The Dickinson press., 1892-12-10

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CHAPTER NNI.
BIT WHO CAN TURN THE STREAM OF DEs
TlNY?"
How came it about that Moshka
Umanslli was at Kara? it will be asked
IL was Fate and who can avert
his Destiny? Thus it happened. Wien
Moshka was condemned his sentence was
Sakhulin hut as was often the case with
those who We're sent so TAR east, lie was to
spend the first twelve months OF his Sen
tence at the mines of Kara. Afterwards
when Aaron Arama was banished TO the
convict island, Il message was dc patched
to the Governor at Kara, TO say that unnan-
ski was to be detained there pending ur-
ther orders No reasons were given Tor tins,
but probably somebody in power deemed,
danger i'll bringing CmanSki and Arama
together in Sakhalin Tor the Russian
official mind is haunted ever with fears of
conspiracy.
III an official were to see n peasant
whispering confidently into the EAR OF his
donkey. ten to one but what ii peasant
would be placed under arrest al. /. charge
of an attempt TO overthrow Tie Govern
mcn, This is scarcely an eXaggeration,
and il serves TO illustrate the rottenness OF
the Russian GoNcrnIncnt. one of the
greatest hogie, that lrighten the official is
the belief that the Jews aim at governing
the country.
To some wScacrc it seemed likely that
the young Jew and the old lew
>khalin ior the Cars downfall.
ais is n suggestion, not Il statement. 1t
night or might not have been 50. But
whatever the cause, tlsare was The fact.
Moshka Umun Iii WAS at Kara when
Rachel arrived. and therein was plainly
disccrnible, to all who are not blind, the
mysterious workings OF Fate.
Now it has already been shown that
Rachel had banished Moskka from her
dreams. Let there hc no mi>interpretation
of this. 1t does not in any way imply that
she had ceased to love him. But can one
love the dead? She regarded him as dead
to her and out ol the charity OF her heart
she had hoped that ac'ual death might,
like kindly friend who comforts us in
our trouble, and croons us TO sleep when
we are weary, save him from the llumiia-
ton and degradation of his bondage. and
give him the peace which passell under
standing.
Yet though she deemed him dead to her,
comes she now to Kara and behold, he is
there! Was not that Fate? Now touching
and concerning him. 1T is not necessary to
dwell iii detail on all he had passed
through, oil he had suffered and endured
since with ruthless barbarity he had been
torn from her upon whom lie had
built his hopes; who was the
lie of his life and who seemed to
him, viewing he: with lovers eyes, to be
touched with the radiance OF heaven, and
only one degree removed from the angels
OF God.
1t you drag from the wall to which it
clings an ivy plant, tearing out its delicate
tenarils and wounding the thousand and
one tibrcs with which it has identified itself
with the structure wLcreon it has grown
and thrivcd. do yon not destroy its lite? 1t
Every day it withers alittle, as its life oozes
away through the wounded tendrils. Thus
was it with Moshka. He was like the ivy.
He seemed wounded unto death; not out
wardly wounded mind YOU but in the
heart. II was there where the wrenched
tendrils were bleeding, and as he marched
away i'll his letters to the land of sorrow
most hourly that he might fall by the way
side and die. for why shou d he cling to life
now that the essence of his life was Destroy
ed, Such were his thoughts. such his
wishes. But after all, hope dies hard i'll
the human heart especially when the heart
is young.
Moshka began to look skyward again. and
there was born in his brain n though: that
he might We, clasp E:chel y his breast
once more and call her his own. 1t was Il
wild. perhaps Il delusive, thought but it
had good elect, since it aroused in him a
desire to hold on to lille Men had escaped
even 'front.' he remotest regions of Siberia.
Why should not he do what other
men had done? The question shaped
itself To him. 1t rang in his ears
night and day In lar-on England he had
relatives. England was a free country
There Jew and Gcntile Iniidel and Turk,
might be iouni living in unity. There
We're TO prosecutions. no maSSacres. The
scales OF justice were held iairly and the
Jew and GENTLE were ruled by the same
law.
To Mo>hka, therefore England was as
the promised land under the circun-
stances OF his exile and misery; and could
he but succeed in getting clear of Siberia.
might he not in England enjoy that peace
and happiness that were denied him in his
native country? For could not Rachel
w II u
of bliss would be his
So that from mere fitting phantom
that came and went ut first and seemed to
mock him, the idea grew and strength"ned
until it was his one absorbing thought. II
brought back vigor to his muscles. strength
to his failing limbs. His dimmed eyes
grew brighter, his pale cheeks took OF
color, and that Thought was like :: star
that shone out ever brightly before him
and led him on; cheering him when h,
was sad encouraging him when he talter
| ed.
Ii need scarcely be said. perhaps, that &
| This time he was not aware ot the terribl
| evil that had fallen upon Rachel and he
father. He remembered with vividnes
that nothing could dim that dramati
scene i'll the court when he was being tried
when Rachel and Arama pleaded for him
And il he had ever for q moment doubte,
the strength of her love-lhough as a mat
ter OF fact he never lad-that act of her
must have built up a great faith within
him which nothing cnut' destroy.
"She loves me-" he thought. with
great love that is as enduring as tripl
brass; and when am free that love sllal
weld our lives i'll a perfect whole"
And so hemarched on and SO he though
and hoped and dreamed. But there cam
a day when Kara was reached. add anoth
VI day Wnell lie learned from some neW.y
arrived prisoners that one Aaron Arana.
Jew from st. Petersburg was on his way I
Sakhalin. and withthat piece of intorma
ton The puor youths heart-cord SCENE
TO snap agair, for he knew then that til
persecution was being pushed To Il degrc
OF inhnman blrbarity, when an old ma
like Aralna could be sent into exil,
men uld hope withcr wltrn nm; an
blank despair filled its place. and he waile
within himself.
Never again, never again shall bcllol
Rachel"
But the inscrutab!e laws of Fate we,
To,