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Jrue also. and perhaps the Whole story
of the substitution of my innocent ia
ther for the guilty party on the fateful
day of the, arrest.
On our return to the chancellery ex-
citing news awaited u.s. Though we
had been away scarcely an hour, reply
had already come from Bootief that in
stantly on receipt Of the message from
headquarters squad of mounted gen.
darmes had been sent down the line two
miles, to the point indicated.
This was easily effected. because the
gendarmes and soldiers were already
massed in all towns along the route to
be taken by the czar, in readiness to
line the railway "a hours before the
imperial train should pass along it
This precaution was constantly taken
at the time of these events, in conse-
quence of the activity of the enemies
of order. who nevertheless contrived oc-
casionally to make their preparations
in spite of the thin Gordon of protectors
stretched for hundreds of miles through
the country
The squad of gendarmes had, in this
case. ridden straight to the spot describ-
ed by our informant and detailed in the
telegram from headquarters. Here they
had surprised woodman taking his
midday meal within his hut. On their
inviting this individual to show them
where the entrance to the excavations
which he had assisted to make was to
be found he had fired a revolver in
their faces wounding two men before
being himself overpowered. They had
then removed his bed-a mere straw
mattress on the floor of the hut-and
discovered neat tunnel starting thence
and running underneath the line, Is
or 20 yards away; beautifully con-
structed thing and eminently adapted
for carrying ont the purpose for which
it was made-namely, to blow up the
permanent way and with it any train
that might happen to be passing along
the rails at the moment of the explosion
The chief crossed himself as he read
the telegram and muttered something
which sounded like line out of the
litany
Your little rascal spoke the truth, =
he said. upon my word. he deserved
to enjoy the fruits of virtue. 1t will be
interesting now to catch this other.''
'sDon t wait to catch him, excellence,
before handing us-what we have sure
ly deserved at your hands-Coun Lam
drinof' release .
The chief reflected. "It is most un-
usual, he said. .'to do anything of the
kind. How can we let the one go before
we have the other to put in his place q
stamped my foot What did care
for the high mightiness of this OFFICIALLY
81 will go to the car himselfl''
ragged II will tell him that the same
police who blundered in July to the
ruin of my innocent father have now
blundered again, allowing a party of
miscreants to undermine the railway
over which he will presently travel I
will tell the whole story. The car shall
see who is right and who is wrong, if
the police cannot or will notl"
Come. said the chief, "there is no
need of raised voices and angry words
will telegraph to the penal settle
ment in which the count, if he it be-
is now living Tell me something by
which he may be recognized, and if
such distinguishing mark is to be found
upon him he shall be set free on the
| instant Think now. Has he mole, a
anything only desire to do the
right. If we have blundered, as you
say, we shall rectify our mistake But
we must not blunder againl''