The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-26
ID WHEELING DAILY INTELLIGENCE: FRlDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2e 1891

q very mixed company, and strange fol
my one not accustomed to tho singular
habits Of the Palmyra Of tho Moth.
l had no difficulty In recognizing Olgl
Liubatovitch, for the portraits Of the prin'
cipat prisoners In the trial Of tho fifty
OF whom she was one Of the luost distiu.
guished figures, circulated by thousands,
anu were In every hand.
She was seated at tho end Of tho sofa,
and. with her head bent, was slowly sip.
ping q cup OF ten. Her thick black hair,
Of which sho had IN abundance, hung
over her shoulders, the ends touching tho
bottom ofthe sofa. When she rose 1t al.
most reached to her knees. Tho color
OF her face, q golden brown, like that Of
tho Spaniards, proclaimed her Southern
origin. There was nothing Russian, In
iact, In any feature OF her face. With her
large and black eyebrows, shaped like n
sickle, as though sllo kept them always
raised, there WIS something naughty and
daring about her which struck ono at first
sight. She had, too, II certain unconscious
charm, slightly statueslue, which Is often
met with In young women from the South.
Gazing at this stately face, to which a
regular nose with wide nostrils gave n
somewhat aquilino shape, | thought that
this was precisely what Olga Liubatovich
oughtto be rs l had pictured her from
the account Of her adventures. But on Il
sudden she smiled, aud l no longer recog-
nizcd her. She smiled, not only with the
tuli yernillion lips OF a brunette, but also
with her blue eyes, with her round checks,
with every muscle OF her face, which was
suddenly lit up and frradiated like that of
a child. H.
To see this young girl, SO simple, 80
quiet, and 80 modest, who became burn
ing red, bashfully covered her face with
both hands and hurried away upon hear
ing some poetry dedicated to her by some
former disciple-tos see this girl, ! say, 1t
was difficult TO believe that she was an
escaped convict, familiar with condemna-
tlons, prisons, trials, escapes, and Mlven-
tures Of every kind. This outward sim
and candor served her like the
shield OF Mambrino, and enabled her 10
issue unscathed from perils in which many
men, considered able, would unquestiona.
bly, have lost their lives.
One day the police, while making a
search, really had her in their grasp. A
friend, .%distancing tho gendarmes by o
lew moments, had merely only time to
rush breathlessly up tho stairs, dash into
tho room where she was, and excIaim,
Save yourself! the police! we're already
surrounding the house. Olga had not
time to put on her bonnet. Just rs
was, she rushed TO the back stairs,
ind hurried down ut full. speed. Fostu.
nately tho street door was not vet
guarded by the gendarmes, and she was
able to enter q little shop on the ground
floor. She had only twenty kopecks in
her pocket, having been unable, in her
haste, to get any money.
But this did not trouble her. For ff-
teon kopeCks she bought q cotton hand.
and fastened it around her head
in the style adopted by coquettish servant
girls. With the five koiecks remaining
she bought some nuts, and left the shop
eating them, in such a quiet and innocent
manner that the detachment Of police,
which meanwhile had advanced and sur.
rounded the house on that side, let her
pass without even asking her who she
was, although the description OF her was
known, for her photograph had been
to all the agents, and the DO
lice have always strict orders to let no one
who may arouse the slightest suspicion
leave u house which they have surround.
cd. She Was inexhaustibie in expcdients,
N stratagems, and in cunning. She did
not think, but acted upon instinct, rather
than reflection, and that was why she
could meet every danger with the light
ning'llke rapidity Of u fencer who parties
| thrust.