Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-13

Deen arrested without saying II In so many
Words" answered Jankowski. Sand If l
am told that he is i'll, or very i'll, know
what that means, and il he is livery III in
deed" know that he is on the point of
being sent to Siberia"
eyes; but by this time should think the
police must understand that also" replied
Siegfried. 'Every one uses that method.
No." he said; letter sent from Poland
should be written in cipher. A letter sent
to Poland ought not to be written in cipher,
lest il should compromise the person rcceiv-
ing it, though sometimes that risk must be
run; and letter in unintclligible cipher
cannot at least do SO much harm as one
written in plain Russian or Polish. My
correspondents sometimes write in parallels;
but the worst of that plan is, that if the clue
to one single passage be found, the whole
can be understood"
''The great difficulty. said Jankowski, sis
to use the telegraph"
"Yet, answered Siegfried, 81 will engage
to telegraph to correspondent at St. Pc
tersburg, Warsaw, or whenever you please,
and say TO him whatever want to say with
out exciting the least suspicion. choose a
man of business, send him, through clerk,
what appears to be a business telegram, and
the thing passes. Commercial messages are
never objected to and never delayed in
transmission. Commerce is so sensitive. 1t
is easily frightened, and once driven away
never returns. "What is the price Of cot
ton-wool? or 4 did not receive the iron,
may mean anything that has been previous
agreed upon. No the Russian government
must destroy the telcgraphs and railways
which connect Russia with the west of Eu-
rope, or resign tselfto the admission Of rev.
olutionary ideas. II will not reckon with
them, and yield little, while appearing to
yield great deal, like this English govern
ment-which, whatever else may be said
against it, at least understands the English
people-and for that reason it will, sooner
or later, bs subverted. The sooner the bet
ter.
''Not in our timo however" said Ferrari.
s'Do you think not7' asked Siegfricd.
But it is very corrupt, very rotten, and that
Is only another way of saying that it is very
feeble. If the Russians and the Poles only
understand one another it is doomed"
"Thcy will understand one another"
said Ferrari, ''likc the dogs in your Russian
fable, who quarrelled as soon as they had a
bone to fight for The Russians and Poles
will have their bone of contention"
"Our object at all events must be to keep
them on good terms" answered Siegfried.
"Otherwse there will be no hope for either.''
"Ferrari is cynical, or at least scepticnl /;
that is his only fault" remarked Jankowski.
"No; think not, replied Ferrari. "But
/ do not believe that you can overcome diff
culties by shutting you eyes and refusing to
look at them"
1t struck Fcrrari that Sicgfried had been
so long away from Russia, and had written
and thought so much of some future and
ideal Russia, that he had lost all true con
ccption of his country as 1t really existed.
Jankowskis Poland was the Poland of the
books he had read Siegfricd's Russia the
| Itussld Vi lHC DOOhs HC iluu NihtCl.
fried, ii was true, had numbers of cores
pondcnts in his own country, who visited
him when they came to England, and often
came to England for the express purpose OF
doing 80. But they were all men who
thought as he thought; because carried
away by his eloquence they had adopted his
ideas. They were men of his own creation.
He saw no others, and thought his disciples
much more numerous than they were. lie
moreover mistook for disciples by convc
ton those who were only disciples for The
sake of fashion-for it was at that time The
fashion in Russia 10 read and quote Sieg
fried. 1t was also the fashion TO visit hin
at his abode in London; and Siegfried re
ceivcd all who came to consult him and dt
him homage, as u professor Of the middle
ages received students from distant countries
who came to him to learn the truth.
TO BE CONTINUED.