The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-30
CHAPTER III.
ARRESTED.

One day Maurice Hammond and Phil
il Danvers spent amid the grandeur
and magnificence of st. Petersburg-a
day so vivid in contrast to the darkness
and gloom that followed that it will
ever remain undimmed in their memo
ries
In huge Russian sleigh, drawn by
three powerful horses, they drove the
length of the vast Nevskoi Prospekt--a
boulevard more than 100 feet broad and
three miles long. The buildings were
huge, massive and imposing; the frozen
roadway was filled with sleighs of ev-
cry description, from the peasants hum
Bile bcx on runners to the magnificent
turnouts Of the nobility. The sidewalks
were thronged with foot passengers,
merchants, porters, civil servants, Off
GERS in long cloaks, ladies in Partisan
toilets priests in flowing black gowns
and brimless hats, while over the hori-
zon rose gilded and painted domes and
countless Greek crosses.
Presently the great street merged in
to the Court quay, marvellous high
way Of rose granite, bordered on the one
side by the palaces of the nobility, on
the other by the frozen waters of the
Neva.
Ivan, sitting like a statue on the
front seat, points ont from time to time
places of note-the Winter palace, where
the car lives in regal state; the adjoin-
ing hermitage and the palaces of the
grand dukes.
Now he inclines his hand across the
frozen Neva.
THE fortress, he says briefly, and
with thrilling interest the boys gaze on
the bastions and towers of that noted
citadel where unhappy prisoners Ian
gulsh in their bombproof cells.
For hours they drove through the
streets, crossing and recrossing the sew
en- canals which appear in every direc-
ti0n
Turning back late in the afternoon,
'hey entered through massive arch
way the palace square.
burst of music reached the boys
ears and scene of splendor opened be-
fore them.
from the center of the square tower
ed the shaft of red granite, the Alexan
aer column, and at its base the band of
sne imperial guard was playing airs
IRON Offenbach. Mounted Cossacks
were keeping back the impetuous crowd.
There has been q review" said
wan The troops are returning"
he signaled to the driver, and as the
se,gn Drew up before the imposing ia
,aue OF the admiralty the head of the
iine squad of the Imperial guard,
reached the archway. Close behind al
'snarp trot came the Asiatic troops
NJ oeorgians, Persians, Circassians and
.uongois, armed with lances and steel
maCes' clad in long coats of mail.
Then followed compact bodies of in.
.anuy, Finland chasseurs and the gi
on's OF the Paul regiment with massi w
t .Sa mats, marching sharply to avoit
; ;no iiorues OF cavalry who were crowd
aug at their heels, red hussars, grena
e meis' iancers and swarms of Cossack:
VI their shaggy ponies.
lucy fastened ON toward their quar-
~. yrs and as the last Cossack amblet
s s,ougn the arch battery of artillery
s sra,sea into the square from the Other
extremity.
oo ~aurice watched the approaching
, s.oup with eager interest. They clat
s te.eu past the Alexander column, the
n n,ay black chargers curveting and
a. to the music of the band, and
s1 90 'ney drew near the arch an officer
lore,iy uniformed and mounted, gal
a." H. INTO the square almost beside the
', ~ where the boys sat.
don "e morse slipped on the smooth trod
p,o ~ snow and plunged heavily to the
e;u.,' bearing his rider with him ant
som u'ng him firmly from the wais
m mhward directly in the track of the
'u0@oling cannons.
mso .o ioud cry burst from the startled
rssss ors. and the artillery horses
IN ~ at the uproar, bore madly dowr
s,,; tne helpless officer, lost to all re-
s,. %surice took in the situation at {
'4Ss-the frightened people on th.