The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23

They retired into an adjoining room, where they
their talk in louder tones. Harkns. catching
word here and there understood that he to be
removed from England as soon as the boat arrived
One man, inpetuous than the other, could not
the necessity for waiting but the camer OF the two
prevailed
A door opened and closed. Harkns lifted
carried down flight of stairs between two men,
probably the same two men. He was finally deposited
upon damp floor, knew it to be the cellar or the
place.
His captOrs left him. as they out he heard
the cank of heavy iron door and the click OF a Key
a lock. ~
One of them paused to speak French: Remember
if he tries it, Presumably to on guard
Harkins could hear the answer, but he did hear
his captors climbing the stairway, shutting anu Do
ing a door behind them
heard them crossing the floor overhead Another
opened and closed with loud bang and all was
There was something familiar the voice of the last
speaker Harkins heard that before! His neighbor
of the Strand tablet Yes, it was the Russian!
He tried collect his scattered sense. 1t must De
horrible nightmare. The of warning, the attack
on the docks! But, alas it nightmare vivhed by
ropes and gags
He began to compose sensational captions to be used
in the next Times the journalist thinks
first of his sheet" himself But the instinct
of self-preservation to the fore
He rolled where he imagined the doorway
be- listened Was it the signing of the winter
did he hear his guard in measured breathing
The be asleep! He had not replied to the com
the who had just departed; this accounted
for it; he asleep!
Harkins strained his ears and could have he
heard the
With great exertion managed sit up. 1t helped
him to think clearly He remembered that he had
an engagement at midnight and that it about
o'clock. -Four hours stood between him and his ampl-
ton
He remembered many other things pleasant he
upon damp ground with his back against
the foundation of the house in which he con-
fined He remembered his boyhood and became senti-
mental IL
But more clearly than all else, remembered some
past sins that he wished he had left uncommted
The memory Of these he endeavored to overshadow by
pointing out to himself the numerous varied ex-
eursions had made into the field of charity and self
lessness. Then he became practical.
Few are content to sit calmly by and await the
coming of death-unless they are men without ambition
death a matter of hours, life loses its value.
Harkins saw he lay between two graves one in
foreign land the other in his country, and his
preference quite naturally, fell to the latter But ne
did intend wait patiently for either.
A mental calculation proved to him that he could
readily unbnd his ankles He turned himself until
he was in a kneeiing posture Leaning backward he
worked at the kno{ed Fnt h it R Eer his
eyes, he faint glmmer of light 1t may have come
moonlight? He recalled that it had ceased showing when
ne He moved Cautiously along the wall found
himself in the shadow but in doing so his hands struck
h s kn and s be Would have cried aloud
1t came to him then like flash of light in the midst
of rock III u could cut his skin 1t could
Again the gag prevented cutlery, but this time it
who, finding fat purse in the street, fears
the might detect him.
He paused ana waited breathlessy. A slight noise
fell his perhaps the guard had moved in his
sleep. Then all silent again
He began to saw the rope about his wrist upon the
Jagged edge of the rock
10 been it may Rays been dgso whsP
a Tok the last strand and the rope fell to the ground
To remove the bandage from his eyes and the gag
from mouth the work instant and Harkns
looked him until his became accustomed to
the semi-darkness.
the the farther end So Of his 'e dans ge
ray of light snowlt world without. But the
small to- admit the passage of man 5