The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-04-20

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Hft I make allowance fgf your excite
meni ~ The mtset n the afaif, and Il
not desire ~ cause Ywi any hordiem an
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iNinsk' r. ! REPEATED balfstnpf,d
The junior ~ NE iwo officers who has
arrested me and wbo stood beside hi
feeking horse, smiled
~ is the nearest fortified place which
YOU will pass" he said q fGf I need no.
tell you, Count Ladislaq, that we ar,
aux ious 10 get you safe across the Bug
and out Of Poland win you give YOU
parOle7"
And then flashed upon me. ali nj
once, the key % the enigma that had
perPlexed me. ! had been arrested in
place Of my friend and entertainer, whom
] had suspected, rather than knew, to be
mixed up in one Of those wide.spreading
Conspiracies in which Poles are 40 often
concerned, and whose heart I was aware
was better than his head. As the glare
OF the torches fell upon us | could even
guess the cause Of the mistake, for in the
hurry of leaving the theater / had put
on the counts loose Overcoat of rich
sables instead of my own, while IN height
aud figure we were alike. | had the
presence of mind to repress the indignant
protest as to my nationality which was
on my lips.
will give my parole, since you ask
it," | said, concealing my face as if to
hide my emotion, and the chain which
fettered my hands was at once removed.
" 1t Will no longer, count, be necessary
that an officer should accompany you,h
said Lieut.. Imkof, civilly. Will you
drink some brandy before starting? The
night is cold, and the stage a long one"
l shook my head, and made no artic-
ulate reply, glad as | should been of the
proposed dram of coarse corr brandy,
and chilled as | was by the unusual ex
posture to the keen night wind. But |
feared to show my face, least the mistake
be found out too soon for my
safety. The driver clutched the
reins, while a grim Cossack corporal took
us sea- pesloe NE, III the place lately
WccuPieu py the warsaw pollce-agent.
ne 0ther troops were in tnelr saddles.
Forward mere rush on, men
.ileu Vhe leutehant, IN RUSSIAN ana on s
SCI, amiasC moving wlhd ana whlrl-
ny slo"ilahes. t
~ wa9 n0V uhtli otahlsia"oW was lett {
'ehilio' anu / anu my VIVA guards were I
az .. 'ne ioar, VnaI l began 70 iehect e
nav, IN pfoViulng lor tne security oil $
lounI Laalst"', l. nau perhaps seriously t
o%1iPionll9ed my WI. MY sVra'e8ehl Ii
au succeeueu. wy hrSt capt9r' were Il
, on1inIeu llaI ~ was 'ne rlch young a
oll1h ianu9"ntr wnonl Ihey haa ues' fl
Az on m t ite IiInlal journey 70 .oloefla, Ii
nu IN a!l iheIiloou Ine marriage next te
lolllug "o'lG taAe pace WITHOUT III OF
ana the ~he"ly'weduea PAIR ST
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itb sbinwrocL ot tho verv ontsot If Efo's II
ShlP"leck "L me very outset OF NE $ by
'yatge' Coulo l Dut keep up me de- co
pIi0h lor announcer twehty'lour hoars, an
idlslas ana ms Drlde would be safe pc
ross the frontier: m,
but what would become OF me, or how
'uld the Russian authorities regard the fix
thor OF their discontinue? True, ! RI
d been arrested in sheer Ignorance of de
, bIunder which promised to be so on
'ttable to my friend but had a fair frs
OF declaring who ! was, and had bv
sen wilfully, it might be said, to mis- ~
/ the imperial police. | had heard
st residents in Russia had heard ugly oh
as to what can be done in Mus tb,
y, when it is no longer needful to hide Wis
hand of steel with the glove of w.,
yet. Yet | resolved to play out my me-
so long as | deemed it indispensable of
the safety of Count Ladislas, and raj
addressed myself to confront his
hardships of the long and arduous no,
ney that lay before me. aeer
hat terrible night, and the dark and If
day that followed it; | think of tbe
n yet as of some hideous dream; of ba,
snow, the cutting blasts. the toll to ho,
, a way through the drifts, the black sio
woods, the mounted escort, ex- o'ee
lged at every second stage for fresh ri
acks and the intensity of the cold, sta
III 50 benumbed my limbs that, when ocC
was reached | could not stand, we
had to be carried into the presence VIII
he governor, the frozen eftlgy of a 20,
&. Feebly made my protest. was led
Forster, a British subject. | had wei
EN- no law, lnfripged no rule. | wa,
ned my liberty, and, after a most tn,
re cross-examlnatlon n a detention tina
hree days, | obtained it, but only in mo,
Allied form, being sent back under ~ =,
TT, to Warsaw, and thence, after a L;,
.OuS course of questioning CON H'