Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-29

Il phere made navigation difficult. On Tuesday morning the lieutenant reck oned that we were thin hundred miles of Funchal, the capital of the 1 Madeiras.
 The pink vapor grew denser. After we had run for half an hour at half speed it became so thick that we could not sec from head to stern of the lit ! tie vessel.
 I We had some tea at five. Just as we had finished there was a grating I noise; then a sound as of silk being 1 ripped, only hundred times louder. Then we stopped.
 She's got it." Harrison pronounced calmly. Shell go down within five minutes. Lower the boats, boys
 The boats were in the water. and we were in them in less than two min. lltes
 May I fire a torpedo before she sinks, sir?' asked Harrison. Tt might shake the vapor off, or blow up one of Longs internal apparatuses. 1 It won't take minute.' q T don't want you to run any risk. protested, doubtfully.
 He waved his cap gayly and raIl down below. Suddenly the boat reeled over upon us. I felt myself crushed down into the water-down-down When emerged I was almost uncon. scious, and I should have drowned after all but piece of grating floated near me and clung to it. There was no sign. of any of my brave comrades. called them by name and none an swered. God rest them.
 I was tempted to let myself sink after them. but the sight of the cursed mist brought an angry resolve to fight it. and I struck out slowly for the shore. was badly bruised in land ? ing and could hardly stand. I stole into an empty hut in the night and found long knife, and some food and water, and slept till the morning. The next morning I came upon Long suddenly. round some bushes. There was no barley. He fired at me twice with a revolver and missed. The sec ond time struck up his arm. My knife went in just underneath.
 dragged him away and buried him. The six men who were left on the island (three had perished in the ex- plosion) were too mad to suspect me, or even to miss Long.
 The etherine vats were fed from piles of yellow and gray dusty ma terial. There would be fearful ex. plosion, the attendants told me, if a gray feed were five minutes late. fought the two attendants at each sta. tion in turn to prevent them continu ing the gray feeds, and killed them all. God knows r was sorry. but it had to be done for the sake of the poor mad world. The stations blew up as they said. ..-
 
 The pink mist grew fainter and fainter, till at last it was only dim haze on the sea afar. I don't remen.- Der exactly how it went. and did not know that a fortnight had passed till the Sarah Dillon took me off, and the captain told me.
 I thought the madness would have passed by the time that | reached England and in my vanity pictured myself being hailed as the rescuer of the world. But when landed fHfound all the people somber and sullen. The blessing" had gone, they said, and suffering and sin had come back to the world. Most of them were very pale and feeble. In addition to the nervous exhaustion of the frenzy, many of them had been half starved during the epidemic. as they neglected the common necessities of life; but they ascribed the evils which were caused by the madness to it's cessation. It was out of the question to proclaim my part in removing 1t, and I judged it wise to pretend that |, too, had sui fered from it.
 The trains were running again, and I went up to London. On the way I learned that several of those who served the prime minister during the epidemic had been assassinsted. ...
 My wife and children received ne affectionately. pretended to have succumbed to the vspor and 10 mourn for it as they did. My pallor and weakness prevented any suspicion, and my wife said that a weight was re- moved from her mind now she knew that I had benefited rom it.
 I found 8 letter from the prime minister. which. luckily. she had not opened. It inclosed bank notes for ci0.0Oo. l started to go to him the next morning: but a mob was round his house. and I could not get near. They had torn him limb from limb. heard: and some one standing at a window held up something on pole. It was his head-the head which held sEs