The Washington times., 1894-08-12

was to be accompanied by second, and WHILST
! Gorski took with him n military officer OF hi
( acquaintance, Borodin was attended by sen.
ior student of the st. Petersburg University
The antagonists, after what had occurred,
could not but cordially detest one another
While. however. apart from all question of
wounds or death. Gorski was only mourning
the danger to which every one fighting a duel
exposes himself before the law, Borodin was
moreover setting at naught the discipline of
the severe, not to say cruel, service to which
he belonged.
ished by his officers. The combatants were
| to fire at the same moment; and at the first
discharge Borodin fell dead with bullet in
his brain. The student who had acted rs
his second was in despair. He at once gave
himself up to the police, and this led, natur
ally, to the arrest OF Gorski and OF the officer
who had attended him.
Poor Natalia was broken-hearted when she
heard the verdict on her husband, and on the
sentence being pronounced she tainted away
and was carried unconscious out of court.
An aide-de-camp of the Emperor waited upon
her the same afternoon to inform her that, in
consideration OF her husbands distinguished
! services, the sentence passed upon him would
be committed to exile for seven years. But
in the eyes of tho newly-narried wife, as
devoted to her husband as Natalia was to
Miliutin, seven years seemed IN eternity.
IF could only DO allowed to go to Siberia
| with him. This was now her sole aspiration.
lie shall not make the sad journey alone"
| she said sto herself. She would accompany
him, if necessary, on foot, and she would re-
main with him until the end Of his term of
| banishment. Then they would either depart
| from the land of despotism altogether. or
would remain far away from the central
F.! tyranny in Siberia. where If nowhere else in
| the Russian empire. even in the midst of
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Nataia's prayer was not to be granted. Con-
cessions enough had already been made to
her 1t WIS felt that to allow the young wife
to accompany her husband to his place of
exile would be to turn 4 peIiteniial pilgrim
ago into pleasure journey.
Natalia, however, was resolved to accom-
pany him, or, if that should be impossible, to
follow him as soon as possible after his de-
parture. In her determination to pursue this
course she felt ready. if necessary, to qualify
herself for Siberia by committing some honor
able crime-the publication, for instance, OF
u revolutionary pamphlet or the commission
of somo justiflable political homicide. II any
one in this world deserved killing it was
| that treacherous Gorski. who had SO shame
fully betrayed her husband. She had never
liked Gorski, had never trusted him; but how
could it have been possible to conceive him
capable of such villainy rs he had in fact
committed? He had gained the applause Of
the court. Even Miiiuth nimseii hau given
signs of approval, when, affecting to be car
ried away by his theme, the Judas-like advo-
cate had pointed out for punishment the man
he should have strained every nerve to save.
What had her husband really done? HeIhad
striven to raise the moral and intellectual
status of the soldiers entrusted to his charge.
The books he had given them to read were of
an elevating. but not for that reason, accord
ing to the view of the government, Of a revo-
lutionary kind. And now her husband was
to pass the seven best years OF his lie In
Siberian exile, while his vile defamer, ira
ducer, betrayer, was to remain ut st. Peters
burg, to profit by the reputation for eloquence
that he had gained at her husbands expense.
Just then Natalia's maid, Masha, hurried in
with newspaper, which contained brief
but sufficient account of the fatal duel be-
tween GorsH and Borodin.
1.-THE wretch has fought and has not been