The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-14
CHAPTER Xxx.
Alter the Storm.


The authorities branded it assassina-
ton. and threatened the most rigorous
punishment of those whom they
deemed the murderers.
The members of the fraternity were
charged with responsibility for 1t; and
were declared to have laid a deep and
far-reaching plot to destroy him as one
of the chief executive leaders OF the
government.
The strikers we're jubilant over the
event. He had fallen in a fair fight,
they alleged. when leading the police
and soldiers to attack peaceful citizens
and his death was hailed as triumph
and encouragement to their cause.
In fact, almost every conceivable rea-
son was given-except the truth.
There were a few who looked little
deeper for the cause. and among these
was my old friend, General Won Ecker
stein.
Three days after the outbreak Of the
riots called to bid him goodbye, ana
l found him deeply impressed and tull
of interested speculation about the mat
ter.
What beats me. Bob, is what bust
ness he had to get into the thick OF a
street fight" he said. He must have
been mad. From what I have heard,
his whole conduct that day was more
than eccentric"
wasn't it his duty, then?" I asked
casually.
Duty? What! To go out and fight
the mob? What do you suppose the or
binary police and soldiers are for?"
"He must have had some private mo-
tive, then"
He turned on me like a fash. Whist
do you mean? Do you know anything
mo, nothing officially
Good heavens! where have you been
the last few days; since you were
| here?"
Il told you Just now that I returned
| to the city this midday, to see the last
/ OF my poor friend Ladislas. He was
buried about the same time as Bremen
/ hof. Ladislas' funeral was not nearly
so imposing a ceremony, but there was
vastly more genuine grief
/ ooh, nobody liked BremenhOf as a
man; but that so high an official should
have fallen in such a way. But you
where We're you on Mondoy?"
| Il stayed at the Vladimir on Sunday
night and left Warsaw on Monday
evening""
And all that day?" he asked with a
very sharp look.
"Oh, I was moving about in different
parts of the city"
I
of St. Gregory"
Eyes, amongst other things"
do you mean you know what took
Bremenhof there?"
I nodded He was after me, as a
matter of fact. It's a pretty bad tan
gle, but if you haven't got your official
ears open, I'll tell you" 1 told him
enough to make the matter clear.
And after that you dare to show
your face in Warsaw? Are you mad
boy?"
There is no daring about it, because
there's no risk. There was only one
man who knew me in the affair-th'
police spy. Burski: and he has his own
right enough. He was playing spy at
meeting of the strikers on Tuesday
night and one of the men who was il
the house at the place of st. John rec
ognized him. He was fellow Of re
source and iron nerve, and tried t
brazen 1t out that he was a fraternit!
man. But he failed"
You mean?"
"They lynched him then and there.
'"The internal villains"
IF it comes TO that Bremenhof. VIII,
was buried today with full militar!
honors, wasn't much to boast Of
IF you're going to turn revolution
airy you'd better get out of the city ant
be off home. Luck like yours won
last. boy"
I'm going. I've done nothing ex
cept checkmate a scoundrel. Given tn
some circumstances, I'd try it again.
He looked at me with a half whim
sicai smile. Where is she, Bob?"
Not so far from Warsaw as I hop
she soon will be, general"
You got her out of the city. then?
"Oh. yes, without much difficulty
When the crowd got the upper hand ii
the street fight il was easy for US to &c
away. / drove with her to the plac
where Madame DrakOna had been sent
Then I hurried to the Vladimir and pu
on the police uniform which BuTski hat
brought me. That, coupled with tn
special authority 1 got out of Bremen
hof, and helped by a blunt, discOurteOu
official manner. made things easy.
could have taken a trainlOad OF womei
out of Warsaw. Two were a mere de
tail"
do you understand the fearful risl
you've rum
zone doesn't always stop to conside
J that. Things have to be done and on
does them first and thinks afterwards
Besides L had good object"
) What do you mean?' ne asked yer.
CURLY.
1 smiled. 1T was in the cause 0
freedom
I'm the cause of fiddle sticks. What
Poland's freedom to you, that yOt
should risk your life for it?"
Nothing"
He started and his eyes brishtene
meaningly.
"oh, see. The freedom of the CIR
eh?"
Isn't it a good enough cause 70
me?"
: "I suppose you think So" me sal
drily Are you in fit state now {
take an old diplomats advice"
yes; if / agree with It, of course
2 "Oh, of course. Well, it's this. &c
, out of Warsaw and out Of Russia an
= stay out"
= Haven't ] come to bid you good-by e
] Give me credit for something. I'm go
t ing by the next train"
''Where?"
4 laughed. II like the rural district
of Poland I'm going first to Solder
p Do you know the neighborhOod?
e ''Solden? What is the name of-ol
, is she there?"
e I nodded. AT Kervat1e, few milei
e drive from there"
= But the police of Solden know 80
both. They brought you here"
q There is nothing against either of U
Y now. Bremenhof's death has made a
J the difference. The evidence agains
:. Madame DrakOna has been destroyed
= and the charge against her daugntf
D was never made officially. There's n
c one now to make It,"
g Arrests are being made wholesal