San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-14

Of his uncles at Chateau hierry) slip
ped, and that explains how, in my turn,
became one of the adornments of this poolp
Yegor grasped M. Lsfeur in his arms,
and succeeded in extricating him from his
disagreeable situation.
"Whcre are my shoes-my pumpsl" ex-
claimed the dancing-master, on finding him.
self extended upon the grass deprived even
of his stockings, which had not seen fit tc
abandon his light shoes-for, in order to es.
cape suspicion, the dancing master had quit
ted Yakoutsk wearing his pumps, as If going
on one of his usual musical. commercial and
curiosity-h hunting excursions
"Ahl my dear Monsieur Lafleur," said
Yegor, lit is but justice that you should pay
q slight tribute to this pond; it might have
entirely swallowed you up but it has re
stored you almost complete"
Stockings knit by the late Madame LAT.
leurl-and pumps imported from Paris.
from the Rue Richelieu, opposite the Thea
ire Francais!"
sand probably the only pair you have
with youlp
"You are right-my sole, my only pair
Of shoes l shall be compelled to walk
barefooted amid the bushes and briars !"
said M. Lafieur, with piteous and terrified
looks.
mo, my friend, no." answered Yegor.
"You shall see that mans industry has
established shoe-shops even in the aban-
doned solitudes of the Verkho- Yansk Noun
tains."
And approaching birch tree he adroitly
cut off long strips of its bark; he twisted
them with much skill into that species Of
socks called ''laptis" peculiar to Russian
country districts.
They are not very elegant. admit" said
Yegor, handing them to M. Lafeur, "and
you would probably be trifle embarrassed
in dancing 'Siberienne' in them; but we
are not going to ball"
"Ah, mol we are not going to ball |" said
M. Lafleur, looking at his moccasins with
droll air.
And he set out with Yegor, who was
eager to regain the encampment where Mad
eye and Ladislas were waiting for him.
CHAPTER IN.-A MIGHTY CONFEDERATION.
The Esaoule, or relay-master and Justice
of the Peace, of Niini-Kolimsk "a town stu
ated at the mouth of the Kolima, on the Arc
tic Ocean and at the frontier of the country
named Toumanoff, who, having a daughter
and son about the ages of Nadege and
Ladislas, had sent them to one of his rel
| atives at Yakoutsk, there to receive an edu-
cation that could not be acquired at Mini
Kolimsk
These young people were, besides, pupils
of M. Latieur who, occasionally, gave the
lad lesson on the violin and instructed his
sister in dancing.
Yegor, foreseeing that he would have to
pass not far from Nijni-Kolimsk-the last
and most northerly of the Russian towns
and that he would be compelled more than
once perhaps, to exhibit the false passport
he had prepared for himself upon a sheet of
paper stamped with the imperial arms, had
made it out as if for the Esaoule's chill
dren, accompanied by their cousin of the b.
same family name. There remained to
find plausible motive for the journey ac
complished at the commencement of win
ter. Yegor trusted to the situation to in
spire him.
He sometimes talked of this with Nadege
and NJ. Lafeur, but without reaching any
determination.
The deep solitude, in which the fuitives
found themselves in the midst of the forest,
and the necessity for remaining concealed,
led them to look for the means Of supplying
certain things they lacked
To husband their supplies of food and
munitions, they devised methods for pro
curing game without the use of powder and
for catching fish without showing them
selves on the banks of the torrent, where
some unfortunate meeting might take place.
Yegor had noticed tracks of wild goats
near the pond in which M. Lafeur had been
forced to leave, as ransom, his stockings
and pumps. The idea occurred to him to
take one of these animals In trap. He
succeeded with the aid Of rope and slip
knot and obtained both goats milk fol
Nadege and Ladislas and the kids which,
attracted by the cries Of their dam, remained
beside the captive, their gambols furnishing
amusement for the young girl and her adopt
ed brother.
In another part of the forest, he arranged
a more formidable engine, intended to trap
a bear after the fashion adopted by the
Kamtchadales. The latter suspend weight Z
in the air. putting on 1t as a bait the flesh
of some animal. The bear no sooner scents
il than it advances heavily, but scarcely
has it touched the frail support of the
weight than the latter falls upon its neck
and Furnishes it for its voracity by crushing
its skull.
On the second day, Yegor was rewarded
by the carcass of a brown bear Of respecta-
BILE dimensions The skin of the beast aug
mented the supply Of furs. NJ Lafeur pre-
pared the meat for the kitchen and declared
that, in his opinion, nothing was more de-
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