The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12

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tptoe to the thin PARTITION and put her
crack.
sHow much do you say he has got?" starista
"Twenty thousand roubles Vladimir" replied the yem-
shk, all in hundred roube That
heard him telling at the station how he had waited
month to get the last minister at sanction
the at the Imperial bank He is going straight to
Petersburg as fast he without crown paper
think it could done?'
"of surety; you have your own gun I have nothing
but stick but these for
can meet him where the road dips before the long
the between the cliffs; there's time to be
lost the horses at the last station will be ready in two
hours
lay apparently soundy sleeping. his
apartment in his thick felt boots his shuba and his big fur
He carried in his hand but this he took into the
returning moment afterwards to shake his
daughter roughly by the shoulder.
'Ilsten' said. 'The horses will be returning
soon ana you WI" see II any passengers arrive onies ere
is white paper amongst them the horses will have three
He left her then; she heard the mufled thud the
heavy feltcothed door brought to- she left
prey to the most terrible thoughts.
Murder! That the word which thru her BRAIN
For hour she paced the room in of
mind her heart seemed to when at length she heard
the faint nng Of sedge bells in the distance Then came
the beat of hoofs the hard the crunch Of
cracking Of whip. The sledge stopped
outside the and the yemsh burst into the
followed by the passenger Who muffled in his
shuba, looked like barrel than He
undid apels of his his shuba and
German and
reeled thought of waiting
in the road to slay him
Elizabeth he cried, boisterous1y
out his hands hers You aseep and your
fatherwhere is he? must have horses want to get
forward"
There horses excelency The post has been
to-day only in the station,
and they all but three and they for
at least hours
"Donnerwetter!" cried the German. "come come, you
let the horses if lkeit is important"
She shook her head; she could word
pleaded long earnestly told her of the i'm
of miSS how
Petersburg given time; that had large Of
money with him. two of vital i'm
portance pleadings Elizabeth's
ice; heard him. her filled with tears
before her hoaed the vision Of her father and the
yemshik, with and the other with bludgeon
cannot cannot!" cried, and she from the
throw herself her couch meanwhile the German
kicked savagey at table, and deeply beneath his
hours had nearly passed when there
the noise O A up, fat chinovnik
smothered in furs, hastily into the
at once" he cried, and from the pouch at his
plucked white threw it table
The German sprang up.
Your pardon Gospodin,' he cried Il was here first;
NINE"
.Your paper?" chinoynk.
81 have paper but I have been waiting here two
hours"
wait ten million hours! was the reply and the func-
tionary brushed rudey past
eigner. Pah and he thrice the floor Horses
my girl, once; white paper, crown padoronaia'
Elizabeth sprang called the yemshik
beating tumuuously, hel brain fire. With all
put chinovns sledge,
functionary lumbed his with
gathering Of the bells, off into the black night
back into the station feeling like bereft
She the German sitting morosely at the
table. his folded, scowl on his face.
have troika,' she said. TREMENDOUSLY.
do more
.Pahr, he retorted you let that pig Of chinovnik
have horses. =
paper!' she ventured
.Bah away sick of the sight of you!" as he
waved and went without
other word.
the time when the arrival OF horses she
prepared the Germans ticket He snatched
and threw the carelessy
table that kopecks rolled the floor He left
the sedge noticed not that
just yenshk his box Elizabeth had
side of the eQupage and had kissed the hem OF
the long rug which trailed In
@z5s sledge swallowed in