The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-16

me OF Faust; and here comes Mephisto-
phoies' he whispered, as the count ap
ne had been very witty.
Aiured glared at him so fercey that he felt
as II he had made a fool of himself, if that
were possible, and he grew very sulky look
ing.
The counts quick glance fell on the petals
as ne Joined Alured and Angela, and he
raised his eyes and looked earnestly at the
glrls shy. flushed face. An expression of pain
sighed YEARLY. for with the quick intuition
OF unreciprocated love he knew that Angela's
heart was already Alureds.
CHAPTER TX.
Count SolSk was already dressed for din
Ter though it wanted yet some time before
TIE dressing bell rang. He was sitting in
the armchair beside the writing table in his
bedroom, smoking cigarettes, replacing each
as 1t was burnt up by another neatly rolled
by his own fingers, and thinking, thinking
deeply of the past, the present, and the flu
ture. Clouds of stormy feeling passed across
his usually impassive face, for the bitter
memories that came to him were at times
almost beyond endurance He had been
cruelty tossed by fate into a sea Of grief,
from which time had rescued him when
death would have been preferabe-a death
which he might have sought by his own
hand as the end of his pain and longing,
were it not that he thought such means of
possession of his senses showed strain of
great coWardice, and the count was no cow
ard.
He had been born to a fairer promise than
falls to the lot of all eldest sons Of Russian
ncbles and was the inheritor of extreme
wealth and much land. He had Travelled
about the Continent in pursuit of learning
father had been welcomed at the Russian
turned to st. Petersburgh he was first well
comed at the Russian Court because his
father had been an intimate friend of the late
CZar-that is, as intirlat e such friendships
are possible-but he soon became popular on
his own account. He had fallen passionately
In love with the beautiful Miss Kincaird,
AnSela's mother, the ruling belle of st. Pc
tershurgh society at the time, and as she re-
turned his love with measure as full, he
mad just won her assent to his proposals,
and was prepared to place them before her
parents hopeful that they would meet with
their acceptance, for they had always shown
him much friendly feeling when he was ar
rested on the charge of being concerned in
a plot against the Emperors life, and treas
enable papers being found in his possession,
he was dispatched in exile to Siberia for
crime of which he was as innocent as the
most guiltess child.
Among the few friends who remained
faithful to him-for favorite at Court,
when he falls, let him have been as pleasant
as possible, has many acquaintance who are
not real friends-wds Lord Wildhay, who ex-
-erted himself most strenuously into getting
his sentence committed from death to exile
and received by arts known only to himself
ana ana another, as a reward, the hand of the
exiles sweetheart In this instance treach-
cry had reaped a rich harvest, for he it was
who had placed the duplicating papers in
Count Solski's house, and given information
of the plot Solsh was supposed to have
formed He, the traitor, had enjoyed free
dom, while the innocent man was an exile
in the wids Of Siberia, FAR from all means
of happiness, and having his only conso-
lott md IL.
stances. the memory of girls love- the
recollection of the look her sweet eyes and
the faint hope Of meeting her again, the
things which kept him from suicide and the
melancholy that too OFTEN, alas! ends in in
sanity.
When he was liberated, for the Govern
ment had received information of his inno-
cence, part of his possessions were restored
to him, but the rest, which had been con-
fscated had been too much divided for it
ever to be restored.
He had been in exile eighteen years, a long,
slowly dying swoon of delayed hope and
news he received Of his sweetheart told him
that she had married Lord Wildhay month
after his Punishment, and had been dead
seventeen years.
H had gone to London to meet Lord Wild
hay, and while there mad accepted his invi-
tation to Widhay Manor. While he was Lord
Wildhay's guest he had become aware, the
evening before his murder of the whole
treachery, for Lord Wildhay had become
maudlingly repentant, and has confessed the
story to the grave, pale man sitting there SO
calmly, a Nemesis from the past
With his. own hands. and at his own time
Sclski had avenged his bitter wrong as far
as it was possible, and by this act plunged
deeper into the maze of trouble through
which he had been wandering many years.
for no act by which revenge is taken into
ones own hands but has its effect, let time
delay ever SO long.
An accidental meeting between him and
Mrs Bellairs at the Russian Ambassadors