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Project Gutenberg's Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf, by George W. M. Reynolds This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Author: George W. M. Reynolds Release Date: November 8, 2008 [EBook #27202] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF. By GEORGE W. M. REYNOLDS. NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS _PART I._ PROLOGUE. It was the month of January, 1516. The night was dark and tempestuous; the thunder growled around; the lightning flashed at short intervals: and the wind swept furiously along in sudden and fitful gusts. The streams of the great Black Forest of Germany babbled in playful melody no more, but rushed on with deafening din, mingling their torrent roar with the wild creaking of the huge oaks, the rustling of the firs, the howling of the affrighted wolves, and the hollow voices of the storm. The dense black clouds were driving restlessly athwart the sky; and when the vivid lightning gleamed forth with rapid and eccentric glare, it seemed as if the dark jaws of some hideous monster, floating high above, opened to vomit flame. And as the abrupt but furious gusts of wind swept through the forest, they raised strange echoes--as if the impervious mazes of that mighty wood were the abode of hideous fiends and evil spirits, who responded in shrieks, moans, and lamentations to the fearful din of the tempest. It was, indeed, an appalling night! An old--old man sat in his cottage on the verge of the Black Forest. He had numbered ninety years; his head was completely bald--his mouth was toothless--his long beard was white as snow, and his limbs were feeble and trembling. He was alone in the world; his wife, his children, his grandchildren, all his relations, in fine, _save one_, had preceded him on that long, last voyage, from which no traveler returns. And that _one_ was a gra
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