Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
WEEKLY GAZETTE: WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY AUGUsTs

skylight high up among the iron ties and
rafters of the roof. all was deep gloom
Then as he went on rolling up his
sleeves, his right hand rested for a
moment on hard, knotty ace in his
arm.
He paused again and laughed pie
antly as he felt the hard knot of bone
which had formed at the junction of the
fractures
Gwen, saved her dear life, he
said aloud ''That's something for q
man to think about all the rest of his
life -
He started and listened.
What s that?' he said. ''Why, I m
as nervous as an old woman-over ex-
cited, 1 suppose, through beng on the
brink of success. Now, III soon send
light through the gloom and make the
place warm and bright.
He struck a match, the tiny fame
quIvered and then burned clearly, and
he set light to the paper and wood in a
little ready-laid furnace.
The wood cracked and spluttered, and
then as Martin Dene turned a tap in a
pipe low Kissing and humming noise
commenced very softly, making the fire
glow, for pipes were connected with the
steam blast of other furnaces, and there
was always pressure enough of a night
for his little experiments.
''Hah!'' he calculated, "that' bet
ter, - and he stood watching the little
experimental furnace as the charcoal be-
gan to glow, and he turned on more and
more of the oxygen bearing
stream, till the fire grew
from red to orange, from orange TO
yellow to pale yellow, to white of SO daz-
zling a nature that his eyes ached with
the bIlliancy of the light which illumined
his countenance, and gave it look Of
triumph, while the black smoke and SCOT
begrimed beams started out in golden
tint, the rusty iron was transformed and
every prominent object seemed to be
bathed in a clarifying stream
Chow lovely fire is!'' he said, as he
gazed at the wonderful rosy and blue
flames which danced above the flaming
silver and paid gold of the burning char
coal. ''Well, yes, it is indirectly for
her, and she Will reap the benefit. l
ought to be happy and full of joy
''Bahl what an idiot am! ready to
pine and peak like spoiled child because
[ cannot get everything 1 want.
Work, man, work. It's the true cure
for all heartaches, the great talisman
for all evils. Work! It is not love, but
work, that makes the world go round,
and the old song is nonsense-stuff. -
He turned now with feverish energy to
the task of charging a small tire-clay cru
chile with rough iron, and before long
the flames were playing upon this and
urged by the blast to so intense q heat
that before very long the iron began to
turn of a cherry red, then yellow, then
it were only lead.
Chow ne said - let me put this
simply and plainly before myself, and cut
away all the surplusage and confusion Of
my old experiments. What l have to do
is to burn out of this iron all its i'm
purities by means Of the oxygen Of the
air which 1 shall force into it from the
blast pipe. If l succeed I shall have
done wonders If fail
eff I fail. Hah! What shall l do
then?
''Try again - he cried and he bent
over his work, feeding the fire with little
pieces of charcoal, directing the blast
and keeping it up so as TO maintain q ire
mendous heat.
How long he had been engaged he
could not teIl-hOurs perhaps-when sud-
denly he started and turned round.
What was that?'' he said nervOusly,
and he crossed to the door and looked
ont, for it had seemed to him that the
latch had been raised, and clicked as it
fell back. Clancy, - he answered az
he looked out into the darkness and saw
that all was still around, while the glow
from distant furnaces played upward on
the dense clouds of smoke which flOated
above the town. elf feel so nervous over
esty - he said half laughingly, Chow
must a guilty man feel?' He had
closed the door and hesitated about
fastening it. "'There can be no
need - he said. "Perhaps Mr.
Swift may come later on, I hope he
will. - He walked quickly back over the
ashen floor and dlreg6sd his attention to
his crucible once m&Fe, satisfying him
self that it was thtF proper heat before
making arrangeHents for his final task.
This was the Hsest crucial part, and the
result of loax study and experiment, and
vet, like 5ss AT things, it was ex-
tremely siff5Fset IRIS 1fesfFt beat fast as
he stopped the blast which splaNe1 into
fire, adjusted a fire. clay f4Be to tfe
blast-pipe, placed the erfd in the lS9fid
metal, and then half covered tFiesgns
with bit of fire-clay.
$50 far so good, - he said. CHOW
must keep this fire up by piling on morea
charcoal. Hah! How tiresome?'' FoT7
as he stopped down TO the great basket
of iron by the furnace he found that in
his eagerness and excitement he had
gone on piling up charcoal till he had
completely emptied the supply. eff 1
only had DAN here now he muttered,
as, hurriedly catching up box, he went
through d small door at the far side of
the great buildingsEF5 reach a store of the
fuel piled up .ogtssae.
AS the doorseE6sed behind him the fur
mace lighk 2RSSlsss and less, for the
blast whiehs had made it glow and roar
had been tttnsi and, the great place
once more Tefapsed fns5aS3seurIty.
He seemed to have been very quick,
for his dark figure came h1Tr8edIY back
back into the place taFsessls AhsfriedIy |
utter an impatient exclamation,
and then go towards the outst aoor.
which was suddenly thrown open. iY7aars |
was rush of many feet, a low, falt6f@a
ing cry and then rapid blows seemed to I
fall on yielding flesh and unyielding.A
bone, as half dozen dimly seen shadoWJ
forms glided here and there.
Then one figure was seen to stag6er |
away from the group farther into the |
darkness toward the side of the place, |
and to fall with a dull heavy thud close