New-York tribune., 1910-02-20


His dark eyes twinked through their glasses.
" Eh bieu it is the same thing. He IS travelling IN
COgntO you understand, though he can scarcely ex-
pect to pass unrecognized- helm? He is very head
strong young man. Count SOlOvieff, and he has some
miraculous escapes but he is brave lion; he Will
never acknowledge that there is danger. Now you
will sleep again till reach Dunaburg. Mishka will
be you if you need him.
| closed my eyes though not to sleep. So this
superb young soldier who had interested and at
traCted strangely, the man Anne lOvedI
Well he to win any wOmans heart, had
to acknowledge that. | could not feel jealous
of him now Won Eclhardt was right | must still
page loved the queen:
Is she wronged: To the of her honor
My hearti
Is she poor? What it o be styled a donor?
Merely earth to ceave, a to part.
But that fortune should have thrust all this upon her,
Yes | must for the future choose the pages part
and, if she should ever have need of me- L should
her, and take that for my reward!
L fell asleep that thought, and woke feeling
fairly fit, despite the dull ache in my head and the
throbbing of the flesh wound in my shoulder, only
when we reached Dunaburg and the
shunted to a siding.
Mishka turned up again and insisted on va1eting
after fashion, though told him could manage
perfectly we'll by myself. had come out of the affair
better than most of the passengers for my baggage
had been in the part of the train, and by the
time got to the hotel, close to the station, al
ready deposited in the rooms that found, had been
secured tor me IN advance.
HAD just finished the light meal which was all DR..
NabOlloff would allow me when Mishka announced
Count Solovieff" and Grand Duke Ioris entered
Please don't rise, Mr.. Wynn" he said in English.
Il have come to thank you for your timely aid You
are better? That is good. You got nasty knock on
the head Just at the end of the fun which much
too bad. 1t was Jolly good fight, wasn't it," He
laughed like a schoolboy at the recollection his
blue eyes shining with Sheer glee devoid of any
trace OF the terocity that usually marks RusSians
mirth.
That's So" conceded And fairly long odds:
two unarmed men against a crowd with knives and
bludgeons Why don't you carry revolver, sir"
. | do, a rule Why don't you?'
Because | guess it would have been confscated
at the frontier. I'm civilian and I've been in
Russia before But if you'd had a six-shooter-'
There would have been no fight. They would
have run the Sooner-all the better for some of
them, he answered, and he spoke the mirth
passed from his face leaving it and sad. Il
ought to have had a revolver, of course; but was
you BY the way. Mr.. Wynn. in the official re-
port mention is made of our-how do you call it
Scrimmage?' | suggested.
"Ah, that is the word. Our scrimmage. Your
is in the list of those wounded by the explosion
of the bomb. 1t a bomb, perhaps YOU have
learned. Believe me, you going to Petersburg
and expect to remain there for sometime, YOU Will be
safer If no one-beyond myself and the few others
on the spot, most of whom be trusted-knows
that you saved my life All, yes, indeed YOU did
that he added quickly as | made a dissentient
gesture. Il could not have kept them of another
minute. Besides, you saw them first and warned
me; otherwise We should both have been done for
at once
Do you know who they were?" asked.
He shrugged his broad shoulders Il have my
suspicious, and do not wish others to be involved
III my affairs, To suffer through Yet it is the
Others who suffer he continued, speaking. it
seemed, more to himself than TO me; for | come
through unscathed time while they" He
broke off and sat for a minute or froWning and
biting his mustaChe.
A SUDDEN thought struck me rose and crossed
to the French window which stood open. Outside