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have procured a Cossack’s dress. In any And now here Is for thy Journey, and I other • thou wouldst surely look like a have dona with thee.” Cossack iu disguise. With a bushy beard H e takes a thick packet o f notes from from ear to ear Mud a quarter of au his pocketbook, aud without counting “ archiu" off thy mustache, methiuks thou them divides them into two equal parts wilt pass. ’ and gives me one. Though I am obliged **I would thou wouhlst make haste and to be still farther hia debtor to the A Story of Russian Rower let me rid myself of these soaking duds!" j amount o f my jouruey, 1 shun to take replies Kalatch, with irritation, while I advantage o f such reckless liberality. I By M A R C U S E A S T L A K E his teeth knock together like castauett I begin to count the notes, resolved to ac “ 1 am certainly sickening of ague!" cept what I stand in absolute need o f H e gropes amoug the sacks and bring»- and no more. They seem to be ail twen up two bundles, which he presents to us ty-five rouble notes. 1 separate four respectively. It is one of the most diiti 1 from the bulk. cult things imaginable to make a com i 'l l A F T E R X III. the legs aud is actually pulling me bark! “ These will more than suffice,” I say, C H A P T E R X I V . —(Continued I such a woman! Brave and true. Y'e plete change o f toilet iu u cart on top I look around me and shiver. The 1 hear him say: "W ell,” says Yeraek, at length, “ thou raek. but for whom I should not he in holding the remainder toward him. " I t o f a pile o f sacks, while three horses ■olid masonry o f the walls is oozing with “ Ah. just in time, Anton An tone! vitek! art good enough to show in a caravan the land o f the living, for I owe my life is well for thee, my frieud, that thy damp, which envelops me, enters my Not quite smart enough, my brave. Ha. are tearing full gallop with you through at the fair of Nishi-Novgorod. Thou art head is firmly fastened on thy shoulders, to her as I owe it also to thee!” the darkness. However, necessity has lung«, and literally permeates my being, h a!" as he drags me to the ground. a big man, brother, and w-hut with the "W ell, well, i f that be so. I grant or thou wouhlst certainly give it away.” drowning my spirits, loweriug my vi And while I am struggling, dazed and | been known to make a mau accomplish long gown and high cap o f the priest, I try to smile at him as I speak, but thee, there are— there may be different tality aud extinguishing hope in my bewildered, to my feet he has rushed wonders. thou lookest gigantic.” sorts. Though, for my part, I have my trembling lips render tlie attempt a W hat bliss it is to lie still among the breast. to the door, unlocked it, and by the dim H e takes me by the ana and twists me kuown but the one— the cat-like sort, I failure. A warden brings me my allowance of light thut illuminates the corridor 1 see sacks with a dry skin, after the wet about, viewing me from all sides, aud His reply is to snuteh all the notes sleek and fawning and false, stroking away, and his countenance grows even more grave. bread and a jug of water. He informs him seize some one by the arm, jerk that clothes have been stowed you with velvet paws in which sharp from me with comical fierceness, roll me that I can have tea if I choose to some one into the cell and lock the door listen to Kalntcb describing in his terse, “ The priestly garb is a mistake,” he claws are hidden wherewith to tear you them up. aud stuff them into the inside pay for it, and shrugs his shoulders again. powerful diction, his adventure with the mutters, “ it adds to the height, which 0 pocket of my kaftan. unaware. 1 like not the feline tribe." warder! And how Y'eraek enjoys it! when I tell him that I have no money. “ Enough of this fooling!” he exclaims. is already conspicuous enough. A ll eyes "Just 111 time! Just In time to help H arin g spoken, he protrudes his up On lighting my lamp he leaves me. "Good— good; well done!” be interpo will dwell on thee. Not that it matters,” per lip, making his bristly mustache “ Not another word will I lieur on so me." 1 hear him repeat, with a strange, A fte r a while I stretch myself on the wild, exultatiou iu Ids voice. lates, slapping his leg. he adds quickly. "S o that thou art easy stand out. He looks very fierce and bit paltry a subject. W hat is more to the bed, where I lie staring at the light. Meanwhile a dull, smoke-gray streak and composed they may stare their fill. Then there is a short, fierce struggle ter, uud though I answer nothing, I purpose, let us settle what is to he done A t times I groan aloud, I wring my in the dark. The bed creaks under a has been widening on the horizon, and Thy own mother might stare at thee un think, “ Assuredly thou hast had some next. It will he best that we pnrt here. hands, whilst the swept of anguish pours falling body. • * • A cry o f "h elp !” now 1 can make out the details of Y'e- til she grew blind, she would never know Thou wilt go on foot into the town— cruel experience, my friend.’ from my body. And thus the night wears that is instantly smothered, followed by ra<-k’a dress where he sits before me on thee to be her sou!” Iu a few moments, however, his face straight up this street, taking the first away— the ghastly, fevered night, whose gasps and groans. the front o f the cart, and also the head “ That she would not!” endorses Ku- reassumes its habitual expression of turn to tlie right, nnd in the market ia hours seen» to lengthen out more and What means It? Who Is the vanquish of Kalatch emerging from the sucks, iatch. complacency, and he says to me, “ Now, both the postoffice and the posting sta more as they crawl toward the pale ed? Is it the Cossack who lies groaning surmounted by the tall Cossack's cap. Now Yeraek leads tlie troika into the my son, get thee something to eat and tion. Arrived at Y’ ilna, drive direct to dawn. H is profile is between me and the hori tlie railway station. W ith moderate driv middle of tlie road and unyokes the ad let us to business.” on the bed or that other one? In vain To-day is little more than a wretched my eager eyes try to pierce the dark zon, so that his hooked nose and the vance horse, which he ties with a hal H e places food before me; standing by ing thou wilt he there in time to catch repetition o f yesterday, only I feel it ness. It Is as black as pitch. The Cos bushy heard are marked out against the ter to the back o f the cart. tlie evening express. And let me remind nnd watching, with over-satisfaction, less. 1 have become apathetic. I have sack's voice reassures me ut length. growing light. Though they eoutiuue to thee who thou art. Forget not thy " I t looks not usual for a troika to be while l make it disappear. lost the mental energy to think strongly. converse together, 1 no longer gather the drawing a cart o f this kind,” he ex "1 hare him!” he limits. “ Thou hast doue well,” he observes, priestly dignity. Keep also a bold front, substance of their conversation, for 1 For hours I sit on one spot and move plains. "Thus it will appear as if the when 1 have eaten my fill aud pushed the for thou urt secure. The passport w ill Another groan and a gurgling sound. not, or I stand ut the grated window assuredly he enough, hut hesitate not to "Y’ou were going to spoil our little think of Mnriischa, und how soon I may- beast were being led for sale. N ow we plate from mo. gazing vacantly at the river and the game— what?” says the Cossack with get a letter dispatched to her. 1 cannot shall do. W e are traders journeying show the leave of absence. The two passing craft. help feeling a consuming anxiety about together will at once put to flight the to the fair at Vilna, aud thou art u rutting irony; am) there is an uupleusant C H APTE R XV. About midday the sky darkens and it thud us a head being knocked against a her, though I keep assuring myself that priest who has honored us by accepting least shadow of doubt. There is just the Y’ eraek draus a chair to tha table, begins to rain. It is a straight, steady wall. she is safe from interference liutil the fact of thy haring no luggage that might a lift. W e proceed leisurely, for we have “ Where are you, my brother? close to my elbow, aud with slow delib land-rain without wind, and the monot Come here quick!” inquiries subsequent to my trial iu St. no haste; tlie fa ir only begins to-mor eration, aud au expressiou of supreme arouse suspicion. • Here, too, thou canst 1 feel my way to onous patter of the drops on the water ward the voice, and uiy hand comes iu I ’ etersburg should be instituted. easily hoodwink them. Thou w ilt de row. A t tlie same time, brother, so im comes to me, mingled with the creaking contact with the arm o f the Cossack. “ Yeraek." 1 say at length, "where are posing is thy appearance, that thou look satisfaction, takes from bis tunic a large, scribe it— go to tlie luggage van for the biuated-lookiug pocketbook, out of which o f the rafts and the husky calls of the we at present? It is necessary that 1 est out o f place iu a cart with trading he abstracts a folded paper. purpose o f identifying it— excite thyself, "In my trousers pocket you will find boatmen. a match box. Strike a light," he dic get to a post town as soon as possible.” Cossacks, and therefore at Borlitch we "N ow , Nikor Audreiviteh Teherevin,,” get into a towering rage because it is not A fte r my midday meal they take me tates. “ 1 must see what I am doing “ W e are ubout ten versts from Bor- had better part company and thou wilt he says, mouthing bis words with au uuc- there; threaten to lodge a complaint to walk for a quarter o f an hour in a here.” liteh,” replies Yeraek. without looking proceed with the post.” tuous intonation. “ Iu reply to your ap against the railway servants for their court that is partly covered in, and again around. “ But, my good friend, this will cost neglect in not putting it in tlie train I comply, and bcc a ghastly sight. On I shake off my apathy to observe the “ I must Beud s letter from Borlitch,” money, and I am without a copec!” 1 peal for permission o f leuve of absence when it is addressed and properly label on the plea of ill health, I have the pleas faces of the two gendarmes who pace his back on the bed, his body convulsed, I say. cry. ure to haud over to you from the Arch ed; make a great stir, and give special at each side o f me. They are stolidity his face purple and swollen, his tongue “ Bah— nonsense!” exclaims Y'eraek. “ I have enough and to spare!” imandrite o f your diocese this paper, orders as to the forwarding of it with personified. My eyes dart now at an protruding from his mouth, is the war impatiently. “ This is not a time to write “ Y'eraek, how can I take so much out loss o f time.” official, now at a passing warden, with der. The Cossack's fingers are tightly letters! It Is bud— bad— to send w rit from thee?” I exclaim, deeply moved by which you will perceive, eutitles you to a " I promise thee to nse my utmost abil mouth’s sojouru ubroud.” * a vague hope that the Cossack may twisted in the collar of the prostrate ing through tlie post! I believe not in tlie Cossack's generosity. "T h y devo 1 take the paper he holds toward me. ity, brother,” I respond. “ Nor am I a throw himself in my way and give me a man’s uniform, aud the Cossack's knee this letter writing, it bus lost many u tion I can never repay, but the money novice. 1 have had some acting to do in and unfold it. ¡Sure enough, there is the significant glance or sign. In vain. Aud is on his chest. li e is to alt appear man!” thou art laying out on me I may some my time.” we are treading again the damp corri ances lifeless. "Yeraek, when I tell thee that the day be able to refund. Give me some ecclesiasticul seal, tlie wavering signa "Another thing I would mention,” re “ H e will tell no tales,” observes the dor and the gendarmes leave me in my safety o f one to whom I owe my life is address to which I may send i t Surely ture o f the uged church dignitary, and sumes the Cossack. “ I fain would hear Cossack. Aud the smile with which lie on scauniug it i find that here indeed is cell. endangered through me and that the— in time I shall work for the means to pay a formal leuve of absence to: “ M y ailing o f thy safe arrival. One line will be The clock In the chapel tower of the regnrds his senseless foe is truly dia the individual knows not of it, therefore my just debts.” son, the Reverend and Holy Father enough— ‘ Arrived safe!’ ‘A ll well,’ what prison tolls the hour of midnight. i bolic. “ Y’et lie might come round. Shall without being warned cannot escape it, "B a h ! K eep thy mind easy and make thou wilt. Only address it not to me, I count the strokes mechanically, sitting I make sure?” l i e draws a small stiletto thou wilt recognize that I cannot argue not a mountain o f a mole hill! W hat Nikor Andreiviteh Teherevin, extending am too well known fur a scamp; more over a period o f one mouth, to enable on the steel with my head against the from the bosom o f his coat and suspends this point with thee.” are a few roubles to me? I have neither over. I am tiuder surveillance o f the po humid wall. The filial stroke is still quiv it in mid-air. The Cossack gives a dissatisfied grunt, kith nor kin, aud w-hat shall I do with him, by medical advice, to drink the wat lice,” he chuckles, shutting up his left I suppose 1 look ering iu the air when I hear a faint . I stay his hand. but says no more about it. Presently superfluity? L et me put a trifle o f it to ers of Kissingen.” “ Slay him not,” I say. “ I f he be really he informs me that we pass through Bor my amazement, for Yeraek, watching eye. “ Let me see,” he continues, with click. a good use. I have taken a fancy to me, begins to grin. Kalatch, who has sudden gravity. "From Y'ilna we pro dead, God speed his soul. I f the life is litch on our way to Vilna. “ W here thou Am I dreaming, or is there really a thee, my son. 1 beg thee, let a lonely come up behind my chair, spells it out ceed to Minsk, on our way to the East. still in him, leave him the chance o f it. w ilt take train direct to Königsberg,” be pair of gleaming eyes looking at me man have his whim!” Arrived at the Province of the Don, slowly uud exclaims: H i » death will not benefit us.” adds quietly, as if it were the simplest through the trap in the door? Is that in Y'erack's voice shakes a little as he “ Humph; less trouble to have given thing in the world my passing the fron “ Tell us about it. H ow hast thou where I am a native, we will pause until very truth a hand holding something to speaks. H is face is averted. W hat can I have disposed of certain properties. him his quietus,” he murmurs, hiding tier. • procured it?” ward me? 1 stagger to my feet, staring I reply to this? Nothing. My trembling Our final destination will he the K irg- away his knife again. “ W e cannot leave “ Yes; how? W ho is Nikor Andrei “ T o Königsberg?” I repeat in amaze. lips refuse to form even a word with all my might. of liez Steppes. There we will pitch our him thus. W e must tie his hands and viteh?” I manage to stammer. “ Y"es; that is the program. And thou thanks. The hand beckons impatiently. In two Silently I wring my benefac gag him, or he might set the dogs on us w ilt arrive safe aud sound in tlie Prus This seems too much for Yeraek. H e tent. They will scarcely follow us there. strides I am at the opening! I grasp tor's haud. sooner than we expect.” throws himself back and indulges iu one Send, therefore, thy communication to sian town without a single hindrance. cold, rough iron! It is a file! A face It is still very, very early when we Minsk. I can always induce some sleek W hile he talks he loses no time. He The officials at the frontier will doff of his mighty roars. Is advanced no that 1 can see a long reach the town, yet before we arrive produces some strong cord from his pock their caps at thee and say, 'God speed “ H e knows not his own name!” he government clerk to rail for it at the drooping mustache, ns black as jet, and at the inn where Y'eraek halts we have et and hinds the man's wrists together thee. H oly Father!’ ” echoes. “ Ah, Nikor Andreiviteh! my postofflee and fetch it to me.” a pair of red lips which pronounce one encountered many people, but all of the Hereupon he takes up the pen, nnd behind his back. A fte r which lie pro poor K ik o v ; it is indeed time something A long silence ensues. Kalatch’s head lowest orders. I have had to respond to v^ord, “ W o rk !" And the trap is closed. with great solemnity, forming each letter ceeds to gag Ilia gaping mouth with a disappears from the range o f my vision, was doue for thy health.” I clutch it, I hug it— the little instru many greetings, and am made thorough handkerchief. " I t Is cleverly done,” he Ere I huve time for further question, with his lips the while, he writes on one and ere long loud snores rise at inter- |y uncomfortable by the obvious sensa- ment that is to give me liberty! The chuckles. “ I was quick. Y’ ea. In an in villa near me. Yeraek slackens the pace he produces a fam iliar lookiug little of the sheets of paper. It is n slow and reaction from the deepest depths o f de tion I create. I feel relieved to enter stant I had him! Once he had got away o f the horses to a steady trot, and thus greenback, the sight o f which makes my laborious task. I receive the paper and spair to sudden, full-fledged hope, for the dark fore-place o f the inn, with its to give the alarm, though we might still we proceed until we come to a long heart jump; aud this time, without any read: “ dimltri petrovitch herzen Minsk a moment overpowers me. I sink on the small, dirty windows, and I hear Yeraek previous speech, he puts it into my hand. post restaute." have escaped by the window, I would bridge thrown over a stream. H e pulls edge of the bed and find relief in a suc give vent to a sigh which I know is of Y’ eraek sticks nut his lips and watches not have given the snuff of n candle for up at the side of the road. It proves to be u passport made out cession of gasping sobs. Then I get relief. me whilst I rend it. our chances of landing at the other side in the name of this same Nikor Andrei "Come, rouse thee, Kalatch,” he cries. mastery of my emotion, and rise with The innkeeper comes yawning to meet “ Thou canst make it out? Y'es?” he viteh, traveling to Germany. 1 read the save into, the arms of the gendarmes. “ Get down and stand by the horses' compressed lips, burning to commence ns, from an inner room, putting up bis description of myself as I now appear, inquires. It was even the best thing that could heads.” my task. First I deliberately put out the blouse. H e stops with one arm above “ W ith perfect ease. It is very dis in a sort of stupefaction. 1 cannot take have happened that he should have come; light, after which I mount the stool and tinct. Kalatch, still half asleep, stumbles his head as he sees Yeraek, and his in my good fortune nil at once. * for now, I reckon, they will not be likely .work* Even when the dawn began to brows go up. They are evidently old “ Now embrace me, my son, and go thy Age— thirty. to find out that the bird has flown lie- over the edge o f the enrt, and mechan glimmer I dare to continue it, until every friends, these two. way.” fore 5 in the morning, and by then they ically does as he is told. Height— above average. "Y es, it is myself, Thoma Fedorei- bar is sawn through top and bottom, “ Now give me the clothes, Vladimir YVe kiss each other on both cheeks Eyes— brown. will find it a difficult task to get near leaving only a thin, untiled surface to viteh,” says Yeraek, grinning from ear enough to him to strew salt on his tail.” Alexandrovitch.” H air aud beard— brown and curled. and he releases me. The same ceremony the inside, so that a single thrust will is gone through with Kalatch. I thunk I dire among the sacks and fish up to ear. “ And I want to drop a word W hile speaking Ilia quick, nervous fin Complexion— fair aud fresh colored. cause the entire grnting to give way. in thy ear, little father.” W ith this he him for the service lie has rendered me, gers nre busy tying the knot at the the two wet bundles. H e takes them Nose— aquiline. I am examining my handiwork with from me, and looks anxiously lip and takes the man apart and whispers to back o f hia victim’s head. Grasping the precious talisman, and to which he will not listen. comparative composure, for l have grown Having satisfied him him, during which the listener glances re realizing what it means to me, my ex “ I was glad of a reason for pitching "T here now, thou art fixed up— war down the road. confident during my undisturbed labors, peatedly in my direction, his small eyes ranted not to go off!” he continues apos self that it is deserted, he hurries up citement becomes so great that I can up the accursed job,” he says. “ 1 could when the unexpected click o f the opening beginning to twinkle, aud his mouth wid trophizing the insensible man. “ Adieu, stream and is soon lost to sight in its no longer sit still. I rise precipitately not have stood it much longer.” trap mnkes my heart stand still with ening to a grin. Sometimes he puts a The Cossacks accompany me to the my friend, aud a good recovery! And tree-fringed windings. In about ten min aud fall to pacing the floor, while 1 vain sudden dismay, whilst the sweat turns question. outer door. I shake hands with both in now out with the light nnd let us start. utes he returns without the bundles. ly struggle for speech. Joy and grati icy cold on my brow. I have, however, A t length the confabulation comes to “ Sunk them in u pool,” is tlie laconic Yeraek will think that all is lost. tude strike me dumb, nnd like a woman silence, fervently pressing tile hand o f the presence of mind to let the tile slip an end, nnd the innkeeper, after signing In lesa than five minutes I am cleav reply. the tears rush to my eyes aud flow down Y’ eraek. nnd hurry away into the town. up my sleeve. 1 dimly descriy the points Thanks to Y'erack’s pass nnd letter, I I am on tlie rond, stamping up and to us, leads the way through a passage, iuy cheeks. ing the cold, hlnck water, striking out o f the Cossack’s black mustache thrust and opens tlie door o f a small, dingy am able to continue my journey without blindly for tin* opposite shore. In my down to stretch my legs, about which A t length I go up to Y'eraek, and plac through the aperture. I noiselessly speed room at the back of tlie building. W e rear cornea the Coaaack, gasping nnd tlie long silken skirt of the kaftan is ing my iiiiuds on each o f hik shoulders, molestation. I pass the frontier in safe toward him. flapping. My appearance must lie start enter, and he leaves us. shutting tlie 1 look down into his broad, jovial face. ty, nnd. at Inst I am out of Russia, a spluttering. “ llo w much have you done?" he whis door. free man. Tlie river is not wide, nnd I already ling, for as Yeraek catches sight o f me. “ Thoma Fedoreivitch is a safe man,” There comes a strange stir iu it, but in pers. (T o ha continued.1 au instant lie jumps to his feet nud feel the hank. Groping for a hold, my he utters n little cry e f surprise, which observes Yeraek, knowingly. "T h a t “ Finished." I whisper in reply. hand comes in contact with a branch, attracts tlie attention o f Kiilateli, and kind o f man is always safe so long as laughs boisterously. “ Good. Give me the file." A H a w R e c r u it. "H u, ha, ha! Come, friend Nikor, if by which 1 pull myself up. '11 ic Cos- he. too, laughs at me. I break into a you grease his palm. Thoma and I have 1 hand it to him and lie thrusts it into M ajor General H enry C. Corbin, w h o laugh at the open-mouthed wonder on thou wouhlst catch the evening express suck is close oil my heels. had our little transactions together.” the breast o f his uniform. Again he is to succeed General T a ft in the P h il “ Catch hold of this branch!” I whis their faces. The landlord returns bearing a tray iu Vilna. thou must liestir thyself.” bends down to me and murmurs the one (T o be continued.! Meanwhile 1 have sufficiently mastered ippines, was reared on a farm in Ohio, per. bending it down to where I hear him with breakfast. The repast consists of word: “ To-night!" my emotion to say: gasping. and takes a great interest in recruits, raw salt herring, preserved mushrooms, 1 go over to the bed, and fling myself T h e O lit I,a ily an il th e L a w y e r “ Yeraek. my friend— my noble friend! particularly If they be front his o w n So hastily is It snatched from me that and white bread. on it with a sigh of supreme satisfaction. A certain law yer, fumed fo r high I almost lost u>y balance. 1 recover my “ Ah, I am as hungry as a hawk!” says Thou wouldst escape my thanks. And State. •*lt is done— my task is tiui*hed. With self to find a dark object rising at uiy charges, hail incurred tlie enm ity o f an Yeraek, taking up a herring by the tail the gratitude o f my life long is all I may a single thrust of my hand I can make “ T h ey are amusing and pathetic, the feet. old lady on account o f the same. W ish to hold it over his mouth and crunch it give thee. Gcuerous Yeraek; she. too for myself an outlet from this foul den rn.w recruits from the farm s and v il — how she will bless thee for what thou "O n w ard!” he pants, taking the lend. ing to get even w ith him she consult u p . to liberty. A few hours aud 1 shall be lages o f the W est,” said General Cor A little more scrambling, and we are ed him about d ra ftin g her w ill. As i I take the opportunity to ask for writ hast done for us! Would that she were fre e !" on the road. The Cossack hurries me site was a very w ealthy old lady with- tng materials, aud if it is to be had. a here to thank thee in her sweet, gracious bin recently, “ And they make, in the It is the very longest day o f my life! along a few paces. Then a form steps w ay!” end, the best soldiers in the world. And when at last the shades begin to out from the trees and silently confronts on t,near relatives, she had many char- stamp, as it is still too early for the “ L et be, let be. Thou canst not im "B u t a t first they are too ingenuous, itab le associations to benefit, aud t ie postofflee to be open. gather and enshroud me, 1 cast myself us. It is Yeraek! , _ , ,, ’ , . “ Certainly, H oly Father, responds agine how I have enjoyed this escapade. too boyish, too naive. F or instance: down on iny bed utterly spent with the accurate d ra ft o f the w ill required th# landIor£ with a twinkle in his beady T o have tricked them so cleverly! Ah, “ An Ohio lad was doing his first sen burden of it. anil my woru-out system P H A F T E R X IV . much patience, skill anil tim e., Am ong eve » j ean furnish your Holiness with only to have seen the face o f that warder try duty. T o and fro he paced. T h e lull relief in sleep. When I awake M y companion utters one word In a the provisions she made a generous b e-; a‘u.” this morning when he entered the cell! the lamp is burning once more, ami my language unknown to me. and Y’ eraek landscape was fertile and lonely and Another burst o f laughter from the Ho, ho! That skinny little prefect. How- ■upper atiuula on the table. I ent up nil retreats Into the black gloom o f the quest to tills la w y er and nominated small he would look when they told him quiet, and the young recruit, ns he re him executor. A fte r the execution o f Cossacks, while the speaker crosses his the food that has been brought me, ns trees. There is a stamping o f horses and H ow he would fume garded the green fields, fell into a rev the w ill she called fo r her bill, where- hands on his breast aud bows low before o f the tragedy! 1 luive doue systematically all day, and the muffled rolling of well-greased aud stamp! Oh, it is splendid, splendid!” erie. H is pleasant inland home rose upon the law yer, w ith the vision o f ">« ere l>e goes. H e brings me the pa- take a Ionic pull of water. A fte r which wheels. My sight having grown accus "B u t I want to know how thou earnest up before him. H e thought o f his fath • a • .| 4I nor in his dirty finger and thumn. It is I »cat myself opposite the door and wait tomed to tlie darkness, I can make out am ple fees in the prospective sett e- 1 __________________ , by the documents, and in so short a * „ ' \ greased and soiled, the pen splutters and er and mother, his school days, hia breathlessly, braced for the moment of a “ troika" and some sort o f vehicle as ment o f the estate, and the m em ory of js c f the consistency and color timei too?” interrupts Kalatch, impa s w eeth eart action. they emerge on the road. W e quickly the generous bequest, told the old lady o f m„d, but they suffice me to write tiently. "In the midst o f his dream the ma Suddenly, without the »lightest warn climb into the latter, which proves to be that under the circumstances he should these lines: Y'eraek gives a contemptuous snort. ing, I am startled by the grating o f the a cart laden with sacks o f wool. Yeraek jo r passed, and the youth forgot to charge nothing, but finally to satisfy j "O n receiving this, lose not an hour "W h a t a fuss thou makest about so key in the rusty lock, and directly the springs to the seat in front, and away "One salute. In procuring thy passport, but travel small a m atter!" he responds. t'ossack enters; changes the key to the we speed as only a Russian “ troika" can. her business scruples, made out a re “ ‘ Don’ t yon know w ho I am, sir?* would think thou hadst been bom and day and night. I hope to precede thee, Inside, and locka us in! For the first Nothing saya Y'eraek to either o f us ceipt In full to date fo r one dollar, and will await the arrival of all trains bred a thousand miles from Russia, aud he said in a terrible voice. time I see iny stranger friend. A single until between us and Kovno lie many whereas the smallest sum he could from Königsberg. Should I be deterred, knew naught o f the customs of the coun " ‘No.’ said the recruit, softly, and. glance at him inspires me with confi versts, and the bartvii land is ail about have properly charged would have seek our brother, Courad Rosen. Stein try. Roubles— roubles— ronhles! What thinking it was a friend from home— dence. Binall, almost dwarfish; meager, us. Suddenly he observes: been one hundred dollars. Strasse. No. Tfl, who will advise and is there in Russia that cannot be bought sonic friend o f his fa m ily — he asked in colorless. Ids fa<* and form are yet iu "W ell, brothers, so far, good. And T h e old lady marched home with her assist thee. I f possible, send warning, with Russian roubles? I rustle a hand a gen tle voice: • ■tinct with energy and nerve. now for the transformation scene. Thou. w ill, set herself to work, copied it out Indirectly, to Ivan and Pavel. A ll is ful of dirty rouble notes, and without "B e a d y ?" he whispers. Vladimir Alexandrovitch, as thy hands “ ‘ Do you know me 7 ” carefu lly word fo r word, leavin g out known and searching inquiries w ill be a word of persuasion a government clerk "U nite,” I respond promptly. are white and thou hast something o f a t"**1*- " I am safe and ~ with '**" friends. writes out the passport to my dictation. On th e In s id e , "Y o n can swim?” clerical air about thee"— here ha gives the bequest to the la w y er and nom- Thine A H oly Father prepares the other docu until death.— V .” g a new executor. "I.ik e a fish." vent to a sly chuckle— "art to tie trans lootin “ No.” said F arm er Corntnssel to th o , . . . . . I read over what I have written. It ment from oue he has in his possession “ Come then. Y'on first; I follow. figured into Russian priest, with purple, In the course o f Urns she died, and ,, inm cient|y explicit and I have no fear and hands it to me with a 'Bless thee, summer boarder, " I don’ t b elieve all I Rtraight across where Y'eraek awaita us.” silk kaftan aud flowing looks; not fo r the disgust o f the la w y er at the con- but that Maruscha will obey my instruc my son!’ And never a remonstrance save see In the newspapers.” I am on the stool preparing to thrust getting ■ bean) that would graea a pat t e d * at the w ill was so great that he tions to the letter, ft she ran! when 1 pressed a little token of my grat “ W h y not?” out the grating. riarch. It testa with thee to play thy inadvertently let out the secret, to the A s I am folding and addressing it, itude into his palm.” “ W ell, you see. I ’ ve advertised a ll "T ow ard you! Toward you! Full the new role wall. Art thou satisfied with "Thou must have spent a fortune over the com forts o f home a fe w times m y huge delight o f his brother lawyera.__ Yeraek cornea behind me and looks over bars inside." whiapera the Coaaack. " I t i t r me. Yeraek." I say remorsefully. The s e lf."— W ashington Star. my shoulder. will make less noise. Aud by all the "Yeraek, my friend, I have no word« Is s ile '# M onthly Magazine “ Humph!” he grunts. “ A woman; I weight o f so many obligations oppresses ■aints. the ligh t!" he darts to the lamp wherewith to thank th ee!" 1 exclaim me. Too (Sanguine. thought as much.” N e c e s a a ry A d ju n c t. and puts It out. and is atandlng below warmly. I turn on him wrathfully, with an an FMna— And a fte r our m arriage I am "A n d i f thon hadst knocked the life Passenger (on ocean liner o f the fu me ready to receive the grating from my “ Bah. I merit no thanks. I f I save gry retort leaping to my lips, which, out o f me that time, as I deserved, what goin g to keep a cook. haud. thee, it will be Ufa for life. I like to be remembering how nse would my money have been to me ture!— W ill yon please direct me to m y B elle— Yon ere too recklese. my deer. however. I cheek, Already I am drawing myself np to the level with people. And for thee, brother much I owe to this brave fellow. I even then? Moreover, I assure thee, that I stateroom ? It's Xo. 727. Edna— Reck lesa?" •tone edge. M y head la through the Kalatrh. at the leopard cannot rhauge Clerk— I t ’s about h a lf a m ile a ft- summon up a smile. speak truth when I aay I have more than aperture when— what was that? A fa hia «pots, and thon art always a Coa B elle— Y'es. Y'on should say you are "Y e s, a woman, thon old mysogynlst, I need. Trust Yeraek for looking after T ak e trolley car on starboard ptoin- m iliar click! The Coaaack baa ms by aack confessed, avary Inch o f the«, I going to try to keep a cook. ■ who yet art the son o f a mother. And himself. H e knows how far he can go. cnade. By Order of the Czar