The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-06

length and filed with half liquid sub
stance. The tubes were of peculiar make
and closely stoppered.
Where did you get this from?' I ask
ed.
There's a board loose undther the
dresser sorr" was the reply. IAN when
| l put my hand undtheneath it's this that
| found to be shure. There's lot more.
What did it mean? One of the tubes,
broken and nearly empty, when thrown in
to the fire had half demolished the kitch-
en-. Did the devilish things contain eX-
plosives?
Don't touch that board again, Mrs.
| O'Flaherty," / said: "and if you find any
thing else bring it to me- I'll take the box
away. Put the kitchen into order as well
as you can, and l must get some work
men in the morning to repair it.
took the box to my study, and eXamin-
ed one of the little tubes with a magnify
ing glass. 1t did not help me much to elu-
cidate the mystery. / made up my mind
to make sure, so l took one of the little
things into the garden with me, and plac-
ing myself some ten feet from the back
wall, flung 1t against that
1 only remembered the crash and roar
that followed-nothing more
When l recovered my senses again was
lying full length on the grass, and Mrs.
OFlaherty was standing over me wiring
ing her hands. My forehead was cut and
bleeding, and felt sore and bruised all
over
As / slowly and painfully raised myself,
l saw that the back wall was down, and
that big tree near it had been shivered
and splintered into matchwood.
Then 1t dawned upon me that was the
cause of this destruction and of my own
hurts That little tube had done it. /
felt myself all over, and moved my toes
and fingers to assure myself that my legs
and arms were not broken. Mrs. OFla-
herty blubbering all the while as If her
heart were breaking.
ITS KILN yerself we've been afther,
she moaned ''Oh, dear! oh, dear! what
shall l do, sorr? It's dead both of us will
be, sorr, if we sthop here
l admitted that the place had its own
peculiar dangers. A ghost or two l did
not mind, but house full of dynamite or
nitroglycerne or melinite or some such.
diabolic stuff presented disadvantages
not as easily contended against as visitors
from another world.
1t would not be very comfortable to
sleep in a place where any unguarded
step might blow you and the house to the
sky and mix pieces of yourself with the
bricks and mortar of the establishment.
l Hmped back to the house, and washed
the cut on my forehead and bathed my
bruises. The place had truly discomforts
| of its own, which reduced its letting value
to tenants DESTROYS or leading a life of
peace and quiet.
Mr.. Smiths youthful representative had
indeed done stroke of business, came
to fancy, by letting ''Tne Rest" to me for
three years. There were the threatening
| letters, and now these explosives. IT
might all be part and parcel of con-
spiracy for reducing the letting value OF
the house, but was disinclined to further
the ends Of the conspirators by getting
myself and poor Mrs Flaherty blown to
smithereens.
There was the box with the fiendish lit
tie tubes ON my table. l took it up care
fully and carried it with delicate equili-
brum into the corner of the garden farth-
est from the house. Then / placed 1t by
the demolished garden wall, Pnd put a
big, unused dogs kennel in front of 1t to
prevent approach. | felt a little more
easy in my mind until remembered Mrs.
OFlaherty's statement that there were a
lot of them underneath the kitchen floor.
The thought did not increase my ease
of mind. This was perhaps like jumping
out of the frying pan into the fire. Gig
Cling vixens were bad enough but wher
all was considered, nitro-glycerine and
: the like were perhaps equally danger
| Gus.
All that afternoon 1 felt so sore that
did not venture out of the place to give
information at the police station, fully
six miles away.
NV neighbor's deaf wife had not heard
} or seen anything and the farmer and his
= laborer were away from home when SEN
Mrs O'Flaherty to them. This was
t | country solitude with vengeance.
man might be murdered here ZEN times
} over and nobody hear a sound.
| That night l slept very uncomfortable
2 indeed. My dreams We're all yellow
glares or red blotches and smears.
saw big bearded ruffians standing ovel
= me, revolver in hand and once / saw
I | my own self lying on the floor, holding II
. my hand my own head, which had beer
blown off
t Another time 1 saw myself with my
face all smeary with blood and a big re,
, cash across my throat and l jumped on
, of bed with a cold perspiration rolling
! over me. Ghosts were nothing to this. y
, wished to heaven that might see this
dreaded ghost. 1t would have relieved
my mind.
The next morning felt haggard, miser
able and undecided / was at any tim'
, ready to face danger which / could 10
cate, but heaven itself only could tel
whence the next crash might spring upoI
! | me.
: was slipping my morning coffee wher
! the postman brought another letter
opened 1t nervously.
81 told you you are in the wrong box,
it said, land you have had foretast'
of the dose which Is going to be admin
istered to you. This Is the last warning
. l have no enmity toward you, but II yoi
don't get out, you will be carried out II
a hearse. Tomorrow 1t may be too late.
} had had enough of II. That min,
I next door to me at Fabian was prefera
BILE to this. / called Mrs O'Flaherty anC
= babe her pack up our belongings, and the
evening train saw both OF us on the roaC
e to London.
! sent the key TO Mr.. Smith the next day
with my cheque telling him that l woul(
. | not live in the place for a pension. HI
Q replied to me that he was obliged and sor
. ry at the same time. and that he hat
placed the business In the hands OF the po
, lice.
> few days afterwards I received an
I other anonymous letter.
You were wise You would have beer
{ a dead man before now II you had not
taken my counsel But to show you thai
l / bear you no grudge I inform you that
you may net return to THE Rest" ant
Q live there in peace. We had left a lot OF
property there, useful TO nobody but my.
! ! self md frfande n Is all remOvod pou,