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.”
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“ 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.
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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.