The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-04
INVISIBLE POWER
: Tie Secret Of Life and Death.
a. j, II. DUGANNE,
AUTHoR OF UNDER THE SHIELDS, >
THE TENANT HOUSE." THE
SEVEN CITIES, ETC.
CHAPTER XIV.
A MAN LOST.

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a s. CHAPTER XIV.
MAN LOST.
Moss Cohen got out before the New
Haven Railroad depot, and the carriage
went on. But Moss Cohen called another
carriage, of several drawn up By the curb;
and before Macy's coach could turn a cor
ner, the Jew 5 driver was lashing his horses,
with an order from his STARE TO keep that
carriage ahead in sight, If he drove all night
at FIVE dollars an hour.
WHAT impelled the old merchant to the
sudden resolution he had conceived, to pur-
sue a course like this, was not clear TO his
own mind but he had been brooding, for
some minutes, over his suspicious of the
''stutfed" man, and the pursuit he was now
making resulted from his cogitations.
In brief space, however, as the coach
ahead crossed over to Broadway, the dia-
nond merchant, with forty thousand dollars
worth of his wares, in a satchel, began to
think himself on a gooSe-chase, and that he
had better be waiting for aStarting train at
the New Haven depot. Up the lighted
thoroughfare to its junction with Sixth ave
nue., his carriage followed the other, until
arriving at Thirty-third street, 1t turned of,
through that dim cross-way,; and, after
running about half the square, was sudden
"W hats up?'' demanded Cohen, his
head thrust out quickly, at the open win
dow.
Coach ahead stopped, sir, " answered his
driver
"How do you know that - asked Cohen !,
Il can't see yard through this fog"
Neither can |, sir, ;" responded the man
of instinct "But l know d il pulled up, be-
cause, you see, there amt nOthin' passed
wonder corner laInp-poStp
"Ah. indeed. F" said Cohen. acknowledge
ing the man 5 light to be good, though 1t was
only city gas-hght. go on, then, at a
moderate rate, and pass the other coach"
''All right, sir, replied the voice, out OF
the fog above; and the carria gewheels moved
at q trot, Moss Cohen keeping a sharp
lookout at the window Almost Immediate
ly, however, he felt his vehicle change di-
rection, slightly, barely avoiding contact
with two coaches, abreast, as he could plain
ly see, on the ight of the dark street.
He saw more than two coaches, in that
rapid glance which took them in its sweep.
He saw what appeared to be a struggle be
tween several figures, standing on the
ground, between those two vehicles; and
though he heard not n sound, and caught no
CLEAN of any weapon, the sharp-eyed lie
brew was convinced that foul play" was
going on.
Moss Cohen's first impulse was to check
his driver, and leap out, revolver in hand, to
Macy's assistance sure that he must be IN
deadly peril. Then he considered that the
Arsenal would be in sight at Seventh ave
| nue., and aid might be summoned from the
military there. Nevertheless, he felt those
other carriages must be kept in sight, and
his best plan, therefore, was to reconnoitre
them, while he despatched the driver for
police or soldiers. Acting on this resolve,
he stopped his coach again, and got out on
the pavement.
Hardly was his foot down, however, than
: he heard the rattle of wheels, and became
aware Of a movement to the rear, by those he
was pursuing. Instantly he climbed to the
box-seat, and bade his driver follow. Again
the wheels spun, and In q couple Of inmates,
their team was hard upon the hindmost
coach, just crossing Broadway. And mere
the two fugitive coaches separated, one keep
ing the line of thirty-third street, the other
urged at full speed. up Broadway.
(which is our MANI" demanded Cohen
of his driver, as they saw the two vehicles in
advance dIyerging.
'Yonder's the coach, but there's nary
round hat on that feiier," replied the keen
eyed young man " lose full face Cohen,
could now remark. under Broadway lights,
as an intelligent one. There's been swap
of tiles, or a swap Of ribbons -
keep this coach in sight, and let the
other go, was Cohen's order, and the chase
continued up Broadway, both teams at a
speed, ''eordin' to regulation, as the
keen-eyed youth remarked.
Out Broadway and Moss Cohenis horses
maEifestly the Lest for, though they were
held in more than once, they overlook the
other coach just as it rolled away from
Broadway into Seventh avenue, near Forty
second street. Neck and dneck the two teams
kept, for another square, in the obscuri3
and then Moss Cohen lcveled lis revolver,
and shouted:
g Hold your horses, or III put bullet
through them!
And, as in respnnee to this daring man
date, veil sounded within the other car
riage, aud n crash Of glass succeeded, as an
arm was dashed through the window.
The driver of that other earrlage only
looked once around, when Cohen 5 loud
summons reached him; and tl.en rs the noise
of breaking glass followed, pulled up Las
horses with jerk and il an instant scrala-
bled from his seat, and disappeared Upon tie
sidewalk.
s'-I l thought we were on the trackt'' ez-
claimed Moss Cohen, as he alighted between
those pairs of painting animals, JGst as the
other carriage-door was forced open, and a
man sprang out.
revolver in land.
'sNary Macy, - replied an individual, with
q red muffler round his throat and round
hat on Its me; them copper-heads has
got Mr.. Macy"
Heavens . exclaimed Cohen, in dismay.
'IIe's IN the other carriage"
''Yes, SIR answered the driver in q round
! hat; ''They chloroformed both on Us; but |
/ ducked under this here red nufher and
slcyad 'Dossan."