Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-26

Il H e
GOVERNORS DAUGHTER.
A Tale of the Last Polish Insurreotion.
ny II. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS.
IcoNTINuED.1
CHAPTER XVII.

/ Tho officer of police, followed by his de-
tachment, and bearing Wilensks poodle in
his arms, marched straight to the house
which Wilenski had been seen to enter.
AT about twenty yards distance he pui
down the dog, which ran to the door, and
finding it shut, began to whine.
| AT first the porter refused 10 open.
"You are ordered to open in the name o
the law, cried the officer.
"Who orders mel"
| 81, an officer commanding gendarmcs.
| Open this moment, or will fire through the
door"
some second" said the porter; aud the
moment afterward the door was opened.
Rascal !" exclaimed the officer as he
struck the porter in the face, 81 havea n great
mind to blow your brains out with my re-
volver. Say one word and | will shoot
yon.'
The porter did not accept the polite invi-
tation, and accordingly was not shot
Snow, you confoundcd poodle, show us
where your master is J"
| This the innocent animal was already
proceeding to do. 1t ran up one staircase,
down another, and stood barking in front OF
door which led TO the garden.
"Open that door!n said the officer.
II have not the key" answered the porter.
81 shall break the door to pieces and your
head also If it is not opened this moment" ="
"One second, begged the porter, "while
fetch the key" He ran for it, attended by
gcndarme, in whose special custody he
had now been placed, and in half minute
returned with it in his hand.
When the door was opened the unhappy
poodle sprapg into the garden and made di-
rect for the ice-house. The officer, followed
by the gcndarmes ran after it, bu. on enter
ing the ice-house could find no trace of the
dog. 1t had, in fact, disappeared from the
face OF the earth, and was ut that moment
| in the subtcrrancan passage making IFS way
| towards the convent of The Ursullncs.
"Wherc is the dog? Where in the name
| of the fiend is the accursed poodle?" cried
| the officer
Your excalcncy saw him just MS much
as did, = replied the porter.
"Whcre is the dog: am not going to
be made fool of in this manner repeated
the officer; but no dog was to be found.
s'It can't be under the ice, said the officer;
"but there is really no knowing.
The porter was told to clear all the icc on,
of the ice-house and the end of WAS that
neither Wilcnski nor Ferrari nor the raod.t
were found, but that the secret passage was
discovered.
81 shall get II decoration for this" said
the officer Ia himself; ''0fthat there can be
no doubt, and perhaps promelion; and ii
would not be astonishing il they were to
give me u sum Of money by way Of gratui-
ty This comes of acting in chief, which a
superior man like myself should always do.
| If that brute Gontcllalin were hcre-pom-
pous old diot!-l should have to send in
my report through him, and he would claim
all the credit for it. Thank you, y.ur en-
cellency. Let honour he givcu where hon
our is due. This certainly promises to be !,
very brilliant affair.""
"The poodle has decidedly gone into that
hole remarked one Of The scnd,rncs Al
this moment.
eyes, blockhcad, and you shall 20 the,
after it, replied the ,ilicc. sl'ut, no! yot
would do no good; you would catch no ono
yJu would bn caught yourself, and til,
alarm would be given
He thought of sending on the porter a
the point of the layonet, after handwriting
him and tying II clain to his leg to preyen
his geing too fast. But this also seemed i'm
praciicablc; for however many gendarmc
he might send after him il would be easy TO
the consprators to kill them one by o. al
they came out at the other end. Perhaps
too, the porter really knew nothing abou
the ubterranean passage. That, however
he reelected, could be asccrtaincd in th'
proper manner
With view to the future settlement o
the point, he ordered n corporal 10 taxi
four gendarmcs and march the porter oI
forthwith to the police station; whence, il
} due order of proceeding, he was sent TO TIL
fortress to await his exam nation.
In the meanwhile the ice was replaced ii
the ice-housc and the ice-house surroundc,
by gendarmes Three gendarmcs wer
placed in the iee-house itself, just above th
/ entrance to the passage, so that they coul'
, see but not be seen by any one issuing from
! its mouth. The officer, with revolver il
la, 4
whose orders were not to fire, but to max
!, every effort to capture all who came out q
the passage, and to capture thom alive
Dead prisoners cannot be made to tell tales
: but torture is sometimes found to have tina
effect upon live ones.
, The gcndarmes waited and waited until
$ began to grow dark, and until they bcga
a TO say to one another, that though the do
$ had apparently run into the hole, it wa
: not ut all certain that any men had done sc
At last il became a joke among them tla
J fifty gendarmcs were waiting, and had no,
r been waiting seven hours, with loaded mus
!, kets, in order to catch one poodle, who ha
- run away from them and refused to com
If back.
Y These seven hours had been employed b
h Wilcnski and the other members of the re'
is olutionary committee is disputing, in VI
g brading one another for what had passe,
70 and in endeayorins to concert some gener
ot plan of action for the future. Wilenski, ,or
y or two students, and few Polish office
:, who had served in the Russian army, we
rr for beginning the insurrection Forthwith
IS. Others thought that now the recruitmc
nc had actually taken place, there was no il
Il, mediate necessity for an appeal to arms,
ne that il ought to be deferred until the milit
ry preparation were more complete
by Wilenski maintained that ifsuch ilagra
us injustice, such a monstrous provocation
IS the arbitrary conscrp,ion were left witho
ry a response the nation would lose all SC
h. h, respect. 1t was blow, he declared, viii
I'M demanded blow in return If were 81
.Ss os mitted to in patience, then there was no
initiation, no degradation which they mil