The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-04-25

The official hurried away and gave the
alarm. kamoutsine!" 'iWhere's
Kamoutsine!" Have you seen Ka-
moutsine2" became the general cry.
81 saw him waltzing with the Count
ess Damerof," said somebody.
They sought out the Countess.
"Aladame, you were waltzing with
Kamoutsine. The Emperor Is raging!
Who brought him hereP"
~ didn't; bless the Emperor's heart,
and As for dancing, the only living
being have danced with tonight was
the Governors nephew, a young gen.
tleman from Odessa. Oh, here Is the
Governor! General, didn't you intro
duce your nephew TO meP"
Certainly, but it isn't my nephew
we're talking about-it's Kamoutsine
want to find. The Emperor Is fairly
beside himself. Who brought him
hereP"
The Countess shrugged her white
shoulders and turned away. tapping her
forehead with her fan to intimate her
doubts Of the Generals sanity. At the
same instant the Minister Of Police
swooped down on the unhappy host.
NO E<mVtIOI - AuIlOut
~ know he isl know he is"
"And you are not ashamed Of your
self to lend yourself to this abominably
bad pleasantryp"
"But, Your Excellency, 1 don't I'M
derst -"
~ tell you the Emperor is wild about
it!r cried the Minister with a whitening
look as he bounced away.
Finally a young A. ID. c., taking pity
on his chief, whispered to him: Your
Excellency, it was you that brought |
Kan -"
81? You impertinent young jacka-
napes, what do you mean?" shouted the \
General, who thought this was little
too much, especially from snbaltern.
:" You presented him to the Countess
Damerof, ]" the young officer insisted.
"Nothing Of the sort. The only per-
son presented to her was my nephew"
"But don't you see that wasn't
your nephew at all? That was Ks-
moutsine. So you can understand that
the Emperor Is furious"
"Triple idiot, that I vast" said the
sinking down upon bench
and clasping his head in his hands; sit
struck me at the time that there wasn't
q particle of resemblance"
Thus il became known how Kamout-
sine got into the ballroom, but il was
not 50 easy to find how he got out Of
&. He had evaporated, with the new
iress suit, but had had the generosity
% leave on the table Of the room he had
letter generating the Gen.
sral. II was speedily discovered and !
carried to the Emperor, who conde- ,
cended to laugh, TO restore the Gen. /.
raj TO favor and TO remark that the trick
lad been very neatly played. :
Bnt the imperial pardon did not ex-
end to the audacious perpetrator OF the !.
est. The police were hunting St. Pc !
ersburg high and low for him, but no
race Of him was 10 be found, and ii was
lot for "a hours that II occurred to them !
o look for Kamoutsine at his country :
eat. On arriving there they found him !,
BY bis family portraits. sip
ling his coffee and reading foreign re-
Jew.
. You have been guilty Of grave dis.
aspect to the Emperor" said the po- !
ice official.
II? Howp In what?'
In going to the Governors ball"
30, come now. don't make fun Of an !,
Unhappy exile. / have been here these
asst two days in compliance with the
crms Of my severe and unmerited SEN
ence."
i" You got your gendarmes drunk"
"My gendarmes got themselves
trunk"
You got them intoxicated and gave
hem the Slip
Calumny-nothing but calumny! :,
When | saw that they were too drunk !
0 travel came on alone. II was hu- !
for an officer and a noble to !
q escorted like common thief"
/" In spite Of your Punishment from 7
he capital, You presented yourself at !
be Governors I
Who stuffed yon with all this?'
Stuffed? Nobody, Thirty people !.
aw and recognized you.-
"Thirty people saw me? Then Prov
ience, 70 rebuke the growing scepticism
4 the age, has worked miracle. They !,
must have been the victims Of some ex- !.
raordinary illusion, for as all my people =
an testify, l have not been outside OF I,
hese doors for the last two days"
Well, well, perhaps they were." said
be officer, whose own confidence began y
} be shaken; "but my orders are to i
ring you back to st. Petersburg" !,
Kamoutsine looked coldIy at his stupc- V
ed interlocutor.
This is pleasantly, SIR he said \
ernly |" and tits in the worst OF taste, =
ut | see nothing for it but to SUBMIT I
He allowed them TO conduct him back Il
, the capital, retaining such consist h
nj expression Of injured innocence that II
Il Ouarda Yonainad oukhr uffarsr q ,<lu Il