The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08


- suresef, had gone out from the small village
IL of Kolvyar in the province of Krasnoiarsk in
4 u order to get the COWS in, for night was coming
on, the winter approaching the
depredations o be feared
In the summer wandered by day night
the terrible mosquitoes, they were
enough But with the first breath of the winter
it to bring them into the village
laager them together until the came again.
Katrne had got them nearly all together but she
perceived after counting that one was missing. She
had habit of giving each COW its pet name one she.
called .'Dove," another Jewel" another Light" and
so on and so forth, the missing the COW
which Katrine herself had helped to
Unhappy BRUTE" she cried. "she will wander into
the forest get enanged in the underground and fall as
sure is"
She the charge of her little brother:
who, glory his responsibility, whisked around
his long whip and "hihd with all the Importance
years Katrine sped into the forest spring
ing root, skipping, with the agility of a
hare the dull black spots which showed water. She
listened vainy, for the jangle of the
and there she went, doubling that
she would way again. since she used to
forest every tree of it. 1t during her
headlong flight that something occurred which caused
stop abruptly, her heart came to her
mouth and her blood seemed to freeze She had just
jumped running stream and entered thick under
growth when with great suddenness man rose up be-
her with outstretched to bar her She
stopped short, have said and she drew back for
the mans appearance terrifying. His face
white but covered here and there with streaks of Dirt
his hair what portion of it remaining hung
his shoulder; one-haf of shaven. His
clothes and hung upon his gaunt frame
He moved forward and Karine heard the terrible clank
She turned to fly but the
too quick In spite of the heavy chains which
bound his legs he her. and had caught her by
her two wrists.
Gir he cried, "stop, stop! Oh, for the love of the
Virgin, stop!"
His strength seemed short for he sank one knee.
gurgling cry "Stop" Katrine tried to but
her Glove to the roof of her mouth Her knees
trembed beneath violently that felt he'd legs
would support her She looked at the bare tree
looked around at the gaunt trunks and then
her came down and rested upon the haggard face
before her
Girl" again, "stop, impore you;
STOP"
"Arrestant!' rather cried than said
"Arrestant, yes. But listen, am hungry, am near
death. have been four days in the woods, chilled
to the bone Bring food for Heavens sake bring
food give to the soldiers
He let her wrists go and she skunk back.
"Who you," she said, 'and how do you come
IT got away" he said in a trembling voice. "only
days The gang had left the station, where
haps have come FROM and here have hidden. How
can get away, and clothed like this? these
legs chains ratified again. "They fired
upon but missed lay to neck in the
swamp waters, the white coated soldiers all
around me- firing at every moving thing even at the
futter of leaf tree. But they missed me and
thought away. Oh for Heavens sake, girl
Katrine edged and edged away from him, and them
when she was at least ten feet away she turned
with all her might the little stream and in
moment was lost to the view of the wrethed On
length the clearing was reached and the road
stretched before her There her brother tending the
cows, and, trembling like leaf, she gave him
sharp nunctions and told him that lost and
they must hasten to the station to tell papa.
AS Katrine went home her brain filled with con-
thoughts She had heard Of the of of
the convics from the last that had thru the
village but she had been told that the had been
shot soldiers pursuit
body had been left to the wolves and the other denzens
of the forest. Now that she met him. what she
do? Her duty cear-to inform the natcha1nk of
the station and to give him This her determin
alton After the housed sought her father.
She told him of the loss of the forest whereat
he upbraided her in measured terms and before she
could say a word about arrestant slulking
swampy ground in the forest he smote her, and sent
her to her room, crying with pain
Katrne then thought of the events of the evening,
thought the picture of the wretch in
the underground vividIy before her mind
She could him lying there in his rags, with
heavy chains him. his face white and haggard; the
dirt, the wretchedness of ALL She could not bear it. She
shuddered every time the face before her. What
could she do except what she half resolved?
had begged her for food He had had nothing to eat he
said for four days. and them with the pusiveness of
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