Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-03

them. yet he never would talk about her.
 But one day he sent for me. went to him at once and found him very much agitated.
 What's the matterf' asked anx- iously
 You have heard the adage. Hell hath no fury like woman scornedT
 '.Wens"
 T have resolutely refused to make love to Anna. It Is one of those sin gular cases that l cannot understand. Her love has turned to hate"
 How can she harm youF"
 ''She can send me to Siberia"
 surely sue will not do that.
 T think not. fear not for myself. but for some one else"
 "Whoy
 "Lisa."
 Great heavens9
 Tt is question which woman scorned hates the more-the man or the rival who has taken him from her.
 "But how cam Anna harm Lisag
 'That ! don't know oaly hope that if she harms her at an it win be through me. It would De some satis- faction for me to suffer for my own fault ln not listening to Lisa's Warl- ings. IT one hair of I.Isa's head should be harmed directly I should go mad
 I said alI l could to comfort him. but in the situation there vas no c0mtoIl. There had been a great revolution il his mind with reference to Anna. could see that while before he had bad confidence in her and had admired her he BOW stood in terror Of her
 went often 90 see him during the next few weeks and always found him much worried One day. after nol having called ou him for a longer period than usual, I went to his rooms and found them empty. asked the concierge what had become Of him. and was told that he had gone out two days before and had not returned.
 knew the blow had fallen. ] made every effort to lnd where N,ich- olas had been taken, but never sue ceeled in getting the slightest clew either as 70 the time or manner 0f hls arrest. l did moi doubt that he had been arrested for revolutionary de signs.
 It occurred to me Go go and see Anna. whom I had known intimately and question her What use? Would she admit that she knew anything about Nicholas2 No. 1 would have written Lisa sympathe. ically. but knew not what to say to her. I might say just she wrong thing. There was nothing to do but let the horrible episode take ! its course. or rather, wear ont the ' lives of those who were involved in I 1t ss countless similar ones had done with others.
 i l went home not long after this and as soon as I arrived went Co see Lisa | l was informed by the butler tiiat she i was not at home. l asked where she was, but he could not tel me lte only knew that she had gone away some time before. She did Dot return during my stay at Tnla. and I could not find out anything about her. Al 1 that concerned her must have been very secret, for TO one seemed tO be aware that anything unusual had hap pcned.
 But while I was at home news ca1Is | flat startled the community. IL was that Anna had been found In her car risge after coming from a ball at the Winter palace with a dagger driven uI to the hilt in her heart
 All that was known as 10 whom th' assassin might have been was thal the coachman heard the door of th, carriage close. Presently he heard it close again. But whether any on' got in for the purpose of committin' the decd he did not know. lie has not seen any one enter or leave tii' carriage. The deed was the myster, of its time at. the capital. UpoI my return 10 St Petersburg I aske' an officer of police with whom I wa acquainted about it. and he told m in confidence that Anna was a pai' spy in the service of the government and it was supposed that she ha' been assassinated by a relative Q friend of some one she had betrayed The assassin was never discovered
 The next time went home calle'
 upon Lisa. She had known throug Nicholas that I sympatisized with hir 1 and with her. and she showed her aF
 preciation of my interest in them B.
 found her very much changed sh
 was not twenty yet she looked thirts
 with an oldish look at that refrain
 ed as much as I could from snoaizin
 of the unpleasant features of her iai
 and neither cf us spoke of the cc1t
 of Anna AIexandrovna. Lisa secfne
 buoyed up by Q hope that she woal
 before long be reunited with her laVei
 but she gave me no reason for her es pectation-
 Two years after this I received letter from Nicholas postmarked ih
 United States of America. It told in
 that f..sa hr the death of a reiaiiv
 had come into rcs assion of valr, ble estate. She had turned it i1'
 cash. gone to Siberia. bribed hls icl
 CTS and effected his escape. They ir
 gone around northward by sea aa shipped from England for Amerir' They were living happily on a farm