Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05


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 NE be-
lieve that"
Then you are lost"
would rather go to the mines.
slave. than lose my faith in my
friend"
81 know that he has betrayed you"
"How?"
"a man is now with him whose ap-
pearance / did not like from the mo-
ment | saw him. Dreading always
some trouble for Alexis, feared the
visl ior intended no good. Alexis took
him up TO his room. There is q door
bet', cen it and the adjoining chamber
! went into this apartment, lay on the
floor and put my ear to the interval
between the door and the Intel.
heard Alexis tell the man that you and
several others were members of q rev.
dictionary circle
This information coming from his
betrayer's 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?"
Il do. 1 heard his voice. which 1
know only too we'll"
WAS anything said about my ar
rest?
NO. but the blow is liable to fall at
any moment. Go at once. A min
ute's delay may be fatal"
mo; 1 viii 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 a 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 hall.
! He did not ask any questions, but,
| sending n man through to the garden
| in the rear to shut Off escape in that
| direction, with the others proceeded
to go through the house. After thor
ough search, not finding the object Of
it, he withdrew.
Alexandrovich had informed on three
other persons. including the spy. His
| testimony was weakened by the escape
| of Peter Polizoff, who was known to
be his friend, but since he was kept
| under surveillance by the government
from the time he gave the information
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
a brother and a lover a woman will
stand against the one and for the 9TH
Ioff ra-fth Hra In hnr %
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 himf" asked Alexis.
"Yes."
"And he escapedT
HE did"
THANK heaveni I did not intend
that he should: it was not in the plan.
But / doubt If shall be believed to
have warned him.
"What do you meanT asked Kat.a.
Her brother told her that a 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. must rescue
the innocent members Of our circle or
their way to Siberia"
The record Of the attempt to rescue
the revolutionists on their way to 81
IBERIA. an attempt that was participat
ed in by Peter PolIzoff and in which
Katia played the part OF an arch de
ceiyer. forms story by itself.
: The spy went on to the mines
: Whether he ever succeeded In convlnc
! ing the government that they hat
made a mistake in his case is no
known. But one fact is certain-no
one of those concerned in the plot tina
sent him 10 Siberia ever afterwari
I dared live in Russia. Every one o
them today IL living In the Unite.
States.