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LOLA PULASKI;
The Victim of Circumstan-
tial Evidence.
4 Story Of AlhiIistic PIOttlngs and Crimes
BY LEON EDWARDS.

CHAPTER XXXIII.-CoNT1NUED.
And there on the ground, torn and
crushed, lay three of the avengers
Maux, Lance and George Nevski, who,
failing to live with the Gar, had sue
ceeded in dying with him.
The trumpets sounded an alarm.
The bells took up the signal, ano
from hundred steeples there doomed
tie clash and claug of the brazer
tongues.
The guards formed about the pros
trate form of their master, but useless
now all the grand precautions taker
for his safety.
The frightened people heard the
bells, and rushed white-faced from
their houses.
The vigilant police caught the sig.
nal, and sped down streets and alleys
toward the scene of the assassination.
as if guided there by all instinct.
From barracks and fort armed mel
poured ont, conscious that great dan
ger threatened the empire, but uncer'
tain As to its nature.
The surviving Nihilists, with fren'
zied glory in their work, did not at
tempt to escape, but stood gloatine
over their royal victim, till they were
seized by the police.
Quicker than the electric wires could
carry the news there ran from lip to lip
the intelligence, bringing grief to few,
relief to many, and anxiety to all.
"The Gar is dead"
>-SHow dead?"
"At the hands Of the Nihilists, whom
he has affected to despise!'
Ivan Berger was the most interested
spectator of all the incidents which We
have made such a futile effort tc
describe.
So rapid had been the events that be
could hardly credit his senses.
Even he had desired to make move
in any direction, he would have been
powerless, for he had lost, for the in
q: stant, all will power, and he stood,
with thrilling heart and dizzy brain,
rooted to the spot where the blare OF
royal trumpets had brought him to a
halt.
He saw another sleigh stopping be-
side the men bleeding on the snow.
He saw o number of men lifting
into the sleigh the shattered form OF
the Gar.
He saw the sleigh as it dashed away
in the direction of the rovsl palace,
and he caught glimpse of the closed
eyes and ashy face of the man who an
hour before held the lives of q million
of men in his hands, but all of whose
power could not prolong his own if,
until the set of another sun.
Dazed and sickened by the spectacle
which ne had so unexpectedly wit
messed, Ivan turned away, for he saw
the police arresting men to the right
and left, majority of whom had moth
ing whatever to do with the tragedj
which had just been enacted.
But before Ivan had taken ten PAGES
in the direction from which lie had just
come, he felt heavy hand on hi
shoulder.
He stopped, turned, and found him
/ self surrounded by dozen policemen
they are called gendarmerie in st
Petersburg.
why do you arrest me ?" asked Ivan
at is not our province to give rea
sons said sergeant, "you must come
with u.s."
whittier will you take me?"
"To the headquarters of Count Or
loft"
Count Orloff, it will be remembered
was betrothed to Ivan's beautiful siste
Elizabeth, but for obvious reasons ht
did not see tit to claim acquaintance
with the young nobleman at this time
"Who is Count Orloff?" he asked
with an admirable assumption of limo
cence.
"He is the chief of the secret service
and the successor to General Paul
Come" said the sergeant, and he pro.
duced pair of handouts, but seeing
that his prisoner hid only one arm, he
scratched his head with the manacles
looked sheepish, and led the way down
the street.
They found swarm of men around
the headquarters of the chief of the Sc,
cret service, and squads OF police were
pouring in every minute with prisoners
of every age, sex and condition of life
in their midst.
Some of these people the most in
rocent-looking, Ivan knew to be Mill
lists, but the majority were unknown
to the secret order.
With a feeling of secret JOY 1var
saw among the prisoners DR.. Mulel
and bis companion in infamy, Petel
the Nudent.
All the csptives were placed in al
ante-room adjoining Count Orloff':
Office.
They were taken before the chief il
patches, and disposed of as he saw fit
after proper examination.
It chanced that Ivan, DR.. Mulek anc
Peter the student were in one batch.
The former WAS the first to be ex