Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-19
AGhar1uing Storg
II H E
GOVERNORS DAUGHTER,
A Tale of the Last Polish Insurreotion.
ny II. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS.
GcoNTINuRD.1
CHAPTER XIV.

When the number of Sicgfried's journal,
containing the list Of persons to be arrested,
became circulated among certain section
of the society of Warsaw, a very general de-
sire was felt by the initiated to hear what
Ferrari had to say on the subject. Ferrari,
who had just arrived from London, must
surely know something about it. The num-
ber OF visits that DR.. Wolf now received
was most remarkable. The first physicians
in Warsaw were not so much consulted !;
and Ferrari began at last to fear that his re-
nown would attract the attention ofgovern-
ment. Ifthc cmpcror's lieutenant at War
saw had fallen seriously i'll, and cdr. Wolf
had been sent for to attend him, the csnse-
quences might indeed have been very Sc
rious-especially if this new mock doctor
had consented to prescribe for the patient.
Ferrari, to all inquiries, could only reply
that lie knew nothing whatever about the
list. He imagined, however, like every one
else who knew of it only through "The
Tongue" that it had been telegraphed to
London in cyphcr by some government otll-
cial who was in league with the revolution
ary party. This suppostion was very graft
flying to the revolutonists, and made them
believe that they had secret friends in high
places, who at the critical moment would
render them powerful assistance.
On his first arrival at Warsaw Fcrrari had
felt that his ideas were still far from being
in tune with those of the thorough going
rcvolutionists. After a time, however, what
had happened to him in London happened
to him again here. He became influenced
by the persons and things around him, and
went up gradually to the Warsaw pitch of
enthusiasm.
He had heard in London of outrages and
massacres which his friends in Warsaw had
actually seen, Some of them had even even
suffered in person from the attacks of the
Russian soldiers, and had wounds to show
which were as eloquent as their own nara
tiyes.
lie observed unnistakable signs of q
coming storm, of which the black clothes
worn by all the female population of War
saw were but the external manifestation.
The men were forbidden to wear mourning,
and those who, in spite of the very positive
orders on the subject, persisted in not as
suming bright colors, were punished by fine
and Imprisonment for their obstinate aHec
tation of sadness. This determination d
the Russians to bully their Polish subject.
into liveliness and gaiety, besides being
odiously tyrannical, struck Ferrari as eini
nently absurd.
| lie was not in the humor for amusemen
of any description, and the rest Of the in
habitants Of Warsaw seemed to be in the
same frame of mind for all the theatres
concert-rooms, and similar places of public
entertainment We're closed, and had not beer
open for the last two years. This ahstcn
tion from all pleasures had material Al
well as moral effect in promoting the oh
ject Of the revolutionists. Not only did th'
population turn their attention cxclusivel,
to solemn things, but they also saYed tin
monsy which, under ordinary circumstan
ces, would have been spent on dress and OF
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money all found its way into the revolu.io
nary exchequer.
Although all possible care had been takel
to prevent a too sudden explosion of tn
revolutionary forces, the outbreak was a
last prccipitated by the action of the Rus
slams. DIR. Wolf" was at this time il
strict concealment. The fact was, he ha
paid and received SO many visits from pc
litical patients, that at last-as he had feaI
cd would be the case before long continue
impunity made him reckless-thc Russian
did want to see what sort of physician
was. A Polish official sent him warnin
that he was about to raceive domiciliar
visit, and Ferrari no sooner found that ther
was clear prospect of his being subjecte
to a medico- political examination, than Ii
very wisely absented himself
In his new difficulty he had again recours
to Willenski, the experienced conspiratol
who at once agreed to conceal him in h
own house. When Ferrari thanked hi
for running the risk, the experienced CON
G pirator replied, with his usual politene!
that he was already SO much compromise,
that to compromise him any father was in
, possible. He added that Ferrari need nj
he under much apprehension, and Shove
t him a passage leading to another set
apartments, from which he could, if necess
C ry, make his escape into the street by a bas
door. The conspirator's family consisted
= himself; son who was in Siberia; anoth
N son, who had been student at the uniye
sity of st. Petersburg. and who was no
confined in the St. Petersburg fortress /;
third; who was an emgrant living in Pari
d fourth, named Thaddous, who was NO
in Warsaw with his father, and who HI
y been slightly wounded in one of the rece
N massacres; and a daughter named Thee
who followed her father everywhere, al
m kept house for him.
Ferrari met some nice people at Vile
IT, skis, who, when they quite understo
l.. that Ferrari, so far from following in Il
footsteps of his father, had adopted quito
SO opposite course, treated him kindly, and
structcd him in all the principles of revol
tionism, which, unlike despotisni, still wa
# its Machiavellis.
Ii Ferrari soon saw that these men We
u quite as INSCRIPTIONS as the despots to who
they were opposed, and that there was
N means they would not employ to gain tn
Is end. They were of that malignant type
TO reyolutionist which the Russian govel
y y ment breeds to such perfection, and viii
s. is found in Russia proper more abundan
III even than in Poland.
q. The revolutionists of London, with all t
4. ferocity Of their talk, had seemed to Ferr
~ what Count Konradin once called then
Id spolitical Bohemians." The most rema
III able thing about them was their needle
n, ness-which scarcely even amounted
rccklessness for they incurred no very CT
siderable danger, except perhaps that
ne dying from starvation.
=. The revolutionists of Warsaw, howey
mo- not only preached assassination, but prac
ed H. Thew proScrjbed and destroved Nh