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Updated: June 24, 2025
"At first he uttered a loud cry and said Lizzie Wallner was not his betrothed; afterward he lamented piteously because Lizzie Wallner escorted the Bavarian prisoners; and finally he asked for his gala uniform in order to dress up for the ceremony. Well, we shall see very soon if he has honest intentions toward Lizzie and really loves her.
Speckbacher and Wallner, too, have packages of such paper balls, and so soon as our faithful messengers bring them our `open order, they will likewise send around their wives and children through the neighborhood; and everywhere the cry will be, ''Tis time! We must expel the Bavarians!
They must shoot us all before we permit them to destroy the bridge." "No, we will not!" cried Anthony Wallner. "Forward, men of the Puster valley, forward to the bridge of St. Lawrence!" They continued their march through the valley at the double-quick.
The Tyrolese greeted this exploit of their leaders with loud cheers; but up from the Bavarians resounded the commands of the officers; a whole volley crashed, the bullets whistled round the ears of Wallner and Panzl, but none hit them; and hen the smoke cleared away, John Panzl was seen to make a triumphant leap in the air, which he accompanied with a shout of victory, while Anthony Wallner calmly raised his rifle again.
"Villain!" he shouted, in a threatening voice, "do you not see the tax-collector?" The young fellow drew the hat with an air of embarrassment from his forehead, and crimsoning with rage, but in silence, stepped back into the circle of the murmuring men. "That is just what you deserve, Joe," said Anthony Wallner.
He knocked hastily at the door; it opened, and the two wanderers entered the small, warm, and cozy room, where they were received by a man in uniform, who sat at the table eating his supper. Anthony Wallner went close up to him and pointed to his uniform. "You wear the Austrian uniform" he asked. "I do, sir," said the man, smilingly. "And we are here on Austrian soil?" "Yes, sir.
He fired, and the gunner at the third field- piece fell dead. "Now, boys, at them; we must take the cannon!" shouted Wallner, jumping forward, and the Tyrolese followed him down the slope with furious shouts. "Forward, forward!" shouted the Lieutenant-Colonel in the valley to his Bavarians; "forward! the cannon must not fall into the hands of the peasants; we must defend them to the last man.
But Anthony Wallner sprang to his feet, pale with rage, his eyes shooting fire, like those of an angry tiger, rushed toward the captain, and sized his arm. "What!" he cried, furiously, "you infamous, perjured scoundrel, refuse to marry my daughter? First you stole her love, you promised to marry her, and now that I would give her to you, you refuse to take her!"
"Was your love strong enough to prevail on you, sir, to go to my father, Anthony Wallner, and ask him to bless you, his son-in-law? See, I asked you to do so, because I knew that you would refuse, and because I thought it would convince you that we could never become man and wife and ought to part.
He had spied him out, he had discovered his track, he had come to seize him! "I will sell my life dearly," murmured Anthony Wallner, grimly. "I will shoot down the first man who opens the door; then I will force a passage through the ranks with the butt-end of my rifle, and " "Father," cried a voice outside, "father, open the door!"
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