The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
An International
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In the spring traverSes the desert Of water between Europe and America, unattended by any escort whatever In Egypt they fell in with two young Russian nobIemen who were finishing their education by travel Dimiui Marngoff devoted himself to Miss Thorburn. Peter NcyanSki was happy when in the society of Miss Kent When the two young couples parted the men urged the girls to visit St. Pc tersburg, promising to give them an opportunity to see the inner side of Russian high life. The girls declined the invitation. but the next spring found them at the Russian capital
 They sent their cards to the address given them and waited. A week passed, and no answer came. Then one morning q note was found slipped under the door of their apartments. It was from Ncvauski and said he and his friend had been active in the revo- lutlon. MaragOff was In prison, await Ing transportation to Siberia, and he CNevanskD was hunted by the police. It would be impossible for him to call upon them without great risk of impll- eating them.
 Nothing could be more effective in arouslng the sympathy of these two girls. who were heart and soul with the Russian revolution. The ancestors of both had more than a hundred years before acted in a revolution of their own, and the girls had inherited the sterling qualities evolved in the Strug- gle for American liberty. NevansA In his note named an address where a re ply might be left (uot sent by maiD, and the girls, not needing his warning wrote him to come and see them, even If he must come in disguise. He came as q peddler.
 Now, these two American girls of the new woman type, finding that the young Russians were not in position to introduce them, as they had prom ised, to Russian society, laid plans to take the unfortuuates to the land of liberty and introduce them to Amer- can society. Both women were strong characters and weighed well what they proposed to do. They were sensible of the fact that they were riSktng a residence in Siberia and that they had but one advautage-thaJ of beng American citizens. They acted, not on impulse. but on the generosity of their American natures.
 Neyanskl had bribed one of Mara goff's keepers to pass communications between them and had made some eff fort to secure his friends freedom by the same means. What the girls could not obtain through the American min Ister. a permit to visit the prison where Naragod was confined, they o6- tained by the method most effective in Russia, bribery. They bribed keep CT. and when his superior was absent he took them through as a party Of tourists, all they prctended to be. They were on the lookout for Maragof, and when they saw him a frown from Mss Thorburn checked an expression of pleasurabIe recognition. AS they pass ed she Jagged and slipped into his hand a code (composed of common place sentences) pertaining to a mat ter of escape.
 Maragoh's cell overlooked the prison wall. One day the official Nevanski had bribed handed AIaragoR a note. Since the messenger had only agreed to transmit noncompromising messages, this one was in the code. It admonish- ed the prisoner to obtain a string and throw 1t the next night over the wall | He did so and drew up a bundle of clothes, which proved to be the uniform of a prison official There were also making up" material and instructions to make himself like his keeper. A knife and some rope completed the out fit. When the keeper came round for the last time during the night Mara golf. who was in bed, feigned illness and called the man in. Then he threw of the bedclothes, pushed the astonlsh- | cd keeper in his bed, covered him with the bedclothes and after getting a gag in his mouth bound him. Taking the keys, he locked the cell and walk. ed down and out of the prison. A car riage was in waiting. He stepped In and was driven away, changing hls outer garments and his makeup by the way, to the apartments of the American girls.
 The next move must be to get the men out of Russia. The question of their using the girls passports, in dis gulse, was considered, but the pass ports would not fit them, even with the best feminine makeup. At any rate, 1t was thought best for them to run the gantlet to the border, and, after making Berlin a rendezvous at which all were to meet the quartet l separated.
 The place of meeting was in an apartment house in which the girls had already spent some time. On the morn ing of the appointed meeting they sta toned themselves at window where they could see any one coming. At the appointed hour the two friends, arm in arm, came down the avenue, and as soon as the girls caught sight of them they threw up the sash and waved