Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-05-21

tnaI YOU nave arrived, Wltnouta o WORD more,
we shall understand that all is right"
What took place on the road can perhaps
be imagined The coachman talked much
more to his mistress than he ought to have
done, and at the end of the journey, when
at the frontier, five miles from Cracow, he
met Konradin, called out to him
Congratulate me, Konradin."
$50 do most heartily" said Konradin,
embracing him. [The officials at the barrier
were much astonished to see the sristocratic
Konradin embracing coachman.]
''But why ?" asked Ferrari.
"Why9 Why, on being free" replied the
count.
mo, | didn't mean that" said Ferrari, as
though the fact of his having regained his
liberty were detail of no importance. 81
am er jagged to be married."
| 'Oh! thought should not have had to
congratulate you on that until next week,
answered Konradin, ''But the sooner the
better. / congratulate you most heartily,
and you also, Natalia Ivanovna."
Nathalie had numbers of messages to give
Konradin from his wife, and before she had
quite finished delivering them they were
half way to Cracow.
s'Now," said Konradin, when they had
reached the top of the hill which commands
so admirable view of the ancient and pic
turesque city, which its ancient academy, its
ancient churches, its ancient and eminently
| historical cathadral, in which lie buried the
ancient Polish kings, and side by side the
three great Polish heroes Of the seventeenth,
| eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, Sobie-
ski, Kosciuszko, and Poniatowski; ''now," +"
said Konradin, "you have driven me long
enough, it is time l should drive you."
AT last they reached Cracow, where Ma
thalie was received at the house of one of
her Polish aunts, a sister of her mother.
The arrival of the daughter Of Russian
general, who had Polish sympathies, and
was about to marry Pole, caused some sem
sation in the town.
"Elle sers curieuse voir," said some one
to Konradin.
Et charmante aussi," replied Konradin.
The very evening of Ferraris escape, while
Boutkovitch was still hesitating as to how
he should inform the governor of what had
happened, the countess obtained permission
to leave Wilkovo; and, profling by it at
once, went away from the town, without
letting General Molodiani know that she
had any intention Of taking her departure.
Molodiani now began to intrigue more Sc
riously than ever against Gontchalin, and
made such good use OF the little fact of Fer
rari's escape, that he succeeded in getting
him removed from his post, and in getting
himself appointed in his stead.
General Gontchalin did his best and worst
to be allowed to retain his office, but all In
vain. In an admirable memorandum on
the subject, his friend General Molodiani
pointed out that it was Gontchalin from
whom the celebrated list of names had been
obtained in London; that it was he through
whose weakness Konradin had got off; and
that now Ferrari, supposed to be a member
of the National Government, had escaped
through his neglect, if not connivance.
The countess, then, came to Cracow to
see her husband; and the general, relieved
Of his post, followed her to see his daughter.
"Tout sarrange;" and, after many difficult
ties, Nathaies aunt, who was ready to give
her niece large dowry, and the Countess
Konradin, who in a previous attack upon
the general had already proved that she was
quite irresistible, succeeded in obtaining the
old gentleman's consent to her marriage with
Stanislas Ferrari.