Connecticut western news., 1877-08-24

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 "We must be very near. The road where Morley is waiting is one mile this side of the town. There! look there is the clump of trees he told us about. The road is three miles from this point. We must work now.'
 "What if the old fellow is sham ming?" -' ..'.'' s..r .u-.
 ''I'll use the handkerchief effect ively!" '~.. .' .. ....u
 ''All right"
 The youngest of the party now arose and walked up the aisle to the further end of the coach.
 He cast a quick but scrutinizing look at the white-haired man, who, despite his suspicious, had fallen asleep. For three successive days he and his daugh- ter had been on the train, and during the time the father had slept but little. His child's objections to the sleeping coaches had been listened to, and the twain had not quilted the through pas senger car.
 They were travelling to one of the largest cities in the east, where they hoped to dwell until death should tear them apart and call each from the world. ..~ .g l Cyrus Radcliffe-for such was the fathers name-was banker of emil hence in a city far west of the Allegha- nies. His wealth was the F'open se- some' into the highest society of the land, but he was not putfed with the pride that is generally found with riches. Having no relatives, save his daughter, he fixed the great love of his heart upon her, and it was a love vaster than his wealth, deeper than the sea. | But let us return to the scene in the through car, moving at the rate of twenty-seven miles an hour. .a1.'. | The man at the end of the car glided toward his victim, the old gentleman. His movements were watched by the associate whom he had left in the seat. When he paused beside his victim he drew handkerchief from his bosom. Then the faint odor of chloroform be- came prevalent, and the handkerchief was held under Cyrus Radcliffe's nos trils. .. -.. While this was being done the blue eyed man left his seat, and came up the aisle till he passed his confederate, and stood beside the sleeping girl. . - "Shall dose the others?" asked the young man in whisper as he glanced at the three remaining passengers who were asleep in their respective seats.
 "No! they'll not awaken,' was the reply. ."Now give Mabel a bit--not too much !' ,.. ,, ...s
 The chloroformed handkerchief with drawn from MT. Radcliffe, was applied to his daughter, who unconsciously in- haled the powerful anaesthetic. ..
 A moment later the agent of villainy was restored to his bosom and with a look up and down the car the eldest man lifted Mabel from the seat.
 "We must be near the road. Ring the engineer down to slower time. Quickr' ..-..'. A 7 --'3 These words were spoken to the young man who caught the bell rope and tugged at it manfully. 'f
 "Curse it '" he exclaimed. cit seems to have caught somewhere. The train is increasing it's speed"
 The face of the man who held Mabel in his arms suddenly grew pale.
 'Jerk it with all your might" he cried to his confederate.
 The man obeyed and the rope snapped in twain.
 ''The jig is up, Pm afraid. There we've passed the road. It seems to me that we're going at the rate of forty miles an hour." --.-
 "Yes, fifty of them !'' said his com panion between his teeth. -'
 At that moment the door before them swung open, and Conductor Davis stepped into the coach.
 The blue-eyed man hastened to place Mabel in the seat from which he had lifted her without being seen by the conductor. But in this he had failed.
 "Gentlemen, said Davis, calmly and at the same time displaying a revolver, "you will oblige me by returning to the seat you have lately occupied. Your little scheme of abduction has failed, and would inform you that you will be under guard the remainder of the run. Any attempts to escape might be attended with serious results. I wit messed your villainy from the platform.
 The rascals did not reply, but with dogged sullenness dropped into the seat and two brakemen, armed with revol- vers, were placed over them.
 A physician, who was passenger on the train, attended to MT. Radcliffe and his daughter, and in due time they re- covered from the effects of the chloro- form.
 When Mabel looked upon the blue eyed man, she recognized Jared Abbott rejected lover. His confederate Bur- dock, she did not know. The man who was waiting near the station for the ab- ducting party never fell into the clutches of the law; but it is certain that the principal and his eager assist ant saw the inside of penitentiary.
 It was Dick Davis hand that held the bell-rope while Burdock tugged at it, and his signal that increased the speed of the train, thus effectively pre- venting the williams escape.
 Cyrus Radcliffe proffered Conductor Dick a handsome check for his services ; | but it was refused, and the reward that he finally accepted, was the hand of the through passenger.
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