Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-14
l1ert the last city of any note. Tcherdin.

I'ieft the last city of any note. Tcherdin.
behind him.
4 Count Kapotski had been as good as
HE word. and had helped him TO buy
a hunting outfit (which he did not re-
ay,re). had advised MIN to travel as
Ear "a the frontier in the ordinary boat
shaped and hooded carriages 70 be hired
at the posting houses; had recommend
cd him to . jobher at To,ma who would
frrnish him with couple OF horses and
a sleigh for the snow-covered Northern
roads, and, lest of all. had found for
him dvorniH. or porter. who knew
something o: the localities to be visited.
and who spoke peculiar polyglot Ian
gasge composed Of E.ngliah. French and
German.
This man, N,cAol Ivauovitch. was
very servile. very dirty. very. very rag
gsd. but he had a gnod-humoured smile.
and could not Only make himself intel
lis'ble to Osborne. b.; act as an inter
prefer for him; So be concluded TO take
him a; his own hrIre probably about
twice as much rs he had expected TO
gen and. after attiag him out In brand
new garments started with HIN.
When they LETT st. Petersburg. though
II was sill August, taere was "a sug-
gestion OF October In he air; but tor
toe past three weska tssg had been sur
rounded always by the snow. Osborne
so TAR had had 40 adventures. but in
numeraihle annoyenees lilo wss forced
TO delay himself 20 shoot with parties
OF young officials nvao insisted on show
ms him some aport. lie was never able
10 50 direct 20 tho subject but Loaf
mach time In making casual inquiries
as to the convlcts ahead OF him As
fa7 as he could gather he was steadily
gaining on them; but the shooting cx-
eursions necessary to give colour TO his
journey. constantly made him lose adj
vaatMgso ne seemed to gain.
Than at Toherdln Nichols clothing
myStsr.oaaly vanished, aad he again
|
awful BOOTS eiea on with strings and
stuffed at the hacked tees with straw.
, which ais employer had meant him to
discard. Csberne. of course. felt conf
dert that the maa had sold them,
though he swore by all the saints that
he aad only sent the good things back
60 his wife that the Journey might not
spoil them" So for the rest of the way
the unhappy MnElishmanA had to stand
the aaell o. the filthy rags blown into
his nostrlls with the cold wind that
beat on their faces
HIS sense OF smell was a very curse
to him for now they had to put up at
night either at some little police depot
or IN come peasants hovel en- route,
and lying at night wrapped In rugs on
the top of the stoves (bed places in no
wall over the hot iron plates), the black
beetles put him into n very agony,
crawling over his uncovered face and
hands and poisoning the air with their
atrocious odour.
still he pushed on. now thinking Of
the woman who was enduring all this
and more. now dreaming vaguely FOR
hours of home and Eva
At last he heard by chance that
ahead of him, that they had made u
| certain detour in order to leave those
| who were not destined for Vitinsk, and
he found that by taking another and
more direct route, he might, as 1t were,
head them off
He decided to try It. drove like mad
all the day, struck the main route mt Il
little village, heard that the convicts
mad passed through an hour ago, ard
were certain 70 put up at police set-
| tIenlent some five miles further on
pushed forward again with hfS tree
| horses, and at last drove into iitt!s
com pound just as certain officers were
dismountng and giving orders relative