Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07

| would see in such an accident the won
derful machination of an unrclenting
Ruler, who has said: Vengeance is
mine"
Never until now had VelasGuez re.
Elected on the possible results of the re-
pulsive acts of his life. His immunity
from discovery had only tended to
harden his soul and he had ever been
prompted by one impulse only-greed
| for wealth-which when acquired had
never brought him any genuine pleas
| ure. He had never once stopped to
think of the price his victims paid to
| satisfy his own insatiate desires. He
had been absorbed in self and h ad lived
a life in which none others shared a
part But now that the hellish conceits
of his debased mind could only spend
| themselves on four prison walls, he was
forced to think.
Leon Velasquez, running riot as one
of the most active of the devils en-.
missaries, had never paused to think of
the eXactness with which Gods mills
grind all, had never thought it worth
his while to consider that those who es-
cape the mills the longest are in the
end ground more quickly and relent-
lessly. He was in the mills now and
the great stones were beginning to re-
volve; so closely, SO surely increasing
the speed of their revolutions every mo-
ment, never to cease grinding until the
| grist should be fine as the finest powder.
His nights grew restless, sleep al
| most forsook him, and the little
snatches OF mapping which he did
sometimes secure were only ftful
slumbers disturbed by horrible dreams
| which brought to his mind in turn,
| like moving panorama, the scenes OF
| his devilish acts. Bold as he had been
| through life, he now shuddered under
| the shadow of the gallows, and so fear
| full was the mental torture that at times
he wished that the end might be speedy.
When the bolts shot into their sock
cts across his prison door all hope fed,
and he knew full we'll that he would,
after all these years of liberty, meet the
penalty of his greatest crime From the
hour of his arrest he had been moody,
| and entirely ceased to speak to those
who approached him. He neither ex-
| pressed hope of escape nor murmured
at his fate. Some imagined that the
were perhaps the cause of his silence,
| though others avowed that he was only
| meditating bold and final plunge for
| liberty. Be that as 1t might he per-
sisted in moroSe reticence.
While he fingered in prison Mrs. De-
| laro and her friends were taking a rest
from the intense excitement at pretty
little English watering place, trying in
vain to forget fot time the final TRACE
dy in which they must take an import
| ant part.
Mr.. Blodger had been completely out
done by the scenes he had witnessed.
He made hurried determination to re-
| turn to America and never again assist
at such exciting performances. He re-
ceived so severe a nervous shock that
all the poetry of his soul was crushed
out, and he was compelled to postpone
for an indefinite period the writing of an
ode to Father Thames, in which he had
avowed his intention Of putti ng a vast
amount of research, labor and thought.
The world was thus robbed of another
literary gem.
He was true to his word, and week
after Velasquez's incarceration Mr..
panied him to Euston station and babe
him God speed" on his journey home.
About five weeks later Mrs. Delaro,
Armida and Percy returned to London
to meet the American detectives, who
had arrived with the eXtradition papers.
It required but a short space of time to
perfect the arrangements for Velasquez's
removal to California soil, where the
law required that he should take his
trial for the crime Of murder. Every
body concerned was anxious to start as
soon as possible, and it was arranged
that the prisoner should be taken by
the same steamer as the others, and no
one made any demur to this except
Armida. When she heard the decision
she said: 1--WE must not travel on the
same ship with that man. / am sure
something dreadful will happen-he
will be veritable Jonah"
What nonsense you talk, my child.
Such absurd forebodings never enter my
mind" said her mother.
Here Percy proffered a suggestion. eff
you ladies would prefer sailing on some
other vessel, will secure passage for
you. For my part, l do not wish 20
leave the prisoner again until leave
him in felon's grave. | want to know
all the time that he is safe"
Exactly my feelings in the matter"
said Mrs. Delaro.
This seemed to settle the question,
for Armida said: Then, since you are
determined, suppose 1 must consider
myself overruled."
Consequently, arrangements were
party started for Liverpool
The ship on which their passage had
been secured was the "Dunrobin Cas-
tie" 1t was an unpopular steamer and