The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-31
Thursday, May 81, 1906.

Dorothy, who had been listening in
tently to this discourse, here inter-
rupted with:
cit was an English warship that
fred the shell, and the Russian, shot
did not come within half mile OF
her,
The sailor stared at her in wide-eyed
surprise
'sYou see,- I have been making in
quirries,' she explained Please 20
on.'' - - -,
lish ship. The gaoler sneered at me,
and said he was going to send me after
the American vessel, as I supposed he
thought it was. / feared by his tax
ing away of the bread that it was in
tended to starve me to death, and was
sorry I had not eaten more at my last
meal. l lay down on the shelf Of rock,
and soon fell asleep. I was awakened
by the water tapping around me. The
had always enjoyed the company. of a
little brook that ran along the side Of
the cell farthest from the door. It's
music had now ceased, and when l
sprang up found myself to the waist
il cold 20 ~ wate at At esi
in the passage which I had noticed in
the light of the lantern On the day
entered the place, and I knew now
not pierced by one of those gratings
which enable the gaoler in the passage
to look into the cell any time Of night
or day. Prisoners have told me that
the uncertainty of an inmate who never
added to the horror Of the situation,
but the water tight doors of the Trogz.
mondoff are free from this feature, and
for very sinister reason.
t|The channel in the floor thru which
the water runs when the cell is empty,
and the tunnel at the, ceiling thru which
the water flows when the cell is full,
how tightly the door may be closed.
The water: rose very gradually until it
reached the top outlet, then its level
NAMED stationary. T foated on the
top quite easily, with as little exer-
tion as was necessary Ito keep me in
that position. If i raised my head,
my brow struck the ceiling. The next
empty I hear the water pour into it
like little cataract. The next cell
above, and indeed all the cells in that
direction were flooded like my own.
Of course it no trouble for me to
keep ahoat; my only danger was that
the intense coldness Of the water would
numb my body beyond recovery: Still,
I had been accustomed to hardships Of
:; that kind before now; in the frozen
- north: At last theS@gentle roar of the
waterfall ceased and / realized my
cell was emptying itself. When I
7 Feafhed ny shelf hea 44ga stsftehed my
d as I could, and as silently, for I wished
no sound to give arfy.4hint that I was
still alive, if, indeed, sound could pene-
trate to the passage, which is unlike
; ly. Even before the last of the water
had run away from. the cell, lay
stretched out at full length on the floor,
hoping /. might have steadiness enough
to remain death quiet when the men
had no fear The door was opened,
one of the 1ien picked me up by the
were the shafts Of a wheelbarrow,
dragged me. down the passage to the
place where the stream emerged from
the last cell, and into. this torrent he
flung me. There was one swift, brief
moment of Darkness then I shot, feet
first, into space, and dropped down,
down, down thru the air like a plum
met, into lthe arms Of my MOTHER :
HInto whats'' cried Dorothy, white
and breathless, thinking the recital Of
these agonies had turned the mans
ssThe Baltic, Madam, is the Fin
lander's mother. It feeds him in life,
- carries him whithershe wishes to 60,
. and every true Finlander hopes to die
in, her arms: The Baltic seemed almost
warm after what IhadSbeen thru, and
the taste of the salt son my lips was
/ night in May, and Isdoated around the
rock, for Iz,knew that in cove on
the eastern: side, eoneealed from all
view Of the sea;flay 81 FINLAND fishing.
boat, a. craft that.MiH weather any
/ storm. and here in theWater was man
/ who knew how to hssddle it. Prison.
ers are landed on the-Hastern side, and
such advantage is tsEsh Of the natural
Conformation Of. thiaHrecipitous rock
that a. man climbing sAe steep zigzae
stairway which leads sste the inhabited
portion lis hidden len feHn sight of a ans
hundred yards away Nothing seer
from the outside gives any token OF
q habitation. The fishing boat, suppose