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THE BLACK TERROR A Romance of Russia. By JOHN SOC STS . | PROP 3 3 K. LEYS. GETETETETIVICLELUCTLIELTD, CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) He assured me that no one but the servants had entered the room for a week past—“except,” he added, “the Prince’s valet. He called yesterday ‘for some small articles he had left be- hind, and he stayed some time chatter- ing to one or other of the servants. We did not consider him a stranger. But | trust, sir, you have missed nothing?” Nothing whatever. Only, I fancied sme things had been moved. If the yslet—what is his name, by the way?” “RKamaud, sir. Jules Ramaud.” “If Ramaud should call agin, kindly let me know,” said I. “And if I should be out at the time, keep him, if you can, till I return. I should like to ask him one or two questions.” Ivan bowed and left the room. I had no doubt now that the Prince's late valet was one of the conspirators. Thad vague suspicions about the man before, for I thought it was suspicious that he should wish to leave just when nis post, owing to the absence of his raster, had become a sinecure. I was now convinced that he had been in- troduced to the house by the Com- mittee in order to aid them in abduct- ing the Prince. But as to the manner of the abducting , was as much in the ght of the Prince’s disappearance aud was out of the way—ill in t I had no time to pursue that ject then. Locking the library I sat down to read the letter door, f:amaud had brought me. It was traced on thin paper, in a de- licate Italian hand, evidently a wo- and it ran as follows You would have had your instruc- tions before now, if the watch ovet you had not been so strict. All letters sert you through the post are opened in the postoffice. We ascertained this by posting an envelope to you contain- | ing an anoymous letter making certain rges against the chief of the secret police. We have reason to believe that it never reached you, and, if this is the case, you will understand the necessity for caution. (The anonymous letter, I may say, | had not been delivered.) “Pray follow exactly the instruc- tiens here given, ¢ t may be impos- sible to find another opportunity of communic ou without ex-| citing fr sious in the minds of the police, and inducing them to have you watched even after you leave Rus: s soon as possible go back to Lov- na, and inform the Princess Kropenski that her husband is a victim of the Black Terror, but that it is possible that he may yet be restored to liberty. We need cely say that any indis- cretion on your part in speaking to the Princess would be considered as an act of treason against the Committee. “You will at once announce your in- tention of returning to England, on the plea that you cannot carry on your work at the ¢astle in the absence of} the Prince. You will then return to, London by any route yeu prefer, tak-! ing care, however, to be in England by the end of June. yn the 3d of July you must go to} erw, a small fishing village on} the coast of Suffelk. At 2 o'clock the morning of the 4th of July it w be high tide: and exactly at that hour} m you must be at the end of the pie alone, and carry nothing but a small} bag containing a change of cloth You will then be told what you must! do; and, if you still desire it, you will be brought face to face with Prince | Kropenski. ‘Every precaution will be taken to Nard against treachery on your part; snd the Committee beg you to consider ease of your harboring any though ef giving information to the English ice, that such an action could not ‘fect the members of the Committee; \ other words, the active heads of the organization. The only result would be the sacrifice of a few unintiuential agents, while it would mean the blot. ting out of every ray of hope for Prince Kropenski, and for yourself the certainty of a violent death. You} need not think to escape us. Not one, | of all who have been condemned to} death by the Nihilist society, has es- caped his fate. You would, if you be- trayed us, be safe nowhere but inside the walls of an English prison. “We may add that we do not believe. that this warning is becessary. We do~ not do you the injustice to think that you would prove a traitor. Vet it is; only fair that you should know what; the penalty of treachery would infaili- bly be. “By Order of the Committee of Public; Safety.” } Here ended this singular document. { For an hour or more I pondered it,, and wondered what would be the end of the adventure on which I was enter- ing. hen and there I resoolved that I would not tell either the Princess; Kropenski or her daughter that T in- tended to see the Prince. The proposal might fall through, and in that ease I would enly have raised their hones to no purpose. ill more did this apply ¢ to my expectation that I might ulti- mately be able to procure his release. It would be time enough to speak of} that when I found that 1 could under- take the job—or rather when I saw my way of accomplishing it. If I were to speak of the project now, when noth- ing had been definitely settled, it {find words, i remorseless Heath?” asked the elder lady, as she put her thin, white hand in mine. “I am grieved to say I have not,” was my answer. “And you have discovered nothing yourself?’ she asked, with a wistful look that made my heart bleed for her. “Ah!” I exelaimed, “you must not blame me. How could I hope to suc- eced when the police, with all their experience and knowledge of St. Pe- tersburg, can do nothing. I waited to see the chief of the secret police, but he had nothing to tell me.” “I thought, perhaps, you might have received a hint from one of the Prince's friends as to where he might probably be found.” I replied that I had made a point of seeing and questioning every man whom the Prince had called on, or who had visited him, since his return to St. Petersburg, and that not one of them had been able to give me as much as a hint that could be called useful. “I am sure you have done all you could,” murmured the Princess, and she sat for a short time absorbed in thought, her head leaning on her hand, while her elbow rested on a table that stood close to her chair. She was not weeping, though her eyes bore witness that she had shed many tears. Neith- er Princess Irene nor I spoke, but I stole a look at her, and she answered me with one swift glance. “I won't detain you longer, Mi. Heath,” said the Princess Krepenski, quietly, lifting her head. “You will need rest and food. Any details you may have to give us will keep until another time.” I had vo idea that the lady would to see me again that day; but in ss than an hour a timid knock came to the door of my sitting room, and when I opened it, to my surprise, the mistress of the castle stood on the hold. It was the first time since arrival at the castle that I had been honored in such a way. I hastened to place a chair for the Princess, but she declined, at first, to take it, saying that she only intended to stay for a minute or two. She stood leaning against the table that stood in the center of my room, as if trying to At length she spoke: id, Mr. Heath, that we “Tam afr 'must have seemed very ungrateful to you, my daughter and I. Certainly we ought not to have forgotten to thank you, 2s I do most sincerely, for your great kindness—for all the trouble that you have given yourself on our ac- count. I can hardly understand how I came to be so forgetful; but my mind was full of my husband, and be- “ould not speak freely in m: 's presence. I could not say rished to say. But now that we are alone, I will tell you that, if you wish to make my gratitude a thousand times greater than it is, you will tell me the whole truth.” How was I to resist th gentle, pleading eyes, that tearful voice? And yet I knew well it would be a cruel kindness to speak the awful truth’ to this weak, loving woman. Better she should think her husband dead, than know him to be in the power of the ss enemies his own evil deeds had sed up against him! But how could she guess that I had not told her the whole truth? “The whole truth, Pincess?” I stam- red. s, the whole truth. T insist upon ng it. We are alone. You may ak freely.” . indeed, I did tell you—what I told you was the truth.” pes but not the whole truth. You need not be afraid. The Prince, I have been teld, did not live a regular life when he was a young man. There ar temptations in a great capital like S Petersburg which a man, unaccus- tomed to control his passions, may find it hard to r If you have heard hints among my husband’s friends that he had formed any attachments—” “My dear Princess!’ I burst ont, “T assure you you are mistaken. If there had been any entanglement of the kind you hint at, I could not fail to have heard something of it. But there was nothing—nothing of the kind. The breath of scandal never uttered the Prince’s name.” The poor lady was so much oyer- come by her feelings that she sank into the chair I had placed for her and kn {shed a few tears; but I could see that they were tears of joy rather than of grief. “If anything had happened to the Prince, his body would have been found long ago,” she said, once more raising her eyes to my face. “But they say it is certain that he must have left his home of his own accord. Do you think the Czar can have in- trusted him with some secret mis- sion?” I caught eagerly at the idea. “Nothing would be more likely!” I eclaimed. “This would explain the ret- icence of the chief of police. You know he refused to see me for a long time, and when at last he consented to see me, he would tell me nothing.” “But if he was going away on a Se- eret mission, why did he not send me a word, a hint, that I might know what had become of him?’ “Perhaps the summons came sud- denly, and the Prince thought he would only be away for a few days. He may have been detained unexpect- edly. Any day, any hour, news may come that he has returned to St. Pe- would be like endeavoring to gain! tersburg.” credit and gratitude for a plan—a mere intention—that might turn out to be worthless. ‘The very next day I started for Lov- na; and as soon as I reached the castle I was shown into a room where the Princess Kropenski and Irene wer waiting to receive me. “Have vou no news to give me. Mr. The Princess sighed, and I saw that, though she tried to think that this might be the explanation of the mys- tery, her heart was not satisfied. But there was no more that I could say. She left me, if not comforted, yet re- lieved to find that she had not been deserted for another of her own sex. Bur I guessed that the Princess Irene would also seek a private inter- view with me, and I knew that she would not be so easy to satisfy as her mother had been. Indeed, I had be- gun to doubt whether I ought to leave her in ignorance of the truth. Some one of the Prince’s family, I felt, ought to be told what I had learned, and ‘f so, the Princess Irene was the proper person to be told. But before I corld make up my mind how far I ought to confide in her, I received a message from her through her maid, to say that she would be glad if I would step down to the small library, as she de- sired to speak to me. CHAPTER X. The Princess Irene Lerrns My Secret. The smalll library, so-called to dis tinguish it from the great, barn-like room which served the double purpose of library and music room, was in darkness when I entered it, save for the fitful light that came from a smail wood fire. The great porcelain stove in the corner did the real work of warming the room, but the open fire was kept burning to give the apart- ment a cheerful look, as it was very commonly used as a sitting room. The Princess Irene was standing at one side of the fire, which had been al- lowed to burn low, the hour being now late. She was leaning against the marble column that formed one side of the fireplace, and her eyes were fized on the red embers. “I wanted to see you—” she began, hurriedly, as soon as she saw me. “I could not sleep until I had spoken with you. Mr. Heath, I implore you to tell me the truth. I could see, easily enough, while you were speaking to mamma and me this afternoon, that you are keeping something back.” “How did you imagine such a thing?’ I asked, surprised at the tone of coufidence in which she spoke. “Pecause you spoke slowly, choosing your words. You seemed to be like an unwilling witness, who does not wish to perjure himself, yet is trying to keep back the truth. You avoided say- ing, in so many words, that you were quite. ignorant of my father’s fate, You weuld not say that you had heard nothing of him. Do not keep me in suspense any longer, I beseech you. What is it you have heard? Is my father dead?” “No. I believe he is not dead.” Then you do know something? What is it? Do be quick! Don’t you sce how anxious I am? “Princess,” I said, “take my advice. Do not press me further. What good can it do to know all that has come te my ears? It would only in ase your anxi vi She made an imperious, impatient | movement with her hand, but I paid | no attention to it. “My information may be altogether wrong. It may be purpesely misleading. It has been im- possible for me to verify it in any | ‘1 would have said more, but the| Princess Irene broke in with:— “You are only wasting time, Mr. Heath. I mean to know the truth. If you refuse to answer me, I shall go to my mother, and tell her plainly that you are keeping back something—that you are not dealing fairly by us.” “You are mistaken,” I said, coldly, “if you think that threats of that kind | will have any influence with me. I shall tell the Princess as much as think it good for her peace of mind that she should know, and not another syllable. Of that you may be certain. To men- tion your suspicions to her would merely be to distr her to no pur- pose.” | The girl's look, ner attitude, changed | in a moment. Imperfect as the light | was, I could see that she flushed sear- let. Probably no one, except her fath- er, had ever spoken to her in that tone since she could remember. But her anxiety made her forget her pride. When she next spoke, it was almost in the tone of a suppliant. Turning swiftly towards me, she leaned her hands on the back of a chair, and looked at me with so steadfast a gaze that I could not tear my eyes away | from hers. | “Do not be angr, in a low, pleadin roice it was impo ble to resist. forget what I said just now in my passien, You know I am not used to having my will put aside. Father—poor father!—al gave me what I wanted. And, a all, den’t you think I have a right to know with me,” she said, | whatever you have learned? Mamma | would have the right if she were stronger; but as it is, I am in her} ploce. I am not a child; I can control , my feelings. See how calm I am now! Indeed, indeed, Mr. Heath, you may | tell me the whole truth, however dreadful it may be. It can scarcely be | worse than the anxiety I am sufferin:; from now.” | “Alas! what I have to tell you will | only increase your anxiety. But, if} you insist on it, I think you have a right to all I know myself. You re- member that man I hid in the sawmill’ last winter—the Inman to whom you gave the fur rug?” “That man? And is it thus thet he rewards us—you, | mean?’ “No, no! you are mistaken. That man, I believe, is our friend. But L have seen him, ard he acknowledged to me—it breaks my heart to tell you— | that the Prince, your father, has fallen into the hands of the Nihilists—the men who call themselves the Commit- tee of Public safety! { “And they will kill—they will kill him! I know they will!” “No; I do not think they will put him to death. They might have mer- dered him on his own doorstep, if that had been their object. But I believe he is in their hands, and that they are, in a sense, holding him to ransom.” “Why did you not tell me this scon- er? If it is only a question of mon- ey—!” “It is not a question of money at all. What is the ultimate object of the con- spirators I do not yet know. Tor one thing, I have no doubt they mean to terrorize the agents of the govern- ment all over the country, by silently and secretly removing those who fall under their displeasure. And to a great extent they have succeeded. Already in the eapital—and I have no doubt among State officials all over Russia— they know of these mysterious disap- pearances, They have even given — | beginning of a revolution. them a name. They call it the Black Terror!” “But this is dreadful! ble!” “The revolutionists say they are ; merely inflicting on their oppressors the same punishment they have dealt out to others, many of them innocent. Think how many wives in Russia mourn their husbands, how many mothers their sons, snatched suddenly from their eyes and condemned by a secret tribunal, or kept in prison with- out ever being brought to trial! Can anyone wonder that the relatives ot the victims of the Russian police sys- tem should seek revenge?” “Hush! I would not listen to such things from you.” I shrugged my shoulders and re mained silent. “And can we do nothing—nothing to soften the hearts of these men?” asked Irene, after a long pause . I hesitated before answering, and then said slowly (for I thought it cruel, haying told her so much, to leave her altogether without hope). “There is a certain chance—I cannot say more, but at all events there is a chance—that the Prince will be liberated before long.” She gave a cry of joy, and with clasped hands fixed her shining eyes on mine as if they would read the very thoughts in my :nind. “Who is the person in authority? Who is is it that has the power to de- cide my father’s fate? Not the man who was here in winter I hope?” “No; I believe the decision rests with several persons. In any case, you can- not possibly interfere; for, of course, the leaders of the conspiracy are in hiding. No one, not even the members of their own society, know where they are to be found.” “And you?’ The words were s79k- en softly, tremulously, and with them | came an appealing glance, as much As to say, “Is there nothing you can do, nothing you can suggest—you, who have secret sources of information, you, who haye already learned so much?” : “J—I think of returning to England at once. I do not think that anything could be gained by remaining here.” The Princess said nothing, but ccn- tinued to look at me. I could not bear the gentle reproach that was in her gaze, and my eyes fell to the ground. When I raised them and stole a look at her face, she was still steadfastly gaz- ing on me. There was sorrow, and a proud disdain’ to ask ‘help where it was not freely offered, and a bitter disep- pointment in her look. I knew well what she was thinking: “If you had been the man I have taken you for, you would not have deserted me in this time of trouble.” Pvt 1 was resolved that she shovld not know my _ secret. I would not speak of what I had it in my mind to do, seeing that it was more than likely that my conscience would not allow me to do what was required of me. “So you will go ay in a voice so low tha It ts intolera | I shall not forget you,” “No, swered, in a tone that was scarcely more audible than her own. There was a deep silence in the room, One of the small, balf-burnt logs tumbled down into the fire and suddenly biazed up, throwing strange, fantastic shad- ows over floor and walls and ceiling. “I have no brother, no uucle or cou- sin, except one cousin, who is not our friend,” said the girl, turning lf- aside as she spoke. “There will be no one to do anything for us when you are gone.” It was a second or two before I could steady my voice sufficiently to reply. “If you had half-a-dozen broth- ers or cousins, they could do nothing for you. You ean only wait.” Another pause. The large ember was rapidly burning itself out. Lrene spoke again: “If L were to see the Czar—” “It could not possibly do any good. He can only rely upon his police, «nd ve done all they could, we may alread And they have dis- covered nothing. More than that, Uicy cannot prevent the next official con- demned by the Committee from being spirited away as your father was. There is, of course, one thing the Czar could do—he could make peace with the revolutionary party by giving Rus- sian freedom, 2 Constitution, a free Parliament. But who is going to per suade him to do that?” Trene sighed wearily. “Oh, polities! You know the princi- ples in which I have been brought up. To me a Parliament would mean the But I can- ret think of that at present. I can only think of one thing—that my fath- er is in the hands of his enemies, who liave a power of life and death over him. At the best, he must be suffering a confinement, a personal degradation, which will kill him if he is not soon set at liberty. I am sure he cannot long survive what these wretches will make him suffer.” I murmured something to the effect that her father was a strong ‘an, in the prime of life, and that there was no reason to apprehend his death; but Irene did not listen to me. “We will pine away and die of the confinement—or he will provoke his gaolers to.murder him,” said Trene, in a tone ef conviction, “And you tell me you wish to return to your own country. Well, Mr. Heath, go! No one in the eastle of Lovna will try to hin- der you!” With that she turmed her back cn me and began to walk slowly away from me, towards the other end of the room. 1 found not a word to say, and remained standing where I was. Sud- denly she flashed round on me. “| said you might go, Mr. Heath. No one is detaining you.” Mechanically I held out my hand. The Princess snatched her hands be- hind her back, and held them there, as if there was polution in my very touch, and drew herself up_haughtily. I couid not read all there was in her face, and as I was trying to decipher what was written there, the flame on the hearth died away, and I could see no more. % “Farewell,” she said, and once more she turned away. (To Be Continued)” The average woman spends more time than money when she goes shoo- | ping. WASHINGTON CHAT Senator Hansbrough made a visit to the war department in regard te the North Dakota troops in Manila. Gen. Corbin assured the senator that the North Dakota boys would be included ‘in the first expedition to San Francis- co. He said the troop ships which are to carry the regulars to the Philippines will be ready to leave San Francisco within a week, and, estimating the time required to make the trip to and from the Philippines, it is probable the first volunteers will be home early in April. The adjutant general also said that it is probable the Thirteenth Min- nesota and the First North Dakota will return together, ; a a 8 The commissioner of Indian affairs disapproves of the establishment of a medical department for the Indians. This project has been agitated for some time, and Dr. J. G. Bulloch, pres- ident of the United States Indian Med- ical association, filed a> petition with the house committee on Indian affairs asking that congress provide for such a department. The commissioner re- commends the appointment of a hy- gienic and sanitary officer, who shall bear the same relations to the Indian office as the superintetndent of schools, He says the establishment of a special medical department is unnecessary. a It has leaked out here that the charges made by the interior depart- ment against Register Kent and Re- ceiver Lindstrom of the Grand Forks (N. D.) land office, are more serious than were supposed. Commissioner Hermann has said that the matter will be dropped and the officials be permit- ted to retain their places. It appears, however, that Secretary Bliss, acting on the report of Inspector Green, was inclined to remove the officials, and it is possible that may be the outcome of the matter. In his report the inspector say! “I respectfully represent that the register and receiver are grossly neglectful of their official duties; that they are frequently and habitually ab- sent from the office without leave; that they are incompetent, in that they leave all matters to clerks, authorizing the latter to sign their names mirister oaths in their sbsence. the present state of politics in North Dakota, with the senatorial contest on, it is probable the matter will be left as it but, with a strong report against the officials, they are in danger of re- moval at any time. ae ® Adjt. Gen. Corbin has under consid- eration a plan with reference to the regiments to be brought back to the United States from the Philippines which, if adopted, will considerably in- erease the comper ion of the return- ing soldiers, including the Thirteenth Minnesota and the troops from North and. South Dakota. It has been suggested that en the ar. rival of the soldiers from San Francis- eo, that they be furloughed at once and sent to their homes. If this plan is adopted each soldier will be entitled to additional compensation on travel pay, amounting to about $200 per man in the case of those from Minnesota and the Dakotas, whereas, if they are returned as organized regiments to their homes and furloughed there, the compensation will be much less. Gen. Corbin is of the opinion that the ad- vantage to the soldiers and to their families will be greater than if the boys were furloughed where they were mustered in, and is worth considering for that reason. BIG GEORGE CON VICTED. Indian Who Killed Swan Swanson Gets Ten Years. Madison, Wis., Special—The jury in the federal court brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Big George, the Indian who killed Swan Swanson on the Flambeau reservation last Sep- tember. He was sentenced to ten years in the Minnesota state prison. A jaw provides that the Wisconsin state prison shall receive United States pris- oners for only eighteen months or less. BE RELEASED. CANNOT Delay in Restoring Spanish Prison- ers to Liberty. Madrid, Special—Gen. Rios, Span- ish commander, telegraphs from Ma- nila that the strained relations be- tween the Americans and insurgents prevent steps being taken in favor of the release of the Spanish prisoners In the Philippine islands. He adds that he will act in that direction as soon as it is possible. OTIS AND AGUINALDO, May Meet in Manila and Talk Things Over. Manila, Special.—It is probable that Aguinaldo will come to Manila to dis- cuss with Gen. 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