Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
4 SOLDIER OF
/ COMMERCE
By JOHN ROE GORDON
| ~ +. Toombs
CHAPTER vi.
a ONE SIDED TRIAL-ALMA JURN1EFF's
RESOLVE.
By JOHN ROE GORDON
Copyright, 1902, by F. R. Toombs

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IN coldly upon the prisoners
ETT@ when they were brought be-
SS fore him. Hassan was cring-
/ ing and servile, begging for mercy:
{ Harvey was straight and calm, but
angry.
: "This Is an outrage upon an Ameri-
k can citizen, and it will not go unpun-
ished," he said "You have no right
to arrest me or prevent my travelling
! to Mini Novgorod"
+ what is your nameY asked the
I colonel.
Il "Harvey Irons"
"a II remember that name-somehow in
|. connection with command. All, I
|5have It'll Were you not ordered to
/ leave Russia and never returnY
B mo, was not. was told that if
kcame to Russia something would hap
/ pen to me. 1t was not done by the
order Of the car. 1t was merely an
/ attempt to separate me from a young
I lady whom love-"
T $50 that was It,, said the colonel,
with a sheer. "You are sure it was not
done by the order of the carp
I II am sure of it, for an investigation
was made at my request by our minis
ter, and he assured me that so far as
'sthe car and his high ministers were
I concerned they had issued no such
|. command. was told I was at liberty
\ to enter Russia to sell my goods at
any time"
"After this remarkable investigation,
as you call it, were you informed that
you were at liberty to come to Russia
and carry OFF her daughtersY
mo, nor have any desire to carry
them off-that is, save one, whom l
shall marry sooner or later"
MAY I ask the name of that one? Is
1t Koura Biartelkis?"
mo. I had nothing to do with that
affair. And it is none of your business
what the name of the other is"
"Insolent dog! Do you know who
am"
"No, and don't care"
81 will take some Of the impudence
out of you before am done. am Colo
mel Jurnieff''
1.-THE uncle of-Almay
! Eyes: tip uncle of Alma" =
"T'hen you already knew the name Of
the girl love, and your questions were
Nsimply perfunctory. I demand in Jus
&ce that be released"
f.That will be settled later. Just now
you are my prisoner. Take him to the
prison of detention"
Tive ,o1r3;o.. eo..o5
company them. Then Colonel Jurnieff
fell into study.
'This dog Is right" he said. 1.-THE
order was our own. This espionage IN
der which we have kept him was not
by order Of the minister of police, bur
at the request of the general, my BROTH
er. must silence him somehow. He is
irrepressible and will do us harm. He
must never be acquitted Of this charge,
no matter what the evidence may be-.
With Alma here and that fellow in ST.,
IBERIA there will be distance enough be-
tween them to save us from further.
care"
ii Harvey saw no one Cor several days
except the guard who brought his
meals. One day the guard, as he push
ed the dinner through the door, said
to Harvey: ST have been paid well toi
hand you this. Take it. Swallow i'll
when you have read it,
It was note written on thin paper
In pencil. 1t read:
My Dear NJ. rons-I have been weeping
my eyes out since learned that you were
In prison. After our meeting at the fair
i last year my father sent me here to Colo
mel Jurnieff. his brother. I have been al
most prisoner ever since. I have not
! been able to ascertain where you were.
Your letters, even had you known where
| I was. would have been seized.
I assure you I know you were not
guilty Of killing NJ Biartellkis or taking
away his daughter. but my uncle will try
to have you convicted and sent to Siberia
shall do all can to reach your Ameri-
can representative at ST. Petersburg. but
may not be able to accomplish it. l have
but two friends. One of them Is bribing
the guard to give you this. Whatever
happens. remember 1 love you and be-
ueye in you. ALMA.
II Harvey kissed the note and sobbed.
"My poor darling" he murmured.
| Bit by bit he chewed the paper and
/; swallowed it.
i Then came the trial. The tribunal
was semimilitary. Colonel Jurnieff and
Captain Orskoff were present The
magistrate, stern old man, looked
with unsympathetic eyes upon Harvey
and with loathing upon Hassan. Cap
tain Orskof first offered what he knew
or what he did not know, which Har-
vey felt amounted to the same thing so
far us, his chances were concerned.
'In performing my duties during the
fair" said the captain, 81 saw Hafiz
Effendi, who was known to be dealer
in the slave girls of Circassia and Geor-
gia before his imperial highness the
car issued his ukase that all such traf-
ic be stopped. watched Haf1z Effen-
di, but could discover nothing that
would lead me to believe he contem-
plated breaking the law. saw him
with this man from Bokhara who calls
himself Milk, and when learned that
Biartelkis and Koura were missing
cuSpk.cfad than rrhov dopiod having