The sun., 1901-04-06

legged army Of the mad Republic would have
crossed safely and would now be In possession
OF the Monument and Of Piocadilly II would
be a strange and terrible thing to behold
French beefeaters In control Of the Tower.
and Mr. Pemberton is to be cordially thanked
for bringing about an explosion Of dyna-
! mite In the Dover end Of the tunnel In the nick
OF time. thereby enlargins It OF course. but
incidentally bringing the whole business
very vividly to the attention Of his imperilled
countrymen With the French helping the
Irish members to fan matters In the House
OF Commons. II is startling TO think what
would happen TO the River Thames So
tumultuous a vision need. however. no longer
concern us. Mr.. Pemberton spotted" the
tunnellers in time. and the Empire is secure
unless. indeed. 1t should happen TO be the case
that the Russians are tunnelng from Arch
| angel into India
! Here il the way In which Mr.. Pemberton
treated the renegade Englishman who was
building the tunnel The two were in the tun-
mel together. and the renegade had intimated
that Mr. Pemberton was not truthful. Now"
says Mr.. Pemberton. II have said that come
of n race which was never known at any time
| for n well-controlled temper My mother Is
Of Irish birth, my forefathe were 10 x-hunters
| ulu soultIS, JtulOuS III suiutH anu
/ quick in quarrel There was never one of
| them that counted his life at the value OF
pins point" variation upon the pins fee"
| Of the great dramatist If honor thereby
were imperilled, And all the world had said
that as the fathers we're. 80 the son. Until
this man called me liar had kept my tenn
per under what control l could. had feinted
when he engaged, had laughed Tested, been
aayf nj irna nttt
the mask of prudence fell at a word Had all
the sentries in Calais been there to hear NJ
I should have acted as did upon that spur
Of temper and Of honor You talk like a
madman,' exclaimed. controlling myself
with an effort which cost me much If |
thought you we're sane would answer you
differently Ho took step toward mo
and raised Clenched ilst TO my face His
eyes were bloodshot. but lighted by drunken
anger which dehed his last attempt at self
control Liar" he cried Liar as YOU al
ways were-that's what mean TO say And
that was the end OF it, for the words had
scarcely passed his lips when | struck him
twice. and he fell at my feet. white and sense-
less across the very track he had built
Mr. Pembrrton made hs escape from the
tunuel and from what appears to hlvo been
a large part of the French army by climbing
through an air shaft with the a~sistauce Of a
derrick He paid $50. We believe, to be
carried across he Channel on fishing smack
and even a. that he was obliged 50 hot were
the French pursuer, upon his TRAN 10 swim
the last mile into Dover lie had an awful
time when the explosion occurred The
house Tell on him. and it was lous Time be-
fore he could be dug out. OF course there
j. heroine IN the story. She does not seem
exactly to compass quite all the possibilities
of human animation. but undoubtedly she
is a very sincere and good young lady. Mr.
Pemberton pitruni2c- her drrudfully. we
are not to bother about that, however. mas
much as she seems TO like II. Here is a little
something that happel Ell after MIR Pemher-
ton had been recovered from the ruins Of the
demolished building at Dover
The sun struck warm in the room where
| awoke u sun Of morning, giving TO the
white blind, a dazzling radiance. and finding
many a path of beans whercia the dust was
q grain Of gold. and odd glores Of color were
changing and Commiugled did not know
the room had no recollection of ever enter
ing II and. content to lie very still $50 weak
| was, the ornaments OF It came to my
knowledge one by one, as picture from
which cloth is turned There, to begin
with was a great brass pol" with hungingS
of dlmty gay in pink roses, and thcr" an
armchair i'm rep and there a dressing table
in mahogany. and yonder a wardrobe. and
bv them table with "A vase of roses and
bowl Of fruit
Nothing about the wall paper, which we
dare say. however. was as soothing and a.
full Of lucid designs as wall paper j. generally
NO one seemed 10 stir IN the room Dis
tantly. from The sea there came 10 me an
echo Of the winds complaint, the music of
waves upon the shuglc. even the cry Of "A
ships man and the shrek Of a siren But !
was alone. ! said, no one watched me, and 80
my eyes went rowing to the picture again,
and anon they seemed TO show me something
that would never have looked for IN twenty
years tho sweetest figure that God has
made the genf!cst hand. the face Of my littl"
Agnes, 30 wan. 50 wistiui. 80 brave. a, il bent
over me. and hose white fingers touched my
own, and hot tears fell fast upon the lips which
burned for them No word was needed no
word of wonder only the deeper sllenc" of
contempt the suror message Of the heart,
which might not speak in that hour Of her
surrender | was there in tho room and Agnes
was with mo Her lips we're close TO mino.
my hand cuuC to hers as though meyer
more TO rcleas" il The miracle had been
worked ont Of The place Of darkness and
of death this vision Of light had come to me-
'Oh. God ho thanked. cried ~ last, ~ i
little Agnes She laid hcr pretty head close
~ miur upon tho pillow and began to speak
in whispers ~ the wonders that had hcfacn
! heard her a. in an ecstasy Impossible
80 heievo that the dream had 40 rewarded
mo Alfred. dearest sho said. they sent
me 10 1ou they wished you ' Md you,
lirtlo glrl did You not wish II. tooT A flush
of color gave roses to her checks
We know there Is many reader who will
be glad 10 have those t"nd"rn"ssrs mingled
with the stcrr"r incidents Of the story Ghoy
are little stately and sombre, but We can
not doubt tho reckless JOY that underlics
lhom The villain was a nnihlaed in the
Dover explosion We cannot find that many
particles Of him were over recovered
Pedigree Smasher.