The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1911-02-10

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 Malinowski was being sought.
but wen 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 a reporter for The World
the other day. "My mother-in-law and
my sisters-in-law turned openly
against me. and before Leonard was
a month old he had been taken from
me, and v Caesar had taken apart
ments in another wing of the manor
and refused to see me.
"The most absurd reasons were CIV
Ell for all this. Nine. de Malinowski
accused me nee of taking some linen
while she was away, as though /
could make any use for it. supposing
I 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, I was taken by servants to
Gitimir and ordered never to return.
Il took refuge with a priest 1 had
got to know. and began to plan to get
Leonard. l really didn't care for any
thing else, but l did want my baby.
The first time I tried to get him l lay
hidden behind a clump of bushes for
two hours and a half waiting for a
nurse who had promised to bring him
to me. She got SO e a to me l 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 n found on the place
without permission, but the following
midnight l tried again, another serv-
ant having promised to bring Leon
ard to mt at a specified point on the
banks of the Volynia.
The Volynia Is very wide and swift
there, but it 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. l grew frightened
and the boat capsized. Fortunately it
was one Of the shadows, and although
| 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. I was so sure that |
went to the station at Kodyna, where
Nine. De Malincwski would have to
take the train wherever she was
bound. The station master hid me in
the upper part of the building, and
from a balcony l Dor saw Nine. De
Malinowski arrive with five servants
and the baby.
"T woC drocco1 oc n rnocor% o~l
when my mother-in-law got into her
compartment l was put into one ad-
joining. She had the train searched
to make sure I wasn't aboard, but my
disguise saved me, and We started for
Berdeschey. The conductor proved to
be my salvation. Sixteen years before,
when he was a porter. he told me,
Nine. De Malinowsh had given him
Is kopeks-1fve cents In our money
for handling rs trunks, and he had
never forgiven her!
"He telegraphed ahead to Berde.
schev, and when the train arrived the
police were waiting. / told them that
a rich m was trying to kidnap
my baby, and when they had satisfied
themselves that l was the baby's
mother. and when they discovered
Nine. De Malinowski in the next com
partment with the baby, they took
him from her and gave him to me. 1t
was by first victory.
Il hurried back to Gitimir and paid
board for a week, which left me only
enough money to send the kilograms
to London. But within a very short
time Mr.. Wyckoff had come to me
and it was all over. When we
reached Charing Cross and l saw Mrs.
Wyckof waiting there for me / came