The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-08-18
PROLOGUE.


Robert AnStruthcr, an Englishman
travelling in Russia, is harasscd by the
police, who are seeking for any one
connected with the Polish Freedom
fraternity, of which Count Peter Val
dcner is the leading light. Anstruthcr
in an odd way ONE upon the count,
who is dressed as Il servant accom-
panying a young girl. The count is
later killed in an accident, and An
strnther bcfricnds the girl. A police
official attempts to arrest them. but Is
out m%ancuvered by Anstruthcr, who,
for the girls safety, accompanies her
on the way to Pulta, ten miles away.
She is Nolna Drakona, she tells him,
daughter of the dead count. A thrill
ing horseback ride to Cracow followed,
during which DIN unfoldcd many OF
her secrets. Difficulties We're enconn-
tered, the couple. posing as brother and
sister, being held up by military au-
thOriticS. Caught in a storm, they re-
Iucstcd a farmer, forty miles
from their goal, to put them up for the
night. Their hostess and her husband
try to murder the pair, but Anstruther
turns the tables on them. He holds as
evidence for the police the poison
which she had tried to give him and
Nolna. The police arrive and attempt
to arrest all four, but the old bag up
sets a burning lamp, and in the excite
ment Robert and Nolna escape. They
make their way to kcrvaljc, hoping
to get help there from the priest, Fa-
fhcr Ambrose. Learning that Robert
has influential friends in Russia who
could help him in any pr~cdicamcnt, the
priest advises him to surrender to he
police, who would then he thrown off
the track Of NOlnn. lie bids NOlna good
by without telling her of his sacrifice,
but she forces the priest to reveal the
arrangement. Robert is then arrested
and taken to Warsaw. where he at
tacks the Bullying police chief, Colo
mel RrcmC1hof. Nolna gets word to
General Eckcrstcin, Swedish minister,
that his friend Robert is in prison,
and he is quickly released, only to
discover through the general that Vol
ma is engaged to the brute Brcmcnhof.
Robert, despite a warming of an i'm
pending revolutionary move, of which
his friend Count LadiSlas is Il leader,
goes to the latter to learn more about
\olna. IadiSlas, too. is in love with
Nolna. Robert promises to leave the
field to his friend. also to aid Nolna
to escape from Warsaw. The we go to
Eolna's home and while there get the
report of a massacre at petersburg.
NolnH'S mother is arrested by Bremen
hof upon a trumpcd up charge which
he had used as Il club to make Nolna
promise to marry him. The police
come for Nolna, who eScapc With
Robert. The revolt spreads. Robert,
wishing to confer With Count LadislaS.
runs into the hands of Police Agent
ErlSki. His cnptor shows a suspicious
fricndlinrsS, suggesting a way Robert
can escape from him, claiming to he IA
revolutionary agent. But Robert sub
mits to arrest, but is released and fol-
lowed by spies, one of whom is BruSki,
whom he can't shake Off. He misses
Nolna, but finds her Il prisoner. He
IS made Il prisoner himself. and i'll
attempting to escape BruSki turns the
tables by turning Il mob on him. but
Nolna saves him. Colonel Rremcnhof
becomes a prisoner of Roberts,. and
the latter forces him to accompany him
to headquarters for the papers against
Nolna's mother.