The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-11-25

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want who kept the rooms in order had left
our service after the first visit of the police,
fearful of being implicated, but could
"run" the office in all its departments, and
did do so.
Had Morrow been able to get out of the
house, he would have probably insisted on
my taking different course, or leaving the
city at once, as he knew what would be the
result if / did not do so. The officials had
certainly been very patient with me; but
for the position held, would have been
on the road to Siberia long before. The
misfortune was that overestimated my
strength of position. While realizing that
incurred great personal peril, reasoned
something like this :
elf they injure me or imprison me, the
consul will consult the minister, and the
minister will consult the state department
of the United States, and the Russian bear
will get cutting from Uncle SAM"
The line of reasoning was sound except
in one particular it did not provide against
underhanded work on the part of the Off
cials. Morrow was finally fiat down with
fever, raving crazy most of the time, so
that / had full charge of the Office. The
police officials would have called regularly
each morning but for the fact that locked
the door in their faces; then they ceased
to annoy me in person, but small crowd
of spies hung on my trail whenever moved
| out OF the office. ph
Morrow had been i'll two weeks, and l
had been in Cronsdadt month, when an
American sailor called at the Office one
day. He was weather-beaten old chap
who wanted passage home, but as there
was no opportunity just then, had to send
him to boarding-house. He was not able
to speak word Of Russian, but he knew
the English language and all its oaths, and
he soon told me his opinion of the country
and it's people. We were going along the
street rs he talked, and even if none of the
Russians could have understood his words,
they would have known by his looks and
gestures that he felt a contempt for the
whole race. tacitly encouraged him,
when / should have rebuked him, on ac-
count Of my position, if nothing more.
1t is only short distance from Cronsdadt
over to st. Petersburg; the two places are,
in fact, one, the former being the military
key of the latter. My uncle the minister
had of course been informed of Mr.. Nor
rows illness, and of course an account OF
my foolish doings had reached him. He
wrote me a letter containing not only a
sharp reprimand, but he warned me that
incurred great personal danger. / was less
high-strung after receiving the letter, and
had been warned so much that began to
get little nervous. When / returned to
the office, after plotting the sailor few
blocks, the two police officials followed me
in.
"Here is the gentleman's passport, said
one, handing out the paper. "He will, OF
course, cross TO ST. Petersburg tonight"
"You are aware OF Mr.. Morrow's
illness P'' I asked, after considerable re-
fiection.
"We know that Mr. Morrow is i'll" they
replied together.
"If should go away the Office would be
closed" continued.
They shrugged their shoulders for re-
ply.
$50 you see that cannot 60, even if ]
wanted to. There are Americans here who
must be cared for"
"We have orders, you know" put in
one.
"To do whatg'
He held out tho paper again. My hoi
temper went up like rocket, and came
near reaching for the legislative weapon,
the inkstand. Conquering my first i'm.
pulse, got up and gave it to them hot and
heavy.
"Orders to drive me out of Cronsdadt
I'll be hanged IL you can do 1t am here
as the representative of "a nation which will
hash your Russian bear into mince-meat IL
you lay hand on me just try it on once
That flag up there is the American flag,
and you try any game on me and you'll see
a hundred such flags floating over this old
tower ~
said something more after getting
warmed up, and think frightened them
a bit, for they got nervous, and they hall
apologized for carrying the thing so far
The man who had the passport tore it up,
and both bowed very low as they retired.
Three days passed in which was neither
annoyed nor did perpetrate any further
foolshness in fact, felt ashamed Of my.
self, and made up my mind to be more dig