The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-03-10

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But one day he sent for me- Went
TO. him at once and found him very
much agitated.. aA I
whats the matter?''is + asked anx-
iously.
"You have heard the adage, Hell
hath no fury like q woman scorned?,
.eWell?'
81 have resolutely refused to make
love to Anna. It is one of those sin
.sgular cases that / cannot understand.
Her love has turned to hate"
"Howscan she harm your"
.sShe can send me to Siberia"
"Surely she will not do THAR
II think not. I>fear not for myself,
but for some one else"
"Who?"
elisa"
"Great h%eavens!"
.It is a question which q woman
scorned hates the more-the man or
the rival who has taken him from
her."
But how can Anna harm LisaY"
''That l don't know. I only hope
that If she harms her at all it will be
through me. 1t would be some salts
faction for me to suffer for my w
fault i'll not listening to Lisa's warn
ings. If one hair Of Lisa's head should
be harmed directly i should go mad"
1 said all I could to comfort him, but
in the situation there was no comfort.
There had been a great revolution in
his mind with reference to Anna. I
could see that while before he had had
confidence i'll her and had admired her
he now stood in terror of her.
I went often to see him during the
next few weeks and always found him
much worried One day, after not
having called on him for a longer
period than usual, I went to his rooms
and found them empty. l asked the
concierge what had become Of him,
and was told that he had gone out
two days before and had not returned.
I knew the blow had fallen. I
made every effort to find where Mich
olas had been taken, but never sue
ceeded in getting the slightest clew
either as to the time or manner Of his
arrest. 1 did not doubt that he had
been arrested for revolutionary de-
signs.
1t occurred to me to go and see Anna,
whom / had known intimately, and
question her. What use? Would she
admit that shes knew anything about
Nicholasg No. I would have written
Lisa sympathetically, but knew not
what to say to her. I might say just
the wrong thing. There was nothing
to do but let the horrible episode take
its course, OF, rather, wear out the
lives of those who were involved in
it as countless similar ones had done
with others.
1 went home not long after this and
as soon as l arrived went to see Lisa.
l was Informed by the butler that she
was not at home. / asked where she
was, but he could not tell me. He
only knew that She had gone away
some time before. She did not return
during my stay at lula, and I could
not find out anything about her. All
that concerned her must. have been
very secret. for ID one seemed to be
aware that anything unusual had hap
pened.
But while 1 was at home news came
that startled the community. 1t was
that Anna had been found in her car
riage after coming from a ball at the
Winter palace with a dagger driven up
to the hilt in her heart.
All that was known as to whom tue
assassin might have been was that
the coachman heard the door Of the
carriage close. Presently he heard
it close again. But whether any one
got in for the purpose of committing
the deed he did not know. He had
not. seen any one enter or leave the
carriage. The deed was the mystery
Of its time at the capital. Upon
my return to st. Petersburg l asked
officer Of police with whom ! was
acquainted about 1t, and he told me
in confidence that Anna was a paid
spy in the service Of the government,
and 1t was supposed that she had
been assassinated by relative or
friend of some one she had betrayed.
The assassin was never discovered.
The next time I went home I called
upon Lisa. She had known through
Nicholas that I sympathized with him
and with her, and she showed her ap-
of my interest In them. But
I found her very much changed. She
not twenty yet she looked thirty,
with an oldish look at that. refrain
ed as much as I could from speaking
Of the unpleasant features Of her love
and neither Of us spoke of the death
Of Anna Alexandrovna. Lisa seemed
buoyed up by a hope that she would
before long be reunited with her lover.
but she gave me no reason for her x
pectation.
Two years after THIS received .
letter from Nicholas postmarked the
United States Of America: 1t told me
that Lisa by the death of q relative
had come into possession Of a valua-
BILE estate. She had turned 1t into
cash, gone to Siberia, bribed his jail.
ers and effected his escape. They had
gone around northward by. sea and
.hsnnoA RrnYn Enpfand for America.