Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-30

midnigh. when the young steward rode
in at the gates Of the old hunting pal
ace now given up to farm service.
Sir, why will you be out so lateT
said an Old woman who was the housa-
keeper of the place, omnipotent over us
household and its stores. The woods
are not as safe as the city's street. ana
even in the town it's i'll being out alone
after night. Daggers are quickly whip
ped out, and pistols bark and bic Doth.
My good Caterinay" he answered
YEARLY, what have done that any one
ehould want my life? Money, as they
know, I never carry
so best said the Old woman. AS
for what you've done. sir, you're put IN
power here, and you're Stranger.
That's crime enough" He did not an
swer. but stood a moment or Two IN
silence in the warmth Of the hearth.
you're from the North" she added
That's bad enough.
North or South, what matter. Have
we not a common humanity?
Cater.na shook her head.
"Ycu mean we'll; but you are from
the North
The argument seemed to her unan-
swCrable.
your woodlanders are great ruf-
fans. [ fear, Caterinag" he said after q
pause. ii .,o
"They are not lambs, sir" said the
old woman CURLY.
..The old man was dead when l reach
The nl9cs and they had let him die all
alone"
"Thev don't waste their time on such
folks sir; and old ones, when they have
nought to leave, have no friends. Won
YOU come to the table
rs it true that there is no doctor IN
the whole disJr.ct?'
u never heard of one, sir"
What DO the people do when they
are ill?'
"WelI. sir. they die or get well as
Heaven pleases. But there are wise Wo-
men who know a good deal Of herbs and
magic and there is hermit who sells
charms up by the Sasso Scritto, that
bald peak which you see from the BACK
door here. ! bought a ring OF him TO
keen my blood flowing straight; here II
is: lock well, I have never allied min
ute since wore it,
Are we in the last years Of the nine
teenth century,
Caterina did not reply. she knew
nothing abou, centuries, tlsr numera-
tion or civilization. She drew his at
t,ntion to the supper table. which she
had laden with good things, or Wfab
she though. was good. But ne nad no
annette. He drank a cup of coffee and
told her to go to bsd. He said he felt
No desire to sleep. His heart was OPP
,,rsess5 nv 4 fear that he had under
tal,on task beyond his strength.
Ne vas a Russian of Esthonia, 4 no
- or1 on officer of the Imperial Guard;
he had been merely a man OF pleasure
Ill be had been impressed and con-
&c, 80 hy Tolstoi and other humanltar-
iene Thsn the zeal OF his reformation
a. shown in his acts and MS words
Lo1 led 10 condemnation by MS mill
. 80 Snneriors. he had been cashered,
o 90 and accused Of Nihilsm; ne
81, Ioen found guilty Of subversiye
s t,.'~ and collectivist opinions; the
. Gosr' of his own powerful family
o I'M oil otbers with which he was connect
' - Nd been 0, no avail to save him;
80 bod been condemned TO the mines OF
E ~ for life. and his estates conlis-
o,+Si Inv the court martial before which
~ had been brought up for judgment;
~ had escaped from the fortress IN
ubich he was confined before he was
toI-en TO the mines, and in disguise, and
nv Inc help Of some. Of his late comrads'