The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-05-10

StrOSOl, VIII ISiidAiSA
q statue aud whose regard expressed
only the most complete Indifference.
Her son was in the last ranks. Wnen
in his turn he passed before his moth
err. Nadia shut her eyes in order not TO
see him.
Michael Strogoff had remained ap'
parently impossible, but his hands were
bleeding from the pressure OF the ret
tiers.
Ivan Ogareff was conquered by the
son and the mother.
Sangarre, placed near him, only said
one word-"Knout~
Eyes" cried Ivan Ogareff, "let this
old jade have the knout and let the
punishment continue until she die"
A Tartar soldier, carrying that terri
BILE instrument of torture, approached
Maria Strogoff.
The knout is composed of a certain
number of leather thongs, to the ends
of which are attached twisted iron wire
One can easily understand that to be
condemned to receive hundred and
twenty blows from such a whip is the
same thing as to be condemned to
death Maria Strogoff knew it, but
she also knew that no torture upon
earth could make her speak, and she
had already offered the sacrifice of her
life for her sons safety.
Maria Strogoff, having been seized by
two soldiers, was thrown on her knees
on the ground. Her robe, having been
torn, exposed her naked back. A saber
was fixed before her breast at the dis
lance of only few inches, and in case
she should bend under the pain her
breast would be pierced with the SHARP
point
The Tartar raised the lash.
He was waiting.
Go onw said Ivan Ogareff.
The whip Kissed in the air, but before
the blow had fallen a powerful hand
had wrenched it from the hands of the
Tartar.
Michael Strogoff was therei He had
leaped before this horrible scene! II
at the posthouse of Ichim be had re.
strained himself at the blow from Ivan
Ogareff, here before his mother, who
was about to be struck, he was not able
to master himself.
Ivan Ogareff had succeeded.
michael Strogoffv' he cried.
Then, advancing, he said
'Ah, was this done by the man of
Ichim?"
HIMSELF" said Michael Strogoff, and
raising the knout, he tore with it the
face Of Ivan Ogaref himself.
BLOW for blown
"Well givenw cried the voice of q
spectator, who fortunately hid himself
in the tulnult.
Twenty soldiers threw themselves on
Michael Strogoff, and they were about
to kill him. But Ivan Ogareff, from
whom cry Of pain and rage had es-
capped, stopped them with a motion of
his hand.
"This man is reserved for the justice
Of the emir"
The letter to the imperial armies was
found in the breast of Michael Strogoff,
who had not had time to destroy it, and
it was handed over to Ivan Ogareff
The spectator who had uttered aloud
those words "well given" was no other
than Alcide Jolivet. His companion
and himself, having halted at the camp
of Zabedeiro, were present at this
scene.
my Gode' said he to Harry Blount
these people of the north are rough
men! Do we not owe some return t.
our companion Of the journey? May
Korpanoff or Strogoff succeed! Wha
splendid revenge for the affair ! Of
Ichimw
Eyes, revenge indeed" said Harry
Blount. "But Strogoff is a dead man
For his sake it would perhaps be better
not to remember him any longer"
And allow his mother to perish un
der the knout?'
DO you believe that he has acted
better by his rash haste than his moth
er and his sis,er?'
Il don't believe anything; 1 know moth.
ing" answered Alcide Jolivet, "only
had | been in his place | should moi
have acted otherwise What a slash
Eth, what-the devil, we must boil ovel
sometimes. God would have placed
water in our veins and not blood had
he wished us to remain always and ev.
erywhere imperturbable."
What splendid incident for news
paper article!" said Harry Blount. I'll
Ivan Ogareff would only communicate
to us the contents of that letterp
Ivan Ogareff, after having wiped of
the blood which covered his face, had
broken the seal of the letter. He read
1t again and again for long time. as
II he wished TO fathom its contents.
Then, having given his orders that
Michael Strogoff, strongly fettered
should be sent on to Tomsk with the
other prisoners, he took command of
the troops encamped at Zabedeiro. and
amid the deafening sounds of drums
and trumpets he marched to the town
where the emir was awaiting him.
They had not long to wait for the
lieutenant of Feofar Resembling bu.
giles announced his arrival.
Ivan Ogareff-the flashed, as thew nj.
ready begun to call him-dressed this
time in the uniform Of a Tartar officer
arrived on borcaho al bofo.~ A.