Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-27

an attitude Of humiliation. It seemed
she handed what she had written to
me.
In breathless eagerness I read as
follows:
rs it true. dear love - for call
you so in return-that you we're i'm.
PEELED towards me by the mysterious
hand that directs all things? You
came in search of me, end you risked
your lie for mine at Kaiana, there.
fore you have a right to know the
truth. You, as my champion. and the
princess as my friend, have contrived
to effect my freedom Were Il not for
you, l should ere this have been on
my way to Saghalien, to the tomb to
which Oberg had so ingeniously con
trived to consign me. All! you dc
not know-you never can know-an
that have suffered ever since I was
a girl"
Here the statement broke of, and
recommended as follows:
ON order that you should under
stand the truth, had better begin at
the beginning Ny father was an Eng
lish merchant in Petersburg, and my
mother, Vera Bessanoff who. before
her marriage with my father, was
celebrated at court for her beauty.
and was one Of the maids Of honor to
the czarina. She was the only daugh.
ter of Count Paul Bessanoff. ex-gov.
ernor of KharkoH, and before marry
ing my father she had, with her moth
err been a wellknown figure i'm so
ciety. Immediately after her mar
riage her father died, leaving her irr
possession Of an ample fortune, which
with my fathers own wealth, placed
them among the richest and most In.
hueutial i'm Petersburg.
Among my fathers most intimate
friends was Baron Xavier Oberg-
who, at that time, held a very sub.
ordinate position in the ministry OF
the interior-and from my earliest
recollections l can remember him
coming frequently TO our house and
being invited to the brilliant enter.
tainments which my mother gave
When 7 was thirteen, however my ia.
Their died Of chill contracted while
boar-hunting on his estate in Kiev
and within a few months a further dis.
aster happened to us. One night
while l was sitting alone reading
aloud to my mother, two strangers
were announced, and on being shown
IN they arrested my dear mother on q
charge of completely in a revolutions
airy plot against the car which had
been discovered at Peterhof ] stood
defiant and indignant. for my mother
was certainty no nihilist, yet they
said that the bomb had been intro.
duced into the palace by the Countess
Anna Shi1ron, one of the ladies-in.
waiting, who was an intimate friend
of my mothers and often used to
visit her. They alleged that the con
spiracy had been Matched in our
house, color being lent to that theory
by the fact that a year before a we'll
known Russian with whom my father
had had many business dealings had
been proved to be the author of the
plot by which the cars train was
blown up near Livadia. They tore my
mother away from me and placed her
IN the gray prison-van, the sight Of
which in the streets of Petersburg
strikes terror into the heart OF every
Russian. for a person once I'm thai
rumbling vehicle u.s. as you know, lost
forever to the world. I watched her
from the window being placed in that
/ fatal conveyance, and then ] think
must have tainted for I recollect moth
ing more until ! found myself upor
! the floor, with the gray dawn spread
Z ing, and all the horrible truth came
back to me. Ny mother was gon,
/ from me forever
In sheer desperation I went to thu
ministry Of the interior and sough
an interview with the baron, who
when / told him of the disaster, ap
/ peared greatly concerned, and went a
once to the police department 10 max
/ inquiry Next day. however he came
to me with the news that the charge
l against my mother had been proved
4 by a statement of the woman Ship
ron herself, and that she had alread'
started on her long journey to ST
beria-she had been exiled to one o
those dreaded Arctic settlements be
yond Yakutsk, place where IT is al
most eternal winter. and where thu
conditions of life are such that hal
the convicts are insane. The baron
I however, declared that, as my father
friend. II was his duty TO act as guar
dian TO me, and that as my father haC
been English I ought to be put to al
English school Therefore, with hi
selfassumed title Of uncle. he tool
me to Chichester For years ] re
NAMED there. until one day he came
suddenly and fetched me away, TAX
ing me over 20 Helsingfors-for thu
car had now appointed him governor
general to Finland There, for tn,
first time, he introduced me TO his sol