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unhappy. / tried to comfort mysslf BY
repeating the old commonplace that NO
news is good news; but discovered that
that sort Of comfort is very cold comfort
indeed. Finally few days before
Christmas l took the pen in my own
hand and precipitated active operations
by writing to him. l covered three pages
and seven-eighths Of fourth page with
perfunctory tidings about myself and
inquiries about him; then / gave the re-
naming 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. Marks
place since my departure. And, by the
by, how are the Eczardys7 What news
from Bermuda of the doctors healths
And mademoiselle? Il she always the
samer
Hooked for an immediate answer from
the exterminator; but ten days passed
before his answer came. When in the
end it did come-but will copy it be-
low:
DEAR Mr. ErIoT-Your favor Of 29d pltimo 70
hand and contents noted Glad to hear you get
along all right Yes. thank you, I am pretty
well and had a very busy season, wich COM
mence now to slack up little The reason didn't
write to you before hadn't nothing TO say, =
nothing had happened But since your letter was
received a great deal has happened. Dr.. Ecsardy
Is died down there in Bermuda always said he
never could get well, and his body come home On
the ship and been buried and Miss Eczardy shs
pack up and leave New York to 60 to Russia All
since receive your letter. The steamer from
Bermuda was due to arrive here on Saturday
L l--a .--:~l - n~AA~ l--lA
from her father, when instead she got word he b
died down there, and his cadaver is-a board the
ship in box. She went crazy, and had to man.
age the hole business We buried him In the cem.
etery over on Long Island, vile 1t showed,
and then she tole me she made up her
mind to leave New York and 60 to Russia.
She pack up in o hurry and sail on tho boat for
Havre Wednesday morning. She tole me, now
my father Is dead got nothing more to live for.
90 go to Russia and offer myself to serve the
revolution. / strike one blow in the same time
to avenge my father and to help the struggle o.
Russian liberty, and then die. Good-by.
II 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. MusEIL1
remember what followed IS one re-
members the delirium Of sick bed.
remember reaching Muscles house and
hearing. viva voce, from his lips . 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
avenge her father and to die. Then re-
member many days of great misery and
mental struggle and hesitation; then
remember that at last l took resolution
which brought me something almost like
relief. | remember q long sea voyage
across a stormy wintry ocean; a long
railway journey across France and Ger
many and through the forests and over
the SHOWS of Russia. remember q
great strange city, where the people
spoke an incomprehensiblel language and
where it was night nearly all the twenty
four hours. remember big, bustling
hotel. where the people spoke French
and where the gas was kept perpetually
burning. remember walking the streets
of that great dark city day after day for
it may have been a fortnight, it may
have been a month. remember that
as l walked those streets l peered anx-
-iously into the face of every woman
whom passed, hoping, hoping, hoping
that somewhere among them / might
meet her. But remember that all my
hope was embittered by the thought that
no hope could have been more unreason-
able, none more forlorn. Yet kept ON
walking the streets, and chung to my
hope, in defiance of reason, as q drown
ing man clings to straw
At last remember that one day a. /
stood in the portico of the hotel saw q
man go prancing by on horseback. He
was dressed in a very magnificent uni
form and behind him rode two other men,
also in uniform, but less magnificent,
manifestly his aides or attendants. I
remember that an Englishman who was
standing at my side turned to me and
asked, do you know who that isy'
"No," said l. 'Who is hep
"That is Gen. Ogaref."
"Gen. Ogaref? The namc sounds "a
miliar, but / can't recall the connec-
ton in which have heard it."
"Why, he is celebrated for having
sent greater number of Politicals to the
gallows or to Siberia than any other Of
the cars servitors."
"Ah, yes," said; sit is in that connec-
ton that l 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,
was walking upon one Of the islands Of
the Neva
Presently came upon great surging,
excited crowd.
"What is the trouble? Why tho
crowd?" asked in French Of 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 bullet straight
through his heart. Nihilist, of course"
'Ah! The young woman-who was
she?''