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Updated: September 10, 2025
He knelt there with the tears streaming down his pale cheeks and his hands clasped in prayer, until a long loud shout announced Rodolph's acceptance. Then the trumpets' merry notes, mingled with the joyful clang of arms, went up to heaven together with the missionary's sighs. Father Omehr appeared scarcely to hear the martial revelry, but as the tumult increased, he rose and glided from the room.
Of all our Suabian friends, Father Omehr was the only one who rejoiced in this amicable termination of the council, and who devoutly returned thanks to God for averting a direful war, and proclaiming, in the favorite language of heaven, "Pax fiat!" During two months and a half, Henry buried himself in solitude at Spire. Rodolph remained watchful and expectant, now at Zurich, and now in Saxony.
At this juncture, while Gilbert was examining the extent of the wound, and vainly endeavoring to stanch the blood, the Lady Margaret and the priest appeared at the doorway, having been attracted by the loud laugh of Gilbert's assailant. Comprehending in an instant that Gilbert had been wounded, Father Omehr hastened to support him.
Her last words were: "I know she is praying for me in heaven." She was buried, as she desired, near the Lady Margaret, with nothing but a rude wooden cross to mark her grave. On the day after her burial, Father Omehr and the three nobles set out for the Castle of Hers.
When alone, she knelt down before an ivory image of the Blessed Virgin and prayed not to the polished ivory but to the Mother of purity whose intercession it suggested, with a fervency and constancy which only they venture to ridicule who cannot record the virtues of Mary without a sneer. Though not apprehensive, Father Omehr was pleased to learn from Linda that the knife had not been poisoned.
I did not know where I was; so I permitted my horse to choose his own course, and by some accident he has brought me here." Father Omehr listened attentively, and added, after a pause: "It is well you came not yesterday. Did you meet any one in the wood?" Gilbert felt the searching eye of his companion upon him, and related with much embarrassment all that had happened at the spring.
Having completed her task, she drew the priest aside, and, looking up into his face with evident emotion, said: "Could there have been poison on the knife?" Though spoken in a whisper, the youth must have heard it, for he smiled at first, and the next moment became pale as death. Father Omehr noticed the change upon his features, and replied loud enough to be overheard: "No, no! it cannot be.
It was Monday afternoon; and on this day every week, the missionary instructed the children of the neighborhood and prepared them for Communion. There still remained an hour before the time for evening service, and Father Omehr proposed to the Lady Margaret a walk along the shady avenue at the border of the forest.
Still continue to bring the fruits and flowers of piety and obedience to your parents to Jesus, and you will be permitted to wait upon Him in heaven for all eternity. "Go, now, and play! And when the bell rings, come quietly to the church." Not until his little flock had dispersed did Father Omehr perceive that the Lady Margaret was standing almost at his side.
The face of Sandrit of Stramen was sterner than ever, and his son seemed to have caught a portion of his severity. They rode along swiftly, and whenever they spoke it was about the Lady Margaret. Father Omehr alone preserved his equanimity, and even he was now unusually absent and thoughtful. Nor was the retinue of Albert of Hers more cheerful.
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