Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-09-02

to mention that this chamber was dark
room, and was occupied by the brothers
as sleeping apartment. A few minutes
after this Teddy Horley bounded up the
steps and entered the living-room, which
was between the dark chamber and his
| mothers bedroom. Finding his mother
absent, he crossed the hall and knocked
at Miss Layne's door, The little maiden
hushed her song and opened it.
| "Oh, Teddy, it's you, is itP" she
said.
'sSure it is, swateness. Who else could
| it bepn
~ thought it was Patsy" she said,
tantaEizingly.
Then there was a struggle, stifed
| scream, and a smack, smack of lips.
| The noise disturbed tipsy Patsy, and he
rose from his bed and opened the door
entering into the hallway. The scufhe
outside continued and there was more
smacking. Presently Alice cried:
"Oh, Teddy Horley. you're perfectly
! horrid, and / don't like you one bit,
therei"
Now, darlintr' began Teddy.
"Don't darlint me, don't like you.
You are better looking and finer dressed
| than Patsy, but he is thousand times
bitter than you."
! Perhaps ye're in airnest." said Teddy,
| falittle passionately. There's many
| Rrue word spoken in jest"
| Y" Well, / am in earnest. / do like
| katsy, and if he'd ask me to marry him
n is day, I'd Jump at the chance. So
Kere, now, you have the truth"
kThen the door was slammed, and l
heard Teddy walking slowly back into
Tc hn,-1r prsnc nr1fI Ivy hn--
came knock at my door, and when I
cried 'scome in" Patsy's freckled face
appeared on the threshold. / spoke to
him kindly and invited him to have
chair. He sat down, and / saw that
what he had heard had sobered him.
After a moments silence he cleared his
throat and began:
did We hear what she said?"
:" Yes. Patsy" replied.
can do ye belaive she names it?" he
continued, eagerly.
81 have no doubt of it."
"God bless her-swate souli I'm not
the man for her, an l niver tot she
eared for me. If could only bring me-
self to belaive it's thrue. I'd be a differ
ent man.
He sat in silence for some time and
then rose to 60. When he reached the
door he turned and said:
:" was bit dhrunk when | come
home tonight. It's hard work beyont
there in the tunnel, but sware to ye
thai afther tonight there II never drap
of pwhisky pass my lips"
I bade him goodnight and God speed
in this new-formed resolution, and he
Shook my hand warmly. Mrs. Horley
came home and she and Patsy had sup
per together. Teddy was out. / took
short walk that evening. and coming
home passed Patsy and Alice on one of
the cross streets walking together, arm
in arm. | did net hear what they were
saying, but felt convinced Patsy had de.
clared his love and been made happy
with Alice's acknowledgment that the
passion was reciprOcated.
The next morning Patsy came to my
room before he went to his work. He
seized my hand, and look of supreme
happiness shot from his gray eyes.
''She sez she'll have me, sor," he said,
" an We'll be married ez soon ez get
through work on the tunnel. I'm
happy man, but for wan thing-is
Teddy. Poor bye, he takes it to hears,
an is not himself at all. God knows
I'm his brother, an would rather lose
me roight Land than bring harm to
him."
"Oh. that will be all right He'll get
over his disappointment in a few days."
J. said. to console him.
s'I wish I could think so," he said,
moving toward the door, and these
were tue last words l ever heard the
poor fellow utter.
Every reader has heard of the terrible
tunnel disaster, the details of which
electrified the whole country. Teddy
and Patsy Horley were employed in the
tunnel as laborers, and worked side by
side in the same relief. The morning of
my last interview with poor Patsy, they
went to their work as usual, and for the
first time in their lives spoke never a
word of kindly cheer or brotherly badin-
age as they walked swiftly through the
streets. The better to make plain what
follows, il will be necessary to say that
the entrance to the tunnel proper, on
the New York side, is through circu-
lar, perpendicular shaft, thirty feet in
diameter, and about sixty feet Deep
This is working shaft, the bottom of
which is used for the reception of waste
matter, as it is excavated, and before it
is taken away. Thirty feet below the
surface of the ground is an air lock-"
which is the sole means of communica-
ton between the tunnel and the outer
air. 1t is necessary to keep the air in
side the tunnel sufficiently compressed
to maintain pressure of seventy pounds
to the square inch, and the air lock"
serves a similar purpose to the lock of %
canal. equalizing the pressure Of the air
to those passing in or out, as canal
lock balances the level of the water. AS
a matter of course, there are two doors,
one at each end of this lock, only one of
which can be opened at once, while the
lock itself is fifteen feet long by six feet
and six inches wide, allowing for the
passage, in case of necessity, of thirty
men at once.
AS they were preparing to go down the
shaft that morning Patsy turned to his
brother and whispered:
It's quare feelin' have in me this
mornin', Teddy. May the blissed Vor-
gin protect US from harm"
Teddy laughed. '' It's the pWhisky.n
he said, and turned away, not so quick
that his eye didn't meet the reproachfuI
flash that fell from his brothers great
gray orbs. AfterWard that look haunted
him, and made the misery Of life all the
harder to bear.
Twenty-eight men composed relief.
and the work of excavation moved
along smoothly until noon. Then tbe
squad was divided Fourteen men went
to lunch; the remainder worked on
In half an hour the first squad was heard