The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24

had made up his mind to let himself
go and get ii over, when a CHEEKY call
came from above, and the light of
hope was kindIed once again in his
beating heart.
At the hazard of mis- life another man
launched himself on that death slide,
and, with a courage equailed only by
his mountaineering skill, carried a rope
to his friend and saved his life just as
his feet reached the very brink of the
abyss.
l was the clumsy fool who had stu
pidly jeopardized my life and Ladislas
the friend who offered his to save me.
And now Volna was to be the price,
He had called for it, had thrown in
my teeth the pledge l had given; and
had chided me for my unreadiness to
redeem it. This the friend whom 1 had
always deemed the type Of honor and
chivalry, Bargaining for the body Of
the woman he loved,
In the first bitter moment my soul
rose in passionate rebellion against the
sacrifice. Nothing in all my life had
ever moved me so deeply. To make
myself a party TO the bargain was to
/ do dishonor to Volna hersel What
right had we to take this thing into our
hands and settle her life for her? II
was for her, not for US, to make a de-
! cisiOn so vital to her happiness.
! Such price as this had never been
in contemplation. He knew this as well
as l. And at that point my memory
played me curious trick. Ny
thoughts flashed back to the moment
of cold despair when death lay gaping
just below me on that mOuntainside
to the dazzling change to hope at the
sound of Ladislas' CHEEKY call of en-
tf,r,r
ing his way toward me, death the GER
tain penalty of a single unskilful step:
and once again the warm glow of graft
tude for the dauntless courage and de-
votion which had prompted my pledge
then, came back in all its force now.
1t ended the struggle. I would pay
the price, let the cost be what it
might.
I sighed heavily and turned to find
him leaning forward watching me in
tently and waiting, as though he di-
vined the struggle that was rending
me.
I smiled. ct won't pretend that it
hasn't cost me a struggle Ladislas:
but it's over, and we can still be
friends"
How strong you are" he exclaimed
You wouldn't think there was mucn
strength I'm me if you knew the bitter
things I was thinking just now oi
you"
You love her. then?"
'T can't help that-but ] can trust
myself for the rest. Would to heaven
had known before this had happened
at Bratinskl So little did I suspect
7 came today to ask you the meaning
Of her betrothal to Colonel Bremen
hof"
I ssTA = -. .,.e.-, ,,,-..-,,, - -, - s,
and began pacing the room again
Count Peter arranged that It was a
blind to keen the Drakonas from beine
suspected. Volna consented for hel
mothers sake; but she was candid
telling the man she did not care fol
him. She is as true as a crystal. Hcl
sister and brother-do YOU know them
No?-they fed him with lies and blind
ed him: ali at the counts instigation."
"weH?"
"Bremenhof is a devil for cunning
He was not deceived; and he saw a
once that his hold over VOlna was he
fear for her mother. So he wOrmed an,
moled and got a case against tn,
mother; and now he swears that if tn,
marriage does not take place at once
today or at least tomOrrow-he vii
have the mother arrested, and Volna
too"
You know of my affair with him {?
'VOlna told me you struck him. H
took her there to satisfy himself pr
vately that she had been al Bratinsk
and have that to hold over her"
why have you let her stay in War
saw"
Count Peter was bringing her t
CracOw to be married to me-"
Married to you! l don't under
uf0 49, L ! %
mo, no. She had no thought Of
until Count Peter told her at Bratinsl
But she knows how love her: and W
should have won her consent"
I remembered her statement TO me q
Bratinsk; that she had meant TO e.
cape and return to Warsaw. But
kept this to myself
And now9"
'She is Oh lnged. 1t is you who hay
changed her. She can scarcely be keI
= from breaking with BTemenhof. I don
S know what to do. My God, I don
know what to do
> IT'S plain enough. Take her and hC
I mother away from Warsaw"
e How can I go, man? In heaven
C name. how can ] go? We are on \
eve Of the most glorious crisis I'm OF
y eountry's history; and we leaders dal
% not leave our posts"
, Send them away then in some or
else's care"
81 "Why? This CITY is the safest pla,
IN all the empire for them. Today II
y great demonstration at Petersburg wi
e show the czar and those about him an
v all the world that the peoples inst d.
u mands can no longer he resisted. TT
= mower of these tyrants will be sha
II tered against the greater might Of Il
H..
e old. They are coming true. We are q
= The eve Of the greatest revolution i
y world nos ever seen; greatest in M
u nose. widest IN area, most beneficial
results-and what is greatest Of all
10 he achieved without the shedding of
Iron of blood
= "A bIoodless revolution viii be a ne
% thing in history. Ladislas, especial
e under Russian methods"
you do not understand and so yo
doubt But we know. The army
- with us almost to a man. They are
- the people, blood of blood and bone
= bone in close-knit kinship: and whe
. the hour strikes the people will ris
- in every city. town and hamlet. rise &
= one man: and at that rising the mu;
. ket Of every soldier viii be gr0und5
~ and not a sword viii leave it's seal
!, bard. Peace is our watchword peaC
: our method; peace and brotherhood on
end"
1T is not only Polish independent
them
h Poland viii be free. Poland viii Iii
? her head again. a nation among the M
tons: but all Russia viii be free in tn
s gigantic upheaval."
V His eyes cleaned with excitement a
Q he strobe up and down flinging hi
arms about: his enthusiasm fired b
(, his own rhapsody. He was very niue
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