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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1897)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1897 GOLDEN THRONE. be a w »y out of it. i t ’« a Chin» se i nuzzle, but it can be solved.” *- “ bolved when it is too late, said I am glad to get rid of them, though Charlie. “ We can ’t alw ays keep 1 should like to repeat a little more cjOHe vo the ‘Betsy J a n e .’ The Scripture for their edification ” moment a breeze apings up he’s off. C harlie and his stanch lttle crew \\’e Q)ay follow; but wherever we had to return with m elancholy faqes. Gooch has the same advantage, Slowly, they pulled back to the If we once had Blanche in our pos.-es- “ AlhatrosH.” si<»n we could defy him ,—for poss s “ I expect we’ll have to rely on Kjor, {)ine points of law ,— but now the Doctor,” said Paddie. “ My Hhe is in Bastile, and the deacon has wit» have gone a wool-galheJ.ng. lhe ke},? . I c a n ’t imagine any wav out of this “ He has one key, I g ra n t,” said difficulty. Sockdolliger is a stub- j t |Je horn fact, which you can ’t go round “ You! Do yon m ean to say th a t or over, it is strange ih.it one can y0U ca|1 the prison doors, hold these foolish opinions with arid in spite of law and go-pel m ake such grim intensity.” her free?” m arvel of science, but what can it do for uh in this difficulty? ’ “ It can do a ll.” “ I am ainzed! E x p lain .” “ Have you read Shaksnere?” “ I have.” \\ ell, part of our plot m ust come from him: we m ust resort to the apothecary.” “ How’a th at?” “ D on't you rem em ber that J u lie t took a liitle powder, and thereby apparei.. ly died?" “ I do; but the plot failed.” “ We will he more careful, and learn from th a t failure to win sue- cess.’ we can travel through its depth. We might chloroform a shark ami catch him alive. We can be s«-a- gods, and behold innum erable curiosities where never foot of man has trod. It we could catch a fish even so could we carry a Ituinaii body safely to the ‘A lbatross.’ ] have also a rubber mask. I t c a n b e placed over the face, and no more water w ill be swallowed So th e re is but little chance of drow ning ” «Thia le a daring speculation. Can it possible be carried out?’’ “ Yes, if you have courage. Do you dare to venture in this arm or into the dark and slim y caverns of “ But how success? If by any the sea?” m eans this powder he adm inistered, “ Dare!” said Charlie. “ I dare CHAPTER XXIV. “ T hat I can do. As Paddie says, th a t m akes for the tim e being the an y th in g if I could but save her in “ You look as if vou had lost the there’s a way out of of it. W hat sem blance of death, Blanche is the end, but it seems hopeless still b attle,” said the doctor, as be m tt m an can invent, n o n can circuna- throw n into the sea, and there .-be I f successful at one point I fear them at the ship’s side. vent. We are dealing with hum an will surely drow n.” disaster at an o th er.” “ No we won’t lei h er.” “ W'e have,” said Charlie. “ W ith beings; and they can not he ho “ There are two suits. I will go “ H ow p re v e n t? ” victory in our grasp, we have been shrewd, hut somebody can he more w ith you,” said the doctor. “ You obliged to re treat.” so. The evil is not so wise as the “ She will cot drown or suffer any can easily learn how to handle your “ D idn’t you find the lad y ?” good.’’ danger, scarcely, for half an hour. self. It requires presence of mind, “ Yes; hut in the clutches of a “ I m ust confess that I am dis Before th at tim e, she will he on coolness, and determ ination. You greater m onster th an Gooch him- courag»d,” said C harlie. “ 1 can hoard the ‘A lbatross,’ and in twen- will adm it th a t, if Blanche were in self,— nam ely, law, that, like an in- see no possible resource. n iv -b u r hours as livelv a> a c» n k et ” the sea, we could carry her safely “ We appeal to n a tu re ,” said the “ This is a m arxel, ii u< ed. le a n to the ‘A lhtaross,’ so long as the visible giant, drives us off.” “ T u at deacon of yours m ust he Doctor, “ and we call to our aid her seen glim m er of a possibility, hut ocean is calm. The problem is for deucedly cunning«” j infinite m eans.” ¡scat c» ly a chance of realization.” Blanche to get into the sea, not for “ Indeed, lie is a veritable M ephis-; “ N ature is vast, I grant: but she “ To adm inister tbe powder is us to g e t her out.” topbeles. In some strange way, by is bound in iron law .” ia s y enough. It will give her the “ I see. So far tbe path is clear. force and fraud, he has lieen through i “ Law is not iron all together. ! very im age of d ea th , even like the I am not afraid; but th e re ’s a ter- some form of m arriage ceremony . We can m ake it flow with wood- lovely Ju liet. ’Then, as you say, ¡rible risk Can you tru st this with Blanche. Therefore, in law, runs results. Through law and she will he throw n into the sea. potion?” she is his wife. To hind her still nature, we can transcend nature. We shall he ready to recieve her “ I took it myself once. It is closer, and to condemn to eternal I can lay your beautious m istress ! in those liquid halls, and hear her harm less.” silence in her own defence, he ha« at your feet,” said the doctor. to a safe and honorable couch, “ They would throw B lanche into the certificate of two physicians “ You are wise, I know. You Follow me.” the sea. It seems h o rrib le.” th a t she is insane. have penetrated mv secret, hut this They went down into the doctor’s “ B ut we shall be in the sea. In “ Through the-elegal instrum ents, seems more than any knowledge little cabin. stantly, almost, we can heat her to iie lias the most perfect coniroll can attain . \\ hat ally have you?” “ H ere,” said he, “ is the little our ship.” over her body ; and it happens th a t “ Science,” said thedocior, em hu- powder. It was given to me by a “ It m ust he done. \ et how aw the captain of i h e ‘Betsy Jan e,’ who siastically, with burning eyes, celebrated chem ist. Its action is ful it seems th a t we shall th u s toy is a Down-East theologian, horn in “ Have I not followed it for many a wonderful. It ¡-imply arrests life, with death and the sea! I t is a the very bosom of Orthodoxy, sticks j day and m any a year? Is it not anti one becomes like marble. Now dreadful altern ativ e. And Blanche, to tbe letter of tbe law. He holds the angel of hum an life, patient for our arm or wherewith to battle will she dare to do it? Can she do the heathenish nonsense that the and wise and all-conquering? lia s with the deep.” it? Can I cunnnunicate with h er?” wife m ust obey the husband, and it not gone before m an and hewn his He opened a huge box, and “ T hat’s the rub,” said the doctor. he won’t »-ven give us a chance to way? Has it not crossed fur him the brought forth therefrom two gro- “ You m ust do it somehow.” see Blanche. Gooch is her pro- boundless ocean? H as it not tra- tesquely shaped rubber’ suits, with “ I will do it this very night. tector according to Sockdolliger, ver.-ed the brilliant heavens and com plicated m achinery about the She shall know u hat we are willing and Sockdolliger is m aster of the m ade ttie stars ms guide, so th at, head-gear. They were made of to do; and, if she dares to traverse ship. So w hat c in w ed » ? I had in his wildest wanderings, he can very strong and elastic m aterial, this gloomy path to libertv, we will no idea th a t law could he turned to sweep calm ly to his home, and even “See how this is arran g ed ,” said lead her through. O rpheus went such a curse. 1 believe th a t it was »»> the m idnight know where to the doctor. “ T his is Ibi ventila- down to hell fin- his wife. This decided not to have any lawyers in drop his anchor? Has not science ti»«g purposes. Tbe-e little tubes seems like it.” t l ^ model kingdom of Utopia, and I woven from the floating vapor a are slight, y et -tio n g as iron. They 1 he doctor was alm ost gay in the don’t wonder. Ii. seems a question g 1}'n t m ightier than any god to toil will stretch ¡or the length of a mile, contem plation of the terrib le ad if there is not more rascality coni- day ai d night? Has it m-t trod the and through them one can have a venture. It suited his d arin g and m itted through law than in viola- heights of t »e m ountians and tbe con«.ant supply of fresh air, the original m ind. He had no doubt of •ion of it.” dep hs of ibe sea? H as it , Oi pm - am ount of wnicli can lie regulated success. He went to work at once “ It’s cunning against cunning,” phtsfi d of the wind and the clo u d ? by this nut, so th a t there can he no to furbish up his suits of arm or, said the doctor; “ and justice gener- H as it not m ade the lightning our danger of suffocation. I mvself and to prepare tor active service in ally goes by the boaid. In old gentle messenger? Has it not borne have been in the sea for an hour at the liquid fields of war. times, it was tbe strongest arm : *he hum an voice in ils d a in ty lingers a tim e, as the captian will testify, “This warms my blood,” said he. now, it is the keenest brain.” umil the whispered word is he»rd H e u n d erstan d s the operation of “ Pve*! “ b' oioou, s a iu n c . “ W hat shall we do? W hat cun- farther th a n the loudest th u n d er? the air m achinery, one part of i j p / th T T '^ like liiug can avail now? I'he courts H a- it not wr« athed two thou.-and which is on hoard of the vessel. ’ ° 1 * e’ an< 1 has come at last. I knew I d id n ’t of law are absent, and we can have constellations about its am ple Besides, I have little air reservoirs invent this m achine for nothing. no habeas corpus,” brow? W hat ifc there m ightier or all over the arm or; these can be E verything comes into play some “ Law has exhausted itself in ,no,e subtile th an science? W hat hl td at will, so th a t we can ascend tim e, and now th a t over which 1 favor of Gooch, and th ere’s noth- has it not aocompli«hed, what and descend. Through these allso have spent the best part of my life ing left to which you can appeal. *’ n” t accom plish? W hat we can «uply ourselves with air, takes its place am ong the useful forc You are pretty thoroughly check- C anute can say to i t , ‘Thus far, and it at any tim e the tubes should he es. It is no longer a dream . It has m a t t e d n o fa rth er’?” at fault. Thus, y ou see th a t science been my favorite fanev th a t we “ But,” .aid Paddie, “ there m ust, ‘ All this is true. I gram the giv.e i . h victory over the sea; and | could live in the sea. cam p out in it.