Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-02

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which Eugene fred from point about hall
way through the passage.
To this point sufficient number of stones
were carried to form solid barricade, quite
st4ong enough to resist any attack except a
livery serious one made on engineering prin.
cibles.
Indeed, as soon as Boutkovitch-for he II
was who had commanded the little expedi-
tion against the Revolutionary Committee
had sent his report of "the affair of the ice.
hoase, as, to give it additional interest, he
chose to call it, party of sappers were or
defed 10 explore the mysterious passage.
But on reaching the ice-house, and finding
that volcanic kind of smoke and all sorts
Of pestiferous fumes were issuing from its
mouth, they made profane suppositions as to
the origin of the fire which was evidently
burning within.
A fire-engine was sent for, and some tons
Of water were thrown into passage. This
extinguished the fire up to certain point
where a slight turning commenced; but the
damp was, If anything, worse than the dry
smoke, and the mouth of the passage was
more than ever like the crater of volcano.
The officer in charge of the sappers was
passionately fond Of his profession, and find
ing 1t quite impossible to enter the passage,
proposed, by system of his own invention,
to blow it up so many yards at time. But
this would have involved the destruction oi
| n r,uy,l,or of vary n m. bo,oos and tb. ;laa
excellent as it was, had to be abandoned.
ALI that could be done for the present was
to block up the entrance hermetically. Some
days afterwards the passage, still reeking
with smoke and stencil, was explored, the
halfway barrier destroyed, and the convent
reached. But the room on the basement tc
which the passage led did not seem to have
been used for years; nor did it appear to
have any connection with the rest of the
building.
The conspirators had no doubt held meet
ings there, but whether with or without the
consent of the convent authorities could moi
be determined At least nothing could bs
proved ON the subject.
| lnc uOusD poitCi, utleoLcu III CouuSCtoI
with "the affair Of the ice-house," was ex
amined in presence of Boutkovitck himself
but nothing could be made Of him. Stefar
was one of those obstinate criminals who
will admit nothing. Boutkovitch spoke
very ciyilly to him; visited him in his cell
gave him tea and cigars; explained to him
that nothing he said now could do the leas
harm to Wilenski, inasmuch as Wilensk
was dead and swore to him that, before
dying, he had confessed everything.
Then, as this had no effect, he changed
his tack. He had the unhappy Stefan vic
lently beaten visited and questioned hin
Fasain caused him to be beaten again, an,
this time within an inch of his life pal,
him another visit to see whether he had re
pented and finally, when his bruised ant
lacerated back had been reduced to condi
tion of pulp, was obliged-lest, like Wilen
ski, he should sink into the position of bein,
unable to answer any questions mt all-t'
send him to the hospital, where we will eav'
the poor fellow to his SORROWS and sores.
AS for Ferrari his chief business, afte
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lighting the pilch-fires in the subterraneai
passage, was to forward his long-meditatct
telegram to London.
Eugene had an innocent, or ut least an un
suspected, cousin named KalyskO, whit
played the part of sender; and the messag
WAS addressed, not to the bootmaker o
Long Acre, who for telcgraphed purpose
was now lost man, but to the landady O
the house where he had lodged in London
with request that she would communcat
it instantly to his friend Lcon-"Jankow
ski understood.
The telegram was as. follows ws:-"Fron
Kalysko, Warsaw, to Mary Andrew, s, AL
fred Place, Bedford Square, London. N
adyiccs. Send letters. Leather will be a
Cracow in three days. Show this immedi
T ately to Mr.. Leon"
CHAPTER XVIII.
. EXPECTATION.
In the mean while the son and daughtc
, at Al Street of the Capucins had spent th
afternoon and evening in the most painful
state of anxiety.
! Artillery was constantly passing through
the streets. All the squares and public place
were occupied by infantry. Lancers ant
Hussars trotted past; and Cossacks ant
: Circassians whipped their way not onl,
along the road, but also along the footpath
driving harmless, or at least, for the tim
being, inofIensive pedestrians, before then
like cattle. Low, brutal tyranny was NOR
rampant In Warsaw than ever. Tyrann.
, visible and conspicuous to the naked eye
tyranny, moreover. that, in the most litera
> sense, could be felt
Five, six, seven o'clock struck, and still
| the children had no news of their father.
"When will he come |" exclaimed Thee
, la, despondently.
"Shal go and look for himF" said Ad
am. '.But he ordered me to wait. He viii
, be vexed If he comes home and finds that
am not here"
"No; do not leave me-" answered The
ella. But it is alarming to think how Ion.
he has been absent. What o'clock is 1t now
, Something is striking. Is it eight?"
: "No, my dear sister, it is nine."
Thecla burst into tears.
, "Calm yourself, Thecla; he will be herr
, directly. And you have nothing ready fo
him; how hungry he will be! l am quite
sure he has eaten nothing all the time hi
has been away"
"How forgetful of me! / have nothing
prepared. He will be quite exhausted