Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-30

Before answer this question, viii you
permit me to ask some two or three p said
Proceed, Monsieur
fare you William Byerlyr
NO.
Are you related to him |?
NO.
Are you friend of his?'
Mo-
DO you intend to use my reply in a le-
gal way?'
mo-
is your object in these questions friend.
ly to me?'
Yes
Then / will venture to say that should
not like, under present circumstances, to
trust my life in the hands of William Byer-
ly, provided there was a single chance of
his escaping detection in case of wilful
murder
Very well. May now proceeds?
Yes, Monsieur
You will please answer to each state
ment of mine as if . question were directly
put. On your way tc Dover fellow trav-
efler made your acquaintance
Yes
You first saw him at Turnbridge.'
Yes
You noticed him while you were taking
some refreshments at restaurant
Yes ss...s.s
lie came up alongside Of you, having a
carpet-bag in his hand and made some
commonplace remark about the weather.
Yes continued to answer, growing
more and more nstonished every minute.
What could it oil mean? Had every
action of my life been noted? And for
what purpose?
My strange interrogation proceeded
This stranger was dressed IN blue coat.
with bright metal buttons, nankeen trous>
ors, buff vest. part;-cOlored neckerchief,
a Kite hat and black boots
Yes,
lie had reddish har, reddish Yhiskers.
horid complexion, ard wore q green
patch over his left eye
Yes
After some common place remarks, he
ventured to ask you which way you were
travelling
Yes
Yes
He was delighted to hear it, because he
was going there also, and it was very
pleasant, in foreign country, to have a
travelling companion from ones native.
land
Yes
On the whole, he made so favorable an
impression upon your unsuspiciuus mind
that you was quite pleased to have his
company
Yes
'On your way to Dover, he gave you
some account Of his past life-of his trials,
struggles, disappointments and successes
lie was an inventor, and a man of
genius. who had lived to benefit mankind
and himself England owed much to him,
ard SO did France; and so, in fact, did the
whole world
His statements were TO that effect
very we'll, Monsieur, as l have shown
you that know the nature of your CONVEX
sation, 1t Is net necessary that l weary YOU
with detail. This man, the inventor, was
goi9g to Paris TO take out 3 patent for
new motive pOwer-one that was destined
to IevUlutiob.ze the world. lie was very
sorry he could not show it to you then, but
until his Tapers shouid be 6lsd in the
proper department, he would not trust his
own father with tue secret
All correct, Monsieur
Now, most unfortunately, as it appears,
en- reaching Dover, where you were to take
the regular steam packet for Calais, your
new acquaintance, in some way unknown
to you, received the startling intelligence
that his father was lying at the poirt of
death, which would require him to post to
London Immediately; ard would you, in
whom he had every confidence, do him the
favor to take charge of small box, con-
talnirg some important papers, and on your
arrival in Paris, open it, and deliver them
to the proper address p
Yes, Monsieur said l, becoming most
intensely interested.
Curiosity, Monsieur continued the
Frenchman, SIS not one of your fallipgs. l
am happy to say, or you might not now be
living to bear what have TO reveal
Good Heaven = calculated I, what is
coming now?'
That same box, Monsieur, is an infer
nal machine, intended to destroy your life
the moment you opened ftp
Gracious God y exclaimed with n thrill
of horror, can this be possible? p
4 will prove it. Get it, and come with
me before a commissary of police
a secret agent of police
i fastened to get the box, handling II
with great care, and together we proceed :
ed to the nearest commissary, when. with
my permission, it was split open, and 10 !
to my establishment and Mortified gaze was
revealed row Of small loaded pistols so
arranged that, had unlocked and open.
ed the box III an ordinary way, they would
have been discharged into my body.
On my subsequently asking Cor an ex>
Pianatlon concerning this mysterious affair
how so much connected with myself and
others had become known TO the police Of
foreign cIty-the reply was:
1T is not allowed US, Monsieur, to reveal
our sources of information. We are happy
to have thwarted' the plans of q villain, and
saved your Hfe.'
never knew who that villain was
though always suspected ByerIy Of hav-
ing hand in It. l do not know that nv
life was again attempted; but certain it il
that never again permitted intimacy from
an unknown stranger. On nv accession
to the title and estates, which occurred the
following year, did not forget to reward
Eugene st. Medard, secret agent Of police
as thought he deserved to be rewarded
for the preservation of my life. And &c
this day have not ceased to wonder over
the perfection Of the French system Of
police.
With the exception of substituting fc
titious names for resl,ones, the foregoing
may be regarded as the authentic nara.
tive Of an English nobleman to an Ameri
can friend.