Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-05


doctors visits as he pleases. That is one of
the liberties that we still possess"
i" But how are our friends in London to
know that have changed my name?"
81 suppose they can recognize your hand
writing2 Send letter to them through the
post as soon as you have fixed on your new
abode, telling them simply and solely how
and where to address you. That also you |
have right to do. You must give up the |
leather trade when you telegraph that is
all. In future you might speak of yourself
as " the patient" the Russians as the
surgeon !" while continuing to use as many
of the old signals as are still available If
you have anything very important to send,
and you can't trust either to the telegraph
or to the post let me have it, and will give
it to Jew who is engaged in the smuggling
trade along the Prussian frontier. He is a
thorough coward in the immediate presence
of danger, but he will run any risk for the
sake of little extra money. He will bring
artillery for us in hay-cart when we want
it, We have had quantities of muskets
from him already"
A few days afterwards, Stanislas Ferarri,
or "Dr. WOLF" as he now called himself,
found accommodation and a hearty welcome
at the house of family to whom his mo-
thcr had been well known, and who were,
indeed, dstantly related to her. He was
on the point of posting letter-not to Jan
| kowski-but to Count Konradn, who, he
fancied, was quite above suspicion, when a
number of Siegfrled's journal, "The
Tongue" was put into his hand by the e1-
perienced conspirator. 1t contained the
list of names as drawn up by Boutkovitch,
and sent to Ferrari's address by Nathalie;
for it was to her that Ferrari, and, indirect
ly, all the chief members of the Polish COM
mittee, were indebted for the warning they
had received.
CHAPTER XII.
NATHALIE's sEoRET.
| 1t happened in this way. After finishing
his despatch, Gontchalin had sent Boutko-
witch with it to the embassy. where it was
| duly given into the hands of the departing
messenger. In the meanwhile, the general,
fatgued by his weeks campaign # sigh.sec-
| ing-fatigued also by his exertions at the
ball, and by his subsequent literary and po-
litical labors in company with Boutkovitch
had imprudcntly leant back on the sofa
and closed his eyes. 1t was natural, under
the circumstances, that he should fall asleep;
and he not only slept, which was fault (;
but snored, which was crime.
The bassoon.like noise walked Nathalie,
who, like many other young ladies', slept but
lightly after ball. She recognized the for
midablc sound as peculiar to her father, and
tinding that it was as late as seven o'clock,
got up, put on slippers and peignoir, and
went into the sitting room to see what could
have happened to him.
There he lay, stretched on the sofa, putting
and blowing with the vigor of u propoiss
and the regularity Of a steam-engine The
gas was still burning, and ON this table before
him Nathalie saw a teapot, cuple of empty
teacups, the sauccrs Of which were full Of
tobacco ash, a few cigar lends, and the stump'
of innumcrable cigarettes.
/.
, Nathalie and Nathalie was right.
"Poor papa How hard he has beer
working" said to herself sand he1has lcf
all his papers about. The servants nigh
> have come in to do the room and have reat
them, But no; they are in Russian-a
least, this one is" She took up one of tn
:, :, folios of General Gontchaln's despatch.
: .'And so is this. y She exclaimed another
Enclosure A yes, this is Russian, too
Persons whom it would he advisable to AZ
rest at the first opportunity. Oh, how dread
y full! How can papa occupy himself wit
such things"
The general replied only by a snore. TIL
! appearance of the fat, red-faced, mere O
/ less bloatcd old man, was in striking cor
= :, trast with that of his charming daughter
He, heated by gas, tabacco-smoke, an
night-work, seemed half exhausted, All
!. slept gluttonously, as if to make up for 10.
:. time. She, radiant with health and beauty
= = had already taken repose enongh, and lool
: ed as fresh as convolvulus that has jul
=, - opened to the light. If the two could hay
been painted as they stood, or, rather, {
). Nathalie stood and as her father lay, ever
:, one would have seen that the one figul
said ''Good morning" as plainly as the oth'
said "Bad night"
:, Nathalie read once more the heading
7 "Enclosure A." "Persons whom it woul
- be advisable to arrest Nominal list"
She read on, and was surprised and shocl
ed to find among the names those of Stanisl'
de Fcrrari and Count Kenradin. Ferrari, wi
had been so kind and attentive to her and
lr her father also; and who had written h
in such touching letter. of which she WI
r. sure every word was true! And Konrad
If with whom she had danced twice runnil
ch only the night before. Oh, it was horribl,
III Nathalie, who had come into the drawin
ret room for the express purpose of waking h
an father, was now very careful not to car
ne out her original intention. She took |
nix .Enclosurc A" and hurried with it to h
ed own roem, that she might read it throul
We without fear of being disturbed.
lot She had taken the paper without any pr
Ike cse idea as to what she should do with |
ou but now that she had it in her possession 81
we could not make up her mind to replace
we on her fathers table until she had copied
or Ferrari had been SO unhappy all his life, al
l now some very terrible calamity indie
for might await him.
1t did not occur to Nathalie that the RI
if sian government must first catch its vict
If: before either executing him or sending hi
ect to Siberia, Or perhaps she thought th'
u.s. like Moliere, it took its property whereey
it found it, She remembered Fcrrari's ha
me ing said, the day she first saw him at t
i've Exhibition, that he never meant to return
liz. Russia; but he might have made this sta
,an men' nas'iiy' OF WIN inc view oi hisleaal
her father and in any case, il the Russi