Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-20
CHAPTER XXXIII.-THE FUGITIvEs AND TIT
KAMAKAY.

The chief of police had induced the tvl
4akoute guides to consent to quit the viii
ter hut and depart for Nijni-Kolimsk. YCr.
mac abandoned portion of the provision
they had brought, especially the fish intend,
ed to serve as food for the dogs, and caus1
the nartas to be loaded with large quantit. c:
of tobacco, sugar and gunpowder and some
pieces of cloth, the whole coming from The
Whaler Hugo and Maria.
Nevertheless, the guides had obtained 4
postponement of the departure for a few
days; they had now no reason whatever tC
urge for a further adjournment. Besides.
Telzel and Chort had become convince J
that their employers would not return to tie
hut
They, therefore, made no further resist
ance
The day for the departure arrived.
1t was fine winter day. entirely cle2r,
not too cold, and, in fact, all that travellers
In such desolate regions could wish.
Iermac was radiant with satisfaction; al
last he was about to resume in regard to the
fugltlves all his advantages! His final or
ders given, he paid farewell visit to his
sons grave.
But when he returned what was his sur
prise? Little Ladislas was there! The
child, already informed by the Yakoutes OF
the impending abandonment of the hut, had
Immediately commanded them in the name
of Yegor Semenoff not to obey Yermac
He feigned that Yegor had sent them or.
ders by him to reioin him with the nartas
at the Bay of Kolioutchine, bringing with
them the chief of police, peaceably or forci-
bly,.
1t was in vain that Yermac, seeing all his
trouble about to come to naught, strove to
resist. He was obliged to yield. The dogs
of the nartaS, already turned in the direc-
ton of the west, were brought around to-
wards the east. The loads of the sledges
were judiciously kept as they were by the
little Pole, who thought that the tobacco
and powder would be valuable articles OF
exchange. He added only a few light
garments belonging to Nadege and several
objects by which she set great store, not
forgetting the manuscript Of Davidoff's last
poems.
The white reindeer was abandoned, a
trifle foundered it is true, but out of all
danger of being sacrificed by the Tchoukt
CHS.
The nartas started on the journey. WAX
once more seemed to wish to act as guide
1t was necessary, in the first place, accord
ing to Ladislas' account. to reach the Bay OF
Tchaounsk, without going too far from the
coast. Then, with the aid of the dog, they
would, perhaps, find the tracks of Yegor
and M. Latieur
Nadege, unhappier than ever since the
disappearance of Ladislas and the white
reindeer, was subjected to all kinds of i'll
treatment. She passed her days over
whelmed with the most repulsive tasks, and
her nights in tears. She suffered from hun
ger and cold, disguised by the unsavory
food offered her and refusing to take place
IN the common alcove. Night and day she
remained in the exterior tent, where the
cold made itself terribly felt The poor
girl saw herself wasting away and she
thought that nothing but death could end
her woes.
One morning, the daughter of the poet
DavldoH, become the servant of a savage
with the near prospect of being his wife,
was cooking reindeer meat in cast-iron
pot, placed over the fire in the centre of the
little circle of stones forming the hearth in
tha midst of tho font uUiaila oh .zo4oha1