The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-11
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ne now stood in terror Of her.
l 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, 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.
l knew the blow had fallen. ]
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 bis
arrest. l 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 she knew anything about
Nicholas? No. 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, or rather. wear out the
lives OF those who were involved In
1t as countless similar ones had done
with others.
l went home not long after this and
as. soon as ! arrived went to see Lisa.
/ 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 Tula, and l could
not find out anything about her. All
that concerned her must have been
very secret. for no one seemed to be
aware that anything unusual had hap
pened.
But while | was at home news came
that startled the community. 1t was
that Anna had been found In her car
rage after coming from ball at the
Winter palace with dagger driven up
to the hilt In her heart.
All that was known as to whom the
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
an officer of police with whom l was
acquainted about it. 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 OF
friend of some one she had betrayed
The assassin was never discovered.
The next time went home l called
upon Lisa She had known through
Nicholas that sympathized with him
and with her. and she showed her ap
probation OF my interest in them. But
! fosnd her very much changed. She
was not twenty yet she looked thirty
with an oldish look at that ! refrain
ed as much az | 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 ex
pectation.
Two years after this ! received 8
letter from Nicholas postmarked the
United States Of America. 1t told me
that Lisa by the death of relative
had come into possession of valua
BILE estate. She had turned 1t into
cash. gone to Siberia. bribed bis Jail
ers and effected his escape. They had
gone around northward by sea and
shipped from England for America
They were living happily on a farm in
North Dakota raising wheat
The closing paragraph Of the letter
interested me greatly. 1t referred to
the punishment that had been melted
out to Anna Alexandrovna. In my
heart could not but admit that in
Annals death | had seen Lisa's hand
revenging her lover The epistle closed
with these words:
While in prison word was passed one
day that a government spy had been az
sassinated by order of q revolutionary cir
Gle and that her name was Anna Alexan-
droyuA. A young man killed her in her
carriage
breathed a sigh of relief.