The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-11

came line of soldiers marching route
step" then criminals, poiiticals, men,
women and some who were scarcely
more than children Among the latter
was a girl of about eighteen. That
she was a political was apparent from
her features, which marked refine
ment, intellect and character
To see any one in the strong arm OF
the law Is sad, but to see girl on the
very threshold of life trudging along
through snow, with armed men ready
to shoot her If she attempts to get
away, her destination the terrible mines
of Kara, on the Arctic ocean, is enough
to freeze the blood in ones heart
While Borden was looking at her she
raised her eyes and met his, and SO
great was the sympathy she saw In
them that she returned 1t by an express
sion of gratitude Borden would have
walked on that he might continue to
look at her, but the sight was too sad,
and he feared to be considered obtru-
sive, so he remained standing where
he was till the melancholy procession
had passed, then gazed after them till
they disappeared. dark spot on the
white snow in the distance.
Borden went back to st. Petersburg,
unable to throw Off sadness induced
by the distressing sight of persons go
ing to a doom far worse than death
and passed through the city, delaying
only long enough to pick up baggage
he had left there and be sure that his
passport was In proper condition. Then
he started on his way to more con-
genial climate and q land with less
despotic government
One thing he did not forget during
the rest of his stay in Europe nor after
his return to America-the face and fig
ure of the convict girl on her way to
Kara He could not shake of the mel
ancholy procession, especially the one
person in it who had returned SO pa
thetically his look of sympathy. He
took an Office, swung out his shingle as
an attorney and tried to work, but eli
ents were not to be had without an eff
fort, and, having fortune, there was
little inducement for him to make It,
However, he stayed on for a couple of
years, then gave it up and returned to
Europe.
Borden when abroad at times stopped
at pensions instead of hotels At the
former he made acquaintances, while
at the latter he usually passed his I'm
occupied time alone. One day on arriv-
inn Of Do rfo ha e+onnad ok q r1arofor, n
which he was accustomed to put up
when in that city. That was the year
the car of Russia visited the French
people and became their ally Indeed,
he had Just arrived in Paris at this
time. Borden had gone there to wit
ness the festivities attending the mon
arch's reception. At dinner Borden
sat opposite the entrance Of the dining
room and suddenly. looking up, was
startled at seeing woman enter whom
he recognized at once as the girl con
Wet he had seen on her way to Siberia
But, oh, how changed Instead Of
appearing as one just from her teens
she looked as If she might be any
where between thirty and fifty. And
instead of wearing the patient look
of martyr her face had become haro-
eued. 1t seemed to Borden, perhaps
because he knew something of her
story, that she was thirsting for re-
venge
On meeting his gaze she gave slight
start, but passed on without giving
any other sign of recognition. She was
alone and sat at one end of table
where there We're no other diners. Her
back was to Borden, so he could not
see her face He left the dining room
before her and waited in the adjoining
room, where he hoped to get another
made q story to fit her case. This was
what he fancied:
She had suffered in the mines of
Kara. She had Joined hunger strikes.
| She had fallen under disease in the
damp prisons and living upon un-
wholesome food. She had found an
opportunity for escape. She had toiled
| through snow or over frozen waters to
some country, Sweden probably, where
she had arrived hungry, frostbitten,
more nearly dead than alive. And now
| that she was free she was consumed
by one all absorbing passion-revenge.
And here the presence In Paris Of the
man who stood for all this wrecking,
the emperor of Russia, furnished a
| climax.
She was there to kill him.
The girl must have gone out by an
other door. probably to avoid him. Dis
appointed, he was about to go to his
room when a servant approached him
and handed him bit Of paper. Open
| ing it, he read:
May / ask that you will join me for .
few minutes in my private paricr?
Most assuredly," were the words
that came to him, but he did not speak
them. He simply followed the servant
who led him to door, knocked and
left him. Tho door was thrown open