text:  Behind her stood the stately form of the Ober-Amtmann--every muscle of his usually stern face now struggling with emotion--his hands clenched together--his head bowed down; for he had learned from his brother the Prince that the female lying before him--the woman whom he had himself condemned to the stake was really the mistress of his younger years--the seduced wife of the man whom he had killed--his victim Margaret Weilheim