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II am sure of it. for an investiga ton
was mnde at my request by our minis
ter, and he assured me that 40 far no
the car and his high ministers were
concerned they had issued no such
command. I was told was at liberty
to enter Russia to sell my goods at
any time"
AFTER this rernarka bic invest "a ton,
as you call IT, were you Informed that
you were at liberty to come to Russia
and carry off her daughtersW
mo, nor have I any desire to carry
them Off-thot 10. save one, whom
shall marry sooner or later"
May ask the name Of that one1 Is
1t Koura BiartelkisT
mo. had nothing to do with that
affair. And It is none OF your business
what the name Of the other is"
'lnsolcnt dog! DO you know who I
ann"
mo, and don't care"
II will take some OF the impudence
out Of you before am done. l am Colo
mel Jurnieff."
The uncle Of Almn?"
Yes, the uncle of Alma"
Then you already knew the name Of
the girl love, and your questions were
simply perfunctory. demand in Jus
tice that he released"
THAT will be settled later. lust now
you are my prisoner Take him to the
prison Of detentlon!"
Two soldiers forced Harvey to ac-
company them. Then Colonel Jurnieff
fell into study.
This dog is right" he said. THE
order was our own. This espionage IN
der which we have kept him wns not
by order Of the minister of police. but
nj the request of the general. my broth
err. ! must silence him somehow. He Ia
irrepressible and will do us harm. He
must never he acquitted OF this charge,
no matter what the evidence may be.
With Alma here and that fellow in ST.
IBERIA there will he distance enough be-
tween them to save us from further
care"
Harvey saw no one for several days
except the guard who brought his
ed the dinner through the door, said
to Harvey: Il have been paid we'll TO
hand you this. Take 1t. Swallow 1t
when you have read it,"
1t was note written on thin paper
in pencil. 1t read:
My Dear NJ. Irons-I have been weeping
my eyes out since ! learned that you were
a hp
last year my father sent me here to Colo
mel Jurn!eff. his brother. l have been al
most prisoner ever since. ! have not
been able to ascertain where you were
Your letters. even had you known where
l was. would have been seized.
assure you 1 know you were not
guilty Of killing NJ Bartelkis or taking
away his daughter but my uncle will try
to have you convicted and sent TO Siberia.
l shall DO all ] can 10 reach your Ameri-
can representative at st. Petersburg, but
may not be ablo to accomplish IT, have
but two friends. One OF them 10 brieinS
the guard 10 give you this. Whatever
happens. remember l love you ana be-
usve In you. ALMA.
Harvey kissed the note and sobbed.
my poor darling" he murmued.
Bit by bit he chewed the paper and
swallowed 1t.
Then came the trial. The tribunal
was semimilitary. Colonel Jurnien and
Captain Orskotf were present. The
magistrate, a stern old man. looked
with unsympa thetic eyes upon Harvey
and with loathing upon Hassan. Cap
tain Orskoff first offered what he knew
or what he did not know, which Har-
vey felt amounted to the same thing 30
far as his chances wero concerned
'In performing my duties during the
fair" said the captain. Il saw Haiz
Effendl, who was known to be dealer
in the slave girls of Circassia and Geor-
gia before his imperial hghness the
car issued his ukase that all such traf-
fic be stopped. l watched H0fz Effen-
di. but could discover nothing that
would lead me to believe he contem-
plated breaking the law. l saw him
with this man from Bokhara who calls
himself Milk, and when | learned that
Biartelkis and Koura were missing
suspected them. They denied having
anything to do with the crime. Ac-
cording to the brother Of Hh0z, who
keeps coffee house, both Of them
spent that night at his place. There
was no one at the bazaar who could
tell where the proprietor had gone.
discovered that boat manned chiefly
by native sailors and captaincd by
Hassan, a Turk, had left Tiflis during
the night No one had seen the boat
depart. and there seemed to me some
thing mysterious in this. sent word
to Lieutenant Thokt. who at once start
ed to intercept the boat. III. gunboat
overlook IIassAn on the Ca an. He
had spoken vessel with n black hull,
but the person. on board evidently
wished to have nothing to do with
Hassan for the black boat went away.
Lieutenant Ihokt arrived in time to
prevent the escape of HassGn. He can
tell himself what he did"
Il went on board" said Lieutenant
Thokt land found Hassan in COM
mand and this other prisoner, evidently
as much in hurry to escape as Has
san. He said he was an American 60
at any time been headed for the Volgn.
Hassan told me his story and the
American told me his. They agreed In
some respects. but differed In others.
prisoner. and brought her back to Tinis
and arrested Hassan and the Ameri-
can"