Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-22
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alll broken your hopes, and male lite i
cur:,. Instead oia blessing? Ifyou think so
l will hate you"
She ground her teeth and spoke with
played, although she had fcItit.
''tatacrinc All wered Rachel calmly,
Il do not think SO. For months Ii We
thought as you have thought, dreamed as
have hoped. too, have been
robbed of every joy; my -loved ones
have been tortured. my heart has been
crushed all TIE God Of Israel knows how
crurl y--my hopes have been broken, and
my Ii has lel' like curse instead o q
les>i &. Even The lamb will cndcavnr to
til II upon the vol that rentls it. Your
wrongs are great, bat mine are greater
still. My HON" has been destroyed He
who was to have been my husband moul-
.ier> somewhere in the unknown wider
ness; and my father a man OF good birth
nd gentle breeding. man to whom l
was everythin.' that could make life worth
living, has mayhap succumbe to his
wrongs and the brutality OF him who has
wr"uEht all this misery. Am less than
you. weaker than you, duller OF feeling
than you that l should we
no desire to wreak vengeance upon
the wronger: And vet i am, aas
your husband"
GATHERINGS naroxysm o fury had passed,
and tho gh the ',ninle nature is capable Of
outhurs's passion when even tile mans
nature cannot su:pass, and not often equal,
she can alternate these outbursts tn a
soitnrSsn gentlencss which il is next to
impossible or q man to display. And
when woman has reached the maximum
OF her flu v sh" finds reIe in tears. So it
was with Catherine. an though her lie TT
had hardened there was sti | u tender spot
in it, and that spot had been touched by
w.. a. Al
around the neck OF h sister in sorrow,
she sohbeb pitiably: their tears mingled;
and she mOancd between her sob>:-
Forgive me- | have wronged you"
AIterall, Rach.ls n ,ture was the stron or
one, and she had made her power and in
tiucnce felt.
you have not wronged me"
ing to forgive. We have COM
mon cause Let Us be true to it and our
selves. Even he who wal may win; and
patience that endureth triumphs in the
end"
II learn from you. learn from you"
showing how Thoroughly she lett the intu-
ence Ui her G 'mpani II
Now We must turn for Il while to another
character VIII" plays no uni'"pnrtant part in
this history, anh who has ; gu and still is
a lnk-an indi>penSab link w .lllout
H..
Through Those drrary months of snow
AMI ice during which the two women were
suffering and weeping, man wa travelling
with special interchangeable is per-
nit to travel by lo>t roa !. and with post
horSes--across Siberia. He was young
man. with VIII to- hag .ard, rareworn 4 ce, GA
which was stamped a marked and acc ~
tua ed expression of anxiety His mode of
travelling was by tarantas, large, hooded
vehicle. in which the traveller eats, drinks
and sleeps wl'n he Ca sleep. Being n
tor the tarantas was on runners, not on
wheels. and was drawn by troika (three)
OF horses.
This man was provide with what is
known a. "a crown pttlar ,zhnaya." which
is permit OF the second class. Th It o. the
first class is cOuri RS permit, which takes
precedence over all others. the courier be-
ing a Government III s-enger. AT every
pOst-station the courier's demand Tor
horses takes priority, and if there be none
at the pos, private individuals must Iur-
nish them under pain OF heavy fine 1t
doesn't matter where they come rom or
how they are got. hut got they NUT be-
The crown permit gives way TO the cou Ter,
but takes priority over tn ordinary travel
ler'S permit. AMI anyone travelling with
crown padarozhnaya can demand horses
and Yam, htchik (;lr ver), no matter how
nnny ordinary travel er1 are Waiting Tor
hor es to push on to their destinations.
Tc travel through Siberia in lie depth Of
wip.er in the cumher ONE. SPRING
- vehicle peculiar to the coun-
compelled to take brief snatches OF rest in
the ietid, dirty. and disease infested post
houseS 10 endure the awful cold. the pitt
less snow Storms. the ince SAINT joltng, the
swinging pendulum fa>hion-oi the ,aran-
tus rs it is drag ell by the powerful horses
over The frozen huilmocks. now plungng
madly in u ravine. and anon 20 ng almost
vert cally up Il snow mound, then swearing
wildly round a curve until the brain grows
dizzy, or gliding with fearful swiitness over
frozen river or lake with the bonn and
roar of the ice laundering in ones ear-, re-
quires powers OF physical endurance which
not many men possess.
The young man with the white. haggard
face did NOT seem strong. hut the lace cl ar
ly indie tied a fixed purpose, a stem, de-
termned purpose. that enabled him to
owe. come the drawback of physical weak
ness.
The Lake Of Baikal was reached, and
over ii lie whirled, while all Arctic blizzard
al most turned his blood nto solid ice A
l'rleI rest; a drcylm-llaunte sleep in lone
ly post station. then on aga thrOu IN the
wi Il and weird Trans Baikal provinces,
which, were frozen into maddenimg stiffness.
AMI where white death reigned. But
this man was not daunted; Ii lie Il on his
way. He halted not. Was he pursuing a
phantom?
Yes!
He did know it, did not think so. II
anvohe had told him 1t was so lie would
have laughed him to scorn. But through
the n'sts and fthe SHOWS lie saw it ever. 1t
kept him awake when he ought to have
slept; it filed his sleep with dreams when
he did sleep. 1t kept1his b God circulating
when otherwise it would Il I'VE frozen. 1t
was phantom. But il he had l,een asked
t" give it name.he would have called it
Love. Others might have given it harsher
t..rms-Passion. InIatuation. Madness. But
il his OWL tutelary genius could and would
have spoken, he ..or it might have spelt the
phant0m's name as Death.
For the .traveirr who thus pushed on
through snow and ice, aud set3Nature at
defiance, as it wer :, was none other than
Ivan AcxieR and he was pur -uing Rachel,
the Jewess, who moaned and wept in
Kara
CHAPTER XIV.
<: THE TRIUMPH OF IVAN ALExIEFF.
TIL Ivan Alexietf by travelling almost
necessarily nigh, and day, Was able to over
take Rachel Aralua before she departed