6 a^S BfSPS 1/fii WSf& WJSss I 1 Jiiir* L ipra G*> ,■ v (/JSJ ■ ■ .v.:: 7 "If You Find a Jew Here, I Will Agree to Eat Him." "I sha " Be Most Ha PPy." Sa'd Hardy. SYNOPSIS. Frederick Hardy, a fashionable Boston society man, lost his wealth, was jilted by a girl and sent by a friend to take charge of an American Trading Company store In Russia. t)ti his journey through Japan he met Stnpleton Neville, sup posedly an Englishman. They agreed to go together to Kussia. Because of sus picious circumstances they were several times molested by the Japanese. Hardy was arrested and found upon his person were papers showing maps of Jap forts Hardy was proven guiltless. On a train he mat Aisorne Sano. daughter of a Jap merchant. In Neville's shoes Jap found pictures of forts, proving him to be a Russian spy Hardy .leuiiitc<i for Rus sia on a steamer, which was wrecked shortly afterward. He was rescued by a Russian steamer. On reaching Vladi vostok h> was well treated. He started for Siberia, meeting Princess llomanovna bn the train. I lardy boarded a vessel for Amur. Hardy showed the princess his expertness us a rille shot. The steamer wap stranded. The |>rlnces« and her maid were attacked by Chinese. Hardy oaved their lives. The princess thanked Hardy for his heroism. Manchurlans ■fired upon the craft. Hardy slew their chief Burning arrows were hurled upon the J'llHl. kin's decks. An attempt was made to board tie vessel. The attacking Chinese were repulsed. Romanoff sneered at Ilurdy's solicitude for the princess. Htanka, a messenger »enj for help, was nail'd io a cross on the shore. To put an end to the awful torture Hardy himself put Htanka out of his misery, taking his own life In his hands. Forest tires men aced the vessel. Hardy volunteered to go for help It>fused permission he Jumped overboard and started to swim with tin* princess' distress message. Ilo wanoff was aiiKrv at Hardy for his brave efforts t" res. ii.the prlnc ss. He w iocd hit in hie own x.iviiii' way. lie said Hard) had made love openly to a Jap anese irirl llelp came nnd the princess was res. ue.l Hardy joiirn. e.j on a raft Arrlvliill at Ills I. till Ition le took eharx l of the trndlriic company's busi ness Hard* received .i letter fr.an a ->o ,ll 1a,,), i in It., Hl. in ami another fr.in Alsoni. llard> took l< HSOIIS In Russian of a J.w. thus con nee ling himself In a way with that ra. ■ Hardy received a letl.-r from the princes*, thanklnic him for hi* bravery llardy's teacher was In danger of death. CHAPTER XXV—Continued. A corpulent man with white aide whisker* sat In It. lie wort? au Amer ican iall xvi rcoat, of the luteal cut ami H derby hat. "What's the matter here, friends?" he asked, atandliiK up In the carriage, lie kpokt* perfect, fluent Itusslan There was no fear In his face, bin voice, or his attitude A sudden hush fell on the throng "If you |IIC;IM», Mr Emery," MAID the tall Itu ilnn, who had acted as ring leader, »t want the Jew who in he In* sheltered. In (bo store Another t hrimlati <hi Id has In <-n sat rill< < d anil wo ii re punishing th»« Jew* We want .Miiid»<ai, ami if tbia hwii in the window la i Jew, we want hint, (Ufl " lie a JeW?" laughed Kiuery "lie la a* a Christian as any mail you Ihi you t! ink ibat I would have cent a Jew here in take limilii of ii y stole* |Ju you not know Hu belief (ban thai?' lb «l with u I -v constantly, in j-*. iio Mn« lit Christiana,' said lb* ring btibr la ihiti, Mr '' 4*k<d t.ieer t wl.al *»|<tah*H«b ha». you to g'.ske i*. tb gwe.i |i .i|di bit M| liii Ji * |M tea. h MM Mil* M(," «*'4 iiihi) lla «»* tb« only man in town who spoke English suf ficiently well." "Ah, do you see? Do you see?" cried old Emery, unctuously, waving a conciliatory arm in the air. "He made use of the Jew that he might learn the beautiful language of lloly Russia and thus become able to converse with you, his friends and neighbors, my friends and neighbors. I see it all!" Here Mr. Emery opened both palms and extended them over the crowd. "He, no doubt, kept the Jew constantly with him, that he might learn the language as soon as pos sible and thus get rid of him at the earliest moment compatible with his laudable purpose. You see what as tounding progress he has made. I could hardly believe my ears when I heard my friend speaking Russian so well. Mr. Hardy, is there a Jew con cealed in the store "Nyet," replied Hardy. "He says 'No,' and that convinces me. Nevertheless, you shatl come in and see for yourselves, and If you find a Jew here, I will agree to eat him, without pepper or salt. Mr. Hardy, come down and open the door." Hardy complied with the request, and Emery jumping briskly from the carriage, entered, calling out cheer fully: "Vladiinar, Anatoli, Sergei, come in and look about, and then you shall take out a barrel of vodka and all Un friends shall drink to my safe return to Holy Russia." The three men entered shamefaced ly, protesting that they would take Mr Emery's word as to the Jew, but lie slapped tin-in one by one heartily on the liiM'k. shouting: "Come In, brothers, come In!" Twenty minutes later they went out with a bum l of vuiika, announcing. "Christian*, there Is no Jew here, l.et us drink tu the health of Fred erick Emery!" The mob dispersed. "Well!" exclaimed old Emery, as he slammed down the Iron shutter, "what In the devil d<H'S all this mean?" "It means," explained Hardy, "that there hut I).-< ii a ma*»arre of Jews, and that Mordeiai, whom I employed lo leach me Russian, tied here lor shelter. Wang, litre, my Korean er rand boy, and I di»gulsed htm as a priest ami sent him about his busi ness," ' I|4mm|!" e*t laine-d Kmery, ' gotid! hlauied • le**r!" lie sprang tu lii.i l« - I and pa> td Ibe stole ll> aas un • (citable mall Hut I got here jiml la lima. I tame up ui the Ingoda Thoce blood thirsty tl» *lis might hav« set fir** to the sture ami pethap* h*v<- kllled you I think 111 stay bwiu lor a month or so, and help you out My boy | bale ureal tt« *>» •»»««! HuWt' I Hi-lit Hi, !.'• *>" lit-tu he lumped ttpoit ik> annttUt, and. sitting tl»> re. loxlm-u triumphantly at llaidy, pulling live t |y no .usMl. at bis side whiskers What i* It*" a»lned Hardy 4> 144) iMj) , 1* 14 112 (HfVll |(m :i .» 4m n * *-**!§ ife*t p*4 "*es, lei m.-n hauls, lei < «etmer«% CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1910 | I fear you haven't acquired the com i niercial spirit yet, my boy. Big con tracts, tremendous sales, high prices. An unparalleled demand for every thing on earth. Business! business! business, till you can't rest —that's ] what war means! We'll have tremen-1 dous shipments of goods sent over to j Vladivostok, and every steamer that j comes up the river bringing them to j our stores. It'll be a big war, a great I big war, for little Japan is going to j give Russia the fight of her life!" "Do you think so?" asked Hardy, j wonderingly. "Do you think Japan ) will be able to stand up against Rus-! sia?" "Stand up against her!" shouted Emery. "Why, she'll make her trem ble to the very foundations. My friends out there will have something beside Jew-baiting to attend to when that war breaks out. I've been in Japan, looking the ground over, and I know what I'm talking about. Did you ever see a mother cat pounce on a big clumsy dog? Well, Japan is a whole nation of wildcats, 30,000,000 wildcats, and Russia is the clumsiest kind of a clumsy dog." "By the way," said Hardy, "I won der what became of Mordecai's moth er? 1 forgot all about her in the ex citement." "The Christians killed her," said Wang, who was standing in the j shadow. "Hello!" exclaimed Emery, "that boy of yours speaks Russian. And blamed well, too!" CHAPTER XXVI. . Hardy Hesitates. Emery stayed on in Stryetensk, lengthening his visit into months, and Hardy became greatly attached to him, finding the companionship of this cheerful, bold, resourceful, self made man an inspiration which the ! fellowship of his former society j friends had never afforded him. The old merchant received frequent ad vices from his agent in Japan which confirmed him in the belief that war was imminent, and Stryetensk, at the i head of river navigation in Siberia, ! seemed to him the most important of i the company's posts in Russia. Vasili, who was suspected of hav- j ing been active in exciting popular' hatred against Hardy, whom here- : garded as having supplanted him, was ! transferred to Blagovestchensk. And | during all this time the Korean boy, I whose intelligence and adaptability | were truly marvelous, steadily grew in favor with his employers. His ) progress in Russian was phenomenal, ! and as it transpired that he also knew j Japanese and some Chinese, he was. j after a couple of mouths, promoted from errand boy to the office, and set to writing letters. In the meanwhile Hardy received ! another letter from the Princess Ro- 1 manovna, a chatty, delightful letter, i in Russian this time, complimenting , him on his progress in the language. ] and telling him much of her own life ; and of affairs in Moscow. Among other things, she mentioned the fact; that she had spoken of his heroism on the Amur to the emperor and of the debt of gratitude that she owed hiui. ! She assured him that she would b<* | glad to hear from him from time to : time and signed her, "Your friend, 1 Kliiabetha Roinanovna." I In January, Emery announced to I Hardy one day that he wished the I j young man to take a trip to Moscow and perhaps to St. Petersburg on business. "By the way," said Hardy, stam mering slightly and feeling a trifle confused, "there is a ah matter of which I wish to speak to you. You | know this country so much better than I, and its customs. I have re ! eelved an Invitation from the Princes* ltomanovna to call on her while in j Moscow." It was a little difficult to speak to | Kmery on this subject, he was so practical and his gray eyes were so > shrewd, and lit times twinkled mo I humorously. Yet he mum thoroughly kind hearted, he loved Hardy, both ' for his own and for his father's *ak«. j and )>•< took a paternal Interest in the young man "IN IS he the one whuin you staved from the Chinese brigands?" ; "She Is the ah the oae whum I came up the Amur with," implied ' j Hardy, modestly. •'Well, ifo and call on her!" decided i Kmery, without a moment's thought •'Yc», but I feel mime little healtg thm Hh« I* a prince**, an.l |am now a men haut. and w« are lit Kiu»u I \ don't want her to feel under the least I obligation to me for what I bav.i done * That Is to say, I do not want har to feel that I am taking advantage of ft Mhe weaas all right hut taking ui« ||p might cause her sotue little Int onven li ne or embarrassment Her r*la tlvws are proud and haughty, and I 1 ' ii'u tai set be blanked?" roared I l.lw t) llaveu t >ou Hut that Hoi > I I U tttaku I umii haitt (irlaue wut u| you, my boy, and those are the only princes these days." One week later, in the middle of January, Frederick Courtland Hardy crossed Lake Baikal to Irkutsk and i there took the magnificent "train j luxuß," a nine-days' railway journey to | Moscow. Though he was going on j important business, yet he felt | strangely agited over the fact that he ! was soon to see the princess again. With the agitation, too, was mingled a I certain degree of misgiving and fore- I boding. He was not sure that his see i ing her would conduce to his peace ! of mind. He was accompanied by his secre tary, Wang, the Korean boy, who had rendered himself indispensable through his genius for details. CHAPTER XXVII. Off to Moscow. Hardy never forgot that Journey to Moscow. For days the heavy train rolled slowly along through a vast park covered with Illimitable stretches of snow, or through leafless, naked forestß, shivering in the cold blasts of winter. All the trains that passed were crowded with emigrants, bound for the Amur region, and the car win dows were thronged with the fresh, ln - nocent faces of children. To many of the trains prison cars were attached, bearing their sorrowful freight to the dread island of Saghalin, which has taken the place of Siberia as a land for deportation. From the windows of these cars, also, many children looked out, pressing their little faces against the bars, for the condemned are al lowed to take their families with them. Hardy had long since realized that he was in Russia, the Russia of the story-books and the magazine ar ticles. One evening a little before sunset I they came in sight of Moscow —an in distinct blur of houses, out of which loomed large and clear the towers and domes of numerous churches, many of them overlaid with gold-leaf, and glit tering gorgeously in the light of the | setting sun. At eight the train drew up In the 1 modern and commodious station at , Moscow, and the American, as he ! looked about him, felt that he was in ; the heart of European civilization I once more. Wang, who was invaluable through i his ready wit and his knowledge of | Russian, attended to the baggage and ! engaged a sledge to take his employer ; to the Slavlansky Bazar, or hotel, the ' best caravansary in the city, and a very sumptuous and comfortable inn, as it proved. For several days he devoted his en tire attention to business, conferring with merchants and going over lists, | prices and accounts with Wang. Mean while, whenever he went into the 1 streets, the Interminable procession of , sledges was there, and he watched | them constantly, always with one face | In his mind—that graceful head held so high, with its crown of hair the color of ripe wheat and fine as spider threads. Many ladles of pure Russian type he saw, their faces peeping sau cily from collars and hoods of costly ! fur, and often he would start and his heart would throb more violently as he thought he recognized th > prin cess. He would generally realise his mistake, however, before the sledge would dash by with Its jingling bells. He would have gone away without calling on her had he finished his' business as quickly as the original | plan contemplated, hut old Emery,! who had come up as far as Irkutsk, j kept writing to him, sending new I commissions. Kmery, by the way. was becoming Jubilant. The diplomatic | relations between Russia and Japan were growing less cordial every day; the demands of the latter country j were waxing more and more Insistent! and difficult to evade The Japunese, j too, according to Emery's advices. ! were rushing preparations fur a death 1 grapple with the bear on a gigantic scale "This means war, my boy," wrote | the old man."and war means busl ness!" So Hardy worked away, enlarging his acquaintance with the Moacuw merchants, while his respect for the uisgnitudx of their operflons and for the greatness of the city's Industrie: steadily grew And one evening. he walked home to his hotel, he saw the prlm-is |t<> manovna. There was no mistake a bunt It this time, and h» realised that, wheu it was Indeed she, there could lie no mistake rthe »*<* lean lug back In a sledge with high curving da-.li, luxuriously pill with »kti>. tin an elevated seat In front sat her coachman and footman the former ban .in were running free, and iNm. untianiuu led. the b« auty and *tai< «( t liviul fc| 114 t 4) noticed, with a thrill of distinct pleas ure. that no man, but an older woman, accompanied her. And the princess saw Hardy. As he arrested his steps at the edgo of the curb and gravely lifted his hat, she bowed and, leaning forward, touched the coachman and called to him. The horses came to a sudden stop, rearing upon their haunches and plunging and slipping in a wild jumble. Presently they stopped and stood trembling. The sledge drew up to the curb. "Why, Mr. Hardy!" exclaimed the princess in Russian, "I had no idea that you were In Moscow. How long have you been here?" "A little over two weeks." "Over two weeks and have not been to call on me! Ido not consider that kind. Mme. Prebioff, this is Mr. Hardy, the American whom I told you about, who rescued me from the Chinese brigands, and performed such feats of valor on the Shilka. I do not see why he ever rescued me at all, if h* does not think me worth calling on." "The princess has talked constantly of you," said Mme. Prebioff; "half the young men in Moscow are waiting to challenge you. Hearing of your won derful skill, they have all taken to practicing with the pistol The pro prietors of the galleries are Kettlng rich, and one can scarcely sleep nights on account of the constant {topping " The princess laughed merrily. "You are positively Incorrigible, Anna," she said "llut"—turning to Hardy--"tell me why you have not been to see me * What excus** have you to off.-r, air?" "I should have called before I left, to pay my respects," said Hardy, gravely. "I have be#n very bus v. I am here on business, you know, for the American Trading Company, buy lug up stock for their posts ou the Amur I ah, had not expected to de vote much attention to society." "Mr hardy U a merchant, then?" Inquired Mme prebioff. languidly 'How very Interesting'" The princess' eyes tlu.sii) d danger ously, but XH> made DO reply to Mme. Prebioff "Hut even If you are busy," she ! said, "you can stum a little time for 1 your friend*. Will you not call on me tomorrow eveniug? I shall he <iulle alone, and w« can talk over our I wonderful adventures together, foutc j | at eight.' The horse*, stung by the cold, were becoming unmanageable now and »»r> (dunging and rearing "I shall lie moat ha|ip>," said linrdv "AM revolr, then." »AM the prln cess, "t shall aspect you '' *tl»e spoke to the i»vo>M bik and ih< sledge, »lth « sudden crash and a j rhythmical jingle of belts. New >1 •* ft Ihe siu-i i i to. tmericau. with head um <•»«!>.<4. stood luuhmg after It- CHAM Ik H ** v ill Hiritf | Cgfcmae tlx A <|» I louk, V\ -tug ' M4i.lt ssk> 4 U| hts Koreas IN<J, who tMUng in ths I> MH el their »<*tte 41. the hotel that did duty as an o/Hce. Wang glanced up from the pile of cor respondence with which ho was busy. "You look like a gentleman," he re plied, quietly. "Thanks," said Hardy, who was In evening dress. "I am glad you think so, for the costume which I am now wearing was invented to convey the impression that a man is either a gen tleman or a waiter, though it has, first and last, it must be confessed, cov ered the back of an occasional coward or clown. It is necessary for me to-night to look the gentleman, my boy," he added, whimsically, "for I am going to mingle with the haute noblesse. The merchant of Stryetensk, Wang. Is on his way to the palace of the Romanoffs!" Wang smiled. "Once a gentleman, always a gentleman," he replied. "There are many among the drunken, licentious and cowardly nobility of Russia who are less worthy to enter palaces than the merchant of Stry etensk!" Hardy laid his hand on the other's shoulder. "You look pale, by boy," he said, kindly. "You are working too hard. Put these away now and goto bed. or here—take this and no to the theater" —and he laid a gold piece on the table. Wang Hushed and handed the money back "If I goto the theater," he said, with considerable spirit, "I can buy my own ticket." Hardy's finer feelings prevented him from smiling "Pardon me, Wang," he said, 'wsuw" inn the money to his pocket. "I did not mean to offer you charity; merely a reward for exceptional attention to duty. liut I must be going. The p«**b. cess s.ud eight and it's nearly that now limit w<>rk '.uy more to-night." He was goiw "The prince**'" muttered Wane, jabbing the pen, with which he had be* n writing, so spitefully Into the table that h« shatt< red Its point. "The haughty, lemon halrd prince-,* .ni<| she wants nothing of him save to amiine h»r>»t>lf' He ha* saved h> r life and now she will repay him by break ing his heart i • ould kill her'" Hating given v tit lo this ebulli'ion of se. iniug Je.iiiOt •> Wang prin i ni. d to Illustrate till further n, v h-minum nature of Korean boys, fur he rested his head en I > arms and sob bid for soiuw uiou . it viob-nily. After which he twisted 1 - Mi . W übiiul uud klss< d tk< | i .11 -f wh iu I,is i master * hand had rested Can Afford » tit Hurv « r « tte» . 11 tt<<» lc«.i«»®u, they're the on Iv |.« Mi* <»u l<« > r«ute * area t tb*» i n week A tee# ANn "Why, with all »l»u a.od»ra re »nt th * < i -k i>» terrible »4.«r .1 *« 4iu« iu *" Pi I 4i J. i wne *e eui i thought '
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