THE FATAL KISS.
BY TRISTRAM MONKE.
From Nev York Weekly
CHAPTER II.
“Bat yoa shall not work io the
mines, *for I will save you! Ab,
but bow?” she cried, in agony.
“I atu >uly a woman, alas! but
what strength cannot aecomphish.
cunning must.”
With a groan of despair, she re-
turnud once more to the window.
Toward her, from the road to the
mine, advanced four men, under
the guard of Boris. htrangely
enough, the tall, soldier-like figure
was among them. Once again he
baited, when Boris, drawing bis
struck him with the fiat side of it
so furiously as to stretch him al
most senseless to the gro nd. It
was then, for the first time, that
the y<*ung l.eutenant lecame aware
that he was in front of Fedora’s
bouse, and that she had witnessed
bis action
He hit his lip with vexation.
A moment later, Fedora, regard
less of of the biting cold, was in the
street
Darting a furious glance
at Boris, she knelt down in the
show beside the prostrate convict,
then, turning her flashing eyes on
the lieutenant, she bade him leave
her presence. Scarcely knowing
what he did, he obeyed, and
marched a good six rods away with
his three prisoners. It was not far.
yet the swiftly falling snow blotted
them out from her gaze; then, tak
ing the man’s head on her knee,
she whis|M*red in his ear:
“Alexis!”
The convict opened his eyes, and
exclaimed in a low voice:
“Fedora, dearest, you recognized
me!”
"Could I not penetrate any dis
guise? I have come to stye you!”
"Save me?” he echoed, dully.
"Who can be saved from the
mines?”
"Hush!” whispered she. “Do
you know where you are to be
lodged tonight?”
"Xes. The usual prison being
full, we are to be placed in a little
hut,’just outside this hamlet, for a
short time, until a band of the pris
oners here are sent back to Tobolsk
en route for elsewhere.”
Fedora uttered a low, g'ad cry
on hearing this inteligence, and re
plied, in a low. excited whisper:
"Be ready to tly on the fifth night
from now—to tlv with me!”
••But how------”
"Hush! Ihm't question me. dear
eat, but trust all to me; only be
ready on the fifth night; and now
pretend to lie recovering from a
faint, for here they come."
Sue spoke the truth, for Boris,
realising that he had no light to
leave a convict unguarded, was re
turning. Fedora rose, and with well
simulated wrath, cried:
"Bo you have come to fetch your
prisoner. It ‘s no thanks to you
that be has recouertsd cousciuus •
MM.”
Then, taking hitu on one aid«,
she exclaimed, as Alexis staggered
to hie fret: "Should it come to my
ears that you have struck another
cony let as brutally as you did that
man, I will never give you my an-
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awer.
A happy smile irradiated his
face. and. calling to some soldiers,
who had just come up, he Fade
them conduct the convicts to their
prison. As soon as they had gone,
Boris cried, passionately:
-Fedora. I implore you to give ing himself, be added: "But bow
can I tell ycu are not amusing
me your answer now
yourself at my expense, as you have
"In five days you shall have it
so
often done?”
"But why this delay—why keep
A moment’s pause, during which
me in this cruel suspense?”
I
her
band bad sought the hilt of a
"As a punishment for your bar
barity.” she replied, coldly; then dagger at her girdle; then throw
she added: "and also to test your ing back her furs, she said, softly:
"Let my first kiss be the seal of
courage, for it is whispered hera
that you are but a coward at heart. truth of my answer.”
She fiung herself into his out
“Set me any task, however peril
ous it may be, and you will see if I stretched arms, and raised her face
cannot give the lie direct to the cir to his. The instant their I ps met
a fo«t of steel at the same moment,
culators uf such a yil« slander ’’
"You know the tale of that con was driven to its hilt into bis heart, |
vict who wa- kicked to death, whose and Boris fell, without a groan, at.
spirit, it is said, haunts the house his deceiver’s feet.
With nerous fingers she took the .
in which he d'ed? Wei , my fath
keys
from his girdle, his blood j
er told n e that the prisoners are
staining her white fur gloves as sue
going to be kept there.”
"Only those four,” interrupted did so. and with trembling bands
she unfastened the door of the hut.
Boris.
A few seconds later the managlee
“If you keep guard alone there
on the fifth night from now, I will fell num the wrists of Alexis, and
give you my answer. This is the he was free, his release being fol
lowed l»y that of.his companions.
task 1 set yov.”
Like most Russian, Boris was su
perstitious
He would not have
feared to meet a mortal foe or brave
a danger, but to meet, perhaps, the
spirit of the convict whose death
some laid at his door, made him
draw back—he hesitated to accept
the challenge.
"So this is the way you give the
lie direct to those who, it appears,
speak the truth,” she said, sneer-
ingly, and moving away. "Cow
ard!”
“Stay!” cried Boris, laying a de
taining hand on her arm, “do not
accuse me of cowardise before you
have heard my answer.”
"And it is?”
“Thai I shall be there.”
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It is midnight, and the convict
station of Orlouski is wrapped in
repose. No sound disturbs the
stillness, for the snow deadens eyen
the footsteps of the sentries outside
the common prison, and those of
Lieutenant Xerinka, who, armed
with bayonet and ritle, keeps his
strange vigil outside the hut where
in the foul convicts are imprisoned.
For the hundredth time Boris
strivts to pierce the gloom, to see if
she whom be awaits comes; in vain
—Fedora is late in keeping her
tryst.
A sudden fear chills his heart as
the idea Hashes across his brain
that she may net come, nut a rustle
uf garments vuiets his fears. In an
instant he was on guard and had
challenged.
"It is I—Fedora.”
“You, dearest! I almost feared
you would not come," he exclaimed.
Hinging down his rifle.
“Not come, Boris?” there was a
wondering totie in his voice. "Did
I not say I «humid? How did you
get permission to keep guard?”
“They thought I was mad.” he
answered, as she approached hili,
“but th«-y granted my Tequett,
thou gh. Colom I Stanufi Lad a
go>>d laugh ut my expense And
now, having granted wur strange
request, darling—what—what is
your answer?”
Thequestion was asked haltingly.
"I have l»een thinking ami reaa
oning for five days, as you know,
Bvris, and have at last arrived at
my decision.”
"And that is------ ”
"Yes.”
"Ah. Fedora, what an angel you
ar»!” he cried, impetuously, “and
what a relief you have brought to
my luind ” Then suddenly check
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