The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-15

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Fairfax did not leav6 the hot
again, but amused himself. Wit
reading,th papers In the COTE
& room. Once during the evehin,
y in casting his eyes. toward ii
q window, he-saH the man who ha
y inspected him SO narrowly thu
" morning Ia earnest conversatio
with the bo0tsiof the, hotel
: He rather wondered who thi
\ fellow could be, but forebore I
= make anysihquiries. So ~ So
II The train for Dublin ieft d.
= at twenty minutes past ten. Will
eating his breakfast he again sa,
the man ofthe preceding day eol
: the pavement opposite :watchinI
him. He asked the waiter VIII
he was, and was told that hi
name, was Daniel Terry, generalII
supposed 20 have been concernec
In the murder ofLord, Ormadown
: but that heshad been acquitted.
9 The man had walked away o.
meeting Fairfax's eye, and thl
time having now arrived TO go t
the station, the Young fellow bust
ed himself with packing his port
manteau, thinking to himself, thai
If this Terry had any desire to dc
him q mischief, the opportunity
would very soon be gone -
u Having paid his bill, Fairfax
followed by the boots, who car.
tried his portmateau, walked leis.
ure1y to the station, and procur-
ing a first-class ticket, was shown
into q carriage. +. -, 30.
! The platformswas singularly va
can't of passengers. He was hot
sure, indeed, that he was not the
only traveller He mentioned this
to the guard, who told him that
the train stopped at W.,
where they would probably pick
Iup full cargo. To W. the
train was express. e. ,a-.-;rza9 edT
! He pulled a paper from his peck
ct. and began to read. Presently
he heard the guard calling to
know if they were already for
ward. There was a shrin whistle,
the engine gave a snort, but sud
denly rose a cry: - - --.l-..-.
''Hould a minutei Hould a min
.uter' .lra aa
1 A mans face peered into Fair
fax's carriage, the handle OF the
door was turned, and a passenger
bounded in.
4 fright noWp' cried the guard.
= The engine whistled and away
they went. v-.. pr. '5s
Fairfax had uttered an exclama-
tion on seeing who his fellow-pas-
senger was. Though his face was
crimson with running, and the
thin lips parted with the violence
of breathing, the Malignant gilt
tering eyes, the. animal-Iike
mouth, and the desperate, menac-
ing expression of his face, were
not to be mistaken as belonging
to the peasant who had been
watching him with so strange and
sinister an inspection. . .lsazsr. /
He had made no change in his
attire. His clothes were of the1
coarsest, his hair was rough and
wild. He screwed himself into the |
corner of the compartment oppo-
site the corner occupied by Fair
fax, and with frowning brow
looked sullenly out of the, Window. |
What was this mans object?
p Fairfax could not tell. If it was
a murderouG one, he had him in
his power now, for the young fell
low was unarmed; nor did he feel |
himself a match for those shufders
and great muscular arms, and
hands of granite, which he saw by
the mans eyes could be directed
by o spirit a laWless and terrible
as that of the tigers. '1n,-
Fairfax pretended to read, tax
ing care, however, constantly to
watch the man over the top of the
paper. The man himself did not
stir, but sat like a statute of stone,
rigid, silent, deadly. So Il
3 On rushed the train, thunder
ing through rocks and cliffs. 1t
soon entered a mountainous dis
trict, and suddenly the engine
blew long whistle, which leaped
from crag to crag, and with the |
noise of a thunderbolt falling |
among the Alpine mountains, the |
train rushed into tunnel.
{ The abrupt change from broad
daylight to a gloom deeper than
night made it impossible fer, Fair
fax to use hisleyes. orHe tried to
pierce the darkness, and while do
ing so felt the mans hands upon |
his throat, while a voice shouted
some words which it was impossi-
Bile to catch.
= The dread of death, the love of
lite, the unutterable horror of the |
situation were strong in Fairfax. |
He struggled with the fury of q |
mailman, but the iron arms of hisI
assailant were too powerful; and |
step by step, he felt dragged to |
the door, through which, it was
plain, the man intended to hurl |
him on to the rails. 11#
He believed death to be certain;
but ia that extreme hour of NOR
tai anguish grew the frey resolu-
ton that, if he was to die, the
eowardly wretch he struggled with
should die toO...Yf s..--.s., --E |
So Amid the thunders awakened by
the passage of the train through
the tnnnel, the two men wrestled.
The door was dashed open; the
man had his hand on Fairfax's
throat, Fairfax his hand entwined
in the handkerchief around the
others neck. The train, taking
sharp curve, heeled over, and the
two men fell out. @
The man was underneath.
This probably saved Fairfax's life.
The. fall had either stunned or
killed him, for he lay quiet. His
hand had relinquished Fairfax's
throat. -, -, ...y..
The young man staggered to
his feet. The tunnel was pitch
dark. After he heard the roar of
the retreating train; then came a
silence as deep as the grave.
He stumbled against the rails
until his hands touched the damp,
cold walls of the tunnel. He be-
gan to walk rapidly through.
On! on! Suddenly he stopped.
A faint, low murmur grew upon the
air. IL RAPIDLY increased like the
sound of thunder, gathering
strength each second. The perspir-
alton started upon his forehead /; he.
fell upon his knees. That sound he,
the tunnel: e'- l- ~
o Which side was he on7s In the.