Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-14

imperious
Accused OF disseminating Nihi!ist'c
literature, aud rihp.cted OF eomplicity
In i'affalre rourganoff.
Arrested on August 1aths 1882.
Condemned on TIE first charge 20
perpetual Punishment.
Departed on the 10th for VitinsS,
Siberia
Route = Totma, Tcherdin and
Troitsk
Destined congratulations at the
mines.
"Note-The prisoner Lavinski, sen
fenced TO administrative exile. IS not to
be departed to the penal settlement at
Moscow, nor allowed Intercourse with
others not concerned in this particular
affair. She. together with suspects
mentioned N schedule 951, will travel
by special route. Coaches will be used
till the frontier is passed, from which
point the march will commence. The
journey to the frontier is 70 be accom-
pished as quickly as possible
Osborne sat with the paper before Elm
gazing almost stupidity into space, every
detail seemed to suggest that Helga and
the convict Countess Lavinski were one
and the same person. The age alone
! did not tally with his preconceiyed idea
| no. hn ha %
| ty-three; but, after all. woman's age
is always doubtful and she had never
definitely told him hers.
She was living then! She had started
on that desolate journey which she her
selG had once described 10 him so graph
| icslly There seemed TO him TO posi-
bic doubt as to his duty. He must fol-
| low her into exile--follow her and
guard her from sor:e at least, of the
horrors and dangers of the way. for.
| before God and his own conscience. was
she not his wife?
| ne had left her that he might put Ear
| from him the snare of a debasing pas
| ton; but she was his--his. and he must
guard her from the brutalised directors
| of the weary march.
She was more guilty now than when
he put her away from him. Yes. but
from this guilt he himself might have
saved her, He could no longer bring
her into safety, and then place a barrier
between them No. il he followed her
into exile. it would be with the full
knowledge that she would regain that
supremacy rather than submit to which
he had made the last twelve months of
his life one hdeous nightmare of unsat-
iseed longing. 1t was useless to blind
hicse,s. useless to say he would do .his
or that; IL he followed her. he must re-
nource everything. and, standing BY
himself alcEe, how could it be otherwise
but that she, with sll her beauty aud
her passion. would conquer in the end?
The thought that fate had done this
thing had laid on him as n duty these
actions which must sssgredly bring her
once more to hiE arms. ceat on him With
wave OF savage Joy that left an cob
TIDE OF humiliation. Was this his
strength. was this his sacrifice. to he
glad at tbs last to surrender everything,
even self-respect, If only be might see
her again.
But yesterday be had tod Lady Emil
ia that there was no personal element
In tas e3a!r. and, blind fool. had ego
ken IN good faith: 10 meet to-day such
a revelation OF himself as thist II II
was so. indeed. II all -his cutlery OF re-
sponsibility meant only the qualification
at ali casts of passion for one who had
lost his respect then he would not go.
The paper be had cast down With a
curse on his own weakness. he had lift
ed again mechanically, and the date
caught his eye.
Departed for Vitinsk August 18th!
o God. She had been arrested on the
very day ON which he left st. Peters
burg, satisfied that all was well; she
had been condemned. and had started
the following day. His journey hume |
had not been a hurried one; it had oc-
cupied a full week-one day al home, |
four in returning, another passed since
his arrival. Sac had. therefore, been