Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-30

| hohf'tuln nau lelt travelling carriage II
| Cracow, without arms or crest, or anything
that showed it to be his; and in this vehi
Gle, Jankowski, Ferrari, and the President
OF the London Committee were to travel by
the post-road to a station about ten miles
| from Stanitza, where Konradin was to mee
them. The Black Man, who had been fur
nished with the requisite pass from the Cen.
tral National Committee, was to travel, with
the rest of the party, from the house of ont
proprietor TO that of another, and to pick ur
information as he went along.
Ferrari had only one passport for himself
and his two friends; but he was supposed to
be a landowner travelling to his estate neal
Wilkovo and 1t was not thought unnatura
| that his coachman and footmau, though moi
named on his passport, should be travelling
with him. Jankowski drove, and the Pres
idcnt of the London Committee sat in the
dickey
The Black Man and his companions step
ped across the Gulician frontier on TO an
estate in the kingdom of Poland, and were
sent on from one country-housc TO another,
until they reached the rendezvous near
Stanitza, almost as soon as the travellers by
post.
"There are three hundred men in the
wood. said the count, after lie had greeted
his friends, and explained to them how they
might get to Slanitza quite unobserved ;
"three hundred men, and as yet only twenty
five Cossacks TO oppose them.
The Black Man and the two under officers
went straight to the wood, Konradin prom
lsing to pay them visit there early next
morning. Konradin drove his other visitors
publicly, and along the high road, to his
house at Stanitza. For fifty miles round no
one, even in this time of excitement, would
have thought of asking Count Konradin, or
any one travelling with him, for passport.
CHAPTER XXvII.
IN THE WOOD
Ferrari and his friends found that they
had just arrived in time. On the night of
the following day, being exactly one week
from the night of the great conscrlption at
Warsaw, there was to be general rising
A report had been industriously spread by
the agents of the National Committee that
ON the night in question the conscription
would be executed In the country districts
as it had been in the capital. But in any
case the rising was To be no longer deferred.
In the course OF very pleasant, or rather
n ip,.ttl pynriptr m fan int IL, In,
surgents easily persuaded one another that
the insurrcction must succeed, and that in
few weeks the Russian troops would be
swept out of Poland
Early the next morning the three young
men, together with the old revolutionist of
1913, attended service in the village church.
1t was crowded with peasants and sitting
among them Ferrari noticed young Wilens-
ki and his sister.
lie knew that Thadtleus Wienski was to
join the Stanitza detachment, and that he
was to command company ofscythcmcn !;
but he was sorry to find that the young man
had brought his sister with him. Thecla,
however, had no friends in Warsaw. She
did not wish to leave her brotaer, and she
was moreover burning with desire to avenge
her fathers death. She had had her hair
cut close, and had put on long cloak,
which concealed the tunic she wore under
ncath
The Black Man and numbers of the in
surgents from the wood were also present.
The sermon, of which the ostensible subject
was the liberation of the Israelites from the
Babylonan captivity, had an evident bear
ing on the political situation and at the
end of the service, when the preacher had
pronounced the blessing with unusual fer
vour, the national hymn
eat Thy altar we raise our prayers;
"Resiore us, y Lord, our free country"
was sung by the whole congregation.
On his return home Konradin found that
peasant, who had been punished for some
offence the week before, had gone to the
Cossack post with the information that at n
barn on neighboring estate number of
rifles were concealed. The Cossacks, too,
in the course of the day, made reconnois-
sance along the skirts of the wood. but with
out any result. No one but the Counts
forcsters, gamekeepers, and some Of the
peasants who had been in the habit of going
out shooting with him as beaters, knew tile
way to the camp, which was in the midst of
a very labyrinth.
In the afternoon Cossack officer, with
half a dozen men, called to visit the court.
Everything was quiet, and Konradin (who
was lying hid in field Of standing corn ut
the back OF the garden) was said by the SER
wants to have gone to Wilkovo, though they
admitted that he might return at any mo-
ment. Two of the Cossacks were sent all
over the house to see whether by chance the
proprietor had not forgotten to start, or
whether any of his friends had remained be-
hind. They also took walk round the
garden, but no one was at home, and every
thing in and about the house was in perfect
order; that is to say, no arms had been left
lying about
Half concealed under a staircase, large
wooden case with "Glass-This side up
wards-Not TO be opened" inscribed on it,
was discovered; but it was quite empty.
In the evening Konradin accompanied his
friends to the wood. The President Of the
London Committee went in peasants cart
or britchko, taking with him good supply
of provisions. Jankowski, Ferrari, and
Konradin went on horseback.
\ quanty of bread, flour, meat, and corn
brandy had already been prepared at the
manor-house Cor 'palace," as the Poles pre-
fer to call a proprietorial place of resldence),
to be given up to party of insurgents who
were expected to pass that way. The count
also let the stable-mcn understand what hor-
ses they were to allow themselves to be des-
poieded Of Anumber of saddles had been
buried under one of the flower beds in the
garden; and some converted scythes had
been wrapped in straw and placed under the
cucumber frames.
1t was already getting dark, but not dark
enough for the Cossack patrol TO have gone