The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-12
PART V.

ON the morning of the next day rose
b.tjmc and made a hasty toilet. l hur-
ried downstairs in search of my most
.Sses. | found them in the courtyard
Of the castle. and was pleased TO notice
tnat their greeting was fully as amiapie
as was their leaVe-taking the night De-
fore While ! was standing among
them saying to them all the pretty
compliments and agreeable things l
could think of. some great, black, heavy
body. or object. or mass, darted out OF
tie tops of the forest opposite us. went
WhiZzing and rattling over our heads.
and disappeared over the castle. before
had q chance to see what II was.
was not surprised at the transit Of
this black something: neither did !
wonder at it, for | had made NJ my
mind to expect anything, after what
had already happened. | was. how
EYER taken off my guard by the sud-
denness of it and cried out:
What is that
The six damsels seemed very much
amused at the start which l gave anu
1t my sudden exclamation.
That" wrote Ysulde upon her pad.
lis the trolley car. about which | told
you. If you will follow MS up into the
signal tower, We will now show IL TO
you"
They pointed out the tower in ques-
tiuu. 1t was the one. from the window
Of which came the wire rope which en-
tended across the river into the forest
The rope itself was even now vibrating
as if it had been forcihly shaken.
saw at once tn. truth of the matter
The car about which they spoke ran
along upon this rope. and into the case
nent of the signal tower. There was
truly nothing to wonder about in this
matter. for II was really Il very simple
thing an ordinary mechanical cOntriN-
anCe, and that was all. ! now cOnjec-
tured whether the invisible bridge
might not develop into some equally
everyday affair. There last reflections
came to me while | was following. as
best | could, the six sylph-like forms of
the rOunteSses. who had started uDon
II wild chase or race into the tower and
Up the staircase, as though each one
was trying To get to the top first.
When | at last arrived,very much wind
ed, on the uppermost floor. | found
them all gathered around a large wicker
work car or basket, about two and a
half feet in depth and width, and four
feet in length. 1t seemed to be filled
with all sorts of erchandise-among
which l noticed eatables of many kinds,
in quantity enough to have stocked q
small grocer's shop, books and station
cry. female clothing and finery. 1t also
contained large bundle of newspapers
and letters. This bundle the girls had
already seized, and they were now oc-
cuped in dividing its contents.
| examined this crate or car, and
found that it hung by two iron troleys
ar pulleys upon the wire rope, which,
as L mentioned before, came from
somewhere in or beyond the forest, eX-
tended across the stream and through
the easement into the tower. I/now
found that the end of the rope was Sc
curely tied to an iron stanchion let into
the wall, and that the ear. sliding in
through the window till it reached this
wan, had become fastened by a nauto-
matte latch or catch, which prevented
X from running back again out of the
window; which it undoubtedly would
have done without this contrivance. At
this point l may as well state certain
other facts about this piece of machin- =
cry, which / learned afterward. This
wire rope aerial railway extended from
Castle Schreckenstrohm to the count S
villa, the mansion where he ordinarily
resided This mansion, called by the
count. ''Auser dem Wade" was three
fourths Of mile from Castle Schreck-
enstrOhm, stood just outside of the for
est. and was situated about mile from
the walls of Oldendorf. BY means of
this air line, daily communicate ton was
established between the two places, and
II was by this means that the inmates
of the castle were supplied with the
necessaries of life, and at the same time
kept in touch with the outside world.
At the Schreckenstrohm end it was only
needful to unfasten the latch and the
car would start of its own weight and
run across the torrent and through the
forest. all the way to Auser dem Waldo.
This 1 knew Of my own experience, as
| afterward had occasion to try it. To
propel the carriage in the opposite di-
rection, namely, from the villa to the
castle, required considerable power, and
this power was furnished by compress
ed air. the car being shot out of q win
dow in the villa, like shell from one
of the pneumatic guns of the Vesuvius
The six damsels now seemed to be
making a great fuss over some matter
which they had found in one of the
newspapers. They clustered around i;
ana gesticulated wildly.
Then Brunhilda. the Queen-like,
seized il and ran up to me. and the rest
followed her, and all six showed by
their faces and manner that they had
taken a new interest in me- and that !
was something more to them than
had been up to that time. And the
lovely Rrunhiida thrust the newspapp,
under my eyes and pointed out with
her snowy and ichly-bejeweled hand
the following paragraph:
Dusselberg, July is, 1s9-. Balloon
thief arrested. The government bal
loon which got away from Prof. Schaff
hausen at Oldendorf on the evening OF
the 10th and which was supposed af-
terwards to have been stolen. was re-
covered yesterday from the miscrean,
who ran off with it. He was arrested
AS he was climbing down from a tree
upon which the balloon had caught and
gave his name as August Won Dunkel-
helm Of Munich. From documents. let.
ters, etc, found upon his person, 1t is
believed. however. that his name is no,
Won Dunkelheim, but that he is an