The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-20
A NihiIist Infatuation
orlsinall

tMAtktftalN | titN VI eNNAte ANftN" "N asked lf could direct him Co Inter laken. Ireplled that was going there and lf he would join me l would show him the way. He did so. and We walked on together. His features were so cameolike that had they not ex- pressed good deal of character ] should have considered him very ef- tenlinate.
 He said he was a student but when ! asked him at what university hc stud. ted he evaded the question, pretending not to have heard it The distance Co mterlaken was five miles, and before we reached the place he had without any effort on his part gained a singular influence over me. am believer in transfcrcnce of soul power, and | have since attributed the young mans effect upon me Co deep emotions that were at the time absorbing his whole exist. cnce.
 On reaching lnterlaken we went Co different hotels, did not sec him again during my stay there
 When the czar visited Paris several years ago, on the day of his entry | strolied out to see the Imperial caval- eade. Turning from the Rue Rivoli into the Place de Ia Conc0rlc. a figure came hurrying toward me, and as it passed | recognized the young man had met in Switzerland. shall never forget the expreSsicn on his face. could not read what that expression reelected from the soul within; but the meeting happening near the spot where the gull lotine had been set up during the reign Of terror fsncicd him the spectcr ot one who had died that France might be free. Notwithstanding that he was a boy. could not help associating him with Charlotte Corlay.
 Some months later I was attending an evening party at Geneva, where I was introduced to a young girl, Nile. ZahriSlie whose face the moment saw 1t made me start, ltwas the coun- terpart of that of the young man | had met near Iuterlakcn and aftcrward Tn Paris
 'NTsieu, why do you lcok at mo soy" she asked.
 "Mademoiselle," I replied, q have met a young man who Is your very Image"
 'Oh, dear, When shall | cease having to explain rfis matter2 have a twin brother. Doubtless it Is he you have met. People are always mistaking me for him"
 Was he at Iuterlakcn year agoy
 Let me sec. NcS; think he was. I am sure he was"
 And at Paris during the visit Of the czary"
 Her expression changed. She seemed to be trying to master some emotion.
 Did you meet him thercT' she asked In a whisper
 q did"
 She gave me a look as much as to say, Let us change tho subject"
 I respected her wishes, but my curl osity struggled with my Politencss, for I burned Co ask more about this myste. rious brother.
 When went home that night my brain was In a whirl Few people have thus come under a sudden dominating Influence ns | did. and words are made Quate to express or explain it Co those who have not, I only know that l was on the verge of being madly In love. met Mile. Zahriskie several times dur. Ing my stay In Geneva, passing rapid Iv from one stage of inthrallment Co m other.
 One fine afternoon I went to her house-she was boarding, but I did moi learn under whose chSperonace-tC keep an appointment with her to saun ter on the banks of the blue Rhcne. TC my astonlshment I vas told that shS had left Geneva. She had left no word where she was going or any message for me. I called at the house where had first met her. and they told me thu their acouaintance with her had beer short. and they could not, or would not ten me how they had made it It seem l ed to me that | must find her or l.f' would be unbearable; but, having SC cured no clew, I did not know where C look for her. visited different cities going often to theaters and gardens but never in two years met either he- or her brother.
 During that memorable Sunday whei the wcrkmen marched to the White palace and to slaughter I was in St Petersburg. For weeks after | sav persons almost daily marched to prison N and one morning while standing at m window a band of men and womei passed that I was told was startinl for Siberia. Among them saw agai' the woman who had inthralled mo There was the same expression on th face had so often seen there, and now recognized 1t as voluntary martyr dom. What became of my faculties 10 the next few minutes know not, bu when I came to myself the throng o sxiles had disappeared. I learned from a revOluticnist tha