Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-12

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 That I know well. and yet, and
 .'well:"
 My life will not be worth a days purchase if it is known that it is who have furnished this information. ''You should have thought of that be- fore joining their society. I see you have something to suggest What is it:'' That when the seizure by the police takes place no distinction be made be- tween me and the others'
 ''Of course you will be apprehendea with them
 And tried:''
 ''Yes. if you wish it, and condemned, too, for that matter. Anything further:''
 And parloncd along with the less guilty of the others, so as to avoid all suspicion:''
 II quite understand yon- Rest as surcd you will have no reason for fear ill that respect
 II thank your excellency- Any fur ther ordcrs:'
 None; you may go The chief of police smiled to himself as the spy took his departure.
 And so you want to be treated like your fellow conspiratOrs. that you may not be found out by such as escape us. So be it. You will have all you have bargained for. my man. That very evening the police raid took place Taken as they were by sur prise and unconscious of any treachery | on the part of one of their number, the little cOterie of students, artists and | young doctors found themselves bagged, without q single exception. They indig nantly denied the charge of conspiring against the government. Their discus siOns were social, not political, they as- severated. But General Garashinin's myrmidOns merely shrugged their shoul- ders deprecatingly, perhaps incredulous- ly They had heard that sort of thing before, and 1t had meant Siberia for many, if not more summary fate. Among the 22 was Radovitch, who was also among the loudest in protesting in- noccnCe.
 In q month the trial took place. Rad ovitch was not called to give evidence. but took his place among the accused, and. like his companions. had to plead guilty or not guilty to the charge of conspiring to subvert the government. For weeks the trial dragged its slow length alOug for, though few witnesses were or could be called beyond the po- lice who effected the arrests, there wero hundreds of documents, many of them immature essays, and most of purely academic interest, to be read, which, in a way that only one of the prisoners understood, had come into the hands of the prosecution as we'll as brief minutes of their proceedings obtained in the same way.
 At length the whole 22 were adjudged guilty. Twelve were sentenced to Si- beria, but not to the mines, as the elem ency of the czar provided. It was with thrill akin to horror that Radovitch heard himself. sentenced to death, along with the other nine, though conscious that it only formed part of the arrange . ment that he himself had suggested to General Garashinin.
 Sentence to Siberia would have = served the purpose equally well," he muttered to himself, and turning to look at his companions he found him. self wondering if his own face was as '; deathly pale as each of theirs. 'To be r shot on the glacis of the fortress at sum- d rise tomorrow morning." he kept re- Y beating to himself, though assuring D himself that the words could have nO
 reference to him, for the cZar must keer
 troth even with traitors, or none would
 be found to serve him in future. Dostoiefsky and the others calmly ac-
 cepted their fate, and after a hurried
 farewell to their more fortunate fellows ?, were conducted to their cells for the it last time.
 Some of the prisoners slept soundly
 as though entirely unconcerned ill tht
 grim tragedy to be enacted on the nor
 row. Not so Radovitch. From side tC
 side of his narrow cell, like some cageC wild animal, he paced, listening thu J, while intently for the footstep of tn,
 messenger that was to recall him t, freedom and to the joys of life. Tn, . long night passed, all too quickly fo ," him, for whom the messenger so unac
 countably delayed. He had seen Gen
 eral Garashinin in court from day t, e. day, and once a glance of intelligence - he persuaded himself, had passed be \ tween them. Vainly the two warders >' whose duty it was to watch him, sough
 to induce him to take rest
 He may come at any moment |" h
 kept saying to himself, land I had bet
 ter keep awake in case of any misun . derstanding.
 - His throat was parched, and hi
 tongue clove to the roof of his mouth f but he refused every offer of water O
 wine, overcome as he was with the ter
 rible anxiety of impending doom, al
 anxiety rendered all the greater by tn
 conviction that such doom was not in
 tended for him.
 At last afajn. 0yayness began to man