The Dickinson press., 1892-12-24
CHAPTER XIV.
THE TRIUMPH OF IVAN ALnxtrrr

TIL t Ivan Alexieif, by travelling almost
necessarily nigh, and day, Was able to over
take Rachel Arama before she departed
from Kara came about in this way. We
lett him a prisoner IN Perm, where. under
the name OF Paul Turn'gietfa supposed fur
trauer-he had threatened the Chief OF tho
police with violence for insult offered 10
the beautiful Jewess.
Now, i'll Russia it is a very serious bust
ness to tire ten anyone we ring the uni
form ofthc mighty" Cz II; but 10 threaten
a Chief of Police in Siberia is an oiiense SO
grave that We y heavy punishment is the
penalty. ln,ieed, many a poor fellow has
been done to death for it; that 10 lie has
been logged so severely that he has died
under the ail1iclion.
In Siberia even the petty officials have
more individual power than their superiors
in St. Peters ,ur., or Moscow, and they Use
it like tyrar,t>. In this respect they do but
is, the Car; and all they do, and all the
cruelty they practise, they'd For God and
the Gar; which is q parrot cry heard from
one end o the country to the other.
The persecution OF the Jews. the whole
sale arrests that periodically take place OF
young mi ami women who claim the
right to speak the thoughts OF their minds,
the suilerinss caused to the wreiched exiles
everything is done "For God and the
Cza,.'f What the Car, clothed i'll ,'urple
and fine llncn. thinks, a. he sits i'll his
gorgeous palace, wi fully deaf to the vail
ings and means of his subjects i'll chains,
no man knoweth. But-it would be
reverence for the God on high tn sap
pose that He looks iavorably on the bar
baritics that are carried out i'll His name.
And yet For God and The Car" colnestrip.
pingly otftl,e t%ongueot every Russian who
wears the uni. orm and who he Xccu-
l .:.,.,c Ia, i.t, =, ,nll,j ,,,,Nu t, fnrttrn
and break tine hearts OF Ii $ tellow-men.
ivan AlrXietf. beng a son OF the Chief OF
Police, had a fair knowledge Of the power
which officials possessed; and when he X
cit, mriit had passed awayand he found him
self an inmate OF u cell in the Perm prison,
he began To ret1 ct seriously upon his posi-
tivn. And the more he reflected the more
it became q convection with him that he
wa, in a dilemma from which he would
not by any m.ane find it easy to extricAte
himself.
He learned, too. before he had been many
hours there, how suprrm. was the powel
OF the petty Governor, whose pride haG
him 10 a jelly that it SCENE, as j nothin!
shor, of the lhreatener's blood would APP
l,tase him. Placed in a dark, damp cell
fed ON the coarsest tool subjected
to all sorts of ind entities mclud
Ing that Of h Vi z to wear ~, tn
tuc gaming lcS iS'ltls, lN"h ASoA'HSo ma
ior his hastily uttered words a weight,
penalty was to ne exacted. But the>
things-tne punishm cnt and md %:nities-
affect, d him OF Il jot as compared wit
the anguish Ii: suffered in being separated
fro>, Rachel.
The Influence that she had exercised Owe
him all unwlttingly was SO enormou
that he was irresist.bly swayed this VA
and that "a the needle is swayei by tn
magnet. lie could l OF shut her out OF h
dreams; could not exclude her from h
wasting thoughts. Her ace of e1qnisi1
beauty IS US al: effu.scnt star that. shin
ing iuli into his eyes. SO dazzled him I'll;
he was blind 10 all else. For h,
sake he hal sacrificed much. risked mucI
5 for her sake he would ha,
8 gone through fire and water -
! Use q homely phrase at her comman
There ore. il was doubly har now, whe
e he had dislu sed his own identity. to til
hinselfa prisoner III a Siber an prison c
! a charge that mi lit end in h ) being Sc
Q All exile t. one o tine lonely stations in Il
Arctic Tundra. Aud every day iii 1t pass
brou lit him the agonizing though. til;
I she was farther from him. 1t Wa. like
> hot searlns iron burning into /
J, brain, while his heart seemed to be gri
q ped with a hand of ice. He fretted al