Litchfield enquirer., 1878-03-14

'1tS no great uldCLer, pIONluSu yOu uouG love her, answered I, scrutinfzing his face rather anxiously.
 No, love Ioulka," he rejoined steadfast- ly; but then faint gleam shot through his blue eyes as he added: ''It's fattering,. though, to have kindled passion in woman 1 courted so hopelessly of yore."
 ''My son, Paulina Marienha is forty years old now"
 1t may be- but she still looks young; that IS why treated her yesterday as if she were no more than twenty, and an instinct warned me that the less I talked about Ioulka the more it would please her. Was that sin, father.?" :.
 ''Eh, my son these are points of casuistry l cannot decide outside confessional" re- plied edging away though l was mighty re- lieved to think that in flirting with the coun- tess Casimir had doubtless thrown her of her guard and caused her to stay proceedings she might otherwise have taken against Ioulka Zeziof. "Here we are alone" said I, as we reached St. Stanislas' small and dimly lighted chapel behind the high altar. ''Kneel down, my son, that may bless thee before thou goest away"
 He knelt down on the flags, humby bowIng his head, and stretched my hands over him 1: ''God Almighty protect thee, Casimir Barinskl, and give thee dong life that thou mayest see our poor country freed.
 ''Amen !' he responded fervently.
 'Mayest thou carry the example of Polish virtues to the strange land whither thou goest, so that in learning to honor thee, men may honor thy friendless country!" 1 added, 'tBe not like the Poles who fought in the Commun- al rebellion of Paris, Casimir, and thereby showed ingratitude for the hospitality which great nation had extended to them. Be not like that madman BeveZowski either, who hat nOr1lA ha cd vanced by assassination. The cross and the sword must be thy weapons, my son, when thy day comes-which, alas I shall not live to see."
 ''Who knows, father ?" said he, still on his knees. "The Russians may shortly be involv- ed in war which will lead to the dismember- ment of their empire. When that war comes can in conscience join the Turkish stand ard!"
 'No '" said I, after moments hesitation. ''These men have pardoned thee, and thou canst not use the liberty they have restored to bear arms against them. It is point of hon. or. Not till the day when the whole of Poland rises to arms will thy time have arrived i; meanwhile, be faithful and patient"
 '1 will obey you, father" said Casimir and rising from his knees he threw himself into my arms. There were tears in the eyes of us both ]; but even as l was embracing the poor fellow whom 1 loved, noticed that the drapery of the high altar shook as though there were cat behind. This made me exclaim at once |: 'Good-bye, Casimir; thou wilt start tomorrow morning by the road to Kaptcha, in peasants disguise.
 '7Kaptcha ?" echoed he; but looking up he caught the wink gave him, and followed the direction of my glance. Nicholas Levitski was just then protruding his bust through the draperY and held in one hand a bowl full of liquid plaster.
 Father" whined he, ''the rats play havoc with the altar-cloth, and have been stopping their holes"
 ''Thou art good servant" said I dryly :; 'but since thou hast still plaster enough, will show thee spot in crypt where thou mayeSt stop other holes; fear the rats have been eat ing at the shrine of St. Stanislas.
 ''They are an evil vermin," remarked Mich olas, following me as if anxious to render a service.
 ''Down these stairs" said 1; and, when we had descended dozen steep steps and reach ed the crypt, where feeble oil lamp burns day and night, I let him pass me, then pulled l the door behind him, and locked it, crying through the keyhole; thou wilt not be wanted till vespers, so thou mayest spend the whole of thy afternoon with the rats"
 ''But have not dined, father," he protest ed, his voice ringing with piteous sorority under the vault.
 q doubt not that St. Stanilas will consider the sacrifice of thy dinner, and send thee a bet ter appetite for supper !" was my rejoinder, and l returned upstairs laughingin my sleeve Casimir Barinski was gone for a gesture of mine had bidden him depart so, being alone, l knelt down on the stones, and offered up a prayer that it might go well with him and with his bride loulka, even as it went well with Moses when he fled from among the Egyptians.
 1 had no positive proof that Nicholas Le- vitski was spy, but things 1 hsd uttered at different times had been noised abroad without it's being possible that any save himself could be the retailer; besides which ev- cry Catholic priest in Poland has a spy in his sacristy so there were reasons enough why 1 should keep the man locked up in the crypt until Casimir and the ZeZioffs had left Dolw. A word from him in the eaEaQf police inspec- tor would have overturned all our plans.
 At four o'clock in the afternoon Ioulka and her mother went away by the coach which travels from Dolw to Gerinsk, where there is station whence they would take the train for Posen. There were the usual tightly buttoned police officers at the coach-yard, who closely examined the passports; but 1oulka and her mother were not signalled as being under an interdict from travelling, 50 they were allowed to seat themselves on the dusty drab cushions of the vehicle without impeachment. Mme Zezioff was little sad at leaving the town where her married life had been spent; but Ioulka was in high spirits, and chatted gaily to me as her small store of luggage and her mothers was being lifted on to the roof by a Jew ostler much freckled At last the Ukra- nian driver, in his white smock, climbed on the box, and gathering the reins of his three fiea-bitten horses, clucked his tongue against his cheek and cracked his whip. Ioulka blew a kiss to me, and her mother waved her hand as the ponderous yellow carriage jolted out oi | the yard and disappeared down the street amid the yells of the little Jew boys and the bark ing of those many long-nosed dogs who are suf- | fered to prowl masterless about our towns. When the coach was gone heaved sigh of relief and went off to say vespers. Up to the I last moment had feared that Paulina Mari enha might have given orders to arrest the Ze- Zioffs.
 performed vesnerS without the heln of my