Cañon City record., 1903-01-08

the berlin was soon distanced by the
| tarantass.
1t now became a regular race, for the
horses of the berlin. no doubt excited
by the sight and pace OF the others. re-
covered their strength and kept up for
some minutes. The two carriages Were
hidden in a cloud Of dust. From this
cloud issued the cracking of whips.
mingled with excited shouts and ex
clamations OF anger.
Nevertheless the advantage remained
with Michael. which might be very i'm
portant to him If the relay were poorly
provided with horses. Two carriages
] were perhaps more than the postmaster
, could provide for. at least 10 a short
space of time.
Half an hour after the berlin was left
far behind. looking only a speck on the
horizon on the steppe.
1t was 8 o'clock In the evening when
Michael and his companion arrived at
the posthouse in Ichim.
The news was worse and worse with
regard to the Invasion.
Here had arrived Just a short time
before two men.
The one was English, the other
| French. Both were tall and thin. but
the latter was sallow. as are the south
ern provencals. while the former was
ruddy like a Lancashire gentleman.
The Anglo Norman. formal. cold. grave.
parsimonious of gestures and words.
appearing only to speak or gesticulate
under the influence Of spring operat-
ing at regular intervals. The Gaui on
the contrary, was lively and petulant
expressed himself with lips, eyes,
lands, all at once, having twenty diff
terent ways OF explaining his thoughts.
whereas his interlocutor seemed to
have only one lmmutably stereOtyped
on his brain.
| The strong contrast they presented
would at once have struck the most
superficial observer. but a physiogno-
mist, regarding them more closely.
would have defined their particular
characteristics by saying that II the
Frenchman was ''all eyes" the Eng
lishman was AL ears"
In fact. the visual apparatus OF the
one had been singularly perfected by
practice. The sensibillty of its rctina
must have been as instantaneous as
that OF those conjurers who recognize
card merely by a rapid movement In
cutting the pack or by the arrangement
only OF marks Invisible TO others. The
Frenchman. Indeed. possessed in the
highest degree what may be called the
memory Of the eye"
The Englishman. on the contrary. ap
peared especially organized to listen
and to hear. When his aural appara-
tus had been once struck by the sound
Of a voice. he could not forget 1t, and
after ten or even twenty years lie
would have recognized II among
thousand. His ears. to be sure. had
not the power OF moving as freely as
those of animals who are provided with
large auditory fiaps; but. since sclen-
tific men know that human ears pos
sess, in fact. a ,ery limited power Of
movement. we should not be far wrong
In affirming that those OF the said
Engllshman became erect and turned
In all directions while endeavoring TO
gather In the sounds In a manner ap-
parent only TO the naturalist. II must
be observed that this perfection OF
sight and hearing was OF wonderful
assistance to these two men In their
NothlIbu. itltu
correspondent for The Daily Telegraph
and the Frenchman as correspondent
of the-of what newspaper or OF what
newspapers he did not say. and when
asked he replied in a Jocular manner
that he corresponded with his cousin
Madeleine" This Frenchman. however,
beneath his careless surface was won.
derfully shrewd and sagacious. Even
while speaking at random, perhaps the
better TO hide his desire TO learn. he
never forgot himself. His loquaclty
even helped him to conceal his thoughts.
and he was perhaps even more discreet
than his coufrere of The Daily Tele-
graph
1t Is needless to say that these two
men were devoted TO their mission In
the world-that they delighted to throw
themselves in the track OF the most un
expected intelligence: that nothing ter
rified or discouraged them from sue
ceeding, that they possessed the i'm
perturbable sang frold and the genuine
intrepidIty OF men Of their calling. En-
thuslastic jockeys in this stecpicchase.
this hunt after Information. they leap
ed hedges. crossed rivers. sprang over
fences with the ardor of pure booded
racers who VIII run "a good first" or
die.
Their Journals did not restrict them
with regard to money. the surest. the
most rapid, the most perfect element
OF Information known TO this day. II
must also be added, TO their honor, that
neither the one nor the other ever look
ed or listened ut the walls of private
life and that they only exercised their
vocation when political or social inter
ests were at stake. In word, they