The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-03

hand and precipitated active operations
bywriting to him. covered three pages
and seven-eighths Of fourth page with
perfunctory tidings about myself and
inquiries about him; then 1 gave the re-
manning eighth of The fourth page to the
genuine point and purpose of my ePistle.
'Do write to me at once and tell me ev-
erything that has happened in St. Mark
place since my departure And, by the
by, how are the Eczardys? What news
from Bermuda of the doctors health
And mademoiselle? Is she always the
sameT'
looked for an immediate answer from
the extsT1ninator; but ten days passed
before his answer came. When in the
end it did come-but I viii copy 1T be.
low;
DEAR Mr. EIIor-Your favor of 22d ultimo to
hand and. contents noted Glad TO hear you get
along all right. Yes, thank you, l an pretty
wen aud had very busy season, wieh com
mence now to slack up little The reason didns
write 20 you bsfoUe hadn't nothing to say, as
nothing had happened. But since your letter was
received great deal has happened. DR.. EczGn.y
is died dosn there in Bermuda. / always said he
never could get well, and his body come hOmeon
the ship and baen buried and Miss Eozardy she
pack up and leave New York to go 70 REssia. AL
since / receive your letter. The steamer from
Bermuda was due TO arrive here on Saturday
morning last wick, and she expect a letter by il
from her father when instead she got word he is
died d n there, and his cadaver is or board the
ship IN q box. She went crazy, and had 20 man
age the hole business We buried him in the CEN.
etery over on Long Island, vile it showed,
and then she tole me she made up heT
mind TO leave New York and go to Russia
She pack up IN a hurry and sail or the boat foe
HaVre Wednesday morning. She tole me, now
my father fs dead got nothing more to live for,
so I go TO Russia and offer myself to serve the
revolution. strike one blow in the same time
10 avenge my father and to help ths struggle Of
Russian liberty, and then die. Good-by.
If you let me know twenty-four hours before
you come back have the rooms cleaned up nice
and fires to warm them. Otherwise everything
is the same as always. Take good care of your.
self, and believe me, with the highest esteem,
your devoted A. MUSCLE.
remember what followed as one re-
members The dehriuna of sick bed. /
remember reaching duselle's house and
hearing. viva voce, from his lips a con-
irmation of what he had written. Miss
Eczardy had gone to Russia, to ST.
Petersburg. She had gone, she said, to
strike a blow for Russian liberty, TO
GVenge her father and to die. Then re-
member many days of great misery and
mental struggle and hesitation; then |
remember thatat Last took a resolution
which brought me something almost like
relief. l remember a long sea voyage
across a stormy wintry ocean; a long
many and through the forests and over
the SHOWS OF Russia. L remember a
great stuanee city, where the people
spoke an incomprehensible language and
where itwas night nearly ali the twenty
four hours. l remember big, bustling
hotel, where the people spoke French
and where the gas was kept perpetually
burning. l remember walking the streets
Of that great dark city day after day for
it may have been fortnight, it may
have been 4 month. | remember that
as l walked those streets L peered anx-
iously into the face of every woman
whom L passed, hoping, hoping, hoping
that somewhere among them | might
meet her. But [ remember that all my
hope was e1nbittered by the thought that
no hope could have been more unreason-
able, meme more forlorn. Yet | kept on
walking the streets, and l chung to my
hope, in defiance of reason, as q drown
Ing man clings to straw.
At last remember that one day as
stood in the portico of the hotel saw
man go prancing by on horseback. He
was dressed in a very magnificent uni
form and behind him rode two othermen,
also in uniform, but less magnificent,
manifestly his aides or attendants.
remember that an Englishnan who was
standing at nay side turned to me and
asked, ''Do you know who that isl"
mo" said l. WHO is he?"
''That is Gen. Ogaraf."
Gen. Ogaref? The name sounds ia
miliar, but 1 can't recall the connec-
ton in which have heard il"
"Why, he is celebrated for having
sent a greater number Of Politicals to the
gallows or to Siberia than any other Of
The cars serVftors."
''Ah, yes" said; cit is in that connec-
ton that have heard his name"
Then it came back to me, causing my
heart to leap and burn, that it was Gen
Ogaref who had condemned DR.. Eczardy
to his Siberian exile
That same day, perhaps an hour later,
i was walking upon one of the islands of
the Neva.
Presently came upon a great surging,
excited crowd
'eWhat is the trouble? Why the
crowd?" asked in French of a gentle !
man at my elbow.
''They say that Gen Ogaref has been
shot. he was riding out accompanied |
by couple of aides, when, just above
there, where the crowd is densest,
young woman sprang toward him from
the footpath and fired q bullet straight /
through his heart. Nihilist, of course" /
"Ah! the young woman-who was
,she?"
Il have not heard her name. do not |
know If the police have learned it."
But she has been arrested. Isuppose?" |
"Why, no. That's just the point. It
appears that, having shot the general. /
before she could be apprehended she |
emptjed two chambers of her revolver |
into her own breast and fell down dead"
The police were by this time forcing
an alleyway through the crowd. BY and /
by two policemen marched through the
alleyway carrying d stTetcher. Upon /
that stretcher. ghastly in his magnif- |
cent uniform, lay Gen. Ogaref, dead.
Two more policemen followed, bear !
ing a second stretcher.