Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-18

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sBuk 0ixs, ysu Dsed protector uerely.
Ycn need fcmkbo34 % Eso(hs and renluye
yonx Lasting terr5r. AndI thiak I know
soms ous' Olga ~ knpE spnae enc who
woolt give his Whole lie to saye Jon, dear
est foIn 3 Jingle days fear o. anhAppi
ness.
Ola looked MP st him Ike = startled
child. Prank she cried, dear, dear
Frank, you good cousin, never say again
smother word Ike that or ycu VIII make me
afraid to walk or talk with yeS any
longer. You are the one friend have
whom / a trust and conide in; dor't
drive me away BY talking Of what is 50 i'm
possible. I hate the mani loathe and abb
hoe him with all my heart; but ! can never
forget that he Is still my husband. have
made my choice, and / must abide BY It.
Frank, Frank, promise me-promise me,
that yon viii never again speak upon the
snbiectY
Franks face grew saddsned in . moment
with a terrible sadness; but he said in . firm
voice, II promise" and he never broke his
word from that day onward.
vi.
Three years passed away quietly in the
Kentish village, and every day Olga.s an
reasonable terror Of Mia grew gradually
fainter and fainter. If she had known that
MAJ bad escaped from the mines, after eight
months imprisonment, and made his way BY
means Of his Tartar friends across the
passes to Tibet aud Calcutta, she would not
have allowed the sense of security to grow
so strong upon her.
Meanwhile Frank, often in London, had
picked up the acquaintance of q certain NJ.
de Vouiliemont q French gentleman much
about at the clubs, of whose delightful man.
nerS and wide acquaintance with the world
and men be was never tired Of talking TO
Olga. "a most charming man, indeed, DE
Youillemont, and very anxious to come
down here to see HazelhurSt. Besides, Olga,
he has aver been in Russia, and he knows
how 10 talk admirably about everybody and
everything. I've asked him down tor FRI
day evening. Now do, like a good giri,
break your rule for once, and come and dine
with US, although there's to be q stranger.
It's only one, you know, aud the girls would
be so delighted if you'd help entertain him,
for he speaks hardly any English, and their
French, poor things, is horribly insular aud
boarding schooly."
At last, with much reluctance, Olga con-
sented, and On the Friday she went up to
the big house at 8 punctuslly.
Mrs DaVidisand the girls were not yet IN
the drawing-room when she arrived but ID.
de Youillement had dressed early, and was
standing with her back to the room, looking
intently at some. pictures on the wall, As
Olga entered.
As she came in, and the servant shut the
door behind her, the stranger turned slowly.
In a moment she recognized him. His com
plexion was disguised, so as to make him
look darker thar before; his black mustache
was shaved of; his hair was differently cut
ard dressed; but still, as he looked her in
the face, she knew him at once. 1t was
Alexander MAJ!
PetriGed with fear, she could neither fly
nor scream. She stood still in the middle
Of the ~drawing.room, and stared at him Tx
edly in an sgony of terror.
MAJ had evidently tracked her down, and
come prepared for his horrible revenge.
Without q moments delay, his face under
vent a hideous change, and from the cult
vsted European gentlemanin evening clothes
that he looked when she entered, he was
transformed asif by magic into q grinning,
gibbering Tartar savage, with his tongue
lolling out once more, al of old in Siberia,
in hateful derision of her speeches. terror.
SEEKING her roughly BY the arm, he bragg
ed her after him, not so much unresisting
Is rigid with horror, to the open fireplace.
A marble fender ran around the tiled hearth.
Laying her down upon the rug as if she
were dead, he placed her small right hand
with savage glse upon that ready-made block
and then proceeded deliberately to take out
q small sharp steel Ratchet from inside his
evening coat Olga was too terrified even TO
withdraw her hand. He raised the AK on
hight flashed q second in the air-a
smart throb of pain-a dreadful crunching
of bone and sinew-and 0lga's hand fell
white and lifeless upon the tiled h~earthplace.
Without stopping to look at her fer a sec.
ond, he took it up brufslly in his own, and
flung it with a hSrrid oath into the blazing
FIRE
At that moment the door opened and
Frank entered
Olga, lying faint and bleeding on the
bearth.rng, was just able to look up at HIM
~imploringly and utter in a sharp cry of
alsrm the one word, "Nisz."
Frank sprang upon him ike an angry
lion.
"I told her her hand should pay the PEN
ally" the Tartar cried, with q horrible joy
bursting wildly from his ivid features; and
now it burns in the FIRE yonder, as she her
self shall burn next minute forever and ever
In Ere and brlmstone."
As he spoke he drew . pistol from his
pocket and pointed it at her with his finger
on the trigger.
Next moment before he could FIRE, Frank
bad seized his hand, flung the weapon to the
further end of the drswingroom, and forced
the Tartar down upon the floor in q terrible
iEe-and-desth struggle.
Niaz's face, already fvid, grew purpler
ard purpler as they wrestled with one an
other on the carpet in that deadly effort.
His wrath and vindictiyeness gave a mad
energy to his limbs and muscles. Should
he be baked of his fair revenge at last?
Should the woman who had betrayed him e.
cape s~cot.free with Just the loss Of a hand,
and be himself merely exchange a Siberian
for an English prison2 No, no, never! BY
St. Nicholas, never! Ha, madame! l will
murder you both! The pistol the pistol
A thousand devilsl let me gol will kill
you yeti I will kill youl / will kill you'll
Then he gasped, and grew blacker and pur-
pler-blscker and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
er-blscker-even blacker. Presently he
gasped again. Franks hand was now upon
his mumbing throat. They rolled over and
over in their frantic struggles, Then a long,
slow inspiration. After that, his muscles
relaxed. Frank loosed him a little, but
knelt upon his breast heavily still, least he
should rise again in another paroxysm. But
no; he lay quite motionless-quite motion
less, and never stirred a single finger.
Frank felt his heart-no movement; his