Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10


mad been successful, while others which
threatened the lives of innocent people
had been prevented by the activity of
the government.
Chetwynd had to confess TO his dis
tlnguisheo escort that these questions
seemed to be more openly discussed in
Russia than he had believed possible;
but at the same time he was fam to re-
gard the frankness of the officials whom
he had met as compliment to his special
credentials and desire to stand well
with the English authorities.
Asked about the prisoner FORSYTH. the
governor had no particulars to give ex-
cept TO indicate the band of which he
was member and the name of the COM
mander. He did not remember having
seen or noticed Forsyth. There had of
late been great many prisoners passing
through Moscow on their way to Siberia
for there had recently been very serious
risings and plots against the government;
but he thought it possible that if Chef
wynd travelled with reasonable speed he
might overtake Capt. Karakazov and
his command on this side of the ST.
berian frontier; certainly within a
few days of its crossing the line
AS rule the journey was commenced
:.
through pleasant summer and autumn
weather. 1t might be that the difficult
ties of the latest bands of travellers would
be somewhat enhanced by winter SHOWS;
there were signs of severe weather COM
ing upon them earlier than usual, but
every precaution was taken for protect
ing the eXiles, and if they had hardships
to endure, the military escort, men and
officers, were not exempt from atmOs"
pheric influences. This hint suff1ced for
Dick Chetwynd to decline the governor 8
invitation of hospitality on the next day.
From Moscow Chetwynd travelled night
and day to Mini NovgorOd, where he
halted in the midst of the latter days of
the great autumn fair, which under
other circumstances would have had an
immense attraction for him. There is
nothing like Mini Novgorod III the
world. In q small way one might be re-
minded of it by some of the seaside re-
sorts on the other side of the Atlantic,
where enormous hotels, giant caravan
serais, are occupied during the season
by thousands of guests, the seashore
crowded with summer attractions and
thronged with people; where, during
the winter, not a soul is to be seen, eX-
cept, perhaps, one or two guardians OF
few wooden huts about it, all silent as
the dead.
This is Nijui Novgorod during half the
year. 1t Is vast city of shops, stores,
houses, hotels, churches, wide, broad
streets, fine, snowy buildings, boule-
wards, theaters, market places, baZaars;
but in the early summer months entirely
deserted; shops barred and bolted mar
kets closed, churches locked up, the
whole a city of the dead, to be awakened
as it was when Chetwind passed through
its busy thoroughfares, during the month
of August, by 500, 900 traders from all
parts of Russia, brought thither by rail
from st. Petersburg and the Balkans,
by canal from the White sea, by the
Oker and on the broad bosom of the
mighty Volgs.
Chetwynd was compelled to remain
here q day and night, part of which
time he occupied in writing letters
home, in completing his outfit, and ar
ranging his method of travel.
In the evening, with thoughts far
away. he smoked cigarette, and list
ened to the military bands playing oper-
attic airs opposite the governor s house,
and watching the busy crowd passing
to and fro over the pOntoon bridge
which connects the lower and upper
towns.
The music. which appeared to give
great pleasure to the crowd and to the
officers lounging around the governors
house, smoking cigarettes and receiving
with much condescension the evident adj
mIration of the crowd, was not q little
painful to Dick. Il was a selection
from "Carmen, the opera at which |
Philip Forsyth had first seen the face
which had brought HIM and his friends |
so much misery and distress.
During the next few days our English |
traveller in search of his friend was |
steamIng down the Volga and up the |
Kama in one Of the vessels that run be- |
tween the great fair city and Persia,
where Mr.. George KEENAN,, the American |
author, had his first skirmish with the !
Russian police, and whose descriptions of |
Russian peasant life will no doubt prove
to be one of the most interesting and i'm
portant revelations in the modern litera-
ture of Russian travel and political de-
bate.
Dick Chetwynd found his credentials
and authoritative orders from ST. Peters,
burg and Moscow talisman that opened
all gates and ways before him, and the
after his arrival in the city on
the haIQd u6 was ONCE more Ell route, |
this time by the Ural Mountains railroad, |
for Ekaterinburg.
Two days of travel brought him to the
station near the summit of the noun
tains. The weather was cold; there had
been heavy frosts in the hills; the faded
foliage was beginning to shrivel and fall.
The scenery was wild and impressive,
Switzerland and the Allie
ghany mountains, the country dotted
lere and there with mining camps and
villages that might have belonged to the
early settlements of Canada and the
United States The railway was a re-
narkable work OF engineering, and,
yhile Dick was 10th to leave it at Ekater-
nburg for the wilder ana more difficult
country beyond, he was nevertheless sat
SIZED to have reached the point where his
Quincy must be continued by road.
At this last railway station the UFal
lope be had information of a band of
xiles who had passed through the city
# Ekaterinburg at about the time men,
toned by the prison governor at Moscow.
Dick was now some $50 miles from the
siberian frontier. and on careful cal
ulation with local official he was in