The Afro-American advance., 1900-05-26

tap the wall nor sing.At ten the
watehman came again and announced
that hangman had arrived from Mos
COW. He said it and went away. l be-
gan calling him baek.. Suddenly hear
Rozovsky shouting to me across the
corridors: What's the matter? Why
do you call him ?'ZI answered some.
thing about asking him to get me some
tobacco. but he seemed TO guess, and
asked me: Why did we not sing to-
| night, why did we not#tap the walls?'
do not remember what | said, but
went away so as not TO speak to him.
Yes. 1t was a terrible night. | listened
to every sound all nigh. Suddenly. to-
ward morning. hear doors opening
and somebody walking-many persons.
l went up to my window.. There was q
lamp burning in the corridor. The
first TO pass was the inspector. He was
stout, and seemed a resolute, sef-satis-
fled man, but he looked CHASTITY pale,
downcast, and seemed frightened;
then his assistant. frowning but reso-
lutte; behind them the watchman. They
passed my door and stopped at the next,
and | hear the assistant calling out in
strange voice: 'Lozinsky. get up and
put on clean linen.' Yes. Then hear
the ereaking of the door; they entered
into his cell. Then / hear Lozinsky's 5
steps going 10 the opposite side of the
| corridor. | could only see the in
| spector. He stood quite pale, and but
| Il hfe cb
| ging his shoulders. Yes. Then, as IL
| frightened of something, he moved out
of the way. 1t was Lozinsky, who
passed him and came up to my door.
handsome young fellow he was you
know. of that nice Polish type; broad
! shouldered, his head covered with fine,
curly hair as with a cap. and with beau
tiful blue eyes. So blooming, so fresh,
so healthy. He stopped in front OF my
window. so that l could see the whole
of his face. A dreadful. gaunt, livid
! face. 'Kryltzoff, have you any cigar
ettes?' wished to pass him some, but
the assistant hurriedly pulled out his
cigarette case and passed it to him. He
took out one. the assistant struck q
match. and he lit the cigarette and be
| gan to smoke, and seemed to be think
ing. Then, as If he had remembered
something, he began to speak. 1t is
cruel and unjust. have committed nc
crime. l. j saw something quiver in
his white young throat, from which
l could not take my eyes, and
he stopped Yes. At that moment
l hear Rozovsky shouting in his
fine, Jewish voice. Lozinsky threw
away the cigarette and stepped
from the door. And Rozovsky appeared
at the window. His childish face, with
the limpid black eyes, were red and
moist. He also had clean linen on. the
| trousers were too wide, and he kept
pulling them up and trembled all over
He approached his pitiful face to my
window. 'Kryltzoff, it's true that the
doctor has prescribed cough mixture
for me, is it not? am not well. III
take some more of the MIXTURE No
one answered and he looked inquiring-
! ly. now at me. now at the inspector
| What he meant to say / never made out
Yes. Suddenly the assistant again put
on stern expression. and called out in
a kind of squeaking tone: Now, then,
no nonsense. Let us CO. Rozovsky
seemed incapable of understanding
what awaited him, and hurried, almost
ran. in front of him all along the cor
ridor. But then he drew back. and !
| could hear his shrill voice and his cries,
then the trampling of feet. and general
| q Nh ialr oh
bing. The sounds came fainter and
fainter. and at last the door ratified
and all was quiet. Yes. And so they
hanged them. Throttled them both
with a rope. A watchman, another one,
saw il done, and told me that Lozinsky
did not resist, but Rozovsky struggled
for long time, so that they had TO pull
him up on to the scaffold and TO force
his head into the moose. Yes. This
watchman was a stupid fellow. He
said: They told me. sir. that IL would
be frightful, but il was not at all fright
full. After they were hanged they only
| shrugged their shoulders twice. like
this. He showed how the shoulders
com ulsively rose and fell. Then the
hangman pulled a bit so as to tighten
the moose, and it was all up, and they
never budged.'" And Kryltzoff re-
peated the watchman's words Not at
all frightful,' and tried TO smile, but
burst into tears instead"
For a long time after that he kept
silent, breathing heavily, and repress-
ing the choking sobs.
From that time became a revolu-
Zionist. Yes" he said, when he was
quieter and finished his story in a few
words. He belonged 10 the Narodoyoltzy
party. and was even at the head OF the
disorganizing group. whose object was
TO terrorize the government so that IL
should give up its power OF it's own ac-
cord. With this object he Travelled to
Petersburg. to kiey, TO Odessa and
| abroad. and was everywhere successful.
4 man in whom he had full onfidence
betrayed him. He was arrested, tried.
kept in prison for two years. and con-
| demned TO death. but the sentence was
mitigated 10 one of hard labor for life.
He went into consumption while in
prison. and in the condition he was
now placed he had scarcely more than a
few months longer TO live This he
knew. hut did not repent OF his action.
but said that il he had another life he
would use II in the same way to destroy
the conditions in which such things as
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