Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28

travelling. The past is always praised in
order to spite the present"
| Then we fell to reading. We had scarcely
begun before-whirr the darkness of
tunnel fell upon me.
'' 1t is always 50. said my amusing com
panion. - never began to read in a railway
in my life that We did not pass through a tun
mel before had well got through the first
page"
Ny travelling companion was an extraor-
binary person. He had been everywhere,
/ and seen everything. No capital Of Europe
bat he knew intimately.
- You seem surprised he SAID, - at my
having travelled 50 much but when was at
Oxford | spent all my long vacations in
travelling and during the little time | was
/ in the army, before more serious convictions
: induced me to enter the Church, saw some
| thing Of the colonies"
The Wears information seemed bOundless.
He discussed the geology of Deyonshire ard
the mineralogv Of Cornwall He had views
on military tactics and artillery. He was
Interested IN engineering and chemistry, and
/ seemed quietly conversant with all the latest
/ discoveries in the latter science.
- | went the other day. he said 10 me, as
/ it began To grow dark, - to a lecture On al
chemy. The professor expressed his belief
I in great discoveries shortly to be made, IN
something that would supersede coal and
steam, in aerial navigation, and in the trans
mutation Of metals. But tire you?'
" Not at all. .'
90 lie expressed his own and Liebig's belief
that the manufacture of diamonds and gold
would soon be possible by the merest tyro.
I lie showed US small rubes that had been
/ produced by chemical action. There seemed
no bound to the discoveries this thoughtful
man did not suggest-the principle Of beef
and corn from the common earth. gold and
1 Jewels from the very roadside hints; gold
/ would soon, he said, be OF no value, poverty
would disappear from the earth new manures
would turn the deserts into prairies, and
/ double the resources of the world. He ridi-
/ culed steam he
All this was profoundly Interesting but,
I somehow or other, wearied by long days
/ tagging about London, | felt drowsy, and the
words Of my companion seemed suddenly to
change into a buz, buz, baz, buz, thar kept
/ in cadence with the sound of the train as it
/ tore through part Of Deyonshire.
fell asleep, and dream arose before me.
was alone at night in a railway carriage
with a man who thought me asleep. lie
stole toward the door, unlocked it quietly
with railway key ne drew from his pocket
and opened It. Then riding my pockets,
/ (s0me strange numbness prevented my crying
out.) he dragged Inc to the door, and shot
me outlnr3 the darkness The horror Of that
moment and some rustling movement i'm the
carriage awoke me. scarcely knew why.
. but Il strange instantaneous caution pre-
vented me moving or at once opening my
ewes At that moment ] felt light hand,
with practiced care, touch my breast pocket
where my money was, and felt hot breath
uuon NV cheek, as if some one was listening
to my breathing.
Presently felt the breath np longer, nor
the motion of the hand, and heard my COM
puion-tar the breath and hand were his
return 20 bis seat. 4 moment or two after
without moving, l opened one eve for an in
slant only. and % my horror and surprise
saw the lear sitting at the further window
perfectly bald. and with a Wig IN hi7 hand
a uair Of black mustachcs and beard We're
on mis- knees and he was slipping pair of
large green =pectacles into shagreeu case
iitJle bottle and a small sponge were on the
cushion by his side.
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this intellectual thoughuu! clergyman was
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