The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-03-16

Swing: past, reaching to one Of the brass
brackets outside the other reserved car
riage. I sprang to my feet instantly,
opened the window, and looked out. All
was darkness. Then, with an impul-
siveness that knew no consideration of
consequences, I opened the carriage
door, and also stepped down on to the
foot board. I began Immediately work.
ing my way in the direction in which
the figure had gone. I knew now that
was right, but what an awful event
might be now in progress had not the
slightest idea. I had not far to go. The
door of the carriage also marked RE
served was open, and was swinging
| to and fro as we Whirled along. AS I
reached it I saw in the doorway the
figure of the man was following. His
back was turned to me, but the next
instant he flashed round swiftly. The
fdevilish expression on his fact I shall
not soon forget. There was whistle
from the engine. and we plunged into
the Box Tunnel.
| I had just time to realize my hideous
danger, for I was hanging on by one
hand to the rail, preparatory to swing
ing myself into the carriage, when he
saw me, dashed at me with arms out
stretched, and tried to hurl me back on
to the lines. There was one terrific
blow, that almost numbed my arm; but
swinging as 1 was, my body, instead of
receiving the full shock of the impact,
yielded to it, I swung slowly back, as
with shrek the man himself, losing
his balance, plunged head-first into
the darkness. The next moment was
safely in the carriage, and had wrench
ed back the communication with the
guard.
Upon the floor lay a we'll dressed
man, apparently lifeless. His lips were
blue and his eyes closed. I tried to
raise him. I noticed that the air of the
carriage, though cold, felt very close
and stuffy. In five minutes the train
was at a standstill, and the guard, with
a horror-stricken face, was at the door.
explained everything to him-that is,
as far as I was able. To search the
|carriage for whatever devilish agent
Ihad caused the insensibility of the man
was that the stunning truth came to
light. Upon the floor beneath the seat
was small white substance, which for
the moment, I thought was merely a
lump of chalk, but as touched it my
fingers experienced a feeling as if they
were burned with some powerful cor
Irosive I knew then what it was, and
I also knew it's effect. 1t was a piece
of so1id gas-solid carbon dioxide-dead
ly, and impossible to detect by reason
iof it's having no smell.
now perceived how easily the whole
pilot could be carried out. It was only
necessary to throw the carbon into the
carriage beneath the seat just before
the train started; it would then gra-
dually violatise, fill the carriage with
a poisonous gas, and render the occu-
Ipant, if the windows were closed, as
they would be on such a night, as in
lsensible as the Chinese are in the fumes
lof their opium pipes. The whole thing
would be almost impossible of detection
for the very agent itself would disap-
pear into invisible gas, leaving no
trace behind.
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of fresh air when the villain burst open
the door rendered the gas in the car
lriage sufficiently diluted for him to eff
feet his purpose, but not enough to
awaken the sleeper.
The fell design was easily accounted
for in this CASE In very short time
the victim recovered consciousness. He
gave brief account of himself" He
was, he said, the junior partner in a
well-known firm of numismatists, and
was taking a quantity of rare and val
liable gold coins to a gentleman in
Brisol. These coins were worth not less
than thousand pounds.
Early the. next morning the body OF
the man with the false nose was dis
covered, frightfully mutilated in the
Box Tunnel. A notebook was found
in his pocket, which the police immed-
lately searched. One or two addresses
were in it, and after a great deal OF
trouble on their part, evidence was
Forthcoming (which abundantly proved
that this man was the very one who
had stolen Lady Southborough's jewels
and had by the strange and awful
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poor Kaye insensible.
Those jewels were, alas! never recov'
cred, but otherwise what was wrong
: was put right.
Lord scarborough, seeing that Kaye
was abundantly indicated, was full o.
conjunction for his own suspicious
He not only offered him once more thu
post of secretary, but also a consider
able increase of salary. Thus Viole
: and he were enabled to marry.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications, as they canno
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure Deafness
, and that is by constitutional remedies
!, Deafness is caused by an inaamed con
!, dition of the mucous lining of thu
: Enstachian Tube. When this tube get:
inflamed you have a rumbling sount
, or imperfect hearing, and when it i.
entirely closed Deafness is the result
and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to it,
| normal condition, hearing will be des