New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-01
DANOvITCH.
A RUSSIAN ROMANCE
Concluded.

A week had passed by. For the first few days
the book had more been talked aooSv pe."t tSa
Count DmItresky and Leslie smith, ouV do o.H
acauaintanccshp rpened into friendship on poth
sides the subject again mentioned. .. 49,
evening that they we're e s sIent f ar
some inmates, the elder man gazing at Ihe n,S
lishman's handsome profile as he leaned forward,
resting his chin on his hand. L.,
The Count was thinking of his son, VINO nau
died when quite a boy. lie would nave Deeh JusC
Lcslics age now lie always thought Of hum as
such another honest, good-looking fellow; but 1t
was no good thinking-he was dead now had peen
dead wenigh upon twenty years voa aerg snS
She was girl Sweet Pauline when would she
come back from her aunt's at Odessa !TSoon, ne
hoped, But when he wrote which ne dia nearly a,,
for her in this great house, all alone with an old
man like him,-and then ne was cross, too, when
Such were Count Dmtresky's thoughts. as he
watched the young mans face in the gloom OF the
library. II was Leslie Smith who broke the silence
Three days have passed." he said, and nave
You are getting dull that you remember your
work again. But what else can l expecI !-an
empty house. ncighbors, and only an old mi
No; far from it far from it! l am not dull I;
/ could not be dull what with your company, ana
when you are not here, your books, -. .h.
books he reads Iell me, a what have 20" 0eeh
We'll | spent an hour turning over the books
until found an old Arabic manuscript on vellun
richly illuminated. 1t is an interesting account
OF Mecca and the surrounding country, ana Wad
it to see whether it"
"You read Arabic?r interrupted the Count
moht s dt 1e1 %s lived For en iTeE 9 y H's
being boy picked up the language at once. My
father had me taught to read and write it,
Then you speak it huently toe?
Yes almost like native"
There was no tone of pride in his accomplish
mcnt. Rather it seemed that he took It as a mat
<t,a+ Loe should ~ Al
And you were repaid for reading il p
No; it contained nothing of very great In
tercst." a.,
Tomorrow shall work at my book"
And will help YOU, !. .o,,o al chic
You too good. Why do you take all tnls
tro o', for a stranger"
~, not a stranger, Lese-not stranger.
i'. was silent for minute or two
have been as good, rs handsome young man as
you are. with Your honest English face But ne
eicd-,Gods will be done; Leslie viii you stay
have no one now but Pauline, and she Is nineteen
years OF age, and will soon marry, expect, and
shall be left alone. Could you bear TO be always
books and horses and guns for you-evcrythins
you could wish. Tell me; Leslie. my boy, VIII you
NY heart Pauline fills most of it, but there is
room for another-will you stay and fill that
void?
Leslie rose and took the old mans hand, Their
eyes met. There look of mutual friendship
and trust-aye, of mutual love.
ut is too soon,' he said, "too soon. ] have
only been in the house week. you might re-
Pant you know. when IT was TOO iate. NO; u
WOULD not be fair to you. No; cannot stay al
II have weighed il in my mind, Leslie never
change i liked your honest, upright look the
moment saw YOU; knew could trust the man
icforc me. Stay, Leslie stay always, my boy"
Tears stood in his eyes.
You do not know what You are asking, Leslie
answered softly " Let me stay with you a month
Al..s,i t.isINt nc mn III,
not be fair to pledge yourself yet am only
so be it," said the Count; You will stay. a
month"; and l will asl, you again then. Leslie,
you will not refuse?"
blue eyes and said
Il think / shall not refuse.
The Russians arc very demonstrative and Dmi-
tresky kissed his forehead.
The next day Leslie worked hard at his book, "a
table having been put at his service in the library
The Count gave him q pile of manuscript TO look
through-notes of facts concerning the agricultural
depression in South Russia, and cases Of cruelty
against the Government. Leslie read IT al
through, carefully sorting all the matter which
could be of use TO him in writing the second half
of his book" Russias Treatment of Her Subjects
Sad indeed were some of the stories he came
across among those piles of paper-locse journals
kent by Dmitresly for some years past. cases OF
fainilies-poor Notwithstanding of all they
had by INSCRIPTIONS police cases OF girls insued,
willingly insuted to save their parents Or brothers
a charge which could never hold good cases Of
one of fomiy seized in the dead of night night
children-to walk the weary miles over the Emper-
ors highway to Siberia Nor were the facts writ
ten alone by Dmitresky,-notes of his own were
added here and there
"Oh," he wrote once, if some one could only
let our beloved Gar know what is going on
among his little children; if the little Father
could only have his eyes opened TO the cruelty and
all be them Our EMPEROR with his fatherly love,
with his kind generous heart, little knows the
orders that issue from the bureau of the police
Again. in another spot, after relating case
in which the village pope turned out to be o
Written: why does not some one tell him
tell him that they dress their spies In the garb OF
religion? He is n religious man ; he is our Car
he would not permit such things
And again: II is not from the peasants that
fields and villages it has its berth. Let them
devils who breathe assassination and dynamite
from the colleges and schools. from the authors and
poets. The peasants are contented enough, until
the police come and break up their homes
And yet again in another place: " IL Is not the
Gar the people would overthrow. They love him
The hHs the s Of the police o It ike
Victor Hugo's Octopus-it stretches out its long
arms on all sides and sucks the blood Of the
Under another date: will no relief come to
these poor people, Another batch Of police have
have left for, God knows where probably for
Siberia and death The people are being driven
wild: what will happen? They whisper now in
groups on the streets and point out 10 one another
the women's tear-staned eyes. | love him, the
Car. as every Russian and every man must. yet
love my felow-inen too. They are being driven
wild. Unless il ceases it will end in outrage
Justified in Gods sight to remove this blight from
the land"
After relating some shocking cruelty he had
written: she. too, of all girls in the world
scarcely more than child. and to have been
married 80 soon 10 such good honest man. She
did II TO save her lover, and God will reward her
but she has lost her honor Tonight could my
self throw the bomb that would blow the bureau
of the police to q thousand atoms, with him who
age and crueltv.-