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-"Holy Russia" as the Russians
call it. In the land of the car the
police officials are allowed consider
able latitude. They take copious
advantage Of their opportunities to
make it unpleasant for their person.
al enemies. The man or woman
against whom the police have a
spite it not safe in person or proper
ty. The usual mode of conciliating
those in authority is to invite them
to take snuff out of a snuff box, the
contents Of which are gold rubles.
TO avoid trouble with the police Il
man in Russia must be reckless with
his rubles.
Police Commissioner Subofi was
very obliging in some respects. He
was a hopeless victim of the snuff
habit when the snuff box had Il
gold lining. He was up to snuff in
several senses of the word. To use
an American expression, Subof was
an investigating committee of one,
that had 10 be continually lubrica-
ted. He had, however, one other
weakness. He was very much given
to paying his addresses to the fair
sex. He was not pretty to look at
He was a short, fat, bald headed
man. SCIENTISTS say that in thou
sand years we will all be bald. SUI
botf had merely anticipated the
scientists by thousand years. He
was bald already, although he was
unmarried. Nobody could accuse
him of failing to remove the hairs
out of the comb. His blood might
curdle in his veins, but his hair
never stood on end with terror.
As an additional attraction his
complexion was very much the col
or of an Italian sunset, or a circus
poster. His mouth was the shape
of semi-circular cash, and looked
and looked as if it might be partial
to pie. His ears were large and gen
erous, and gave him the appearance,
at distance of being provided with
wings. His face betrayed about as
much intellectually as an Irish po-
tato. 1t was only when he leered
that it seemed to have any express
sion at all in it.
One would have supposed that
such Il carricature of Il man would
have confined his attentions to le-
males who were, comparat vely
speaking, as devoid of personal at
tractiveness as himself, such, for in
stance, as those who were adorned
with hump and one eve. That,
however. was not the modest sort of
man that Subofl' was. lie forced
his attentions on the loveliest in the
land If they opposed his wishes
he promptly trumped up a conspir-
acy against the government and sent
them or their relatives, to Siberia.
fla handsome woman desired to
have any Of her relatives to Siberia
all that she had to do was to refuse
to admire Subofi.
Suboff was in Warsaw investiga-
ting conspiracy A number of
prominent Poles were arrested and
sent to Siberia, and Suboff was hunt
ing for more conspirators, He was
kept pretty busy, but he would have
paid much more attention to his Of
fetal duties if it had not been for
the beautiful eyes of the wife of Il
certain Col. Sabinsky.
Mrs. Sabinsky was indeed a beau
tiful woman. She was tall, well
formed, with wonderful black eyes
and wealth of hair to match. Her
features were as faultless as those of
n Grecian statue.
Police Commissioner Suboff had
seen her at a ball, and Immediately
fell violently in love with her, as far
as the term was applicable to such a
creature as himself. He paid every
possible attention, but the handsome
Pole ignored him completely. When
he endeavored to become more ia
miliar she said something to a group |
of ladies that caused them to smile |
She was evidently making
fun of him. He felt pretty sure that
she said something about his person
al appearance, and that was sub
iect on which he was very sensitive. /
He rushed out OF the ballroom
foaming with rage. The more he
brooded over the affair the worse he
felt about it. He determined to be
revenged. He would find means to
tame the pride of the naughty beau
ty. Next day Col. Sabinsky was ar
rested for conspiracy against the
ear. This meant that, perhaps
without even the formality of Il trial, |
he would he transported TO Siberia.