Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-02

little late you always fancy that he has been
arrested, and is going to he sent to Siberia
again."
"You also are agitated, Adam, or you
would not be so pale"
II am agitated on your account, Thecla. !"
"Ah" said Thccla, /" it is striking eleven,
and he has been out since half-past eight
this morning. At twelve, If he has not
come home,I shall go out and look for him. +"
Twelve o'clock struck. Thecla, now in a
state of fever, went for her bonnet.
"Thccla, said her brother, "do not think
of going out. 1t would be the maddest
thing in the world. No one must know
that at this late hour he is not at home. All !
there is ring at the bell"
"At last! /" exclaimed Thecla, joyfully /;
"and have forgotten to make his tea. How
stupid ami"
"Stop where you are" said Adam. ''Let
me go by myself. 1t is no doubt father !;
but in Warsaw who can be certain Of any
thing?"
He went down stats, and half minute
afterwards returned like ghost. He went
up to his sister, threw his arms round her
neck, and clasped her head to his breast.
81 know all, my poor ADAM" sobbed
Thecla. s'IIe has been arrested and sent to
Siberia again, and you you think am not
strong enough to bear the news"
"Worse than Siberia, my darling" an
swered Adam. t.f....
"Worse than Siberia !" exclaimed Thecla,
with look of horror. "Ah then he is
dead''
Adam thought Thecla would have fallen
into fit; but she displayed great courage.
She felt that her brother also had his burden
of grief to bear, and resolved, as far as it
was in her power, to do nothing that could
increase it.
After few minutes Thecla said, with
comparative calmness, "It was they who
killed him. He knew that some day he
would die that DEATH"
Adam then showed her paper which had
been brought to him by gendarme, and on
which it was laconically set forth that the
body of Sigismund Wilenski, killed in the
act of resisting the lawful authorities was
lying at the station of the seventh police dis
trict, and that Its interment was ordered for
the next day ut twelve.
At this moment tap was heard at the
door of the room in which they were sitting.
at is the gendarme. said Adam. 81
forgot he was still here"
thing to drink.
Adam gave it him, shut the door, and for
the rest of the night though only of consol-
ing his sister. who, on her side, thought ou-
ly Of consoling her brother.
CHAPTER XIX.
JUDICIAL SENTENCE.
The discovery and capture effected by
Boutkovitch really amounted to very little.
Every one knew that the conspirators had
numerous secret means of communication;
and what advantage was there in finding the
way to one of their nests after the birds had
flown The capture of Wilcnski alive
would have been the capture of one of the
leading spirits of the revolutionary organi-
zation: Wilenski dead was but one insur-
gent less in whole nation Of insurgents.
However, Boutkoviteh was recommended
for medal, and his brilliant feat OF arms
was duly inscribed in the official record of
services.
If the police officer and spy deeply regret
ted the death of Wienski, he was also much
grieved at having missed an excellent op-
portunity Of renewing his acquaintance with
Ferrari. 1t was for the sake of Ferrari that
he had come to Warsaw. He had traced
him TO Wienski's, and, through Wilenski,
had hoped to reach all the principal mem
bers of the insurrcciional government. He
saw now that he had attempted too much,
and that it would have been better to have
arrested Ferrari together with Wilenski,
his harbourer and accomplice, when he had
the chance Of doing so. Now one Of the
two was dead, while the other had, no
doubt, taken to flight.
To add to Bouikovitch's annoyance, his
name was published in the Official gazette OF
Warsaw in connection with what he himself
had named ''the affair of the e-house. "
The account was almost a transcription OF
his own report; and the government func-
tionary who had supplied it to the paper
pretended to have written it with the view
OF being agreeable to Boutkovitch.
"Agreeables Internally agreeable, GER
tainly!" he exclaimed, when this explanation
was given to him at the newspaper office.
''lt will be so agreeable, he added, conf
dentially, to himself, "that if remain in
Warsaw twelve hours longer shall be as
sassinated."
He had too keen scent for treachery OF
all kinds not to understand that the govern
ment functionary, who, like nearly all the
government functionaries in Warsaw at this
time, was Pole, had published his name in
order that the death of Wilonski might be
avenged. The hero of ''the affair of the
ice-housc" would be known to the patriots
as ''the murderer of Wlenski;" and Wilen-
skis vague threat, unmeaning as it had
appeared when he uttered it, might have u
very serious fulfilmcnt. To make matters
worse, Ferrari would tell his associates OF
the part he had played in London.
Boutkovitch wished for one moment that
he had gone to England under an assumed
name. But this subtertuge is only resorted
to by the lowest and most incapable of Sc
cret agents; and Boutkovitch, the moment
afterwards, was ashamed of himself for hav-
ing thought of it. The great, irreparal,lc
fault that he had committed was this, that
he had acted openly in the character which
was to have made his fortune.
~ felt so sure that should succeed, he
said to himself "Otherwise, need not
have appeared in the matter at all. But en-
thusiasm always leads one astray!'
Even then he would have been in no real