The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-26

drew nearer, but 80 dense was the forel
that not even q dog could penetrate !
: Olga soon succeeded In reaching the epe
ground, blcathless, harrassed by the lea
Of being followed and the doubt tlIat sli
might not find my ono ut the place Of ~
pointlnent. Great was her delight wi,G
she saw In the darkness the expece
vehicle, md recognized n young peasai
, who Ind promised to meet hor.
In rather more than five hours oil liar
: driving they reached Tumcn, q town c
about $4,000 inhabitants, fifty miles 'dis
tant from T%alutorovsk. A few hundre'
yards from tho outskirts the vehicl
turned into q dark lane and very quietl,
approached n house, where 1t vas evi
IDENTIFY expected. In q window on til
first floor a light was lit, and the figure Q
d nan appeared. Then the window wa
opened, and tho nun, having recognize,
tho young girl. exchanged n few words Ii
ing Us driver. Tho latter, without n word
rose from his seat, took the young girl !,
his arms, for sle was small md light, ant
passed her on like IL baby into the robus
hands Of tho man, who lifted her into hi
room. II was tho simplest ind safes
means OF entering unobseryed. To hav,
opened the door ut such an unusual hOuI
would have awakened people and cause,
gossip,
Olga was ut last able to take a fcw hours
rest. Her first step had succeeded. Al
difficulties were far Indeed, however, from
being overcome; for in Siberia II is not sc
much walls and keepers rs unreasonable
distance which isthc real gaoler.
In this area, twice rs largcas all Europe,
and with II total population only twice
TINT OF the English capital, towns and
villages are only imperceptablo points,
separated by.immcnse deserts absolutely
uninhabitablc, in which II any one ven.
tured no would die Of hunger OF DO do.
youred by wolves. The fugitive thus has
no choice, and must take n Of the few
routes which connect tho towns with the
rest OF the world. Pursuit is, therefore
extremely easy, and thus, while tho num-
ber Of tho fugitives from the bcst-gum ded
prisons and mines amounts to hundreds
among the political prisoners, and to
thousands among the common offenders,
those who succeed in overcoming all diii-
culties and escaping from Siberia itself
may be counted OH the fingers.
There are two means OF eflecting MI es.
cape. The first, which is very hazardous,
is that OF protting, in order to yet a good
start, by the first few days, when the po-
lice furiously scour their own district
only, without giving information OF the es.
cape to the great centres, in the hope,
which is often realized, OF informing their
superlors OF the escape and capture OF the
prisoner at the same time. In the most
favorable cases, however, the fugitive
gains only three or four days Of time,
willie theentire journey lasts many weeks,
and sometimes many months.
The second mode is much more safo-
that of remaining hidden in some place
Of concealmCnt, carefully prepared be-
forehand, in the province itself, for one,
two, three, six months, until the police,
after having carried on the search so long
in vain, CONT to the conclusion that the
fugitive must be beyond the frontiers OF
Siberia, and slacken or entirely cease
their vigilance.
Olga Liubatovitch built her hopos upon
the success Of the little stratagem Of her
supposed suicide, and the very day after
her arrival ut Tumen she set out towards
Europe by the postal and caravan road to
Moscow.
To journey bypost in Russia a travelling
passport (p0dorojna) must be obtained,
signed by the governor. Olga certainly
hal none, and could not lose time In pro.
curing one. She had, therefore, to find
somebody in possession Of this indispcn-
sable document whom she could accom-
pany. A certain Soluzeff, who had rem
dercd himself famous Il few years before
by certain forseries aud Manifestations on
a grand scale, had been pardoned by the
Emperor and was returning to Russia.
Ee willingly accepted the company OF a
pretty country woman. Olga had begun
her revolutionary career at sixteen; She
was arrested for the first time at
seventeen, and during the seven years
OF that career had been in eleven
prisons, and had passed some few months
in that OF Tulnen itself. 1t was little short
Of a miracle that no one recognized the
celebrated Liubatovitch in tho humble
travelling companion Of their common
friend.
A greater danger awaited her Mt Kazan.
No sooner had she arrived than she
FASTENED away to take her ticket by tho
first steamboat going up the Volga to-
wards Nijni.Novgorod. Soluzcf, who
said he was going South, would take the
opposite direction. Great, therefore, was
her surprise and bewillerment when she
saw her travelling companion upon the
same steamer. She did everything she
could to avoid him, but in vain. SoluzeG
recognized her, and advancing towards
her, exclaimed in 4 loud voice:
"What! you here? Why, you told
me your husband was lying iii in the
kazan Hospital" This WIS the excuse
she had made for her %journcy.]
Some OF the passengers turned round
and looked, and among them the gend.
arme who was upon the boat. The danger
was serious. But Olga, without losing her
self.posSession; ut once invented a COM
pietc explanation OF tho unexpected
change in her Itinerary. Soluzel took it
al. in, rs did the gendarme who was listen
ing.
At Moscow she was well known, having
spent several month in the various prisons.
Many were the perils from which, thanks
to her ~cleYerness, she escaped. but her
greatest troubles awaited her in the city
she SO ardently desired 10 reach, St. Peters
burgh.
When q Nihitist, after a rather long ab-
scnce, suddenly reaches some city without
previously comforting with those who have
been there recently, his position is q very
singular one. Although he may know he
is in the midst OF friends and old compan-
ions in arms, he is absolutely incapable of
finding any OF them. BEING illegal"
people, or outlaws, they live with false
passports, and are frequently compelled
to change their names and their places OF
abode. To inquire for them under their
old names is not to DO thought OF, for
these continuous changes arc not made for
mere amusement, but from the necessity,
constantly recurring, OF escaping from
some imminent danger, more or less
grave. TO 60 to the old residence Of a
Nihilist and ask for him under his old
name would DO voluntarily putting ones
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