Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-16


subject signalod out for destruction. No,
something much moro dainty and origi
nal. Not even the most up to date nihil
ist had SO far aspired to fame by contriv-
ing n bomb which could be eaten, and
which in the act would destroy forever the
partaker's taste for the sweets of life. 1t
was to be left to Pctrus Tritrcff to inau
gurate the chocolate bomb by means of
which the head of Alexander ii would be
blown off his shoulders in the midst of
his courtiers and guards ere hand could
be raised to save him.
Two years had passed in his employers
service before Petrus considered that his
opportunity had come. In those two years
his cxpcrtness and assduity had gained
him his masters favor, and suspicion, if
any existed land where does it not exist
I'm Russia?), had been lulled Petrus was
now competent to take the place of the
master workman who continued to make
weekly fresh supply of the royal sweet.
meat should he by any accident be unable
70 attend to the important duty.
Needless to say, there came day when
the faithful workman was absent from
mis- post. Found ill i'm bed after an oven
ing's harmless enjoyment in the company
of Petrus, it may have been that the lat
tcr's knowledge of drugs had something
to do with his friends indispostion. Any
how, borcft of the mans services at tho
last moment, it fell that Petrus, with
many admonitions and supervisions, was
ordered to prepare the box of sweets. He
had been allowed previously to try his
hand at the important preparation and
had succeeded so well that the worthy pro-
priotor had no fear of a complaint from
his royal master.
With i'll concealed triumph Petrus
bucklCd to bis task, and in the presence
of tastcrs from the palace prepared his
sweets to every ones satisfaction. Packed
in IL dclicatcly lined box, the oblong blocks
of chocolate, about an inch long by half
an inch broad, looked most tempting to
the eye. Little did the supervisors realize
that i'm one of the top rows of the box
lurked a sweet that had been carefully
prepared beforehand and skillfully substi
tutcd by Pctrus for the real article.
In his chemical researches he had dis
covered an explosive of terrible power,
capable of extreme concentration, and
which could be stirred into instant and
deadly activity by fusion with n particu
lar acid TO this end the interior of the
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