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clasped her in his arms and caressed
In broken sentences:
$50 away from here, for heavens
sake-for my sake! Go at once!'
"Why?"
"You have been betrayed"
"By whomT'
IL cannot tell"
81 must know"
"True: if you remain in ignorance
that you have been betrayed by a
friend you are likely to fall into his
hands"
81? Betrayed by a friendY'
"Yes''
"What friend?"
Her head fell on his breast. She
tried to speak the name, but could not.
At last, barely audible, it came:
MY brother"
"AleXis?"
"Alexis."
"Katia, you can never make me be-
Heve that"
'Then you are lost"
81 would rather go to the mines, a
slave, than lose my faith in my
friend"
81 know that he has betrayed you"
Howl
"a man is now with him whose ap-
pearance I did not like from the mo-
ment | saw him. Dreading always
some trouble for Alexis, | feared the
visitor intended no good. Alexis took
him up to his room. There is a door
between it and the adjoining chamber.
I went into this apartment, lay on the
floor and put my ear to the interval
between the door and the Intel. l
heard Alexis tell the man that you and
several others were members Of rev.
dictionary circle
This information coming from bis
betrayers sister and his own betroth-
ed stunned Polizoff Katia was now
obliged to sustain him instead Of be-
| ing sustained by him. When he had
| regained something of his composure
he asked:
"Do you know your brother did
this?"
81 do. l heard his voice, which I
know only too we'll"
"Was anything said about my ar
rest?"
mo. but the blow is liable to fall at
any moment. Go at once. A min
ute's delay may be fatal"
mo; will remain. There has been
some mistake. | cannot believe Alexis
Is base. He is all that is noble"
Twill you go for my sake?'
He looked into her eyes and consent
ed. He was holding her in a parting
embrace when there was knock at
the door. Katia pushed her lover
through an opening; he entered rear
garden, crawled through a fence and
gained street.
Katia remained where she was, TAX
ing up book and pretending to read.
A servant went to the door, opened 1t,
and a police officer, attended by sew
eral assistants. stepped into the hail.
He did not ask any questions, but.
sending a man through to the garden
in the rear to shut off escape In that
direction, with the others proceedea
l " SO tuc AOuSO. AIACA u tA4VA-
ough search, not finding the object OF
1t, be withdrew.
Alexandrovich had informed on three
other persons, including the spy. His
testimony was weakened by the escape
Of Peter Polizoff, who was known 20
be his friend, but since he was kept
under surveillance by the government
| l. Hrv> 1nfi Inn
to the attempted arrest it was not be-
lieved that he had warned the man
he accused. Indeed, as soon as the ac-
cusation was made party was sent to
arrest Polizoff.
AS soon as the officials who had
failed to find Peter retired, Katia, who
was not known to them as Alexandra
vich's sister. left the house and later
in the day went home She found her
brother there, but the man to whom
he had betrayed his friends had gone.
Alexis looked at his sister eagerly and
asked where she had been. Between
q brother and a lover a woman wiki
stand against the one and for the 9TH
er. Katia, with fire in her eye, accused
him of his treachery and showered
imprecations upon him. Then, remem-
bering that her brother had degraded
himself, she burst into a passion of
tears.
"You warned him?" asked Alexis.
Eyes"
"And he escaped?"
"He did,
'Thank heaven! l did not intend
that he should; it was not in the plan.
But I doubt if shall be believed to
have warned him."
"What do you meanT asked Katia.
Her brother told her that spy had
got into the circle and was ready to
betray every member. Playing gov
eminent spy, Alexis had gained the
confidence of the government by de-
nouncing his best friend and two 9th
ers besides the spy, who, with the rest,
would be sent at once to Siberia.
"And now" he concluded, comes the
second part of my plan. I must rescue
the innocent members Of our circle on
their way to Siberia"
The record of the attempt to rescue
the revolutionists on their way to 81
IBERIA, an attempt that was participant
ed in by Peter Polzoff and In which
Katia played the part Of an arch de-
ceiver, forms a story by itself.
The spy went on to the mines.
| Whether he ever succeeded in convinc-
ing the government that they had
made a mistake in his case Is not
known. But one fact is certain-not
one Of those concerned in the plot that
sent him to Siberia ever afterward
dared live in Russia, Every one OF
them today Is living in the United
| States