The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-31
A FEMALE MIHILIsr.

succeeded in accomplishing the all but impossible feat of escaping from Siberia, whither she had been bauiShed for life. One of her experiences with the authoFi- ties in St. Petersburg, after her return, is thus narrated:
 In Novembez, 1879, Olga fell into the hands of the police. It should be ex- plained that when these succeed in ar resting Nihilist they always leave in the apartments of the captured person few men to take into custody any one wno may come to see that pegson. In our lan- guage, this is called trap. O~ing to the Russian habit of arranging every thing at home and not in the cates, as in Europe, the Nihilists are often compelled to go to each others houses, and thus these traps become fatal. In order to diminish the risk, safety signals are gen. erally placed in the windows, aud are taken away at the first sound of the po- lice. But, owing to the negligence of the Nihilists themselves, accustomed as they are to danger, and SO occupied that they sometimes have not time to eat a mouth full all day long, the absence of these sig nals is often disregarded, or attributed to some combination of circunnstances-the difficulty. or perhaps the typographical impossibility, of placing signals in many apartments in such a manner that they can be seer from a distance. This meas ure of pu olic security frequently, there fore, does not answer its purpose, and good half of all the Nihilists who have fallen into the hands of the govern ment have been caught in these very traps.
 A precisely similar misfortune hap pened to Olga, and the worst of it was that it was in the house of Alexander Kviatkoy sky, one of the Terrorist leaders, where the police found a perfect maga- zine of dynamite, bombs and similar things, together with plan of the Win ter palace, which, after the explosion there, led to his capital conviction. As may readily be believed, the police would regard with anything but favorable eyes every one who came to the house of such 3 man.
 Directly she entered, Olga was imme- diately seized by two policemen, in order to prevent her from defending herself. She, however, displayed not the slightest desire to do so. She feigned surprise, asionishment and invented there and then the story that she had come to see some dressmakers (who had, in fact, their names on door plate below, and occu- pied the upper Aoor) for the purpose of ordering something, but had mistaken the door; that she did not know what they wanted with her, and wished to return to her husband, etc-the usual subterfuges, to which the police are accustomed to turn a deal ear. But Olga played her part SO we'll that the byfskav, or head of police of the district, was really inclined to believe her He told her that, any. how, if she did not wish to be immediately taken to prison, she must give her name and conduct him to her own house. Olga gave the first name which came to her mind, which naturally enough was not that under which she was residing in the capital but as ts her place of residence, she declared, with every demonstration of profound despair, that she could not, and would not, take him there or say where it was. The Svissav insisted, and, upon her reiterated refusal, observed to the poor simple thing that her obstinacy was not only prejudicial to her, but even useless, as, knowing her name, he would have no difficulty in sending some one to the Addressni Stol and obtaining her ad- dress. Struck by this unanswerable argu. ment, Olga said she would take him to her house.
 No sooner had she descended into the street, accompanied by the bviskav and some of his subalterns, than Olga met a friend, Madame Maria A., who was go- ing to Kviatkovsky's, where meeting of Tcrrorists had actually been fixed for that very day. It was to this chance meeting that the Terrorists owed their escape from the very grave danger which threatened them for the windows of Kviatkovslsy's rooms were so placed that it was im- possible to see any signals there from the street.
 Naturally enough, the two friends made no sign to indicate that they were &C., quainted with each other, but Madame Maria A., on seeing Olga with the police, ran in all haste to inform her friends of the arrest of their companion, about which there could be no doubt.
 The first to be warned was Nicholas Morosof, as the police in a short time would undoubtedly go to his house and make the customary search. Olga felt certain that this was precisely what her friend would do, and therefore her sole object was to delay her custodians so as to give Morosoff time to "clear" his rooms (that is to say. destroy or take.away papers and everything compromising, and to get away himself. It was this that she was anxious about, for he had been accused by the traitor Goldenbers of hav- ing taken part in the mining work con- nected with the Moscow attempt, and by the Russian law was liable to the penalty of death.
 Greatly emboldened by this lucky meeting with her friend, Olga, without saying a word, conducted the police to the lsmailovsky Polk, one of the quarters of the town most remote from the place of her arrest, which was in the Nevsky district. They found the street and the house indicated to them. They entered and summoned the dvorsik (doorkeeper). who has to be present at every search made. Then came the inevitable ex- planation. The dv0ysix said that he did