Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-12


lie dressed in the latest fashion, he dined at
the best tables d'hote in st. Petersburg, and
ordered his red wine and his white WINE and
his bottle of champagne, like gentleman.
He was not only allowed, hut was expected
to do IT. and, of course charged it all in his
expenses. AT present, the poor fellows
dress like commercial travellers, lounge about
the corridors of the theatres and hotels, and
think themselves fortunate to he able, now
and then, to get glass of vodka"
CHAPTER XIV.
| FAREWELL TO ENGLAND.
Little had poor Nathalie thought of the
commotion that would be caused by her
sending Boulkovitchs list to Ferrari.
On finding that it had been forwarded to
"Thc Tongue" and actually published in
that journal, she had felt much annoyed and
even hurt. Ferrari, she said to herself, had
not respected the confidence placed in him.
lie had, perhaps, made no endeavour to dis
cover who had sent him the list; but he
ought TO have concealed the fact of his hay
ing received it. At least, lie could have
warned Count Konradin and the others pri-
vately. But to have sent the document for
publication to journal To have caused a
scandal, from which both she and her father
might suffer! This was objectionable.
1t was in one sense, then, relief TO her
to hear that Fcrrari had gone 10 Warsaw.
The letter must have been opened in his ab-
sence, she concluded. Indeed, it was OBJ
vious that he would not have started ioI
Warsaw il he had known tbat,on his arrival
at the Polish frontier, he would be arrested.
On the whole, she preferred that his per-
sonal safety rather than his honour should
be in question but she was very much
alarmed about him, nevertheless. II she
could only find out on what day he had left
London, she would be able to calculate
whether he would have had time to reach
Warsaw before orders to arrest him could
have been received there. But how could
this first point be ascertained?
Ferrari seemed destined to occupy hei
mine perpetually. She said to herself, that
if, instead Of sending him the list by post,
she had forwarded it by IL messenger, sht
might have prevented his going to Warsaw
at all. Now, if fanything happened to him
there, she would consider that she was in
some measure responsible for it.
AS soon as she found that Boutkovitcl
had gone she went back to her father, tc
see whether lie would say anything about
Fcrrari's position. She found Count Kon-
radin with him, laughing over his list ol
names, and declaring himself very much
amused at the notion Of his name being in.
cluded in it.
"The idea of my being mixed up with
them is good!" he said to Gontchalin.
"Why, the first thing they would do,if they
succeeded in their projects, would be to di-
vivide my estates among the peasantry."
"Where do yeu think the list came from?'
asked the general.
II cannot tell you," replied the count
SEER all know to the contrary, it may bt
forgery. II is, perhaps, what the Englisl
call .a box at all events, judging from
the presence of my own name in it, Ishoult
|
The worst of il is, that the mere fact of pub
fishing mans name in such list, genuin,
or not, does him harm. 1t makes him
marked man, and place him under the sur
veillance of the police, whether the super
Z ior authorities desire it or not"
''Not in your case, count" said the gen
: eral.
''Not in my case" replied KonradIn,
) ''for ilattcr myself that am above suspi
cion but there is scarcely one of the other
S who will not suffer from it. No one is s.
e anxious as am to find out the author of th
: list; and, if could only discover him,
would make very serious complaint again,
i him. The government sends out spies
c they are obliged to report something, All
s they make their accusations quite at ran
4 dom, merely because they may seem to b
j earning their money. AS it is, must max
Il representation on the subject. To whor
i ought l to address il, general?"
It sTo the chief of the police at st. Peters
+ burg, should Think" replied Gontchalir
r "Or perhaps the best thing would he t
write to his secretary"
it "Will you tell me his name, please, an
y his private address ?" asked the count.
c "Cerlainly," replied the general, who ha
given up Konradn's name merely in til
: way of business, and had no i'll will toward
y him whatever "Write it down, Nathalie
G that the count may not forget it,"
Q Konradin said there was no danger of hi
; forgetting it, but that he should feel muc
is obliged, all the same, if Madamoiselc M
thalic would give him the address in writ
d ing. Nathalie did SO without hesitation
and Count Konradin saw at glance that
e was Gontchalin's daughter who had poste
n the list of names to Fcrrari.
a "Fcrrari has very useful as well as
|, very charming acquaintance, he reflected
IS "But l should now like to know who CAV
the list to Gontchalin, and that will not b
l. so easy to find out" 1t struck him, how
J. euer, that Boutkovitch, who pretended I
get so much information from the genera
/, in all probability carried to him; intention
/ ally or unintentionally, quite AS much as i
|
y On his way home from the Gontchalins
lc paid visit TO Boutkovtch, and told him
g was quite satisfied that the list of names ha
er at one time been in possession of the gen
c. raj. lie accused Boutkovitch, not of Wilt
N treachery, but indiscretion, and pointed OF
of to him that Konradin, Stanislas Ferrari, al
es Boutkovitch, were the only three men
IN London who were acquainted both vii
er General Gontchalin and with Siegfried. Ko
j." radin knew that he himself had contrbut,
nothing to the list, and he maintained th
nd its authorship rested either with Boutkovit,
IN. or with Ferrari.
he Boutkovitch repelled The charge mo
is vigorously, and serious dispute took plao
he which ended by Konradn challenging hi
'or to appear the next evening before the rev