.500,000. a block of flats or a hotel is planned It is believed that run away from me on the Ponte Vec- chio? Finally, I had the happy idea of offering the cloak for sale at many times its proper value.. I therefore dis- layed it among my goods and hoped w0 By the il owaer of 1t o my shop. I had no such luck, but, just as I was about to sell the cloak to some young fool who wished to pay the exorbitant price, I received a message saying that if I would bring the cloak to the Ponte Vecchio at midnight that evening, I ‘would be paid twice the amount I was asking. Then I learned the work that was de- sid of me. I was to minister, not to the living, but to the desd! “My sister and I came from abroad, #aid the stranger. “My sister dled terday. 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Still, if my sister’s body is buried here, I do wish to take her beau- tiful head back to her father, in our na- tive land. I wish you to sever the head from the dead body—I naturally do not wish to do it myself—and as you are a surgeon, you will know how to cut, and how to embalm the head.” This gruesome idea did not appeal to me, but it seemed all in the day’s work, nevertheless. I should have wondered, perhaps, why the work had to be done so secretely, and at night. Perhaps to keep the relatives from _interfering? Anyway, 1 consented, and he led me to a splendid residence and into a mag- nificently furnished lady’s boudoir. On 1h‘ bed lay the body. took my instruments and approach- ed the bed. I could see only the head of the dead woman—she was indeed beautiful, even in death. Dark hair in long braids—pale features—and the eyes, no_doubt wonderful, were mow closed. With my sharpest knife I cut the throat at one stroke. Horror! 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