When the deed was done
Antony stripped him of his clothes, and in doing so discovered a silver
crucifix upon his breast, and a bravery (breviary) under his head, by
which he found that he had murdhered a priest of his own religion in
mistake. They say he stabbed him in the jigler vein wid a _middoge_. At
all events, the body disappeared, and there never was any inquiry made
about it--a good proof that the unfortunate man was a stranger. Well and
good, your honor--in the coorse of a short time, it seems, the murdhered
priest began to appear to him, and haunted him almost every night, until
the unfortunate Antony began to get out of his rason, and, it is said,
that when he appeared to him he always pointed the _middoge_ at him,
just as if he wished to put it into his heart. Antony then, widout
tellin' his own saicret, began to tell everybody that he was doomed to
die a bloody death; in short, he became unsettled--got fairly beside
himself, and afther mopin' about for some months in ordher to avoid the
bloody death the priest threatened him wid, he went and hanged himself
in the very room where he killed the unfortunate priest before.
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