St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-25

turning up the collars of their coats.
AT Mullingar they were particularly
vigilant. just as the bell rang, and
after the fat officers had struggled back
into their compartment. Mr.. Davitt,
yielding to a temporary impulse, pushed
our door open, and jumping out on the
platform, shouted sharply to nobody:
Now, there! Out with our traps!
Quick -
The detectives heard the order, and
in an instant chaos reigned among
them. They tioundered around wildly
in their den, shouting hotly to one
open and the moon-faced one dashed
ahead to stop the engineer lin
the queens name," while the
others bombarded the station with
rugs, valiSes, shawls, hat boxes, canes,
umbrellas, grip sacks, pipes, lunch
baskets, travelling caps, and parcels,
finally tlOundering out themselves. The
guards came running up from the ends
of the train, and the uniformed police
men at the station called loudly TO
everybody to ''lend hand there like a
hearty lad" Everybody proceeded to
do it by means of tloundering all over
every one else. The passengers, OBJ
serving the row, came Swarming ont of
the train to learn the particulars of the
escape of Dayitt and the American
general"
Meanwhile we sat calmly smoking
within our compartment, and when we
were eventually discovered there, the
feeling of the British detectives were
too vast for expression. They slowly
loaded their traps into the compartment
again and slowly followed them amid
the JeerS of the passengers and the
crowd. Even more, for as the train
moved off one of the guards, who had
been winged in the back of the head by
flying ValiSe, rOared:
"Three cheers for Michael Davitt, and
may God bless himW
The cheers were given with force
that shook the windows as the train
moved out. They were repeated time
and again until we were out of hearing.
At every stop after this somebody was
sent to our compartment by the detect
ives, if they did not visit it themselves,
and the fact that We had passed through
such and such stations was duly tele-
graphed to Dublin.
On one occasion the emlSSary was
ragged little man who had been picked
up at the station. He opened the door
softly and said in a wheedling voice:
Has either of you gintlemen got an
evening paper?" We did not answer.
1t had grown late, and the petty perSe-
cution of the clumsy fools was annoy
ing. l was partially asleep and Mr..
Davitt fully so. The man repeated his
request a second and third time. Then
he took me into his confidence and said
bluntly: please is that Mr.. Davltt?'
did dot answer and he pushed his way
in. 1t was very late and the air freeZ-
ing cold. | shouted Justify for the guard
and he rushed up.
What right have these tramps rush
ing in and out of this compartment at
the StatiOnS?"
at can't be helped, sir"
But | object. We've paid our money,
and we're entitled to the privileges OF
the road"
The guard took off his hat to Mr..
Davitt, and said softly: God speed
you, SIR" Then he threw the ragged
representative of the government out,
and. going to the door, turned in, and
said to me:
''It's the police, sir, that cause all the
annoyance. The railroad is not respon-
sible.''
At Woodlawn there were twelve
muddy and travel-stained policemen on
the platform. Again the detectives un
loaded all their luggage, and hurriedly
loaded it all up again as we went on to
Galway. Once here we went to bed, with
the detectives stillwatching us with their
usual Sagacity, and as | write this morn
ing in the railway hotel, two of them
radiate around me constantly trying,
with painful persistency, to find out
what it is about and what am going to
with it.