The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-02

establishment there. Then. after few
more apparently decisive directions, ,.ie
party seemed preparing to separate.
could hear nothing more of the girl
who ha,. saved my life. Her voice had
not joined in the colioquy. and ] de-
cided that she had not been present
while it was in progress. and that prob
ably she had left the house as quie,,y as
she had come. There seemed nothing
farther to be gained by remaining in
my present position. ] let myself back.
therefore. TO my former place upon the
top of the paling and rom there la
boriOusly made my way, with what aid
l could find. from one yard to another
until once more | found myself upon
the street. Weary as | was, l could not
yet allow myself the luxury of rest. AS
| walked rapidly along toward the goal
to which ] was bound l forced myseI
to think rapidly over my adventure ana
some circumstances with which 1t was
connected. The chief of them was my
familiarity with madam's wonderful
voice. A popularity in the human
voice was something / had trained my
self never to forget. | had no dlliculty
in recalling the time and place in winch
Il voice singularly like hers, but pro-
cecdng apparently from very dif-
ferent source had first attracted my
attention.
Some Is months before | had been in
England. where had been so fortunate
as to gain the friendship and esteem or
a man whose pleasure it was. with the
genius which had been given him and
the great skill which he had acquired,
to unravel the mysteries and to discov-
er the dangers which too often sur
round our fellow men and women. AT
the time of my visit he had been en-
gagged in unearthing an atrocious plot
which had threatened the existing gov
ernment. The scheme had developed
almost to the point of the preparation
of Il great crime, when my friends fore
sight succeeded in capturing and
bringing to the bar of justice the ring
leaders themselves. With the usual
caution and conservativeness of the
English nation. the whole affair had
heer handled with extreme secrecy and
fear of public knowledge. Being kept
almost entirely out Of the newspapers.
few people knew anything of it and the
details of the case Went little further
THAI the court Through tho interest
of my friend by whose Sagacity the
plot had been discovered, | was priv
ilege, to witness the trial. One of the
prisoners had strangely interested me.
He was singularly prepossessing in APP
pearance: 4 curling mass of dark hair,
worn rather long: eyes that burned like
veritable fire: the contour of his face
heightened by the addition of a we'll
groomed beard, cut closely in the
French fashion; his hands and feet
small and finely cared for; his figure
slender In fact the very opposite in
personality and tradition to the usual
ly accepted anarchistic idea Yet de-
votiOn to the cause he had adopted
seemed the very breath he drew. His
voice. high in quality of tone for a man
as was hers low for woman. was. as
] recalled it, very strangely similar to
that in which madame of the White
Shoulders had but lately addressed me-
| distinctly remembered the particu-
lars of the trial and its strange out
come. The boy--hc seemed scarcely
more-had been convicted and SEN
tenced to life Imprisonment at hard
abor. with other members of the gang.
They We're taken at once to Ports
mouth. Upon the third morning after
their Incarceration. his CELL together
with those of one or two of the others.
was found empty. The bars had been
neither fled nor broken. but simply un-
locked. sSuSDicion attached itself to
one of the iailers. who. i'm turn was ar
rested. tried for conniving at the es-
cane of the several prisoners. found
guilty upon strong circumstantial evi-
dence, (although stoutly protesting his
innocence). and condemned to long
term of imprisonment. The only trace