The Washington times., 1905-02-12

You went away, was now Whfte, IKE
the snow that is neapei out there III
the street None of your friends Tecog-
nized you. and you met and passed
many OF them on the streets. IN the
full light of the day.
Even your fiancee, who loved you
better than she did her life. saw you
and passed you by unheeded. She SO w
your wistfu1 glance, and looked upon
you wonderingly; but she, like others,
thought that you were dead, and al
though she felt her heart come up in
her throat and a sDasm Of sorrowful
recolIections convulsed her when she
glanced into your eyes, yet she did rot
know YOU
and you-you thanked God that she
did not. for you knew that she would
have f1nown into your arms, then and
there-Would have risked Siberia with
ali its horrors. for one more word of
love from you. So you passed each 9TH
er on the street. so nearly that her furs
brushed against you, and she never knew
never knew until after you were dead,
and those friends who had helped you
when all others failed went to her and
told her.
You were an invalid when you re-
turned to ST Petersburg. and you wait
ed for health and strength TO return be
fore completing your work. You had
| learned patience during those weary.
weary months of searching and waiting
in Siberia.
'"Then, too, that same Russian officer,
whom you had sworn to kill, was away
| and you wished him TO return Your
! friends told You that he had been re-
j stored to favor with the Gar, but had
| been sent to a post in Siberia; but when
you arrived he was expected back with
| in month: back again, to take the very
/ place you had once filled in the palace,
/ next to the sacred person of the Gar
''Ah: If You could only find them to-
| gether. and destroy them at the same
| time. Such a climax would be sweet.
indeed 1t was that you waited and
! hoped for. But he did not come; you
waited and he did not come.
/ During all this time you were like
| child in the hands of Jour friends You
did precisely what THEY told you TO do,
/ no more. no less. You were absorbed by
| the one idea. You could not see nor rea-
son beyond that. You even forgot your
| fancee and your love for her except on
| that day when the sight of her on the
| street brought her vividly before your
mind; but the following morning even
that recollection was gone
| "At last, your madness changed to a
| type more morose and sulIen. The de-
lay fretted you, and one day, without
consulting your friends, you resolved to
act. You had reason enough left to
know that your mind was growing
| weaker. and you feared that 1T would
depart from you altogether, and that
you would never avenge the fate of your
sister unless you acted at once.
You told nobody of your intention
/
and started for the palace You had
determined to kill the Car before your
treason fed utterly"
TIE princess bent forward. nearer to
me. and leaned her chin upon her
hands, fixing her eyes, which now began
to blaze again. upon mine.
Regarding the two hours that passed
! between the time you were last seen
by your friends and the events that
happened in the palace that day nothing
/ is known.
What streets you traversed On your
way there; how you gained admittance
10 the palace, which was guarded as
strictly as 1t is now; how you passed
the guards ard gained access even to
the cabinet of the emperor, are
mysteries which have never been solved,
and never will be this side Of the grave.
All that is known is that you wore your
, old uniform, the same one from which
the Czar once tore the buttons. and 1t is
possible that 1t had something to do
with passing you through. At all events,
you did pass them all. and you did
reach the person of the Emperor him
self.
"Ah, it must have been grand
would that l could have been with you
: then. l would that 1 could have seen
: and heard all that took place there al
I THAI tine-the only time when the truth
the whole truth. and nothing but the
truth. has been told to his august
ma jesty. There was of our agents
there who heard it all: that Is how
: know about 1t now.
The Emperor was alone when you Ell
2 tered. and you had closed and locked tbs
door of the cabinet before he discovered
e your presence He did not know that
Won were there until a sharp command
/ from YOU caused him to raise his head
hut ii was only to see you standing
there with the pistol in your hand aim
: ed at his head, and to hear you say thai
Iif he attempted to call for help in ans
way, you would shoot.
= olga leaped to her feet and strod'
rapidly across the room twice, wrinSine
her hands.
. ooh. my God"' she cried. ITO think
r Il you had only toIu yum Iiitiiuo u
: the errand. and of the plans you hat
made for reaching the presence of tht
= Czar. that it would have succeeded ant
y you would have killed him-kiiled him.
She rushed to my side, and seized ms
by the shoulders. so that she turned m!
face until it exactly confronted hers.
'.Dubravnik." she cried. Il can almos
;, believe that am indeed talking to him
:, TO the man whose history l am relatinl
when | look at you. You are SO lik
him, so like him. All, what would l no
= give If s5tanislaus We're here again witt
= me-" And then she burst into tears.
calm yourself, princess / said, 80
| wait until another day TO finish the story
You have undertaken too great a task.
Mono. 1 will proceed But 1 vii
{ still deceive myself with the Idea tha
) I am really talking to him about him
u self 1t is easier So"
| She dried her tears and remained 81