The Press., 1913-03-05

!, scarcely five minutes. Yet is 1t to be
 wondered at that, moved by so narrow
 an escape from so terrible doom for
 one and probably for both, Lockwood
 should have given her a kiss.
 Then suddenly 1t occurred to him
 that the drama was not yet played
 The eye of the government had not 1 closed with the closing of the door
 He held swooned revolutionist in his
 arms. A deadly bomb was in his pOck-
 ct. As for the girl, he kissed her back
 to life. Then when she had gathered
 her senses he began to consult with
 her what they should do with the bomb. But he soon discovered that he
 could not rely on her for any help in
 planning it's disposal. The only thing
 she could do was to take 1t to the place
 she had been directed to take 1t. but
 her experience had unnerved her, and
 she was liable to be shadowed. Be
 sides, Lockwood did not propose to
 become any further implicated in a
 protected assassination. He did pro
 pose that the bomb should not injure any one. But how get rid of it? He
 could not lose it. He could not ex-
 plode it. It occurred to him that he
 might bury it. But where2 Surely not in the cement floored basement of the house where they were. And he dared not go out on the street with it on his person. Worst of all, he dared not keep it about him. If he could get it to the plant he had built for the Harvester company he represented he could bury it there. Indeed, he might eat 1t up with chemicals, for he was we'll versed in analytical chemistry. But for every method of getting rid of 1t an ''if'' stood in the way, The only way he did not consider at all was to tell the girl to take her bomb and be- gone.
 However, when he noticed that she was waiting for him to tell her what to do next he took her address and ad- vised her to go forth looking as uncOn, cerned as possible and directly home. So long as she had nothing at home in- eliminating she need not worry, for there were other persons in the build ing she had visited than the woman from whom she had received the bomb, He opened the door, and she went home, all the way expecting to see her shadower, but she did not
 Lockwood did not dare leave the bomb in his room, fearing that the po- lice might search it during his absence. Procuring the necessary carpenters tools, he took up board in the floor of his room and, wrapping the bomb in cotton, put it between joists and nailed the board down again.
 It was fortunate that he took this precaution. for when he returned in the evening he found that the police had ransacked every nook and cranny iD the house. Lockwood felt certain re lief at this. for it would give him time to get rid of the cursed bomb. He wait, ed a week, attending to his business as usual and not showing the least con- cern, for he knew that both he and the fair revolutionist were being watched. He dared not remove the bomb, even at midnight, lest some police officer arrest him with it on him.
 So the matter remained as it was till at last Lockwood, not daring to remove the bomb from his quarters, finally de cided to remove himself from them This he did without canceling his lease. and after several weeks absence, when the police had probably ceased to con- meet him with them, he returned to them one night when he would not be noticed and, taking the bomb, carried it to bis place of business. It is buried deep in the earth on the premises, but where no one except Lockwood knows, for he buried it himself.
 The incident came near breaking up his work in St. Petersburg. Indeed, it did so in the end, for he never felt easy after it occurred and finally wrote his principals to send some one to take his place. They did so, and he left Russia, never to see it again.
 During his stay there he did not dare meet the girl he had saved, but on reaching Berlin he wrote her, giving his permanent address in Paris. For a long while he received no reply. Then one day when in London he received a letter from her stating that she was in that city. Lockwood called to see her and was surprised to find her dressed Rs a lady. During the brief period they were together in St. Petersburg her ap- parel had been such as is worn by the lower classes.
 A meeting where they did not dread to be bounced upon by the police was full of feeling. The girls name was Nathalie Ivanovitch, and she was the daughter of a general fin the army. Lockwood convinced her that as- was not the way to redress wrongs and finally persuaded her to go to America with him as his wife.