The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-09

will be shaken by an earthquake, and
the Amulet mine wrecked from end to
end. Earthquake-aye, that's the word,
and to an earthquake the tremendous
disaster will be attributed 1t viii be
done at night when the mine is deserted,
ana / can safely predict"
You are telling a fairy tale" inter-
rupted Boyd. with a sneer of incredibly
he by no means felt.
Spurred on by his own evil egotism and
vicious pride, Scanlon grimly shook his
head. and cried:
Had you week 10 live you would re-
what means this terrestrial collapse is to
be caused? Do you see yonder heap Of
rocks-or a semblance to rocks?"
Boyd turned slightly to glance at them,
piled high against the wall to his right.
AS he did, So moving for the first time
from his rigid attitude Of scornful aus
terity his hands, bound behind him: came
in contact with an object that thrilled
him through and through from head to
feet 1t was. however, only stout iron
nail protruding nearly two inches from
the stone wall behind him.
Without change of countenance. with
out the movement of muscle visible to
the knave still addressing him. Boyd
slowly lowered his hands until, between
his wrists, he could scarcely hook the
nail through the strands of line by which
they were bound.
They are not rocks, Mr.. Felix Boyd"
Scanlon, meantime, was proceeding.
in divers shapes, and covered with prep
arstion giving them the appearance of
copper-bearing rocks When placed in the
interior of mine. only by the mereSt
chance could the deception be detected.
We make these vessels here. and ship
them to confederates employed in the
Amulet mine. BY them they are charged
with dynamite, Can you now guess with
what design
Boyd made no answer
Cautiously. by slow degrees, he had
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hooked under the nail behind him. The
effort REQUIRED had lacerated the flesh
on one side of his hand till the bone
was exposed. and blood was dripping
from his fingers and gathering in a pool
at his heels.
Yet he neither spoke or moved. He
stood with his tall figure rigidly erect.
and with his glittering eyes riveted on
the malevOent face of Magnus Scanlon.
His own face was CHASTITY pale, seen
against the darker background Of stone.
yet there was something strangely grand
and impressive in its fixed expression.
This aspect of the man served only
to spur Scanlon on to further disclosures.
for. with a snarl of mingled hatred and
resentment, he Immediately added:
IF YOU cannot guess, 7 will tell YOU.
With the help of my confederates. there
has been secreted in the Amulet mine
tons upon tons of the explosive men
toned. BY means of a fine copper wire
deftly concealed. and running to a point
well away from the mine-by means of
this and an electric current my confed-
crates will explode the entire charge and
Then he stopped, with snarl like that
of wolf.
The ringing of bell suddenly had min
.gled with his words.
Felix Boyd never knew why il had been
rung. lie knew only that, for the frac-
ton of a second. ScanlOn turned his head
to gaze fesrfully into the passa gewsy
nearby.
with the bound of a leopard. Bovd
crossed the room. seized the startled mis-
creant by the throat as he arose. and
hurled him bodily AGAINST the opposite
wall. Then he claDDed his hand upon the
electric key to which his attention had
been called. and his voice. whisper that
cut the air like a knife. fell upon Scan
Ions ears.
Not a sound, Not move, Before
cry from YOU can be heard. I will
throw the switch that by your own
words. will send us both to kingdom
Gomez
nstsntly. all that was cowardly in this
king of crooks. and there was much. ap-
Deared upon the surface With eyes glar-
ing from his CHASTITY face. with hloodless
lips convulsiveiv twitching with his arms
extended in gestures of abject appeal he
shrank crouching against the wall. NUT
tering wildly:
'Don't-for Gods sake. don't, You'll
wreck the whole building, You'll kill
us both as. surely as
silence
BOYD uttered the one WORD with a Sc
verify bevOrd imaginat ton. Upon the
| table he had observed several blocks Of
blank paper and a number of pencils
| He caught up one, with his left hand
still on the switch. and hurriedly wrote
lions of dynamite have been planted
| in the Amulet mine by some OF the min
! ers Look for metal vessels resembling
rocks I am cornered BY"
There he threw down the pencil, with
half-smothered oath.
The fall of many approaching feet was
sounding in the passa geway nearby.
Scanlon had started up again, with
crv of mingled eagerness and hope.
Felix Boyd ripped off the written sheet
from the block and took it between his
teeth All Of his past relations with
Scanlon. the knavery of the man. his re-
heated escapes. the menace he was to
the communitv-all flashed in an instant
| through Boyd's excited brain.
With the approaching steDs of the mis-
creant's confedeTates sounding louder in
his ears. Boyd saw but one way open
TO preventing the heinous crime now so
near it's elimination. Regardless of self
without so much as glance at his
CHASTITY Mortified companion, Bovd
dropped to his knees beside the table
and-threw the switch
The result was nearly all that Mag
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