Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-10

ped from her gondola ana went into i her ,alazziO. Not that she lived at | Venice; she lived nowhere very iong
 at one time. but she was rfch enough to hire a palace now at Rome. now at
 Florence. and when she was fin Paris.
 Berlin or Vienna. there being DO pal aces for rent in those capitals. she would usually take some notable dwell i ing. The countess had no more fixed 1 position in society than in the matter | of residence
 Entering her drawing room, she | found a man waiting for her There
 was nothing in his apparel to indicate that ne had called upoz tifs countess
 as a visitor. He was ten years her
 senior, but looked twenty years older than she. His hair was perfectly | white. His face was fuTrowed and bore traces of having endured suffering
 His eye gave evidence of the same strain
 You wish to see meT' asked the
 countess, scrutinizing the man as one ! who fears every stranger lest be come on an errand or revenge e justice.
 T hags waited an hour for you But
 the afternoon being fine and your lady
 ship doubtless having enjoyed your
 trip on the Grand canal. I would not have hurried you for the world.
 have been looking forward to this | meeting for years. Surely minHtes. even 1 an hour or two. could not make much differeace"
 ] "I do not know you" That is not surprising. One doesn't ! retain a smooth cheek at Kara. Be sides, l have been through number l af hunger strikes. Then traTeiiDg
 through an ice wilderness fox months { would not bring the same r9ddy com 1 plexion as being rowed by gsndOlier on the Grand canal at Venics'
 The bloom in the countess face was whitened like a rose touched by A frost She knew now who tho man was and stood listening to him with out reply. You remember a little maid, theI daughter of a peasant living on theI estate of q nobleman fn Russia7 NoI flower in his conservatory possessed | the exuberant beauty of this child justi about to bud into womanhood- And she had a mind to use it, too, to whatI she considered the best adyantag gs. During her early teens .Ae captured with it the son of the nobleman oRI whose estate she lived she marriedt him. But, his people not relishing theirl blood being mixed with the peasantryI and being convinced that her motives were not of the purest, would have nothing to do with her. But they paid her well to stay away from them and. her young husband discovering that her heart was as cold as the bloom in her cheek was warm, let her go. In deed, she did not ask him to go with her.
 The next he heard of his little wife was at St. Petersburg. Sine had more money than she had received from her husbands family, but it was not known from whence it came A cer- tain grand duke was attentive to her. so much so that, since grand dukes marry only with royalty, her reputa- ton suffered But she was playing 8 bold game. She willed that her impe- rial lover should marry her. But. hay ing a husband already, this was i'm possible. IL might not be impossible if she could get rid of her husband.
 "One day when out shooting he was attacked by a party of men Having captured him, they took him to the su- perintendent of police, and he joined the next caravan setting out for Sibe- ria.
 His wife had made failure. He was to have been executed, but the czar would not consent
 But if she might not be q grand duchess she might at least possess enormous wealth. Her imperial lover lavished millions upon her-millions that her husband. among others, was taking from the Kara mines. impelied to work, whether able to do so or not. by the knOut For twenty years he helped to add to these riches that were lavished upon his wife Then one day an opportunity occurred; be escaped from the prison and started for q land of freedom.
 And now he is here to quit once more his peasant life"
 He ceased to speak, and the countess stood waiting for him to continue. Since he did not she asked:
 And what are your intentions con corning mel"
 q have no intentions concerning you But there is transaction that has not appeared in the story I have told. and the Russian government has intentions which will be made mani- fest through the king of Italy
 The countess caught at a piec Of furniture near which she stood snd swayed like a reed shaken bs the wind
 "A generation has passed" the yis- itor continued. ''The grand duke is dead, and there is a new czar of Rus sfa"
 The woman summoned voice to asks
 -fWhen will they be here7
 Not soon enough to occasion undue haste on your part, but too soon to enable you to leave Italy"
 The countess walked to a cabinet. opened a drawer, took out an ivory handled revolver and, putting t 10 her