The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-11-13

cit Is OF Your atner, why 10 ne 90
Troubled About Your"
piness. because where there is love
there is always happiness. May say
one word more?"
"Go ahead" he answered.
''It is of your father. Why is he
SO troubled about ycu?"
Gerald frowned.
ST am afraid. MYRTLE" he said.
'that that is matter which I cannot
altogether explain TO you"
Perhaps you are right" she ad-
mitted. 81 must dare to say this.
though, because. you see. ] am with
your father many hours in the day.
and he is not so strong as he WIS and
so he shows his mind more easily.
Something about you Is worrying him.
That is not right, IL it9"
Gerald was silent for q moment A
telegraph boy, who had been riding
down the drive which curved through
the park, seeing them. had dismounted
from his bicycle and was crossing the
turf toward them with an orange-col-
ored envelope in his hand. Gerald took
II from him, tore II open, and read the
few lines which It contained. Then he
gave the boy coin and dismissed him.
He looked once more at the message.
ut is good newsT MYRTLE inquired
gravely.
"Good enough" Gerald answered Il
have been living In a miserable state
Of uncertainty. Now 1t will all be
cleared up"
"There will be no more trouble.
thenr
81 cannot say that" he replied. 'but
at least there will be action. Next
week will see the beginning Of the
calculation. ! leave for Russia on
Tuesday"
The change in Pauline's manner.
when Gerald was ushered by an I'M
tidy-looking waiter into her sitting
room on the following afternoon, was
almost electrifying. In place Of her
usual languid greeting. she sprang
lightly to her feet and gave him both
her hands. The slight sullenness had
all gone from her face. There was no
living person just then who would
not have found her beautiful.
"You received my telegram she
demanded eagerly.
"And l came to You at once" was
the prompt reply.
She drew him down to her side upon
the sofa. Her manner and tone dis.
played an animation entirely new to
her.
"Reusser returned the night before
last" she said HE seems to have had
comparatively easy journey. and he
reports conditions over there very
much more lenient In many ways. he
had no dificulty In landing or In max.
ing his way wherever he wished to 60
On the other hand, the stories he brings
back as to the distress and misery
everywhere are simply shocking. The
country bleeds to death. There are
few trains running. no order, no disci.
pline; despotic and arbitrary police
surveillance everywhere. But there ID
also corruption. People, especially the
ofncial classes. are looking everywhere
for the means to live. A merchant
who was imprisoned only month OF
80 ago on a charge Of murder, ia
which he actually pleaded guilty waa
set free the day before Reusser left
| It cost him little more than I'VE thou
sand roubles."
"Did this man Reusser discover
where your brother was" Gerald
| asked.
'For ten thousand roubles," she IN.
swered. "he could have searched every
! police register In Russia. Paul 10 al
the Fortress Of st. Marian, at q small
town called Sokar, about three hun.
dred miles south Of Petrograd. It Is 9
bad journey, Of course, but the place
| Il accessible. The governor Of the
prison Is a Major Krossneys. He Il
| half an Austrian and half q Pole