Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-09

carriage. Do you think he would be likely
to fail into our plans p
No, Alice; I have thoaght of that. II
you have courage-and know you have
and are very, very quick, We can escape and
defy him. Now listen, and don't be afraid.
just before we get to Liverpool, the train
enters tunnel, and inside the mouth of the
tunnel we stop for minute-a bare mo-
ment-to make sure shat all is clear, will
have the door open. and I will take YOU in
my arms and get out: it will be perfectly
easy and safe; and Polly shall follow with
out one instant of delay. Then we hold
our breaths, and stand in the darkness
close up to the tunnel wall for only q mo-
ment, until the train rushes by; and then
we get quietly out, take to the road, and
getR carriage at the nearest inn, and drive
TO any station on the line, where we can
wait for the Scottish mail. Your uncle WI,
only suppose that you have put off conlng
for day; he will grumble and wait for to.
morrow without doing or even suapectine
anything, and then it will be too late"
'If We are killed"
dearest, do you think I would expose
you to any danger?"
'.No. Harold, it was not that. I was on
ly going to say that ii we are killed.
mean even l. we are killed-we shall be
killed together T. 0a
Harold embraces his intrepid and das-
perate fdncee, and the plan wasresolved
on. A few whispered words conveyed the
whole to stout-hearted Polly, who had q
romantic heart, and would have gone with
these lovers any where-leaped with them
out of an express train flying at full speed
rather than desert them. The moments
went by; the tunnel was near; the two
young barriers had long since been fast
asleep in good reality; Harold softly OPEN
ed the door, and stood close to it with
Alice in his arms; the faithful Polly loaded
herself with sucn of her mistress's cloaks
and shawls and things as she could attempt
to carry; the train began already to slacken
its speed; they were at the mouth of the
tr mel; Harold said, in q whisper, "Now
loveT And Alice shut her eyes, and
pressed her face against his shoulder.
The train ratified and crashed through
the eehoing tunnel. The hollow, hideous
revefberations aroused our sleeping barris-
teiB. Sargent started up, and rubbed his
eyes,
"Hallo, Rossmore, this is the Edgehill
Tunnel We shall be in Liverpool in
moment. Shake yourself up, old boy ?"
Albright, replied Rossplore, yawning.
.'Glad we're in. But I say, Sargent, look
here-why-did we stop anywhere ?"
''Of course not. Why do you ask? ?"
"Then where are our fellow travellers ?"
Good Heavens To be sure, where are
they? forgot all about them. But they
We're here-that's certain; and we stopped
at no station, and now they are gone !"
"Contound it, | never knew any thing
like that That man, Harold, whoever he
was, came In mysteriously, and now he
has gone out even more mysteriously, and
spirited away the two women along with
him ]"
Il say, Rossmore, how If your sugges-
uion of this evening should have turned out
prediction? Have we had ghosts III our
railway train?"
Both laughed-both were increduIous-
an i the t1aln lIshed into the crowded,
busting, blazing station at Liverpool. Our
friends spoke to the guard of the train, who
was much amazed at first to hear of the
disappearance of the three passengers; but
he seemed to think that, in the case of so
audacious lover as Harold Rivers, any
thing was possible; and then, there was a
momentary stoppage in the tunnel
So the barristers made no further inqui-
ries, but took it for granted that all was
right somehow, and went to their hotel.
They heard the end of tho story, how
ever, even before they returned to London.
for they met Harold Rivers and his young
wife in Liverpool ten days after. The pair
had just returned from Scotland, where
they were married. They had, of course,
written off at once to Alice's mother, an
nc lnclng their marriage, and they were in
good hope that she would soon accept the
situation. They could afford to wait q
little, for they were married and happy,
and Harold had made up his mind that he
would not go 70 the West Indies