Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-24
CHAPTER vi.
CHAPTER vi.
A ONE SIDED TRIAL-ALMA JURN1EFF's q
RESOLVE.


SS3S&J 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-
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 nameT asked the
colonel.
Harvey Irons"
81 remember that name somehow In
connection with a command. All, 1
have It! Were you not ordered to
leave Russia and never return"
mo, l was not. I was told that If I
came to Russia something would hap
pen to me. 1t was not done by the
order Of the czar. It was merely an
attempt to separate me from young
lady whom love-"
$50 that was It." said the colonel,
with a sneer. you are sure it was not
done by the order Of the cZar%
81 am sure Of 1t. for an investigation
was made at my request by our minis
ter, and he assured me that SO far as
the czar and his high ministers were
concerned they had issued no such
command. l was told 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 daughters?"
mo, nor have l any desire to carry
them off-that is, save one, whom l
shall marry sooner or later"
MAY ask the name Of that one? II
it Koura Biartelkis"
mo. l 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 I
am"
mo. and don't care"
81 will take some Of the impudence
out Of you before I am done. am Colo
mel Jurnieff."
1.-The uncle Of Alma?"
Eyes. 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 be released"
THAT will be settled later. Just now
you are my prisoner. Take him to the
prison of detention!"
Two soldiers forced Harvey to ac-
company them. Then Colonel Jurnief
fell into a study.
'sThis dog is right" he said. ''The
order was our own. This espionage un-
der which we have kept him was not
by order of the minister Of police, but
at the request of the general, my broth
er. must silence him somehow. He is
irrepressib,e 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"
Harvey saw no one for several days
except the guard who brought bis
meals. One day the guard. as he push
ed the dinner through the door, said
to Harvey: ~ have been paid well to
hand you this. Take it. Swallow 1t
when you have read it."
1t was note written on thin paper
In pencil. thread:
My Dear NJ Irons-I have been weeping
my eyes out since / learned that you were
in prison. After our meeting az the fair
last year my father sent me here to Colo
mel Jurnieff his brother / have been al
most a prisoner ever since. / have not
been able to ascertain where you were.
Your letters, even had you known where
I was. would have been seized.
assure you I know you were not
guilty of killing M. Biartelkis or taking
away his daughter. but my uncle will try
to have you convicted and sent to Siberia.
I shall do all can to reach your Ameri-
can representative at St. Petersburg. but
may not be able to accomplish 1t. I have
but two friends One Of them Is bribing
the guard to give you this. Whatever
happens. remember I love you and be-
ieve in you ALMA.
Harvey kissed the note and sobbed.
"My poor darling" he murmured.
Bit by bit he chewed the paper and
swallowed it.
Then came the trial. The tribunal
was semimilitary. Colonel Jurnieff and
Captain Orskoff were present. The
magistrate, a stern old man, looked
with unsympathetic eyes upon Harvey
and with loathing upon Hassan. Cap
tain Orskoff first offered what he knew
or what he did not know, which Har-
yey felt amounted to the same thing 80
far as his chances were concerned.
"In performing my duties during the
fair" said the captain, II saw Haf1z
Effendi, who was known to be dealer
in the slave girls of Circassia and Geor-
gia before his imperial highness the
czar issued his ukase that all such traf-
fc be stopped. watched Hatiz Efen-
di, but could discover nothing that
would lead me to believe he contem-
plated breaking the law. I saw him
with this man from Bokhara who calls
himself Milk, and when learned that
Biartelkis and Koura were missing l
suspected them. They denied having
ANYTHING to do with the crime. Ac-
cording to the brother Of Hafz, who
keeps a coffee house, both Of them
spent that night Mt his place. There
was no one at the bazaar who could
tell where the proprietor had gone. l
discovered that a boat manned chleny