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LOLA PULASKI;
The Victim of Circumstan.
& tial Evidence.
4 StuJ Of RihllIstic PIottlngs and Crimes.
BY LEON EDWARDS.
CHAPTER Y.


TRAcHERoUs coNsP1RAroRs.
The secret police of Russia ramifJ
the empire, but as they never appear
in uniform, there is nothing in theil
appearance by which friend or foe can
tell them from the ordinary people.
= These secret police have often sue
ceeded in joining the Nihilists and IN
this way have acquainted the authori.
ties with their plots, but such traitors
to the conspirators never escape de-
lection, and their fate is invariably the
bullet or the dagger, unless, indeed,
they accept bri6e and fly the country,
but even then they are nearly certain
TO be overtaken, for under different
names the Nihilists are to be found In
every civilized land.
It may be said also as an Offset to
& this, that many of the Nihilists with
the consent of their comrades become
spies in the service of the Gear, the
better to carry out their own schemes.
Indeed, there is no knowing where
these secret plotters against tyranny
are not, nor does the gloomy Autocrat
pt All the Russias, with all his power
over the life of his subjects. know what
(moment his most trusted servants will
! rise against him.
| DR.. Mulek was o Pole, and was one
ef the surgeons in the great military
/ hospital situated on "The Grand
4 Canal" as the principal outlet of the
Neva is called.
Peter the student had been study
ing medicine for six years.
In America he would have been a
doctor four years before this, but here
he had vet a year to serve before the
Sstudent" could be taken fom his name
and the "doctor" placed before it.
He was thought to be poor and he
supported himself by assisting DR..
Mulek and the other physicians of the
military hospital in caring for the sick
and instructing other students.
DR.. Mulek lived in the hospital,
and Peter had rooms no one knew
where, perhaps because no one cared to
inquire.
T: The night following the council, the
doctor and Peter met in one of those
queer, vault-like places that answer
for wine cellars in the great metropolis.
"And so you saw Lola this evening""
said DR.. Mulek, as he set his glass on
the sloppy little table between him and
his companion, wiped his long beard on
his sleeve, and adjusted his spectacles
that he mi ght see as we'll as hear, for
the light in the vault was dim.
II saw her; walked home with her,
ohuckled Peter the student.
@Quite an honor to escort the queen. "
1T will be more of an honor to own
her"
II fear that will never be-" said the
Doctor, shaking his bushy head and
adding, with q sigh: "Ah, love is
stronger than patriotism, else why
should I, an old fool of forty-six, think
only of Elizabeth Berger when I go to
! see Ivan"
J. @Ivan stands in your way and mine, y
said Peter, first looking round him,
then speaking in theatrical whisper.
HE does not like u.s."
"Ha! he'd like US less if he knew US
BETTER. But say, Doctor, we can make
him serve our ends and get him out OF
the way"
"I am not bad hand at scheme,
Slcl, odlu tb0 bOSIOi, Shooln0 Wv
eye and keeping it closed till he had
finished his sentence, "but must con-
fess cannot see how this thing is to
be DONE"
"Then I'll explain"
"Do so."
"Ivan loves Lola Pulaski?"
$50 do Others"
"He hates me and he hates you."
"That's his bad TASTE" growled the
Doctor.
"Lola loves General Paal."
"More fool she."
"Yet she will strike the blow"
II suppose So"
"But she must not be permitted
"Who is to stop her, Peter?"
II will"
"You?"
"Yes. Doctor, I will have the blow
struck before she can deal it."
"What Do you mean that like a
fool you will strike it yourself?"
"No, but I will madden Ivan Berger
into doing it "
madden him?"
svo, Doo+or. r oro to ,oaot him hero