PAGES 17 TO 20. "
1 j THIRD PART.
I
last's Impressions on Yisiting
, the Senate Arena.
NATIONAL STYLE IN DRESS
Suggestions as to the Enlargement
of the White House.
HOUSE OP GEOKGE WASHINGTON
rcoBBisrojfDESCi or the DisrxTcn.1 """
"Washington, June 7. With profound
regret I begin to observe many strikingly
nnamerican traits in Mr. Nast's character.
I don't know whether to lay them to his ex
tensive travels in New Jersey and other
loreign lands or to the influence of those
multitudinous young men who flock to our
shores to see the steamer irom England
come in and to pick up a few cast-ofl" pat
terns of cockney slang toeether with some
styles of panties from which London re
covered several seasons ago.
But, whatever the cause may be, the
fact is apparent that Th. East is not as
truly a typical American as I could wish
htm" to be. "Why, when the waiter in a
fashionable restaurant the other day
upset the olive oil bottle over the
artist's clothing, Mr. Nast spoke to him
about it spoke in language which left the
amazed young man to inter that Mr. Nast
did not like that sort of thing. I tried to
pour oil on the troubled Nast by uttering
the first pleasantry that came to my mind,
but it was of do avail; he kepfcnientioning
the matter to the servant and when the
r.n .-llro tifil- ne if. is the ritrht of
everv free and independent American citizen J
- j" : n.;f;oi- tft thi1
table without giving any change to the
astounded voung man. This U not Ameri
can, and I told Mr. Hast; told him that if
he did not wish to be regarded as either a
foreigner or a crank Jie must not resent such
little things as this.
' "How much better and bow much more
American It would have been," I said to
A SOLUTION OP THE
him, "had you thanked the waiter forcatch
ing the bottle before all the oil had run out
upon youi How much pleasanter that would
have made the waiter feell As it is you
have hurt the tender sensibilities of a young
man wbo is even now saying in his soul
that you are a harsh and exceptional man.
And had you ended the transaction, as
Americans customarily do, by telling
the youne man to keep all the change,
yon would have reaped the priceless reward
of consciousness that the waiter regarded
Ancient and Modern Gladiators.
you as a gcniai, good-natured gillie and a
generous, whole-souled chump."
I was in the lecturing mood and now was
a good time to speak of auother little matter
to Mr. Hast,
"3Testerday afternoon you did a most un
american thing, when that man from out
West leaned over jour shoulder and watched
ynu drawintr pictures of members of the
House o Representatives. This is a de
mocracy, sir, and he w.is a sovereign citizen
of it. He bad a constitutional right to look
over your shoulder and to stick out bis
tongue and follow the meanderings of your
pencil with it. He was not infrlering
with your life, liberty or pursuit of happi
ness, and you should not have been so
crochety about it. When he said: 'Hub!
Drawin' picturs, hain't ye?' you should not
have answered, saying: "'Ho; I'm building
a ferryboat, and by and by I'm going to
erect an asylum for the feeble-minded.'
That was ironical, Mr. Hast, and calculated
to grieve the poor man. But it was nothing
to the eccentric manner in which vou ob
jected to that other man sitting behind you
and putting his leet on the back of your
seat. AVhat if he did wipe a little mud off
Small White House for Large Blalexmen.
on rour collar? You intended to put the
collar into the wash that evening, anywav.
When you are in America you must do as
Americans do; you must graciously
let people maul you around
and inquire into your business and slap
your hat down over your eyes, for this is a
Iree country, you know."
I hnd some hope that these remarks would
do Mr. Hast good and tend to stop the en
largement of his undemocratic notions.
But Here we were at the entrance to the
Senate gallery.
"Shall we look in upon the arena where
the battles of the people are fought?" I
asked, by way of changing the subject.
MODERN GLAD1A
ORS
"Arenal" said Mr. Nast, the soul of the
artist lighting his eye with its divine bre.
"Is this an arena? Do rladiators meet
here to do battle? Ahl what a picture that
word 'arena' calls up a picture of proudly
erect gladiators, each having an equal
chance in the combat and each wearing
their chests op where chests should be worn.
But can this be called an arena, where the
gladiators meet on so unequal terms and
where the chests of so many have dropped
down into their pockets?
"And yet," mused the artist, "there is
something gladiatorial about them after all,
standing as they do shielded behind the
cast-iron laws that thev mate and, if not
mm fi
SISir 1 JlBJBi
George in a Box.
drawing blood from each other, at least
bleeding the community at large pretty
ireelv."
"Shall we remain here?" I asked.
"No; let us take a walk."
Quite willing to take anything that Mr.
Nast roicht suggest, I acquiesced, and we
set out down Pennsylvania avenne, contin
uing our stroll to the White House, where I
explained to him that they are talking of
building a new Presidental home because
this one is too lilliputian for the brobding
nagian statesmen who arecalled to occupv it.
"Is it really too small?" asked Mr. Nast
"Too small? I should say so. Why last
summer they drove the red ants out because
they took up so much room." t
"I thought they drove them out because
the President was a raid he might be
charged with nepotism if he permitted them
to stay there," said Mr. Hast.
"Ho; it was because there was not room
for the ants and the other occupants at the
same time. Why, I am told that during
President Cleveland's administration Andy
RACE PBOBLEM.
Welch, of Illinois, once lighted one of his
Yorkville clears in the East Boom and the
odorot it filled the entire mansion. A
great and glorious country like this ought
to have an executive mansion that could
not be so easily filled.This one will do
very well for the Presidental offices, but
when you come to adding sleeping and
cooking, and laundry accommodations, it is
easy to see what a plight the Chief Execu
tive and his household are in."
"Being the capital of the nation, "Wash
ington, I supDose, is, like London (.jS Paris,
and Berlin, the place to come to see the best
development of national style of dress as
well as of general culture," said Mr. Nast
"Oh, ves, ol course."
Mr. Hast grabbed me by the arm and be
gan singing to a familiar air the words:
"Where did you get tnat ?"
"Shi" I cautioned him. "That is Senator
Hiscock, and it is highly improper to ask
him where be got it. It may be all right to
ask yourself in silence why he got ii, and
why, hiving got it, he persists in wearing it
pulled down to the bridge of his nose, but
where he got is a question that does not con
form to the dignity of a United States Sen
ator." "But not the hat alone," said Mr. Nast
"The tout ensemble! Is it not a rare com
bination of taste and elegance?"
"Yes; the ongsomb is very tout indeed it
is, as we say in the French, tout, utterlv
tout tout"
"I notice one thing in Washington that
can not be seen in any other capital in the
Apollo Adorned.
world," said Mr. Nast.
"And that is?"
"Utter freedom from all rules and conven
tionalties in street attire."
"See that man going yonder that one
with the silk bat and the pea jacket There
is a combination which I venture to say is
produced in no other capital of the civilized
world."
"Yes, we are ahead of 'em all in the mat
ter ot broad and comprehensive tastes," I
acknowledged. "We Americans combine
all the gentility of the silk bat Tith de
mocracy of the pea jacket, and we are proud
of it."
"And there comes another man. Look at
him, with a Prince Albert coat, full dress
shirt, an evening vest and a broad-brim
slouch hat," said Mr. Nast.
"Only another evidence or our great
breadth of mind. "We, as a peoplt, Bir,
comprehend, as it were, the entire day. We
combine the morning coat with the evening
vest, and cap these off with the midnight
hat; aud we jab our hands up to onr elbows
Into our trousers pockets, and don't care a
continental who look at nj in wonderment
J-T"
ill
I tell you, sir, we are a broad-minded peo
ple, we Americans."
"Don ,you mean to tell me that these two
creatures ith these outrageous costumes
which make them look like animated comic
valentines, are broad-minded men?" asked
Mr. Nast, disgust oozing from his every
pore.
I could see that Mr. Nast was tending
toward another of his crotchety spells and
threw a mint julip into him. After he was
somewhat cooled off when we stepped out
upon the street again.
"What sort ot thing is that coming down
street?" he asked.
"That is what we call a masse Ameri
can." "Why masse?"
"Because there is so much English on it,
you know."
"What part of England should you think
he was from?"
"That part lying between the Missouri
river and the Arkansas line, I should say."
Just then the crook of the ponderous cane
which horizontally accompanied this mag
nificent spectacular panorama caught in the
trouser-leg ot a fellow-citizen."
"Ah," exclaimed Mr. Nast, "I never
could understand before why the cane
should be carried in that manner, but now I
see it is done with the eood and generons in
tention ol helping others along. I shouldn't
be surprised if in time this method of lug
ging walking sticks would Bolve the race
problem."
I don't believe Mr. Nast spoke in direct
seriousness. He says so many cruelly sar
castic things that I am always a wee bit
dubious of'his meanings.
As is usual with Mr. Nast and myself
when we take our walks, if we walk long
A Washington Fashion Plate.
enough in this city of magnificent distances,
we came back to our starting point and
found ourselves at the Capitol.
"What is that new-looking building over
there?" he asked as we stood looking from
the east portico of the great edifice.
"That is George Washington's house."
"Did George ever live in that thing?"
"Lives in it now."
"Goon; you're joking."
I took Mr., Nast across the open space and
boosted him up to the window of the house.
Sure enough, he saw George seated inside,
cool as you please cool, first because he
was marble, and next because he had on no
clothes to speak of. When I let my friend
down to the earth he asked why they had
put the statue in that little house."
"They didn't," I told him; "they put the
house round the statue."
"Ah, I see," said he; "Anthony Corn
stock has been here and they have 'boxed
George up to keep from offendingAnthonv's
delicate sense oT propriety. It was lucky
that Comstock-wasa't around at the time o'f
the creation, or Adam aud Eve wouldn't
have been allowed to run about as they did.
Somebody would have been arrested
maybe not Adam and Eve, but some
body." "You are mistaken, Mr. Nast Washing
ton was not thus housed in deference to Mr.
Comstock's sentiments. It was because"
"Oh, yes; I see. It must be that the Ee
bellion isn't over yet, and there is no telling
where it will break out next I see, I see.
George was a Virginian and they can't tell
what he may "
"No, no; that Isn't it, either. This house
was built last fall and has been standing
over the statue all winter. Some say it was
built to keep George warm and it must be
conceded that he is clothed a leetle lightly
for winter but it is -my own opinion that
the purpose was to keep him from hearing
some of the debates in the big building in
ront of him; for George Washington, you
know, was a great General, who delighted
to wage war with the enemies of this, his
native land." Willis B. Hawkins.
STATUE OF GEKEBAL GORDOff.
A Wonderful Piece of Art Unveiled by tbo
Prince of Wales at Chatham.
Pall Mali Budget
The statue of General Gordon, which his
Eoyal Highness the 'Prince of Wales has
nnveiled at Chatham, certainly occupies a
unique position among the works of art ol
this description which have been erected in
England. Mr. E. On-.low Ford, A. B, A.,
the sculptor selected to carry out the work,
emoraced the opportunity for launching out
in a bold and fearless manner from the com
monplace conventioualities in this form.
Gordon is represented as the Governor-General
of the Soudan in his official dress,
wearing a fez, with his well-earned medals
on his breast, and mounted on a camel
whose handsome trappings likewise bespeak
the rank of the rider. The lace is an ad
mirable likeness of Gordon, while the figure
has an easy and natural pose, the
Statue of Charles George Gordon.
whole effect produced being that the rider is
perfectly at home on the backol the animal.
It is well known that Gordon was a great
camel rider, for in his correspondence he
frequently alludes to the fact; in one letter
he states that it was only by hard camel
riding that he held his position among the
people in the Soudan, and in another be
suggests that he enjoys it because it enables
him to think in peace and to mature his
plans. In this, therefore, as in all the
minor details such as the camel's headgear,
the single guiding chain, the leathern Son
dan water bottle, "the historical rattan seen
in Gordon's hand and in other conspicuous
features of the work there has been no de
parture irom absolute' fidelity to tact, al-
made
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1890.
CASH GOING ABROAD.
The European Exodus Viewed From
a Financial Standpoint!
II MAKES US $60,000,000 POORER.
New lork is as Good a Place as Any to
Spend the Hot Months.
TROUBLES OP BDBDEBAN RESIDENTS
icoBKXsroxDxxcx or thi disfxtch.1
New York, June 7. The annual Euro
pean exodus of American citizens has
fairly began. The steamships sailing from
this port last Saturday carried over 1,000
saloon nassengers. There were quite as
many second cabin and steerage who ac
companied them. While most of these sum
mer wanderers are from New York and im
mediate vicinity they really come Irom all
sections of the country. New York at this
season of the year is a great clearing house
of pleasure-seekers departing for new scenes
and new countries.
This simple statement does not fully con
vey the idea. To quite understand the sig
nificance ol the spring stampede a visit to
the great docks where lie the European
steamers would be necessary. These on
Saturday and Wednesday mornings, which
are the two great sailing days, present the
liveliest scenes imaginable. The roadways
approaching the docks swarm with trucks
and truckmen bearing supplies for the
ships, and amid this swarm excited passen
gers find their way to the piers. These
piers seem at first Bight to be a disorderly
mass of workmen, passengers, visitors,
boxes, crates, trunks and every conceivable
sort of luggage entangled in one chaotic
mass.
EVERYTHING SYSTEMATIC.
As a matter of fact, however, there is a
system underlying the whole, and this sys
tem is the one which experience has
demonstrated the best adaptation of condi
tions to the desired end. The close ob
server will note that the movements of
every gang of men are regulated so as to
"get there" in the shortest possible space of
time. If you are a stranger loafing on the
pier out of idle curiosity, or for the purpose
of seeing friends off on the- departing
steamer, you had better look out for your
shins and your bodily belongings gener
ally. Truck loads of baggage and truck
men are no respecters ot persons. The long
'line of them that crowd upon the pier must
be constantly restrained by policemen and
ships' officers to prevent an inextricable
jam of matter and bodily injury to those on
loot
The huge swinging cranes that grasp their
truck with iron hands creak merrily to the
time of the donkey engines as they dump
their loads down the hatches. The crowds
of passengers and visitors creeping slowly
up the eangways are greeted by other
crowds already in possession of the decks.
A little hit 'of pasteboard is necessary in
order to allow you to go aboard. A petty
officer in uniform at the foot of the gang
plank collects this, and glowers upon you
as if you were an inconsiderate bore and
better be some place else. From the decks
of the ship, however, is a finer view ol this
pier pandemonium.
THE SCENE ON SATURDAY.
On Saturday the same scene may be wit
nessed Irom a hall dozen ships, which will
presently steam side by side or one after an
other down the harbor. Five hundred to
1,000 people will wave handkerchiefs from
each pier, and thousands of tears will add
their quota to the briny deep. A fleet of
tugs and other small vessels will accompany
each ship to' the lower bay. These will con
tain the many friends ot the more fortunate
or more notorious of the ship's passengerV
List Saturday was but a counterpart of
many Saturdays yet to come. It is estimated
that the average number of persons who go
abroad at this season ot the year will reach
at least 1,000 per day. This means that from
the middle ol May to the middle of July up
ward of 60,000 Americans will have de
parted from their native shores in quest of
pleasure and health on foreign soil. While
the exodus will continue during the sum
mer there will be a considerable falling off
Irom the middle of July. So you realize
what all this.means from a financial point
of view? From the poor steerage passenger
who will blow in a couple of hundred dol
lars in a visit to his fatherland to the mill
ionaire and his family whose expenses mean
that much every day of absence, it is a mod
erate estimate to place the average expendi
ture at $500 each for the trip.
MILLIONS FOE FOREIGN POCKETS.
Eor 60,000 this means 530,000,000. For
the entire summer's crowd 560,000,000 will
be a more accurate estimate. And this is
for New York alone. All of this money,
mind you, goes into foreign pockets and
should be carefully set down in figuring the
balance of trade between the United States
and foreign Governments. There is enough
expended on loreign pleasures every year by
Americans to create a respectable navy and
sea coast de'enses, if spent at home for that
purpose. It would seem worth the while of
American statesmenship to provide some
means by which, through an American mer
chant marine, a large portion of this annual
expenditure might be retained at home.
The annual exodus from .New York does
not simply mean that part of our population
which goes to Europe. It "is the most ob
jectionable feature. But that portion which
leaves the city on pleasure bent within our
own domain is a much larger one. It is a
great pity that some statistics can't be had
as to nearlv the exact number of people who
leave the TTuited States every summer for
loreign travel. It would also be interesting
to know just how many people leave our
great cities to spend their time in the mount
ains and at fashionable watering places. So
far as New York is concerned the number is
simply marvelous; if the empty houses of
tnese people could be collected In a single
neighborhood, they would form a vast and
silent city of themselves.
SEW YORK'S MANY ATTRACTIONS.
Yet New York in summer is one 'of the
most delightiul cities to live in, and pre
sents fewer excuses for its inhabitants to get
out of town than most any other city. With
sea water qn both sides of it and Central
Park in the middle of it, with a hundred
desirable resorts within a half hour and 50
cents reach ot it, there is little occasion for
a business man to desert his desk or a
family to pull up stakes, except the decree
of fashion.
There are probably 100,000 New Yorkers
of the middle class w"ho can't afford to go to
Europe, or in any way break connection
with their commercial life, who swarm to
the suburbs in the attempt to extract there
by a temporary pleasure. Of all those we
have alluded to this class is the most mis
guided and to be pitied. I have tried
suburban life myself since I have'been in
New York. From the glowing accounts
of friends 1 sought one summer
to bask on the banks of the Hudson.
Every day at 4 o'clock I joiued
the rabble that rushed for the rail and ar
rived at my country place , begrimed with
coal dust and steaming with perspiration.
Every morning during that time I ate a
hasty and indigestible country breakfast
and bolted for my train along with the rest
on business to the great city. It was only
an hour's ride and yet the memory of the
disagreeable features of those three short
months lingers with me still.
FLED TO THE SEA.
The next summer I sought the sounding
sea. Very fond of the water am I and for
days I dreamed of the delightful sails from
Pier One on lower Broadway to the iron
pier at Uong Branch. And verr dellzhtful
JsoILi theie proved to be for a limited tlmet
But the novelty soon wore off. I found that
so far as comfort was concerned it was a great
deal hotter at Long Branch aud Asbury
Park than it was on the West Side in the
city. After a fair trial, therefore, the next
summer was passed at home and it proved
the most agreeable and comfortable that I
have ever enjoyed.
Let me say that my experience is the ex
perience of hundreds of thousands of people
of thiscjty to-day. Yet I could not speak
so positively without the actual knowledge
thus gircn. The man who can content him
self for two or three months at Long Branch,
or any other watering place, must be a very
peculiar sort of a man. Those who, having
dues lived near Ne-.r York, struggling for
the trains and boat twice a day, are still
morejeculiar if they do so for the second
time.
BETTER STAY AT HOME'.
The men of means who go abroad oc
casionally have some excuse tor the trip and
receive something for their money. The
men who store their furniture in the city
and throw up their leases for three or four
.months' li e in the country or some ad
jacent suburb, have no such inducements.
They are simply fools, whom the census
taker would do well to enumerate for the
benefit of the scientific statistician.
I know of no other mode of life which
combines a greater variety of discomforts
than that of living in the country and doing
business in the city. This does not apply.of
course, to people who live in Philadelphia
and do business in New York. The dis
tinction should be drawn, however, between
a purely country life and this combination
of city and country. It is the latter 1 de
test. As lor country life and its restful qui
etude, whether on a farm or in the mount
ains, it is not to be belittled. It is tbis daily
struggle for rest which the city man goes
through that aggravates bis ailments. If
be cannot get away from business and the
city entirely, he had better stick closely to
good dinners, wholesome hours, decent cock
tails, Havana cigars and similar comforts of
a home. Charles T. Murray.
TOBACCO AND THE NEOB0.
These Tito Element! Kerp the Northern and
Southern RIetbodUla Apart.
Speaking of the proposed union of the M.
E. Church, Bev. T. E. Pearce, of Dallas,
Tex., is quoted as follows: You say that
the slavery question is settled, and there
fore there is no reason why the Northern
and Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches
should not coalesce. I tell you there are
several reasons why the union of the two
branches of what essentially is the same
great denomination is impracticable, if not
impossible.
First Tobacco. The Northern Church
forbids its ministers the use of the weed.
But what can we poor Southern Methodist
preachers do? Why, sir, many of us first
saw the light in tobacco barns, and we grew
up like untamed colts in tobacco fields.
Second The Northern Methodists believe
the negro is every bit as good, if not a little
better, than the white. We don't believe
he is as good as the average white man, by
a large majority.
Then, all the old smoldering passions and
prejudices north and south of Mason and
Dixon's line would be revived again and
again, until we would have engendered
rancorous hate and jealousy instead ot the
present Christian fellowship and good-will
existing between the two churches. I say,
let well enough alone.
BILLIARD CUE TIPS.
They Amount to Quite nn Item and Have
to be Specially Prepared.
"Few people," said Harry Davis the other
day, "understand anything about the tip to
a billiard cue. I dare "say there are hun
dreds of the best players in Pittsburg who
know only that the tip is made of leather.
As to where it comes from, hovr.it is made,
or what it costs, they are totally Ignorant
There are several grades of tips, costing
from $1 50 to 53 per 100. The 51 50 kind are
very inferior and are not used in first-class
rooms. It is economy, in the best billiard
rooms, to use first-class tips. Take a room
Un:M '-.-.. 1R in OO tallica -i n A U. , -f
liOVlUg ll.W AW -v --w ..-.. uuu bile 1ICU1 Ul
tips ii a big one. In a year it will reach at
lane 050 . 'WO
"Ordinary leather is not used in the man
ufacture of billiard tips. A very choice
quality has to be used, and it is tanned and
otherwise prepared by a special process.
There are no billiard tips made in this coun
try; tbey come mostly Irom Paris, where
much care is used in preparing them. Paris
turns ont the best tips in the world. There
is a loss, however, to the purchaser, in the
very best tips of about 10 per cent, because
of imper.ect ones. A &ivt is generally the
result It is fonnd in the pasted section
holding the leather tip proper to its base.
A tip with a flaw in it makes a very unsat
isfactory cue."
CHUTESE FUNISHKEBTS
So Barbarous and Inhuman That Travelers
Conelnde They Have No Nerves.
The Chinese have no nerves; neither have
they sympathy with the sufferings of their
fellows, and the spirit of charity is conspicu
ously absent, says a traveler in the St. Louis
Glole-Democrat. This lack of common
humanity is specially observable in their
punishment of criminals. The cruelty of
their punishments is almost incredible. A
favorite method of punishing a crime of un
usual atrocity is to condemn the criminal to
death In a wooden cage of such a height that
when his head projects through a hole in the
top the wretched criminal can neither stand
upright nor sit down, but, with his legs half
bent must endure the most horrible tortures
until death comes to relieve him. But a
still more terrible punishment is that em
ployed for the most depraved criminals,
guilty of some unusual and unnatural crime.
It is called .death by wakefulness, and when
inflicted a number of guards take turn an
noying the prisoner and keeping him awake,
and after a few days' of this treatment, the
severest tortures will scarcely suffice to pre
vent the miserable wretch from falling
asleep, He becomes insane, and finally
succumbs amid the most dreadful Bufferings
.conceivable py tie human mind.
A ROMANCE OP RUSSIA AND SIBERIA
BY PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI,
Author of "Safer-Hadji, a Story of Turkistan," Eta
TBAIESLATEO FBOM THE RUSSIAX FOB THE DISPATCH
BY META D VERA.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
Valdlmfr Lanin, of noble nlrth, weds Jana Wernin, daughter of a rich resident of St Peters
burg. Ontphri Bchelm. the villain ot the story. Is high In authority. He had souzbt Jana's band
and was rejected with scorn. Bcnelm'sllte work seem to be to revenge himself on Lanin and
his bride. He purchases the services ot Miller, a schoolmate of bis aid ot Lanln's. Under
Scbelm's instructions Miller, in the guise of a fiiend. betrays Lanin and has him taken prisoner
with a band of conspirators, tbe head of which is The Ace otClubs. Lanin Is sent to Siberia.
Miller bad Scbelm's promise o( help but he knows too much to suit tbe latter and be, too. Is
sent to the mines. Nicholas PnpotF, a discharged employe "f Schelm's, gets papers showing that
Lanin is innocent of part in tbo conspiracy. These papers fall into tbe bands of Colonel Palkin,
also high in authority. Scbelm bribes Palkin, Rets back the papers and sends PopoS to Siberia.
Then he gets Palkin transferred to Siberia. Jana gets the Czar's consent to join ber husband
and sets out with Dr. Haas, her friend, Popoffs mother and his sweetheart. Palkin falls in
with them and, partly out of passion for Jana and nartly oat of hoDe he can use them to avenge
himself on Scbelm, acts as their escort. Once he betrays bis desiens to Jna, but frightens ber
so she dares not tell of It Tbey find Vladimir the victim ot the brutal wife of an inspector,
whose advances of love he had ignored. Jana rents a beautif nl bonse and for a time Vladimir is
happy again. Then come orders from Scbelm that Vladimir most be treated as a most danger
ous criminal and forbidden his visits to Jana. Desperate, be joins an exile conspiracy. Miller
Is at the bead of it The men meet and Miller craves Vladimir's forgiveness, and, after telling
his story, is freely forgiven.
CHAPTER XXI.
Morning began shortly to dawn, and the
landscapes, though still veiled in a white
mist, grew lighter and lighter.
The frozen bed of the Angara looked like
a second high road by the side of the great
post road. Down on tbe wide bed of the
river the narta of. Ienar-kus was flying
toward Irkutsk. All around still asleep,
tbe narta alone, like nn evil spirit fleeing
before the light of day, was an exception.
The Prince of the Gunguses had given
Vladimir his swift-footed dogs and sleigh.
In the narta sat Miller at his side. The
white walls of the city were already visible
in the distance when Miller, who did
not seem to feel the cold in the least, con
tinued: "It is certainly most fortunate that you
have joined us. Wo had an organization
and men, but we lackedtill now both money
and arms. Now you will furnish both.
This will help us greatly. The Countess
and her friends will enable ns to purchase
arms. As the merchants are permitted to
sell carbines to the Tartars iu the Chinese
Empire, Ienar-kus can be onr agent Now
1 feel our strengthl You cannot imagine
what 100 resolute men can do in these vast
deserts, where the Czar can hardly raise
1,000 men in all."
"You speak of a hundred but count
onlv 20?"
"You have seen only a part of the con
spirators. In all the districts where exiles
are living we have branches. To-day we
count a hundred; to-morrow there mav be
5001"
Vladimir interrupted him.
"Look here. Miller, I promise you every
assistance to enable you to flee from here.
I am ready with my wife to accompany vou
as far as the Siberian frontier. But mind,
you must not raise your hand against the
Czar or our mother country. Will you
promise?"
Miller made no reply. They had just
then passed a snow-covered hill, which rose
abruptly from tbe banks of tbe Angara
Miller pointed it out to his companion and
said:
"Do you notice this Tartar tomb? Here
von must come whenever yon wish to see
me. Every night a man of the tribe of
Ienar stands guard here. This Gungus
knows where I may be found. .The mound
is hollow inside, although the Bnssians have
not yet discovered this. Ienar-kus, a de
scendant of the former rulers of this coun
trv, told me so on the day when we swore
brotherly friendship and sealed it with our
blood. You need only go to the esst side of
the hill and call Ienar's name Hires times;
one of bis men will, after a while, come out
from within and tell yon what you may
wish to know."
"So near the city?" asked Lanin, cau
tiously. "This desert has many other mysteries
yet unknown to the conquerer. And this is
my power. During the two years that I
have been living here I have not ceased try
ing to find out these secrets, until now I
probably know this land of snow and ice as
well as those who were born here. Bemem
ber, whenever you need me. hasten to this
mound and 24 hours later I shall be at your
service. Every order of yours will be ful
filled. Prom this hour Miller, tbe traitor,
is your slave. Never forget that, Vladi
mir. , YThey stopped under the walls of the city.
"Here my dominion ends," said Miller,
checking the fleet dogs. Parewell.Vladimlr.
You are almost in town."
They shook hands. Once more the Count
turned round aud said:
"My first care shall be now to purchase
arms; I am told there is a merchant Lap
teff, who mainly furnishes arms to the Tar
tars."
"Yes! Bat be cautious I Bemember that
I an. exile la not permitted to bar aimI"
"Never mindl My wife has an old friend,
a Dr. Haas, who has accompanied her to
this place. He will not be suspected."
"GoodI But make haste, for I burn with
the desire to be iree once morel"
They parted. As Miller drove off he once
more beard the warning words:
"Bemember, Millerl'Nothing against the
Czar and holy Bussial"
Miller did not seem to have heard these
words, which once before he had apparently
disregarded, and soon the narta had disap
peared behind the mound. Lanin went
into tbe city. For two days Jana had been
anxiously expecting him. Now he told ber
all. He spoke of 'his hopes, his meeting
with Miller, how he had forgiven him and
had joined him in tbe conspiracy. He bad
been afraid Jana would disapprove of this.
All the more he rejoiced now, when she
said:
"A man such as Miller is does nothing by
halves. Betrayed Dy officials, he will never
become a spy. His very crime proves that
he is honest now. Yon mnst never be a
traitor to your native land, but you must
and mav try, by all means, to recover vonr
I liberty."
THE KWOUTOTG OP POPOFF.
Dr. Haas was summoned. His answer
was calm and dignified.
"Countess, I have devoted myself to your
service, and I am not a Buss. What you
approve I am prepared to approve, and
what you order I shall try to do. lam
an old man, and my last sacrifices are made
for you. Do not ask my opinion, therefore,
but simply command!"
It was now decided that Dr. Haas should
draw from the Bank of Irkutsk enough of
Jana's money to purchase arms and then
return with the Count to bis hut in the
village, in order to calm the Governor, and
to take other precautionary measures. The
day after Dr. Haas was to open negotiations
with Lapteff and buy 500 rifles, intended
for a khan of the Catehas who had risen in
rebellion against the Chinese authorities.
Lanin and Dr. Htas bade Jana farewell
and then went to the bank walking down
Main street Tbe town clock wss striking
10. Almost at tbe same time when Count
Lanin returned from Lake Baikal, Fopoff
and his betrothed entered the offices of the
head of the gendarmes. Palkin was out,
having been ordered to appear before tbe
Governor, be had directed his secretary, on
leaving, to continue tbe work begun the
day before. Popoff wanted to have one more
long conversation with his betrothed, and in
order to interrupt his work he had called
Helen in, and now was distributing several
papers in her presence. Palkin, when he
left, had said he would hardly be back be
fore two hours, and Popoff, therefore,
thought he would have time to explain his
plan to Helen. They had been conversing
a good hour, and Popoff bad told his be
trothed that on the following Sunday be
would have to meet theCouut, and in speak
ing of the document against Schelm, which
he still had in his possession, he said:
"The less this paper meant at that time
the more formidable it has since become.
The receipt and the forged signature prove
beyond all doubt that I was Schelm's ac
complice. He never prosecuted me. He
only had me arrested as a dangerous man,
not as a man who had stolen money and
forged a signature."
"But, Nicholas, how could you keep this
paper?"
"That I'll tell yon," he said, and his eyes
glowed in triumph; '1 used to carry this
paper about me, and it kept me anxious iu
the day and prevented my sleeping at night
One night I dreamt I had lost it, and I
should be drowned in the Neva. I started
from my sleep bathed in perspiration, and
next morning I had a terrible toothache.
This gave me a mad idea. T went to Sebas
topol, where I knew an eminent American
dentist I got him to draw two of my teeth,
one per ectly healthy, the other slightly
diseased. Then I ordered a very small box
ofivorytobe made, shaped outwardly ex-
acny iikc me two teetn. xne paper oi tbe
copying; book is very thin; I folded my
precious paper my small, pat it into ft
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diminutive bladder and then went back to
my dentist. I asked bim it he could put
the little box back into my jaws to look:
like the two missing teeth. He thought me
at first half mad, bat when I offered him
200 roubles he agreed to humor me. When
ever now I think I am in danger I put in
my two teeth, hnd so far providence has
been mercilul to me, and my treasure has
never been detected. I confide my secret to
you. my Helen, for the hour ot the conflict
is approaching, and I know not what may
be my fate. Bemember, thereiore, that X
am in'your power, and not I only, but the
fate also of the whole family of our bene
factor." He had barely ended these words when
he, accidentally looking out of the window,
saw Palkin's sleigh beiore tbe door, and tha
Colonel with the captain of gendarmes get
ting out o. it
"What can that mean? The Colonel back
so soon? Helen, get away as fast as you can
and consult with the Countess -Sunday in
the twilight I'll go out to Krowa to see tbe
Count Perhaps the Countess would be so
kind as to be there at the same time. Maks
baste, Helen, the Colonel must be angry
that I let you in."
"It is too late. I must hide somewhere."
She pointed at the curtain of coarse linen
which hung in the corner of the room and
screened piles of papers.
"Are you mad?" cried Nicholas. "Those
are the archives of the corps of gendarmes."
She smiled and insisted. It was high time.
The Colonel's voice was heard quite nearby.
Helen ran to the corner and hid behind the
curtain.
"Even if he finds me, what can he do to
me?" she whispered into PopofFs ear. He
was terrified.
Popoff bent over his papers and gave him
self the air of being very busy. The door
opened and the two officers entered.
"Popoff, jump into the sleigh, drive to
the prison, get them to give you a list of all
the prisoners and bring it to me at once. It
will not take much ot your time and yon
will have a chance of drawing a breath of
fresb air."
Popoff bowed, but could not rejoice, so
great was bis fear for Helen. He remon
strated a moment, but in vain; he had to
leave her. '
"The fool thinks I show bim so much con
sideration from sheer goodness ot heart,"
said Palkin to tbe Captain, wbo accom
panied him. "Listen to me; I can speak
openly to you, for you are an excellent officer
and know that he wbo wants promotion
mnst be supported by influential per
sons in high offices. So far I have asked
nothing ol you, but now I shall want you.
Are you ready to comply with my wishes?"
"Most assuredly; I know what inflaence
you wield; you are the poor gentleman's
only protector. Order and I obey."
"Count Lanin mnst be arrested before
Sunday; I give yon three days' time to do
that."
The Captain hesitated.
"Colonel," he said, "I should be glad to
do that, for I can bear that fool as little u
typhus or cholera, but the Governor favors
him greatly."
"You are mistaken! That was so yester
4day that is not so to-day. He can no
longer protect him. I promise you nobody
will henceforth have anything to do with
that man. I promise yon, beside, to as
sume the whole responsibility. We lovs
and we hate people here, not as we like, but
as we are ordered Irom Petersburg. I rely
upon it; you must arrest the Countl You
can easily find a pretext He is hardly ever
at home; you need only appear unexpectedly
in Krowa; the law is on your sidel"
The Captain's eyes blazed at once.
"I shall go there from here. The matter
is settledl"
"Weill And once in jail, yon have the
house watched, and let no one enter. Have
a few men on hand, moreover, in case I
should need them."
"Very well. Colonel!"
"I rely on you, and now yon can go, but
come to-morrow and reportl"
The gendarme left, and the Colonel
walked up and down in the room, meditat
ing on the blackest plans. Like all men,
who pursue their thoughts energetically,
he spoke to himself aloud.
"I must get that paper from Popoff, by
cunning or by force, it I shoul'd have to kill
him! Schelm can no longer be dangerous
to me; he will have reason to fear me. We
shall both of us make a brilliant career. I
do not bate him. I only want to prevent
bim from injuring me. Let him take Lanin.
What do I care? He was useful to me as a
weapon so far. If I find a better weapon,
what do I care for him? I'll give Schelm
the husband; he'll give ma tha wife as my
reward, and all is welll"
Palkin, having just returned from tha
Governor, was still in full uniform. He'
went into bis chamber to relieve himself of
his sword and heavy boots. No sooner had
he disappeared than Helen's pale face
peeped from behind the curtain. She .
looked around, and, seeing nobody, she
slowly opened the door to the salon. Here
also nobody. She had come to see her be
trothed often enough to know the house.
She slipped down the stairs to PopofFl
room. Alas, it was empty!
CHAPTER xxrr.
Not ten minutes bad elapsed since Lanin
and Dr. Haaa had left Jana when Helen
rushed in, pale with excitement, to tell her
all she had beard.
"I hardly knew how I escaped. I waited
a whole hour for Nicholas, but he did not
return. I asked one of tbe gendarmes, who
generally are very kind to me, to call the
Secretary out 'Ab, here you kre, you nice
little damsel I' he shouted at me. 'Clear out
irom here, and never show yourself again
in this honsel We bare all ol bj gottea
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