The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

had long since run out o date and the police officials
deed, before they satisfied concerning her. but
at length she received her and free to under
take whatever business might fall in her way.
In the bazaar market of 1r11tsk she able to
buy and to retail in the streets articles which
found ready sale little store
waiting, waiting for her opportunity
Winter had come with all the frghtfu severity
of Siberia Her heart nearly broke when she paid five
for her to withstand the great People looked
her as nomad gypsy and her face and form had
become familiar in the streets of Irkutsk Some people
wondered why she spent much of her time the
northern outskirts of the city neghborhood of the
Aexandrovsk prison. She had applied time after time
for work in the prison; she had offered to sell things
to the officers and truth she had been fairly well
received but had she been allowed to pass
those grim spiked logs behind which, she felt-n her
heart she knew-her husband
The winter came, fourished and went The deep
streets melted, the Angara burst
rushing great foes over rapids to the
mighty Yenesei Spring tardy, and the Syot sable
hunters with winters quarry mountains
Of the Baikal in Irkuts< until
May. Olga, wife of Georges, by that time had become
accustomed to the city She had achieved quite con-
necon for the little sold, and that the
summer coming again she felt the time too
and still coney looking, tho the lines her brow and
under her eyes her appearance older than she
really was She had made one acquaintance and that
acquaintance sodierone of those in the Aexand-
rovsk prison The soldier amorous, and it suited
Olga to encourage his advances. There came time
one hand, Olga anxious to the inside of the great
Alexandrovsk prison, should be allowed that privilege
On the other hand, promise.
Thus it about when the last foes from the
great Bakal rushing thru the narrow gorge of the
Olga admitted to the Alexandrovsk prison
in disguise. She threaded her thru the great
until she to where the work buildings
situated and she the prisoners at their various
equations. She looked upon them eagerly
gray eyes had lost their youthful clearness
her No could b diztnct tho she
fought against this, knowing her opportunity
short was yet minutes before she recovered herself
after peered into, but with heart break
ing she not the she sought She had been thru
all the workshops, and the time growing short.
The soldier anxious for her to away and for his
side of the contract when Olga heard voice singing
and the singing mingled with the sound of the saving of
There was man by an overturned teega,
busy repairing it. She knew the voice. and mpetu-
ously man. but, recoecting
SELF paused waited. The lifted his head,
brushed the sawdust from his and turned toward
shoulders rounded his step fatering his appear
that Of old man. But Olga recognized hint
was Georges She stood as statue for a moment her
who fram rigid, rigid
and then turned at the beckon of the soldier
and followed him.
AS in dream she passed thru the gates again. The
soldier caught her by the she turned into the
street
"Remernber'' he said. hoarsely; she turning.
laughed in his face and said: "Of course
But that Olga that her husband
in the prison, her great
iverance It would take long to relate how that
night she managed to get into the prison Of Alex
rinths o that place, while soldier
sought in vain for her Olga had with her little stock
of black bread small bottle OF water, and
besides strong sharp file, for all her preparations
had been well thought out.
That night passed and the whole of the next day
conceannent
the form 0 beloved. quite
her. would have dared speak had she not
that would screamed at the sound of
her voice. He still engaged the telega, and
opportunity she crept forth, the side of the
she hastily wrote with the point of her file the
single word "Olga." When in the afternoon Georges
back to his work he the name, and stared and
muttered and then he scraped the marks went
with his labor, singing whistling, but with chances
darting in all directions His task at length
pleted and he stepped back view his work He step
ped back further and further and to the place
Olga, lay hidden and then she heard his voice.
above whisper, and all he said Where
you? Where you? Where you?"
His face toward the DEN square of the prison,
his hands behind him. il he expected something Olga
crept out and in those hands she placed the le
subsidized back into her concealent Georges went
nd
Olga waited tho the water flask empty. She
was athi and dare not