Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-01-17

Proceed, Monsieur"
"Are you William ByerIy?'
Are you related to bim7'
NO."
Are you friend of bis p
mo"
DO you intend to use my reply in a
legal ~ayr
No
rs your object in these questions
friendly d' p
1 "en'nre TO say, that
sho, der pres.p, c,rcum.
s'ahfS sy lite IN The hands ut
"'iI'"'h !. provided there were
single ,haass 81 hIs .sca ping detection in
case ot ~ihiuI murder.'
"vyery we'll May now proceed ?"
"le., Monsiear'
"Iou viii please answer to each state
meh' OF rDin- as il question were d.
r-c'ly pn'. On your way to Dove: a fel.
low traveller made your acquaintance p
Yes"
You first saw him at Tunbridge p
"Yrs."
You first noticed him while YOU were
taking SINE reireshmen, at resturaEtY
"lps."
lie came up alongside Of you having
| a carpet.bny in his hAn!, ard made some
commonplace remark about the weather ?"
Yes | continued to answer, getting
more and more aslunished every minute.
Nv kat could it all mean? Had every
action of my life been noted ? and for
what purpose? Ny strange interroga,er
proceeded:
This stranger was dressed in blue
coal, with bright metal buttons, nankeen
trowsers. butt vest, u parti colored neck
erch'et a white bat and black buots ?"
"Yes"
" He bad reddish hair reddish whiskers,
patch over hl, lett eyer
"Yes.'
After soma common place remarks, he
ve"tured 10 ask you which way you were
trave!lng?'
Yes
"lou replied you were going to PARISH"
"Ies"
He was delighted to hear it, because
he vas going there also, and it was very
pleasan', in a foreign country, to have i,
travelling companion from ones native
land
"Iesn
"On the whole, he made so favorable
al impression upon your uu.uspcious
mind, thar you were we'll pleased to have
his company p
"Yes.'
40" your way to Dover he gave you
some account OF LIS past lile-oi his
trials, s'rngsies, dIsappo ntments aud sue
cesse,
YES"
tie was an inventor-a man of genius
who had lived TO hencht mankind aud
h'ms,H? Eng and owed much to him.
and 80 did f!unce, and 50, IA fac, did the
Whose world
HIS staleiaentS were TO that effect
Very we'll, M,n,.eur, as have shown
you that kno" the naiuIe Of your GOA.
vrrsat'"n, II Is aoi necessary that weary
You with detail. lhls man. the Inventor,
vas going to Paris to lake out patent
tor new motive power-one that was
destined to revoiulIonIze the world. lie
was very sorry he could not show it to
you then but uutll his papers should be
hIed ~ the proper uepartment, he would
not trust hl, ta,her with the secret
All correct, Monsieur
Now. most uni,r. unarely, as it ap.
peared Oh reaching Dover, where you were
10 take The regular steam packe, for Calais,
your new acquaintance, IN sume way un.
.uuwn TO you, received the startling Intel.
ligrnce that his father was lying Oh the
point OF death, VIII ch would require him
t. post to noL don immediately; AID would
you, ia whom be had every confidence, do
him The favor 10 take charge Of small
box, containing some important papers,
AMI, on your ARRIVAL IN Pars, oleu 1t,
aud deliver them 10 their proper address?'
Yes. Mouseur. said |, becoming most
intensely Interested.
&C Naaily, Monsieur continued the
F' lis nor one of your iaiIlngS,
y say. ur You might not nov
be hear what have to reveal
"t Aievers T. calculated I-"what
is coming now -
That same box, Monsieur. is an in
trrnal machlne, Intended 10 destroy your
lIte 'he tu"ment you opeucd II J.
"Gracious Uud T. exclaimed. with
lhn'I "t horror--" can 1t DC possible 2
" / will prove it. Get it, and come with
me before a Commissary OF Polic.!'
lay, Monsieur. who are your
4 secret 0ye"t cf police"
! haslened TO get the box, handling it
with great care, and together We preceded
to the nearest Commissars, when, with
my permission, 1t was spill, open and 10.
To my aston,shed and horriied gaze was
revealed row OF small loaded pis uls, SO
arranged that, had unlocked and opened
the box in an ordinary way, they would
have been discharged into my body.
On my subsequently asking for an ex-
plana'ion concerning this mysterious nj
ta,r--how So much connected with myself
aud Others had become known to the po-
lice of foreign ci,y-I WAS gravely, but
politely, answered
at is not allowed us, Monsieur, to re
veal our sources of iniormnlion. We are
happy to have thwarted the plans Of yil.
lain, and saved your life