The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-01-09
r 4 O'Clock in the AFTERNOON.

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This was not an Inconvenience; rath-
! err the contrary. for the fugitives would
| then descend the river during the night,
and the darkness would favor their
arrival at Irkutsk.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the
mouth of the Angara was signaled by
the old mariner between the high gran
! lite rocks of the coast. One could per-
ceive on the right bank the little port
Of Liventchnaia, it's church, its few
houses built on the steep.
! But there was grave circumstance.
! The first floating ice that had come
! from the east was already forming be-
tween the banks of the Angara and
hence descending toward Irkutsk.
However, their number could not as
yet be great enough to obstruct the
! river nor the cold severe enough to
unite them into one mass.
! The raft arrived at the little port and
stopped there for short time. The
old mariner had decided to put into
port for an hour in order to make some
I Indispensable repairs. The trunks, hav-
4
! rate from one another, and it was of
! great Importance to rebind them more
firmly together that they might resist
the current of the Angara, which is
very rapid. -..--c, --...- :, H.
+ The old sailor did not, therefore, ex-
pect any more fugitives at the port OF
| Livenitchnaia, and yet at the moment
} the raft was leaving the: shore two
men, coming out of a deserted house,
ran with great haste to the bank. ..~
| Nadia, sitting at the back part of the
! raft, looked at them il listless man IAN:
| ner. : 49, =.
, A cry was about to escape her. She
seized the. hand of Michael ,Stregoff,
! who at that moment raised his heads :
What, is the matter WITH WITH you. Ma
! dia y he asked. 5.@-----.F
Our two fellow Travellers Michael
| that Frenchman and that Engishman
whom we met in the defiles Of the Ural
| mountains" ,-=,-@7z-=7 -
"Y es:''- = Iys.s..e.--.:..z-
Michael StrogoH shuddered, for the
strict incognito from Whiehshe did not
| wish to depart was in danger ofsheing
| unveiled. - Is
And in reality it was not any longer
Nicholas Korpanoff whom Alcide JOLT
vet and Harry Blount were about to
see in him now, but the true Michael
Strogoff. the courier of the car. The
journalists had already met him twice
since their separation at the posthouse
of Ichim-the first time at the camp of
Zabedeiro, when he cut with the blow of
the knout the face of Ivan Ogareff, the
second time at Tomsk, when he was
, condemned by the emir, They knew
therefore what=to think of him and his
I true position as courier of the car
Michael Strogof- quickly took up his
part 1855 -: .s-.=- -
NADIA" said he, when that French
man and Englishman shall come on
board beg them to come up to me. -:
They were indeed Harry Blount and
Alcide JolivSt, whom not chance. but
the force of events, had conducted to
the port of Livenitchnaia, Just as they
had led Michael Strogoff. -
The reader knows that after having
been present at the triumphaE entry OF
the Tartars into Tomsk they had gone
away before the savage execution
which terminated the feast They had
no doubt but their old fellow trayeler
had been put to death, and they were
quite unaware that he had been only
| made blind by order of the emir.
Then, having procured horses, they
had abandoned Tomsk that very night.
with the fixed intention of dating hence
forth their articles from Russian camps
of eastern Siberia. g..
-Alcide Joliveta and Harry Bleunt set
out for Irkutsk by forced marches.
They had great hopes of outstripping
would have done SO had not a third. col
umn unexpectedly made it's appear
ance, having come from the southern
provinces of the Yenisei. Like Michael
Strogoff, they were cut off before hay
ing even reached the Dinka. Hence
they were again compelled to go down
as far as Lake Baikal. -'E 80 - -
When they arrived at Livenitchnaia,
the port was already deserted On any
other side It was Impossible for them
to enter Irkutsk, which was Invested
by the Tartar armies -e@-- =
They had been there for three days,
and very much embarrassed, when the
raft arrived. 500. -. - ..r--,...--
The design of the fugitives was COM
municated to, them. There was GER
tainly some chance of their being able
to pass during the night and penetrate
into Irkutsk. They, therefore resolved
to make the attempt. - -.: s..7..-..
Alcide Jolivet at once placed himself
in communication with the old mariner
and asked passage for his companion
and himself offering to pay the fare he
fixed, whatever it might be.
Here one does not pay anything"
gravely answered the old mariner.
Zone risks his life; that is ALL" .-.-
The two journalists embarked, and
Nadia saw them take their place in the
fore part Of the raft. .....
Harry Blount was always the cold
Engljshman who had scarcely address,
ed word to her during the whole jour-
ney across the Ura1 mountains. Alcide
Jolivet seemed a little more grave than
usual, and one would acknowledge that