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

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fright, 1908.
r W-HoW OLGA SAVED HER HUSBAND
MAN had disappeared from Moscow. had
"a disappeared like many others had disappeared
~ j left behind him. He mer-
I v chant of repute, his name was Georges Kavski,
a - His wife, Olga, besought her friends and en-
deavored elucidate the mystery Of her hus-
bands disappearance Her efforts unavailng; he
had simply gone-vanished No could tell her any
thing. It true that he had been at his business
day, that he had left his office and taken an
isvostchik Petrovsk park where his home was
situated but all he could
was the Gaspodin down at the doorstep
house, and after that-well Georges Kavski had
vanished.
Georges ut is easy that my has been doing
what he should not DO When man disappears in Rus
STA, simply disappears-that is all; no one knows
where he goes why should complain, since God
the Russians and the little father
is temporal master"
She crossed herself she spoke, but sighed. Olga
frantic with grief; her husband had been all IN an
it might take her her lifetime to seek him
if he still lived she would find him. Accustomed as
to Russian methods it did not take her long to
in her mind the solution of her husbands dis
appearance Of course, the government to blame
some wretched mistake had occurred Her husband IN
completely with those under the eyes
the secret police had been kidnapped and was-we
olga therefore set her to work in order that she
should get interview with the governor OF Moscow
and so trace of her husband since
she fully determined that, wherever he was, she
go him. 1t took time to do this for Olga
somehow baffed at turn but with certain IN
which brought to bear, she one day found
herself oft he and
Let it be put record that the governor
her kindly, that he sympathized with her. but beyond
that there nothing. He knew so he SAID nothing
of husband certainly repudiated the idea that
of the he had been sent
to Siberia. .-...
RUSSIA" he said sis a strange country. There
people here even in our Moscow, who would
cut for rouble, and drop his body into
the Moslwa or take it woods for the birds to
peck at"
said all this 3s %sr 5 9a wss ne
Siberia She had little enough to guide her. and since
life cultured and the most civilized of
the cars dominons went SO cheapy she found tte
Georges avs they had not they shrugged their
shoulders and said that Pole had probably got his
deserts that Poles, in the of the Mus
1se are dtRlS so me S in way or anoher be
connected with movement for the dis
turbance Of the country Olga received as have sald
little sympathy and feeling this, she determined
to act for her husband in Siberia
tho was when sag % af o out on hen
Journey She had sold her house and all she possessed
sufficient she thought, to carry her
journeys end She took fourthclass ticket to
ger on the steamer volga and the Kama
until she to Perm The railway across the Urals
not then finished, and she was compelled to hire
horses Ekaterinburg pass.
One June morning her tarantass came to the top of
ment before the obesk which marked the division be-
tween Europe and Asia. It wild scene; on every
great boulders and huge trees narrowed in the
horizon Not sign of life was to be SEEN but there
stood that grim nonunent-past which so many
wretched and had filed in the past en- route
to the great unknown, the plains the mountains the
Siberia. The horses plunged forward once
more Ekaterinburg reached, the horses changed,
and without than necessary delay, Olga pursued
her journey Tumen and crossed the Tartar steppe
to Omsk.
From Tornsk the Baraba steppe stretches
itself nearly thousand miles, fiat, uninterrupted
plain with no habtatons Of any except the post
the clusters Of wooden huts forming each
stage Olga her giving out, and the extor
demands of the moujiks with whom she came
in depleted extent that
when she at Tomsk she found it would be inn
possible hope for horses beyond Krasnoarsk
Krasnoarsk to Irkutsk distance of a
THOUSAND versts, nearly hundred miles, that
Olga set out foot with only forty roubles in
her purse she that it would take her at
least two reach her journeys end She strug
gled however her indomitable will and courage Civ
ing strength weared limb, hope to the sinking
heart She spend nights in the most primitive
ner begging shelter of oujiks hut, accepting the
trifes Of black and which the kind hearted