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 ..r. .-THE HEW.PREACHER. l4 .. 'WuiieraMy. 1!!nrprised. Hta aad, srttJobbU-. &. iaght. | see If the brow i-pi.per p& : &
 .. -;; .. .rtaoiahiit; .abtvtesValittle ( he i found that$llamT* portmant*a was plod without assistance, : .

 'T,"Batier. Tn Wuftth*- mm.. prea:.c r. Kn$ theft they,were all of one.;.jisrty, t stin'the jMbm. m waVjsVowwjer, securely I parcel under:his arm and ..y
 'PeA p h.mj1 rTW7 1I&*.* --*'- foitbel ix t 'wer 'tcld to inform-Mrr' locked?lmt me-inspectorr com '' UK headquarters is to make "
 Bat I can't nj I reallY like him,
 T'4ugh.I've never Mard him bat twice.Iffesnice Nathaniel Gavan that Mr. Bellamy and p&njon was prepared for,this: contingency exploit that would at ?*
 i 4 politf. and real styflth,' Mr. Isom had arrived. The flrst-named and with the aid of skeleton keys, 'name prominently before th > ?

 Bat A.WI J-u d'IeINIIa"tIIl.l nut like"preachin'. came at once fronb&prlvatesittingroom : : -'. soot opened, 'it:;t J/TJ l j c.You arriving there he jfodnd '
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 Yeria} .itiewfiabiaaed wafts tehad. Bgaged and cordially wel- ''. scoandrela,!'muttered .the Jn- men had( also been ,.
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 Be took his text out rf the.Bible: comed the.: other;*.< More 'than this, he spector, as, after turning.over. the con- tactics had been similar to :: ..
 And read it off glib a*could be hospitably manifested deep interest in tents and pointing some of them out to ed by Gavan.: It was : ...\.... .
 Then It all meant I J
 As 4ti Went Brent to AI explaiam'diff rest o-wld be., the welfare. RP11sn",' portmanteau. his subordinate, he ,quietly closed and attempt had been; made :

 Rig. word were o lbn tat high-toundm which, after consultation amongst the i again, locked. ,the portmanteau., "I:. Buckingham Palace,the B
 I couldn't catch all he said. three ordered to be taken to Mr. you land and 'the Houses I
 Bat aorne thinjn.be told to his people was think.we've got. this time. Now. .to : :
 Won't ever go out of' my bead'!; Gavan's private sitting-room, a fact ,immediately find out'.Master,'and,' Inspector Grab- ment, and thus deal a 2

 .. He said lie considered the BibleAwTfoodbookiniUway. noted by the.watchful detec- bam will ,be Mr.', Superintendent' and blow at Royalty, Commerce f i : *'!!:
 .' tive, who by. this time was consuming: have a.money reward, too, may' be.. ment. "
 But ftilf.for the timea that we lived in.Twa 'with remarkable deliberation,'a bottleof Come, along ; I'm, satisfied with this The three canisters ,
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 quite out of date.be must say. J '
 And some other bOOb that are written ginger beer at the hotel bar. day's work, anyhow." this desperate outrage was
 Were very: much better to read, Had' David, Isom carried out had been
 .Fergus Bellamy
 And sailed the taste of the wise folks Grabham's I junior was not equally
 Who wan't' be bound by prayer-book or and Nathaniel Gaven known that the I pleased. In fact, he was somewhat puz, lids. were securely soldered
 :.creed hilarious gentlemen who dined at an zled, for he did not understand why authorities at Scotland C .lilt

 He said that the Jesus we rev rence. adjacent table were Inspector Grabhamand these packages, if,dangerous, were not attempt to open them, so ..
 The Sarior who died for us all,. two other detectives whose them to Woolwhich by i
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 Was really a wise and gnod teacher duty taken charge of by,the police. But ex-, I %
 But then. 10 were Peter and PauLHe it was to watch their every action and perience had lately taught those more, ance, in order that'tlcientific. *til
 taught those poor ignorant people doubtBut I remember every word they spoke, it is learned than he in the ,.art of trapping their contents might'be _
 A,sreat deal of good.he'd no
 fol ks now had got quite beyond him; probable that they would have eaten in criminals, not to strike too soon, but. to due course. 4jj
 Yes Betsey he said that.right;out J I privacy.upstairs rather than In the public track conspirators, so far as public I Reports of the affair soon ,, '%

 He talked about culture and beauty. coffee-room. Certainly they would sef ety would permit, to the lair of the i Special editions. the ne\V .4
 And science and nature and art; not have accepted the hospitality. of instigator, and, by bringing him to :'published, with sensati Data
 They But though tomehow his words seemed sounded lackin'so in pretty.heart. ,their neighbors; but drink is responsible book, destroy the root o'f,the plot. Columns of print not only ..

 I wanted to hear of the Savior for many an acquaintanceship, and when Next morning, after a frugal break- :! of what bad occurred, but "

 And Whose who life to<< 8Ou"lrea here on earth-ladeni was so blest. the beefsteak and Welsh,rarebit which fast (conspirators never have enough hinted'at the identity'of the art..

 Has promised shelter and rest. constituted.their modest meal ws demolished money to afford luxuries), Bellamy, J The.political, bearings of fe
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 I want to to taught by a preacher and Isom ordered "three Isom and Gavan left their hotel, closely were discussed, while dak
 The way both to live and to die, whiskies hot,". it was but ,natural that watched by detectives, and, taking the visited the scenes where or tIIftt
 That f may be fit for that heaven should feel for had been deposited. As
 they
 ltd hopra' rtfC'i by and by. grateful Inspector omibus from' the Angel, they were set tf
 If this JB the new-btnpled; doctrine. Grabham's offer (made ina\ortbcountry down. at Charing. Cross. Here they police were sagaciously coq
 This talk I've been hearin to-day. accent) to partake of a bottle of separated. Bellamy walked along the and excitement was intense

 Why- preachin'then you "may, hare your fine O'Flaherty's oldest port. This was nota Strand, going citywards,. while Isom the metropolis when the it b

 I'll,stick" to the.... old-fashioned. way! beverage to be despised, for it had went up Parliament street, and Gavan ed at Bow Street in theJ-

 ,- been in the cellar nearly six months, strolled- .towards Pall Mall, ed by, mounted 'police .i&
 ever since the bankruptcy of a grocer in In.a few hours, the police officers em- sworos. m
 .'A'PlIl a .' for'the.--.Detectives., the next street, when tue landlord of the I ployed on the: special :duty of watching The court was crowded

 When.,Fergus Bellamy left Wolver- Sprig of Shillalagh had. purchased the the suspected persons made their re- suffocation when Mr. Tr"
 hampton with a portmanteau which was whole remaining stock of seventeen bot- I ports.The. ed the case for the i

 so heavy. that it tookthe, united strength tles.for thirty shillings. first was as follows : the learned, counsel' 'said. I .
 of threeporters toM. it into- the lug- After the first,glass round had been Watched Ballamy.: :lie'went up the her Majesty's Treasury to,

 gap van the: local Superintendent of held up to the light, submitted to the Sb-andt stopping to look in several shop serious charge against the buds J

 Police,felt'it to'be his duty to communi- nasal test and disposed of, the zealous windows. Seemed particularly attractedby had D't yet been decided oUfe.

 .. ate telegraph to his superiors at Scot- police officer opened out his heart to his one, cutler's. lie went In and inquired would ultimately be indicted : -is tb
 and Yard.,: For Fergus had only been guests."I I I the price of an American'bowie felony, or under, a more wbettt

 at Wolverhampton, a few days, and no have just come up from Bradford, knife, but did not buy it Was a. long with being in possession of ,tin
 one knew from whence he came or what traveling in the dry goods line. Maybe, while looking in the windows of. : n an unlawful purpose. At the dq

 hit business, was. Even. in the billiard- Mr. -, I have not the pleasure of' optician where there were portraits t f the proceedings' he fa
 room of a second-rate'I hotel, where he your name. Thank you, Mr.'Bellamy. ; members of Parliament actresses. I prove the'circumstances ,

 spent his evenings, he proved himself to Maybe you know the town. I'mgoing thought he was going to turn back here, arrest: of the prisoners. suporik'
 be an unsociable fellow. Not only did round London to-morrow to some of for he wavered, but at last he went on. however, call .the & p>

 he answer: in,monosyllables such com- our city houses. Can I be of any service He paused for some time .at Somerstt magistrate' to the fact cultaa

 monplace remarks as were addressed to to you, or perhaps you are at the House, and walked out into the road to dasta dly outrage'lJad never appearance's
 'him, but he so far omitted the ordinary same game, eh ?" The Inspector might get'a better view'of the building. Passed against,the lives. and, bull i
 courtesies of the place that he never of- have spared himself the trouble tryingto down Fleet street and up Ludgate-: majesty's subjects. It was, ;' soul

 fered to treat the marker to a drink or a extract information either by straight hill ;walked round: St. Paul's Cathedral, ness of conception and tl

 -=igar'. Possibly it was on this account forward questions or cross-examination, stopping thiee times. Went up"Cheap- purpose, unparalleled in the
 .thatthat official prophetically'observedAS for the three conspirators excused them- side, where he spoke to Constable (K. crime. There was some the 1st

 Bellamy drove off to the railway selves early on the plea of fatigue, after 007); and asked to' be' directed to the the learned counsel ibtt

 station, "He'U never'be BO good to no disscussing nothing but the wine, the Bank of England. Arriving there, I by calling as his first &
 one, m bet) a 'bob."" weather, and the extortionate chargesof walked round that, viewing the Bank G 'ahl:am. paijei

 On reaching"St. Pancras, Fergus London cabmen.As from several positions. Finally he .appeared The witness ,detailed ;:'OB

 evinced great anxiety that :due care O'Flaherty was closing his bar 1 to select a spot in the'northwest I stances of his suspicions, Bat

 should be taken of portmanteau, and some three hours after his guests had I corner, and remained there looking idly following the prisoners, of 'ni

 wonder, for it was apparently brand retired to their respective rooms,he was about him for some minutes. He then the rooms, and finding the 1Ii'fo.
 new, and bore'his initials in large green surprised by a visit from a police con- went down Moorgate street, called in a'' He also produced'the' d
 letters. If the' vahie of its contents stable in uniform, followed by Inspector tobacconist's shop, and purchased a box : ting-paper he had taken, iiI

 c.uldbe' judged by' its- weight rather Grabham and another man. He recognized of flaming fusees. Then walked Into I that, on searching the I I a flee
 than/by the giatuity with which 'the the two latter as customers who I Goswell road and'on to the Sprig of i:I found it contained a a W

 porters were rewarded, it was precious had dined and paid so well that evening, i Shillelah. .where I was relieved, and building bricks and three IUlii
 indeed. After seeing it deposited on the and assumed that they required accommodation came directly here (Scotland-yard) and I I I They were the same as
 roof of a foor-wbeeled cab, and discovering for the night. However, he made this report. police in the possession of sat*

 from a time-table that the train was soon undeceived, and in a startling I The reports,of the other detectives J I The inspector then detailed
 '.!rom Birmingham was due in ten min- matter. were very similar to this one. Isom had i of the arrest of Gavan. MluE<

 rates the traveler devoted himself to ob- "We are police officers of the detec- trolled towards Westminster, and e |I The prisoners declined : ttI
 .tainingall the news of the day in a amined the Houses of Parliament as questions.
 department. You have now in your
 strictly economical manner by reading house-a licensed bouse-three dangerous f I minutely as if he were a foreign architect -I I Two other detectives .
 the contents bills of the papers that ; while Gavan had surveyed Buck- part of the evidence of
 characters, said the inspector, i j r ;
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 were exposed on the book-stall. sharply, mentioning their names. iugham Palace as,carefully,as though he !also gave details of the *
 Within a few minutes of the advertised "When did they arrive ? Quick, we j I j i were .going'' to make a drawing of it !1 I amy and Isom.

 hour, the Birmingham train arrived have no time to lose." from memory. Both had walked back to Fairland was about to fit
 and as Bellamy stepped forwardto I I Islington different loutes. adjournment, when he ad
 O'Flaherty was terribly frightened, i
 greet the acquaintance for wLom be and spluttered out words to the effect i I, In the evening the three friends again I that Professor Cain, in : *
 had evidently been waiting, he was unaware that j left their hotel. On this occasion each i tin canisters had been mi>
 Garan bad come first, and the .
 of the immediate proximity of others later in the afternoon. Gavan I I took with him brown paper parcel and arrived. He, therefore, .' >t1

 Inspector Grabham, of the Detective evidently had expected them, and had each proceeded towards the building in I i allowed to prove the co acts
 Department, and of the interest that hired which: he had taken so much interest in canisters. On the jcta
 a sitting-room. They all bad lug- I
 experienced, officer was taking in his the morning. I his consent, the Prof ma8'
 a'e2s2nd he knew no more, except that I
 movements. Nor did'he notice that the they had dined and gone to bed early.'Lead Inspector Grabham and two other : somewhat flustered, entered ndP
 Inspector was taking care not to missa the officers followed Gavan. That he was box. His evidence was as to &
 to the
 word of the following conversation: way sitting room, the I He W
 I replied the inspector. He then gave ringleader of the gang the penetrat was public analyst
 "What message from Master?" asked some instructions to the constable who ing officer had already decided in his jesty's War Office. Three *
 ,
 Bellamy, in a somewhat excited tone. them own mind. Nor was his zeal unrewarded been delivered to'him by Mr. ** **
 passed on to others waiting I
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 'Nothing more but that he'll be up outside. Grabham and his companion for, on reaching the gates which : on behalf of the police. As and *

 the day after to-morrow.. It must be followed the landlord, who trembled as separate St. James' Park from Buck- ',soldered down, he had
 done before then. You have the materials though he were the responsible culprit. ingham Palace Road,Garan,handicapped pedient to have them opened crate
 and the papers are here," replied as he was by the apparently heavy spector of explosives. apt d
 The bedrooms being on an upper story,
 the other, glancing downwards at a 1 the officers ran but little danger of being package he carried, quickened his pace contained some hundreds p r,
 small carpet-bag that evidently comprised disturbed in their search in the sitting- so that the detectives could scarcely about a sixteenth of an inch *<
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 all his luggage. We must join room. Some writing materials were on keep up with him. A sentry-box close Taking a handful haphazard to *

 X..G. at once", the table and by carefully reversing the by was evidently the spot fixed on for canister, he had analyzed **
, With a reciprocal wink, the two got the perpetration of whatever outrage consequence of no s:
 blotting-paper, the inspector was able to
 ;Into the cab, which had been waiting, make out that the following letter had was to be committed. Carefully watch- relate to his worship, he had *
 and the driver was. ordered to go to the been written : ing his time when the soldier on guard vered in a quantitative &*

 Sprig of. Shillelagh. Inspector Grab- had turned to the right, Gavan deposited globule contained rhubarb tb'
 ham followed in a hansom at a reasonable .- The Sprig of Shillelagh, hb parcel in the shaded angle to the cum, and also other harmless ?

 distance. Islington. left of the box. Then, taking from his I he had been .unable to d | n
 .The hotel selected by the friends was DEAU MASTEItSo far all welL We. pocket a fuse, he struck it on the sole slightest trace of anything ; '

 but a very humble hostelry at Islington. have the materials, and will go to work !I of his boot, and-he, found himself the compound. There was *..

 Its proprietor] an ,Irishman ,named Next day you shall hear from us whether I. captured' and' handcuffed and thrust an explosive, dangerous or 111
 ()'}"laherty, carried on .fairly prosperous ,I we are to sink or swim. X. G. arrhed.I into a cab and driven away he knew not character about them. rfi

 trade during the, Cattle Show and Having I where before he had time to make any they might effectually, I'e'a I
 Derby weeks, but at the arrival of three I deposited the blottingpaperin excuse. Inspector Graham chuckled II I: gout. In reply,,to 'the)n 'a P
 new visitors in one day in the off-season his pocket, Grabham continued the to himself as after craftily waiting to' admitted that they had the


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