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LOLA PULASKI;
The Victim of Circumstan'
tial Evidence.
4 Story Of HihIIistG PIottings and Grimes
By LEON EDWARDS.
CHAPTER EXXII.
THE BOMBS.

Ivan Berger had already learned oi
che arrest of General Paul. Indeed,
all st. Petersburg rang with the news
of this arbitrary act.
The citizens spoke about it with
suppressed indignation, and even the
soldiers set their teeth as they whis.
.pered to each other the disgrace that
had befallen their idol.
All, ii all the people could have
shouted out their feelings that day, it
would have been better for the free
dom and the future Of Russia, and it
nigh have made the throne OF the
GEARS more secure by making it more
';beral.
But fear struck tho people dumb,
and an exaggerated confidence in his
unlimited power made the autocrat
confident.
As Ivan hurried along the streets,
$he suddenly and Unexpectedly found
himself face to face with his mother
and his beautiful sister, Elizabeth.
Even their loving eyes could not see
through his mastery disguise, and
they would have passed on had he not,
with marvellous presence of mind and
che skill of born actor, touched his
hat, and said, in the whispering tone
which heggars so skillfully assume:
Charity, ladies; charity for pool
.urippled soldier that lost his arm fight
ing under the gallant General Berger
against the Turcomans in Asia"
The ladies stopped, and Elizabeth
asked:
My poor fellow, did you know Gen.
eral Bcger?"
"As well as T know myself; and
knew his son, Ivan. know him now.
If you promise to make no outcry, l
will take you where he is at this mo-
ment'
1--WE shall make no outcry. See,
good man, We are very calm," said
Madame Berger. concealing her agita-
ton with an effort. Il am Ivan Ber-
gers mother; he has provoked the dis
pleasure of the Czar, but he is the no
blest OF sons. This young lady is his
sister. Tell US where we can meet him
without danger, and, although We are
poor, We shall pay you to the best OF
our ability"
"Ivan Berger is forced, for his own
protection, to so in disguise; if l
should take you to him, you would
, make an outcry and try to embrace
him, 80 bringing peril to him and your
selves.
"No, no. We are very calm," said
Elizabeth. Only let us see him, and
we shall not even try to speak with
him"
Keep your premise, and You can
speak with him."
"Where?"
"Here."
"But we do not see him." said
Madame Berger, looking eagerly about
her.
"AIotherl Sister! lam Ivan! There,
be calm. See, I am safe. In q few
days 1 may be free. 1 shall be here at
the same time tomorrow. May Heaven
guard and bless you, mother and Eliza
beth"
With this, spoken in his natural
voice, Ivan raised his hat to the ladies,
and on the instant turned and walked
on iu his character of crippled SOL
der.
Before he had seen his mother his
strong feeling of humanity so led him
to deplore the dangers that threatened
Ths life of tie Gar, that he would
have saved him if he could.
But now, as he recalled the Infamous
wrongs his own dear ones had suffered
at the hands of the tvrant; as he real,
ize9 that he was himself fugitive,
with price set on his head; as he pic.
tured to himself the suf1erings of Lola
Pulaski, the smolderfng fires of hate
in his heart blazed up again with vol.
canic ferceness, and he Missed between
his set teeth:
"Curse the Gear, and curse all the
house of Romanoff! May the brave
sons of liberty, who have doomed him
to death, destroy him, life and limb,
with the first bomb, as the lightning
blasts the oab'"
he went to the Neva prisoner
rather TO point from which e-could
look at the gloomy pile, with here and
there little grated window that re-
sembled the embrasures in fortress