fcaaaa THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH v r n - PAGES 17 TO 20. - H 'THIRD PART. - 1ST IN THE HOUSE Bright Sketches of Some Well Known Public Men. MB. BRISKER HUNTING PIE. Cracking Jokes at the Expense of Congressman Paynter. GEN. SPIKOLA. AND BIS MAINSAIL rconBXSFOiroixcE or tax. Disr.ixcH.1 "Washington, May 31. Mr. If ast and I THE EFFECT OF A CYCLONE UPON BEATJTr. were strolliuc through the corridors of the Capitol when I asked him if he would like to visit the whispering gallery. "What it that," he asked, "the place JCast Tool Sim for Atlat. where the lobbyists meet the Congressmen?" I was about to censure him lor so sug gestive a question as this when it occurred to my mind that they have recently fitted tip one corner of the whispering gallery with chairs and sofas and turned it into a reception room where ladits come to meet member of Congress. I explained to Mr. Nast, however, that, while his question might not be a wholly irrelevant one, this is called the whispering gallery not because the whispering gals assemble here, but be cause the acoustic properties (which the guides persistently call accoostic properties) oi this hall are so peculiar that whispers may be heard at surprisingly long distances and nnder astonishing conditions. For ex ample, as I told him and alterward showed to him, one person may stand agiinst the extreme easterly wall of the large hall and THE BULLY BOV ;hiper to another person standing against be extreme westerly walL. "That nothing," said Mr. If ast; "up in few Jersey there is a place where a man a stand with his back against a tree and jhsper to a man in Australia." "Well, if anybody else told me, I should ot believe it. And can the man in Aus alia hear it distinctly enough to under ud it?" "No; can't hear it at all." That's the trouble with N ast; since I've town him bont Washington for a few ceiu be has become too smart. "When I 4 t fe proved to him that the whispering gallery in the Capitol W no joke, but that a whisper can really be heard clear across it, he put his nose against the westerly wall and whispered an abject apology across the hall to me, and, reaching out his hand, said. "Come, let's shake and be friends. Then I illustrated some of the peculiar cataconstic properties of the hall to him. I took him upon one ot the diamond-shaped tiles of the floor and went mysell to another many yards away. There we stood and chatted, while people passing between us could not hear a word we said. "Do yon hear me distinctly?" I asked. "Perfectly," said he. "Hare you 53 to spare until to-morrow? I asked. Mr. Nast must have moved off his tile. He made no answer, and I concluded he had not heard. "Will tou have a mint julep with me, Mr. Nast?" 'li. jut you, I will." Then Mr. Nast pointed out Congressman Brinker, with the remark that be thought he might be Atlas with the weight of the world upon his shoulders. "So," said I, "he is onlv pondering whether he will take pie or milk, or bota." "He reminds me of the bird called the adjutant," said Nast, as I dragged him to the House gallery. "How, Mr. Nast, I wish you would pick out the most striking-looking character in the House." Mr. Nast leaned low over the gallery rail ing and reached down as far as he could. "I ran't reach him," said he. "Beach who?" "Why, the most striking-looking man in the House. And if I could reach him 1 don't believe I could pick him out; I am not strong enough. If you would like to see how I should look in the act ot picking out the most striking character in the House, here you are," he said, tossing 'sTTlastny drawn sketch over to me. "But I don't mean that," I said, I should rot expect one little man like you, without the aid of any machinery whatever, to do what the entire Democratic side of it e House, with ail its machinery, would be only too glad to do, and would have done longago if it could." Mr. Nast sat for some tlme regarding a member who was paring his nails and other wise making his toilet in the presence ot the well-filled galleries. "Why don't they have a washbowl and towels on each desk?' he asked; buttbiswai another ot his absurd questions. Presently he jabbed me with his elbow, saying: "Quick! Quick! Who is that? That gentleman over there who would be so handsome if be had not been struck by a cyclone; that man with the plepitude of luxuriant hair and the gorgeousness ot mus tache?" "Do you mean Mr. Paynter, the Ken tucky member?" "Is that his name?" and Mr. Nast -t h a long time in philosophic contemplation of ti e gentleman. "Is he not a striking illustratiou or the effect of wind on whiskers?" he said at length. "Does he always appear with that hurricane-swept look upon him?" "I presume he is a little more than ubusI lr wind-tned jut now," I said, "for he sits squarely in draft, with Mr. Mills on une side oi hini and Major McKinley uu ihe OF KENTUCKY. other." "Does Mr. Paynter sell the red-tape for this establishment?" asked Mr. Nast "Why do you ask?" "I notice that every now and then he looks up at the ladies'glllerr with a sort of anything-else-to-day.-madani? expression on his face and a kind of wont-you-atep-over-to-the-ribbon-counter leer in bis eye. I thought may be he sold the red tape lor the House." If Mr. Nasthad expressed surprise when he saw members of the House sitting in their seats making their toilet, he expressed something more when he saw them turn this hall of law-making into an eating-house. "Who is that hungry-looking man down there in front munching an apple?" Several members were munching apples. "Which one?" I asked. "That one down there in the front seal the one with the mainsail wrapped about his neck." "That is not a mainsail, Mr. Hast; it is a ft A Great JPosltion in Life. collar," I answered, "and the gentleman who sits inside it is General Spinola,of New York.' "He mnst be a lineal descendant of Mother Eve." "What makes you think so?" "See him offer a bite ot his apple to his colleague! Well, who is that gentleman over ttiere just beyond the flower garden; the proprietor of that fine head of cow licks?" "That is not a flower garden, sir, it is a buttle-hole bouquet." "He must be an industrious politician to button-hole so many flowers. But what is his name?" "That is Mr. Breckinridge, of Ken tucky." "So that is Mr. Breckinridge of whom I have heard for so many years? What a lor tunnte thing Mr. Breckinridge's nose is no shorter than it isl" "Why?" BESEMBLANCE BETWEEN "Well, if it were any Bhorter Mr. Breck inridge would .have no place to rest his glasses on when he reads." "So Mr. Breckinridge is the man you would pick out as" . Mr. Nasi interrupted me by asking the PicMiff Out a Striking Character. name of a member who stood in one of the aisles on the Democratic side. ...... "That man with nis hands in his hip "Yc '" said he; "the" one whose chest is so Tar behind him." "I don't Know his name. .Nobody Knows his name. In fact, he has no name to 8pf.-?ii" . wnliod Mr. Nast. "If he has no name, you must admit he has a great After such a remark as that, who can wonder that the House immediately ad journed? Willis B. Hawkins. WOBKED OUT HIS MOUTH. Trouble for a School Teacher Who Tried to Care m Fopll of feTresrlnc. Miss Georgia A. Horndeo, a teacher at Lowell, Mass., was troubled by the ac complished profanity of Freddie McQuade, one ot her pupils. To cure him of the habit she caught him one day and, rnbbing soap on a cloth washed out his, month. The boy was taken sick and died. , The parents have hired a lawyer to sue for damages. He claims the soap made the boy vomit and ended in diphtheria which earned death. Hiss Hornden has also hind lowyeraad will fight hard. PITTSBURG-, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1890. CHANGES DOWN TOWN A Picture of Diamond Street Drawn Half a Century Back. THE NEW STREET NOMENCLATURE. Hott the Innovation Was Opposed and How Unwillingly Accepted, PITrSBDEGEES ALWAYS LOYED MUSIC IWEITON FOB THE DISPATCH. ! Not long ago a man who was born in Pittsburg, who had grown to manhood there, and then had gone elsewhere to live, returned to the old home for a visit. The war was still going on when he went away, and only once or twice had he been back since. Those returns had both been before the present phenomenal "boom" began, and the visits had both been brief, admitting of no close study of recent changes. On this last occasiou, however, he de termined to see all that was to be seen. It took him a little tim,e to get his bearings, but at last he felt that he had mastered the difficulties of the situation, and he went abroad without a guide to take a stroll among some of the old haunts. I think there is nothing more pathetio in its wav than such a jonrney as that. To look for'the familiar landmark that used to stand jnst here, and find that it has been swept away, and that its place is occupied by something altogether strange; to seek the wide plot of vacant ground where the boys used to play cricket in the days before base ball was known, and to find it closely built up and wholly occupied by structures that reach well up toward the sky that is very Bacdeniug. And it makes a man feel so old! Such tremendous changes, he thinks, could only come through the slow process of time; and the century must be much farther along than he had supposed. ASSOCIATIONS OF DIAMOND STBEET. It was so with this man. He was per plexed and bewildered at every stop. The old places he had known he knew no Jonger, and he wished he had stayed away. Except for the few old friends he" met and some of them didn't recognize him he might almost as well have been in a city never beforeseen by him. But there was one locality in which he still felt confidence. It was not likely that very much change would have crowded in there. He stopped at the corner of Smithfield street and Diamond, and looked in dismay up and down the narrow thoroughfare that crossed Smithfield. "See here! Will you tell me what street this is?" he demanded of a policeman. "Diamond street." "Oh, I'm looking for Diamond, alley, and I can't find it." SPINOLA AND ADAM. "This is what used to be Diamond alley. They've changed the name a little. That's all." All! When did that policeman become a Pittsburger, if he thought that was all? In the good old times which this old citizen remembered. Diamond alley had differed from Diamond street in more than in name. Just over there, on the north side of the alley, and close to Smithfield street, used to stand the Second Presbyterian Church, a quaint old strncture placed in the center of a gravevard. Think of a graveyard on Diamond street and then say that Diamond alley differed only in name! And just op-" Dosite the church was a big, rambling frame bnilding used as a tannery. That was rather different from the smart brick struct ures standing there now. Of course there was no expectation of seeing either of these buildings nt this time, lor somebody set fire to the tannery almost SO years ago, and the church was also destroyed in the conflagra tion; but to the disappointed visitor they seemed no more ancient now than some of the more recent landmarks which had dis appeared as completely as they. ONCE A QUIET BESIDENCE BTBEET. He used to live on Diamond alley, this man; and at that time it was a qniet, thoroughly respectable and rather desirable place of residence. Now he could fiud no trace of the old house that had been his home. Even newer buildings than that bad gone pleasant, comfortable houses that he remembered seeing built. And now he was the only one who recollected their hav ing existed. And yet he is not an old man. Change comes fast as well as thoroughly. One of the favorite play-grounds of this same man, when be was a boy, was a portion of Grant Hill which Diamond alley bad not oat through. As I say, be is not yet old; but the time when Diamond alley did not extend -from the Diamond up to its present termination seems very remote in deed to the people of to-day. But the chance which most affected the temper and spirits of 'the troubled home comer was the least material one of all. It was to be expected that a rapidly growing city should condense itself as well as extend its'borders; that it should utilize all the space heretofore prodigally wasted. That was forgivable and even commendable. But to change the style of the street nomen clature was a thing hard to be reconciled to. "In my time," ne said to me afterward, "streets were streets and alleys were alleys. Now the alleys are streets and the streets are avenues. I don't like it, but Ienppose it must be all right" " OLD STKEET NAME3. It was the new statement of an old griev ance. Time was, as we all know, when the shorter thoroughfares running from Liberty street to the Allegheny river, were all streets with names instead ot numbers St. Clair street, Hand street, Mechanic street and so on. The others, running from Lib erty street up the hill, away from the Alle gheny river, were streets also, but numbered streets First (or Front), Second, Third, Fourth, Filth, and up.to Eighth, I believe; which last, according to my recollection, existed only as an abstract and hypothetical street. . It was there, but it did not show, being occupied by railroad extensions or something which prevented its being so available for traffio as the other streets were. In the course of municipal events it became desirable to change this order of things. I don't recall what arguments were used in urging the change; but one was that the old arrangement was too cumbrous 'and compli cated. Another, as I recollect, was that in the increasing growth of the city and the consequent multiplication of the short streets, finding names for them all involved too great a strain on the inventive faculty ot the governing powers. This last, however, was the suggestion of a satiric enemy who opposed the alteration. If the two systems ot streets had only been continuous the mat ter would have heen simple enough; but their ends did not correspond at all. St. Clair street, for example, did not reach Lib erty street opposite the foot of the old Sixth street, so" as to form the lower division of that thoroughfare. So it was decided that the two systems should henceforth both be numerical; but those below Liberty street should be streets and those above Liberty street should be avenues. St. Clair street be came Sixth street and Fifth street became Fifth avenue. NOT WITHOUT PEOTESTS. Some of us who dwelt in Pittsburg when the change was made remember the agita tion produced by it. The protests were not so loud and emphatic as in the case of some other projected innovations, perhaps, but they made themselves heard, nevertheless. Ridicule was not spared by those in opposi tion. They declared there was not a street in the city to deserve the title "avenue." One facetious advertiser announced himself (one time only) as doing business at snch a number "Diamond avenue," and a reporter described a drunken row as having occurred on "Virgin avenue." It seemt queer at this date that a state of things which appears to have been always a part of the established order should have been brought about againstso much opposi tion. Of course the opposition did not avail. But for a time atter the change was made it was productive of no little contusion. If an old resident wanted to find a particular number on Filth street, he was very sure to look for it on Fifth avenue; and many troublesome com plications came about in consequence. The trouble was not of lone duration; but there were some who, as a matter of stubborn prin ciple, refused to accept the new dispensation. They consistently relused to recognize Fifth avenue as having any existence at all. It was Fifth street. And even now there are old Pittsburgers who are filled with wrath and scorning when their thoughts are turned that way. So long does a mere sentiment abide. ( SOME FORMS OF EXPRESSION. So, also, does a habit of speech. Indeed, that is very apt to survive the sentiment or the significance that inspired it. I have heard old people in the country say of a lazy fellow that "he'd never do to carry fire." They themselves did not know what they meant by the expression, or bow it came to describe lack of energy. It did describe it. though, and very effectively.. It simply re ferred to the old time when percussion matches were not, and when people saved themselves much trouble by carefully pre serving a fire over night among the ashes in the nreplace. li, by evil chance, the nre went out a living brand must be brought from the bearth ot a distant neighbor. To do this successfully required alertness and dispatch. So it was literally true, in those days, that a lazy man was not fit to "carry fire." The saying long survived the condi tion, of affairs that gave it meaning. Thlf California gold -fever dj"1849 gave national currency to certain bits of slang that still persist among people who have no idea what they originally meant "Pan out" is one of them. It has kept its mean ing, but very many people use it without a thought of the washing pan of the early gold miner. Not long since I Baw an explana tion of how the word "skedaddle" origina ted, and the authority stated that the soldiers invented the term to describe the panicky retreat of a routed enemy. The soldiers adopted it and gave it currency, but the word was in use belore the war began. I heard it in the West before Sumpter had been fired upon. I suppose it grew ont there somewhere. SCOTCH-IRISH IDIOMS. And it has been suggested to me that some of the peculiarities of expression which strangers have noticed among Pittsburgers had their origin in the idioms of the Scotch. Irish, who were the early settlers of Pitts bnrg. If the city had remained Scotch Irish there would probably have been dis tinguishing traits of language, lint there has been suoh a mixing up of peoples there that any peculiarity now is only individual, not general. There is one Pittsburg trait which I think may fairly be called a characteristic of the place. That is tht lively and abiding lore of music. Of course, there are music lovers everywhere; but it cannot be said of every community that it is music loving. That can be truthfully said of Pittsburg. The first season that Theodore Thomas took his or chestra through the country, did he and his artists meet anywhere a more appreciative and hearty welcome than in smoky and noisy old Pittsburg? Most certainly not. He did not have to demonstrate what good music was. The people already knew it, and were enthusiastically glad to listen to it Even poor mnsic they will take when good is not to be had, but good music is never astrav among Pittsburgers. And not only so. They have made a good deal of it themselves. Not the least pleas ant of the memories an old-timer cherishes is the memory of the many delightful con certs he has heard given by Pittsburg singers. So many of these singers there were; and ot such excellence; so heartily in love with their melodious work; so well equipped for it and so cordially united in it, that really I do not recall another com munity that could so well withstand a famine of pro essional music, if such a calamity were to befall. James 0. Pubdy. Efflcncy of Vaccination. Newcastle, Enc, Cnronlcle.2 "What have anti-vaccinators to say to this? Surgeon Parke, previous to the setting out of Stanley's expedition on the Congo, vaccinated every native in his train. The result was that those members of the African tribes who joined the expedi tion en route, and who were not vaccinated, suffered greatly from smallpox, while those inoculated escaped. The Oplmn Smoker's Ontflt. Below are the articles to be found in every well regulated opium joint. The Celestial requires more separate articles for his dissipation than the American, but he is sure he has just as' much fun: TLPe -". -iirftft jrtaiitf f iflfi f l-flP ge , , MJaBaaaanaE. A ROMANCE OP RUSSIA AND SIBERIA BY PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI, Author of "Safer-Hadji, a Story of Turkistan," Eto. Translated From the Russian tob The Dispatch BY META DE VERA. BTNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Valdl'mlr Lanin, of noble birth, weds Jana Wernln, daughter of a rich resident of St Peters" burg. Ompbrl Schelm. the villain of tne story, is high In authority. Be hid soneht Jana's band and was rejected with scorn. Scbelm's Ufa work seemi to be to revenge himself on Lanin and bis bride. He purchases the services of Jllller, a schoolmate of his aid ot Lanin's. Under Schelm's instructions Miller, in the gmso of a friend, betrays Lanin and has blm taken prisoner with a band of conspirators, the bead of which is The Ace of Clubs. Lanin is sent to Siberia. Miller bad Scbelm's promise of help bat he knows too much to suit the latter and be, too. is sent to the mines. Nicholas Pnpo7, a discbarced employe f Schelm's, gets papers showing that Lanin is innocent of part in the conspiracy. These papers fall into the bands of Colonel Pal kin, also hib In authority. Schelm bribes Falkin, gets back the papers and sends Fopoff to Siberia. Then be gets Falkin transferred to Siberia. Jana gets tbe Czar's consent to Join ber b sband and sets out with Dr. Haas, her friend, PopofFa mother and his sweetheart. Falkin falls in with them and, partly out of passion for Jana and partly oat of hone be can nse tbem to avenge himself on Schelm. acts as their escort. Once ha betrays his deslens to Jana, bat frightens ber so sbe dares not tell of it. Tbey find Vladimir the victim of the brutal wife of an inspector, whose advances of love be had ignored. CHAPTER XIX. Two months had passed since Lanin, thanks to his wife's devotion and presence of mind had escaped the revenge of the in spector's wife. These two months had gone by quietly and without any serious interrup tion. Jana had rented one of the finest houses in Irkutsk, and lived there with Dr. Baas, Lina and Helen. As the law did not allow Vladimir to live in a town, he was sent to a village in tbe district and near the capital. He spent, however, most of his days at his wife's house, because the Governor, a mild and humane man, would not notice this transgression. He was specially moved to this by Jana's beauty, which he admired, while ber devotion had made so deep an im pression upon him that he soon became one of the most zealous delenders and protectors of the noble woman. Palkin lived likewise in the city, and had made Popoff his secretary. He allowed him, however, not the slightest liberty. Prom tne blissful day on which he had been 'HOT A HAIR permitted to accompany his mother and his betrothed, he had not seen them once, in public "I will willingly save you the sufferings oonnected with work in the mines," said Palkin to Popoff. "I like to employ yon in my office, because you are a willing and thoughtful worker. But I cannot possibly set you free. The slightest imprudence would bring fearful punishment upon yon, and I myself run great risk because I have kept you here, transgressinc my authority " Popoff was content, because he hoped that better days might come. He lived in Pal kin's house, and never left it. He was, however, less unhappy, because he could see Helen now and then in secret. Palkin pretended not to know of these interviews, but no doubt had his plans. The gendarme kept the promise he bad made the inspector. He became a captain, and was sent to Irkutsk, where, strangely enough, he rented a house near Jana. March was drawing to an end, but tne cold did not diminish. A white fog en veloped the city as in a pall. Palkin had just received his letters and dispatches from Europe, which were sent him by a courier. Popoff was standing before him waiting orders. Palkin iaid: "The chief of all the gendarmes has re ceived the letter in which I reported that I had taken charge of my office here. The Governor General also must have received letters from Schelm, because the latter must have had reports from Kasan. I'll wager that I shall be received to-night at the palace like a dog. Schelm's blows do not hurt me directly; because, strictly speak ing he is not my superior. He must work secretly against me. I mnst, however, lose no time. I have not sent Lanln's petition yet, because I have been waiting to,r you. Will you not be candid with me? You have always told me you had more proofs against Schelm." Popoff had Gradually lost his mistrust of Palkin; still he would not at once surrender himselt into his hands. "If I possess anything of the kind," he said, "I shalV use it to save my benefactor, to free myself, or to avenge myself on Schelm. Who can assure me now, Colonel, that you do not again betray me? Two such great personages as you and Schelm may readily become reconciled and sacrifice ns petty and powerless men." "Have I not proven to yon how well I mean toward yon?" "Pardon me, Colonel," said Popoff, "you may have your own plans, but if I surrender tbe proofs I possess" " "You confess, then, that you have these documents about you?" exclaimed Palkin eagerly. Popoff bit his lips. He had, however, gone too far to be able to draw bark. All he could do was to weaken the importance of bis confession. "I doubt whether these documents are of much weight. I have reserved for myself a weapon against my former chief, but yon must pardon me, Colonel " "What are you aiming at?" "I mean to say that I can hand that weap on to no one except to Connt Lanin or the I u&n&l Countess. As I am not permitted to meet them-" "Why did you not tell me that sooner? Lanin is not as suspicions as you are, Iwill willingly permit you to go and see him. Go and give him your documents. Only tell him expressly that I want them 1" "Of course. As soon as the Count agrees, you will have a power'al weapon against Schelm in your hand, which is now in my possession." "What? Ton have it here? Now?" Popoff saw too late the blunder he had committed. "No! Kothere!" he stammered. "I only meant I knew where it is." "Never mind! I only repeat, you will have to hp very carefnl, because I transgress my authority, and the Governor might some time become my enemy. Your betrothed comes to see yon now and then does she not?" "Colonel, I can assure you " "Don't swear!" said Palkin, in a friendly tone and with a very kind smile. Tou see I am not as bad as yon think." Popoff could not but thank Palkin very heartily;" his mistrust gave daily more way to his gratitude. OP HIS HEAD SnALI BE HAB5TED," CRIED "Lanin is in the place assigned to him as his residence, the last bnt in tne little village Krowa, close to the corporation line of Irkutsk. Tou may go there on Sunday, be cause then the police are not as watchful. Your betrothed will, no doubt, come and see yon before Sunday. I will inform the Countess, who can then tell her husband, when he may expect yon. But you must by no means be seen entering the house ot the Countess itseli ; to take every precaution, I'll assign you as the place for your interview the hut oi a colonist." "Tou are right, Colonel!" "But as Schelm has, no doubt, sent in structions to the Governor, it will be better for yonr betrothed not to come and see you for some time. Tou must adapt yourself to your fate and bear patiently what cannot be helped." "Colonel, I obey. Helen shall not come here any more." "Do you think so? Tou know little of women; they become all the more eager for what is forbidden fruit. Tou must, how ever, nse yonr best means not to let her come here for a time; I shall on my part try also to persnade her not to do it. Now to work, these circulars have to be copied and sent to all officers of the gendarmes." Popdff bowed and went to work, while Palkin was reading his letters and dis patches. Almost at the same time Vladimir was saunteringdown the street leading to Jana's house. In his appearance a great change had taken place; he was dressed like ooe of the rich Siberian land owners, in a bear skin cloak and a sable kolptk. The city authorities left him evidently to his own will; no one interfered with him or minded how he dressed or how be lived; exile was to him no very severe punishment. He went to see Jana, head on high and with firm steps. An elegant sleigh passed close by him. Vladimir noticed that it contained tbe Gov ernor General and one of his adjutants. He at once took off bis hat and bowed respect fully. The Governor ordered a halt and beckoned to Vladimir: What does it mean, u x see inee in town to-day?" he asked the exile in a stern voice. Vladimir was very much amazed at this sternness, to which he was by no means ac customed. "Tour Excellency, I thought, had per mitted" "Thou mnst not abuse the confidence shown thee. Consider, thou onghtest to live in Krowa and canst not leave withont permission. Hast thou the Inspector's leave?" "Your Excellency " "This time I will overlook it, but take care in future. Thou art a dangerous man." "I am innocent," said Vladimir. The Governor frowned. "Do nut begin that story anew! I have Inst received orders on thy account from Petersburg. They say nothing of tby inno- I cence. J. auvise tuee to De more cautious else I should have to be much more severe." Astonished at this unusual severity of the Governor, who so far had been exceedingly iiti kind to him, Vladimir showed snch signi of grief that the Governor felt moved to pitv. Turning to his adjutant, he said: "Be kind enough to go over there to Mer chant Lateff and tell him I wish to see him to-night about tbe ball be wishes to give. I shall wait lor you here. Come back at once, if you please." The Adjutant guessed that his presence was not desired by the Governor, and there tore stepped out of the sleigh and went off quickly. Vladimir was about to leave, when the Governor stopped him saying: "Dear Count, I was compelled to use such language with yon, because I received to-day tbe very strictest orders concerning; yon. An autugraph letter from M. Schlem, tbe head ot a division in the Ministry of the Interior, concerns you exclnsiyely. 1 am ordered to be very strict with yon if you should disregard the rules in the slightest way." "Schelm!" exclaimed Vladimir. "Ho ia my greatest enemy. He " "Hush!" said the Governor, in a whisper. "I must not even hear snch words. They might already count as a crime against me. I do not kuow whether you are guilty or in nocent. That is not my business. I can only admit yon do not look like a hardened sinner. I admire the Countess and revere her; on that account I warn you. It you are in town, avoid me like sin itself, for, if I should meet you, I would have to proceed with great severity. Tou must, next, keep on good terms with the Captain Gendarmes and the Inspector, because it would be diffi cult tor me to protect you against these two men. Now I mnst make my excuses to the Countess that I cannot receive her any longer at my house. Goodby, and be cau tious." "Tour Excellency! Do not forsake me, I am innocentl" "As to that, I am helpless. I am an offi cer, and must obey orders. I have no right to declare you guilty or not guilty. If yon force me I should even have to punish yon, however repugnant." The Adjutant was seen approaching; ths Governor dismissed Vladimir with a ges ture of the hand, and tbe sleigh drove away. Vladimir remained standing there, as if struck by lightning. For two months ha had cherished illusory hopes, which now vanished in smoke. The good will of the Governor, the politeness of Colonel Palkin, oi whose conduct Jana had told him noth ing all this he thought betokened a favor able tnrn in his situation. The Governor's words threw him back again into an abyss of doubt. He hastened to his wile's house. Jana was waiting lor him to breakfast with him. The unexpected blow had changed bis features so that the loving wife at once detected his trouble by the expres sion ot his face. "Vladimirl What is the matter?" she asked, excitedly. "What is the matter?" he replied sadly. "Well, I cannot endure this any longer. We had, so far, only one enemy; the cap- SB. HAAS.-1 tain of gendarmes, whom Satan must hays brought here. Now we shall have to hum ble ourselves to him also. The Governor has received letters from Petersburg which bring that rascally Schelm's orders, to be strict with me. The Governor mnst obey. He sends his apologies to you, that he can not receive you any more at the palace. As to myself, I have to return to my lonely life as a colonist, exposed to the persecutions of subordinates." "But our petition, Palkin's protection?" "He is an officer like the others. For a month he was a man; here he has again be come a machine; either he never sent the paper, or he got an answer which prevents his taking any further steps." "And you think tbe Governor also hai joined our enemies?" "He is personally as kind as ever, bnt he must obey the orders that have been sent to him. No, Jana, by begsing for it I shall never get my rights. I stand alone, and I face this whole free masonry of officials. For two ye.irs I have hesitated to join the conspiracy in which all my fellow exiles are engaged; its aim is to shake off this yoke on our necks. I have always retnsed to Join them, because while almost all of them have done some wrong by which they have incurred punishment, I am innocent, and have patiently waited till my innocence should be acknowledged publicly. Two long years I hays waited, and now I will wait no longer." "What do you mean to do?" asked Jana, frightened by the excitement with which her husband spoke. "There is a grand conspiracy spread over the whole of East Siberia. There Is a regu lar administrative body, and at the head a chief who has been chosen by the members. They propose to shake oil the Russian yoke to escape to a conntry where the Czar cannot reach them. As the terrible trost this win ter has frozen over the whole Baikal lake, where, on account ot its vast extent the au thorities cannot watch them easily, they meet on one of the islands. I know this con spiracy, because I was invited six months ago to enter. I had to keep it a secret, es pecially as I declined to join tbem. Now, however, that all my hopes have tailed, I have changed my mind. If they deny me what is right, I shall take it. i cannot be a martyr who waits and waits and at last dies, still waiting for release; nor can I bear it that you, so tair and so noble, should lead such a wretched life." "But, my dear Vladimir." said Jana, "I am perfectly happy here. Have we not found bere that domestic life of which you so often dreamed? What does it matter whether we live in Irkutsk or in Paris?" "And yet, instead of witnessing the hom age that is paid you on Jill sides, I am not even allowed to visit yon any more! Was that why you joined your fate to mine? No, Jana, my resolution is fixed. In the little village in which I live quite a number of unfortunate exiles are going to try to re coveftheir liberty. Tbey are all members of the conspiracy. To-morrow I shall join them. They will be glad to receive me. Tou will give them the money they need so sadly. I tell yon everything, because I .,-J i $ 1 4 'I 1 SfifcSHflKH
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