Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-02-18

nor money, and each new danger was
passed until Kalisz was reached.
There a delay of three hours came
and a company of soldiers. This time
there was no disguise of the fact that
Mrs. de Malinowsh was being sought,
but even in this crisis the Ithacan did
and said things SO suavely that the
soldiers peeped into the compart-
ment where the mother and the baby
seemed to be asleep, turned to Mr..
Wyckoff with a salute and allowed the
train to cross the border ten minutes
later. The troubles of the Americans
were over.
Brides Story of Persecution.
my sorrow began Immediately aft
er the baby was born Mrs. de Malin-
owski told reporter for The World
the other day. MY mother-in-law and
my sisters-in-law turned openly
against me, and before Leonard was
month old he had been taken from
me, and even Caesar had taken apart
ments in another wing of the manor
and refused to see me.
1.-The most absurd reasons were CIV
en- for all this. Nine. de Malinowsh
accused me once of taking some linen
while she was away, as though l
| could make any use for it, supposing
had wanted it, in a house where we
! all lived together. There was nothing
| too trivial to be used against me, and
| finally, after all my jewelry and most
| of my clothing had been taken away
| from me, 1 was taken by servants to
| Gitimir and ordered never to return.
Il took refuge with a priest l had
| got to know, and began to plan to get
Leonard. / really didn't care for any
thing else, but 1 did want my baby.
The first time 1 tried to get him l lay
hidden behind g clump of bushes for
| two hours and a half waiting for a
nurse who had promised to bring him
to me- She got so near to me 1 could
see her eyes, when some other serv-
ants caught up with her and took her
back to the house.
THAT night orders were given to
| shoot any one found on the place
without permission, but the following
midnight / tried again. another serv-
ant having promised to bring Leon
ard to me at a specified point on the
| banks of the Volynia.
The Volynia is very wide and swift
there, but 1t has shallow places where
reeds and grasses grow to the sur
face. Although the priest tried to dis
suade me, / hired two men to row me
| across the river. Half way across the
boat began to leak. 1 grew frightened
and the boat capsized- Fortunately it
was one of the shadows, and although
I went into water up to my shoulders
the priest, who had been following in
another boat, dragged me quickly in
beside him and took me back to his
house.
Disguised as Servant.
Even then l had not failed to see
that lights were moving through the
Manor house, and made up my mind
that they were getting ready to
take the baby away, as l had heard
they meant to. / was so sure that
went to the station at Kodyna, where
Nine. De Malinowsh would have tc
take the train wherever she was
bound. The station master hid me in
the upper part of the building, and
from a balcony L soon saw Nine. De
Malinowsh arrive with five servants
and the baby.
Il was dressed as a peasant, and
when my mother-in-law got into heI
compartment l was put into one ad
: joining She had the train searched
to make sure wasn't aboard. but my
| disguise saved me, ana we started 1ol
Berdeschev. The conductor proved tc
J be my salvation Sixteen years before
when he was a porter, he told me
Mime De Malinowsh had given hin
25 kopeks-fve cents in our money
for handling IS trunks. and he haG
never forgiven herI
J He telegraphed ahead to Berde
schev, and when the train arrived the
police were waiting. l told them tina
} a rich woman was trying to kidnaI
my baby. and when they had satisfied
themselves that l was the baby'i
: mother, and when they discovered
Nine De Malinowsh in the next com
: partment with the baby. they tool
t him from her and gave him to me- 1
t was my first victory
Il hurried back to Gitimir and pais
) board for a week, which left me onl,
1 enough money to send the telegram
to London But within a very shor
I time Mr. Wyckon had come to M
{ and 1t was all over When w
: reached Charing Cross and / saw Mrs
, Wyckon waiting there for me cam