The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-26

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EMPEROR'S PARDON

ApI hAVAA aAA sHVAt "AaNi ANS1NANSS SS44SaA@4
not even for your Mariaune's sake-no
even for me?"
With beating heart waited for til,
reply that my Russian lover was slow Il
give. He stood frowning and looking a
the ground, aud seemed irresOlute. Blu
when he did speak, it was with sutiiCien
firmness that he made answer:
"NO, Marianne, no! Never, even fol
your dear sake, can separate my hopes
and my efforts from those OF the comrades
who, at all costs to themselves, are striv
Ing to lberate Russia from thralldon
such as your happier, luckier land never
knew, am pledged for veal or woe, tc
cast in my lot with my brethren"
~ have had my answer-it is enough !!
I said, sobbing, and without another word
l left him
A very brief space will suffice to explain
our mutual position. |, Marianne Es
monde-an orphan, whose parents had
died in India, and who had no near rela,
tives surviving except my young brother
Paul, who lived with me in the big house
standing in its own grounds, as in my
grandmother's time, amid tall trees aud
lawns and tlowerH-wgs rich, and, be.
lieve, admired. Old Lady Leslie, our
grandmother, had left me all her wealth,
and there were those VINO wondered that
Marianne Esmonde was yet unmarried,
l was betrothed, however. Several months
since had plighted my promise to young
Russian noble, whom | had first met in
Rome, and later in London, and 1t waa
with sorrow and dismay that learned
partly througH the talk OF others, but
chiefly from his own lips, that Count Ivan
CarIUyltch, whose father had been a
fayorite courtier Of the late Gar, was
leagued with the dangerous faction Of
NiIilists, and had embraced their frantic
doctrine with the feryor Of u convert. In
vain had reasoned, pleaded and i'm
plored Ny influence was not strong
enough, sincere az was 4Ysn's love Tor me,
to rounteraet the eHtct Of evil co4nscls,
and every day it seemed us fthe conspi-
rators with whom he was now leagued
were drawing him more hopelsssly into
the net OF their gigantic plot. l must
give him up; felt that the voice q my
conscience must be obeyed, but he was so
dear TO me, with his winning ways and
his bright sw6st nature, that his Ioss
meant misery to myself.
| can remember well how I stood alone
in my own room, when my last appeal had
failed, holding between nay fingers the
heavy medallion set with br1lliants, which
enclosed VANS portrait, and which Vas
fastened to my neck by COLLEEN chain OF
Venetian workmanship. l could scarcely
bear to divest myself OF this-hs gift, and
yet, how could |, i loyal ElEl.sIl girl,
whore ancestors mad fought and bled at
Harston and Worcester, marry cEo who
consorted with men whose hourly study
was best how to compass the cold FLOODED
murder Of their sovereign? Bad as the
system OF RaSsisE FIls plght be, ! had
sense enough to see that 1t would never be
rnuledled d, sUcn 'ueaus as dynamite and
daggers. And yet hesitated as to whether
INCLINATION saUuld DOT prevail over duty,
and /, as the wife OF a desperate man,
link my fortunes with those OF 1Van-be
they what they might. Duty triumphed.
tore the golden chain from my neck,
and flung the medallion, with VANS like.
cess, among the blszing coals OF the fire
that was burning In the grste, and then.
throwing myself on the bed, sobbed pas
.ionately for hours, as 1t seemed to me,
until my weeping ended in worn out
silence and sadness.
refused to see Ivan again, and wrote
few cold lines in reply to his letters; Even
when Paul, my brother came on his be-
half 10 urge me to grant to him an inter.
view, 1 would not yield, and seemed, ]
have no doubt, hard and stern. The TACT
was that / dared not trust myself and my
good resolutions again in the presence OF
nv discarded lover, lest the tables should
BE- turned sgain. Then Ivan, alter some
wretched weeks OF waiting, left EnglGnd
Tor his native country, and q month or
two later-I learned it at a reception at
the Austrian Embassy, where, OF course,
foreign diplomatic guests were numerous
Count Ivan CsFloyitch had been ar
rested in Moscow, tried by court martial,
and sentenced as a Nihilist conspirAt6r TO
Siberia for life. And then it was for the
irst time seemed to realize how loved
him-my poor, misguided boy and TO
determine 10 make such edortBaE woman
never made before, to save him yet. Ay
plans were soon shaped. was my own
mistress, had wealth at my command, and
raul, tna best OF brothers, would have
gone to the end OF the earth to serve me.
WiLnlu fortnight from the time when
the fatal tidings REACHED me, PaHl and l
found ourselves in St. Petersburg.
That fortnight had not been wasted. l
had obtained excellent letters OF introduce
zion to Russians whose high position might
enable them 10 aid me, and l took much
money with me, aware as was that the
magician gold, potent everywhere, is douI
hIy powerful on the Muscovite side OF the
Niemen River. Ittook trouble and care,
aud, what was worse, much logs Ct time.
before, by application and strategy, !
could gain the car OF some one who could
4as!ly help ma in procuring the rare favor
Il personal interview with the Emperor,
importantly prevailed; day was fixed,
and found myself admitted into the
jealousy guarded palace Of CATCHING, and
led into the presence OF the master OF 80
,uany millions. have but dim recollec.
ton Of my conversation With the aptocrat,
whose lightest word would give me back
he betrothed husband that | had lost
That kne!t at the Cars feet l know well,
and that spoke with an earnest eager
ness that seemed to carry conviction can
believe,
My sntreaties were not In vain. l
pleaded 80 well that when | left the En-
peror carried in my hand q full and free
pardon for Count Ivan Carlovitch, signed
oy the CZar. My brother had been wait
ing for me without, and as we drove from
he palace 10 the railway station he SEEM
ed scarcely as elated as l had expected
him to be.
shaking his head, "and even with your
strange SUCCESS, Marianne, feel uneasy
about Csrlovitch poor fellow Just be
lore you came out, Prince Galitzian-we
both remember him as attached to the
Russian Emhassy-passed in and stopped
70 shake hands. Hs is fresh from his regi.
ment, in Khiva or the Caucasus, and said
that he saw Count Ivan near 0renbcrg
with the chain gang, in bad health, evil
IDENTIFY, and low spirits. 1t is terrible
Journey that lies before him"