The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-03

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believe you could break jail, unassist-
ed, in twenty years. Here IS where
science confronts brutality. say,
Drummond, bring your table over to the
without shouting. Not much chance
Of any one outside hearing us, even if
we do clamor, but this is damp situa
ton, and loud talk is bad for the throat.
Cut a slice Of that brown bread and
lunch with me. You III find it not half
bad, as you say in England, especially
tinued Jack. as his friend stood .oppo-
site him, and they found by experiment
that their combined reach was not long
enough to enable them to shake hands
thru the bars, "now, while you are lux
uriating, in the menu of the Trogzmon-
doff, II give you a sketch of my plan
for escape
II happen to have with me a pair of
bottles containing substance which,
if dissolved in water, and sprinkled on
this rock, will disintegrate it. It proves
rather slow work, 1 must admit, but [
intend to float In to you one OF the
bottles, and the apparatus, so that you
may help me on your side which plan
has the advantage Of giving you use
full occupation and allowing us to com
plete our task in half the time like
the engineers on each side of the Sim
plon tunnel
elf there are bars in the lower
water course'' objected Drummond,
"won't you run risk of breaking
your bottle against them2'
"Not the slightest. I have Just sent
but in this case III just tie up the bot
tie and SOuITtpuO in .StOc kjDU- at
tach that to the wire, and the current
will do the rest You can unload, and
III pull my stocking back again. If
| dared wrench off a table leg [ could
perhaps shove bottle and syringe thru
to you from here, but the material
die Of this tunnel, unless | had a stick
to push it within your reach.
every well; wen work away until
our excavation connects, and we have
made it Of sufficient diameter for you
to- squeeze thru. You are then in my
conceal yourself behind the door. Jail
er and man with the lantern come in.
You must be very careful not to close
the door, because if YOU once shove it
shut we can It open it from this side,
even tho it is unlocked and the bolts
drawn. It fits like wax, and almost
hermetica1ly seals the room. You spring
forward and deal the jailer with your
fist one of your Justly celebrated Eng
lish knock-down blows, Immediately af
ter Telling the man with the lantern.
Knowing something of the weight of
your blow, I take it that neither Of the
two men will recover consciousness I'M
til we have taken off their outer gar
ments, secured revolvers and keys Then
we lock them in, you and [ on the out
side.'
"My dear Jack. we don't need any
tunnel to accomplish that. The first
time these two men come into my room
I can knock them down as easily here
as there.
ct thought of that, and perhaps you
could, but you must remember we have
only one shot. If you made a mistake;
If the lantern man bolted and fred his
pistol, and once closed the door-he
would not need to pause to lock it
why, we are done for. [ should be per-
after the attempt they'd either drown
us, or put us into worse cells as far
apart as possible. -
"I don't think I should miss ire.'
said Drummond, confidently, "still, {
see the point, and will obey orders. -
"My official position on the rock,
ever since I arrived, has been that of
I have started his dynamo working, and
have wired such portions Of the place
as were not already wired before. Dur
ing these lessons [ have kept my eyes
OPEN So far as the prison is concerned
there is the governor, sort of head
clerk, the jailer and his assistant; four
men, and that is all. The jailer's as
slstant appears to be the: cook, Of. the
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bread Us t ST rg,
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