The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-01-08

Alas he was not to be found He had
been torn from the sledge by the terrible
hurricane
lantern to the dogs collar and after pro-
nouncing the name of Ladislas several
times, sent the animal to search for the
child
After being gone an hour, Wab returned
alone The animal was shaking with cold !;
from the bloody marks on its paws, they saw
that the creature had thoroughly searched
a long distance, but without result. It had
returned to the forest that it might not per-
ish from exhaustion
Nadege wept, repeating the name of her
adopted brother. Yegor and M. Lafeur,
silent and afflicted, thought of the poor child
lost on the frozen plain and struggling in the
darkness against the furious and icy wind,
amid the binding snow.
The chief of police was touched by the
grief of the fugitives and strove to impart
to them, in regard to the lad, hope he did
not share.
The two Yakoutes prepared a shelter by
making a deep excavation in the snow.
The travellers spread their coverings in it,
and took refuge there to await lull in the
storm.
The dogs were embarrassed and grouped
themselves in circle on the snow, in which
they dug holes to obtain warmth A second
fire was kindled at the edge of the forest by
Yegors order. He hoped: that Ladislas
might, perhaps, be guided by the light of this
fire and rejoin them.
CHAPTER xIx.-LADIsLAs AND THE GOLD-RoB-
When the band of gold-robbers. to which
Yermac's son belonged quilted the neigh
borhood Of the consumed forest of Os-
trovoye, leaving for dead the chief of police,
Dimitri assumed the command of it.
The young man told the truth when he
assured his father that he had participated
neither in the assassination of Major Dob
son and his servant nor in that of the Rus
sian Khabaroff The band had been renew
ed several times and, when it attacked the
chief Of police, there remained Of its former
momberS, upon whom the stigma Of the
murders rested, only the chief Koskintine
shot and killed by Yernlao.
the otners-cOnsioereu dis associates
had upon their consciences only the rough
means employed to procure the gold stolen
by the miners. This gold they carried into
China across the frontier of the Anoor, en-
ploying against the Cossacks charged with
guarding the banks of the river now force
and now stratagem They hid their gold
dust in loaves Of bread, introduced it IL
small ingots into their horses hoofs or
placed it in the stomachs Of fish, transform
ing themselves according to circumstances
into merchants or fishermen.
The alarm spread by Yermac, by means
of the Cossaclzs, caused re3Oubled watch
fulne3S among the posts scattered along the
left bank of the immense Asiatic stream.
Besides, when the escape Of an exile is the
matter in hand, nothing is neglected to stop
him; if necessary, the Russian government
would put an army in motion to arrest 2 sin
gle man; ia order to discourage other at
tempts of the. same kind.
The bandits commanded by Dinitri found
themselves compelled to change their plans
and to give up, for a time, crossing the
Amoor. They went towards the Gulf of
Penjinsk, situated at the most northern
point of the Sea of Okhotsk AT this spot,
they. counted upon succeeding in crossing the
S6anovoi Mountains, by ascending the ONO
Ion to its source
They had procured a number of nartaS
drawn by reindeer purchased in the Yak
cute villages, and, forcing their Journey,
had already arrived among the spurs of the
great Stanovoi chain, with their bare and
snowy peaks. They did not hesitate to ven
ture among these terrible mountains, from
whence it is rare that one can make his exit
when he has entered their sombre and mex
tricable labyrinths.
Yegor, also, had for a moment entertained
the thought of taking this route. He knew,
thanks to his investigations, that every
summer the natives and the Russian half
breeds from the shores OF the Sea Of Ok
hotsk assemble together in a village named
at the mouth of the Ouda, to
furs, fre sh meat and fish for
spirituous liquors, calico and tobacco brought
by the American whalers; but the fear of
finding Russian vessels in that interior and
altogether Muscovite sea had caused him to
abandon the project.
The gold-robberS could manage matters
easier by mingling with the trappers (prom-
and such was, in fact, their in
tention
The last exploit of the band had been the
robbery of the mail which departs monthly
from Ajan-a station in the district Of Ok
hotsk, founded in 184S by a Russo-American
fur company 1t may be said, in passing,
that the postal road, a common, narrow
path cut through the forests from Alan to
Yalzoutsk, was used by the Russian gov
eminent to transport arms and munitions to
it's possessions on the Pacific, during the
Crimean war At intervals of from twenty
to twenty-five miles are postal stations,
where reindeer are kept for the mail and
the few travellers who venture into these
regions.
The mail carries every month about a
dozen letters; it is entrusted to a courier,
who, ordinarily, reaches Yakoutsk in ten
days by travelling day and night. In win
ter, the journey is made with reindeer har-
messed in pairs to a marta; in summer, the
reindeer are replaced by horses. This pos
tai route connects YaAoutsk, the capital of
eastern Siberia, with Kamtchatka.
The robbery of the mail could not be of
the least profit to the Siberian bandits; but
it furnished them an opportunity Of main
tanning their state Of revolt against the laws
and authority.
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