The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1904, Page 1

— 7#z (arEssion — - o Go gfl—gq ON, - - Gom mis FORSIE you HIS is the second install- ment of “The Fugitive,” the new novel of Jewish life in Russia and America, by Fzra S. Brudno, which has ereated such a stir, both in Europe and America, in perhaps for the first time, shows the real condi- 1at ‘exists among the Jews. The interpretation t the anthor gives to his t will be found is vast- tion reader might be expected to give it aecording to literary tradition: After “The Fugitive” Mir- iam Michelson’s new novel “In the Bishop’s Cayriage which tells- the remarkable story .of Nance Olden,” the burglar. girl, - about which the critics of two continents are enthusiastically writing as the one literary find of the vear, will be published com-, lifereyt from what the plete. SRR e 1904, by Doubleday, Page as she walked acrgss the room and past & Co. Y ith downcast eyes, and I shiv- CHAJ > X ered. - I had made’her suffer on my ac- count. This thought lacerated my FAREWELL TO ZAMOK. heart apd I writhed with shame. IDIATELY repaired to my I sat brooding till it grew dark, but locked mwself in. My could not shape any definite plan.;; A appiness was gone, and the g t castles I had built in e air were” all shattered. The cary weather outside added gloom to misery. The raln was now pletely changed to large flakes snow that disappeared as they fell upon the muddy ground. - The sudya’s stern countenance stood before mind’s eye; his harsh voice was till ringing in my ears. I brooded and refiected, though nothing definite shaped itself in my mind. I 'thought of Katla, of how the sudya glanced at her knock interrupted my sad deliberfition. I opened the door, and Katia’s gover- ness entered’ with ‘a little parcel in’her +hand and placed it on the table before 'me. “The sudya sends this to you,” she sald briefly; and -bidding me a cold “good evening” left the room, I regarded ‘the parcel for several minutes before I could summon the courage to oPen it; I knew absolutely what message it brought to me. I Qpened it with trembling hands, and found a roll of ten-ruble bills and the note ‘in the sudya’'s pointed r Israel Abramowitch: T hope 1 jherewith: send you will e a start in life, with your p me in- are, and.I shall 5 u. With. sineere kind- main ever helpful'to yo “ALEXIS ~ M. BIALNICK.” I glanced contemptuo: ruble bills, and then fc gof them: . Up to this:minute I had begn ab to reach no decision.-. The sudya’s note left but ptie ¢ourse vpen to me—I must leave and leave at once. My frame shook as 1 thought’of going away. Never again see Katia' 7 again hear her voice! at the ten- the time for- ver again feel ?]Pl’ arm on my shoulder! I stayed.up late that night, ponder- ing ‘dnd ,pondering upon my reckless- ngss and'folly. When at length I; de- cided to lie down, all of the household had Jong been asieep. I oponed the door df my room and glanced at thai of Katia’s.! A glimmering light, which always burned at night in her chamber, peeped in a thin line from under the door. My heart beat like a {housand hammers as ‘my thoughts travelled back to the scene in the afternoon. I thought of her father, and a fierce de- sire for revenge arose in my heart. For a moment I had forgotten the gratitude I owed him for his kindness and wished only I could do him harm. But another momment brought me to my normal senses. I shuddered at the atrocity of my momentary thought, and I' hated myself for my Ingratitude. I quickly undressed and threw myself upon the bed. But late as it was, sleep would not come. My sordid,childhood haunted my brain—the Talmud-Torah, the cruel . brother. « that c teachers, the miserable boys, and then a picture of my mother vin her death- bed. My thoughts took a difierent , turn. ‘What would my mcther say to my staying with ge les and aban- doning the coemmandments of . my faith? What does the Ah, the Talmud! T ha uished he study and the . ard: néw 1 had flung them My ‘teach had predicted :a gregt Mure for me—-the mantle ofghe rabbig-and now. 1" had strayed off toward-a diffe goel! The vague re- memibrance 'of - my - run brother iild hie be? came back {0 e Where ¢ 2 ied to recall Would ever | find hix his< feature distinctly. held my mind to th rengthened; one thoyght,suggestéd arother;” each strand was irtertwisted with aficthe Wes it nat, this_same Alexis Bialnic who had’been sledévatel in oug tpwn, and in wkose house my brother, had taken reiuge for a whi I pressed> my d, hoping te wring gut all ‘that ain. contained regarding’ my .Yes, What was the rumor ulated through the town whén my. father was airvested? Ah, now I recalled it clearly;, my brother was in love with Mr. Blalnick's niece and was going to marry har at the time my father was imprisoned. And I?—I? I pressed my temples hagder, harder; I wished to grasp the situation more fully. 1? Why, I was following In njy brother’s footsteps. . 1 also was for- getting my mother's wishes and the laws of my people. Thus. I .tormented my brain for an hour: or more, trembling feverishly all the while, till my present situation re curred to my mind. Since I must lea b .the house, Why not do so_surrepti- and thus. save myself much ' ;. tiously, pain and degradation? 4 1 eat up in bediand listened. Next.to my rovm & thit of thé governess: steady snores came from it,. A thought ape itdelf in hiy bra my ohed: WMy “‘heurt thtobbed began to s barefoot steps of a servant- girl in a. distent reoms | Exéept. for theze.tyvo soynds the hduse was’in dead silence.. X Yo K Aftem I-hmid waited 'a While I dressed quiekly:Wwithout rhaking the least rioise. 1 opened theZdoor 6f mysroom Huietly; the refiécthun of the faint light’ from the roon fxio which ‘mine opened fell upon théreH of moneysan®my table. 1 ;turned spround and looked @t .4 moment, thibughtlessly. -1 avent to -the table, toolf, the bills in: my« hand, re- mained standing a few ‘seconds ab- stractediy, ‘#nd then, as i’ automati- cafly; ‘flung the money_back upon the table.. I was deaving the room, when I chanced to thrust my hdnd: into my pocket. I did #ot bave a slagie copper —npt ‘evena copeck. - k.went back® to the table, took A few bills from the roll, and pocketed them. I cast a last giance at my room and came out ‘into -the next one. I re- mained standing ,in hesitation. he glimmering light from under Katia's door—it made me quiver in every nerve; my blood rushed into my feverish brain. I held my breath and listened again; loud snormg came from the governess's room. How my heart throbbed and beat and hammered! I turned the knob of Katia's door, and the next instant I was inside her room. There before me . lay sweet -Katla, with her. face cellingward, faintly. il- luminated by the:light or the: small lamp; her beautiful lips were slightly the flat, Anothér sound reached me— ¢ are hand apnd arm lay She siept quietly and Ipeace Her head slightly turned ‘and her grimsoned lipymoved, as if she ‘smucksd them. I gazed at her eagerly, frapturdas A sound in. the gover- ) foom, which was connected with and the dqgr. of which' stood flesh creep. *Sobn s restored: only the heavy bfeathing of the governess and the swishing' of the snow' and. slect against’ the walls, and window-panes were heird.” T must go—I must g 1 said to.myself. But K s face, her mass of.di§héveled hair gvér the pol- low, almiost persuaded me to change my plan and t till morning, when I should Be'able to hear, Katia 7 sayy/ “geod-k But ‘T could not wait:* I had to go. » 1 knelfy before’ her bed and gazed breaihlessiy at.the sweet face before “mé&™ Tiwds almost dazed. I legned 'my head against the cold ‘edge of ‘her bed, faum® i "sitérit ‘worship. ¥ She -béman to E and the hand ‘that rested upon the coverlet slipped down, as if she offered it to me to kiss. I pressea my lips up- on her fingers with all my boyish pas- sion. Once more I gazed at her faintly illumined face, and then on tiptoe.I stole out of the room. CHAPTER XL THE MYSTERY REVEALED. Outside it was dark, cold, dreary, with a bitter wind-driven sleet. A dog growled in his kennel as I passed him, but after springing out he seemed to recognize me and quletly disappeared swithin his shelter. I found the gate fastened, so I-had to climb over the high barbed-wire fence which inclosed (the yard, to the great injury.of my *on’the cov' +burn in my pocket. ching . 1pe aa 1| was ided dir to take. ness was all about a fearful sadness possessed me; arn as I ag- vanced a few steps an enig . power w g me back. By out i east at my fastest et lashed my face, e ankles at agd on— her? My head was crammed with entary thoughts—of my erstwhile f my folly, gf .my_grati- my heart sank with shame Instantly, however, reason e:, 1 had' committed no, &in: I had done harm,to no one; I lovedsKatia as a sister, and why should ss her? What harm is re in . that because of one the sudya came my thé. money I had taken; It seemed to I pulled’out the notes .and flung them fiercely .into' the muyd, d -plodded on my way with a quieter -mind. I tramped on through a seemingly endless stretch of mud-and-slush-cov- ered land till at length I reached a small - village,- one those entirely oecupied by muzhi , with barnlike houses and barns. I would have sought s et in one of the hedged-in huts, but all the dogs of this little community set up such a loud barking that I was glad to get out of the village with my life. After another half hour of the heavy road I caught the faint lights of another village. By this time I was numb to my very bones from the damp cold, my legs were so fagged that one would hardly follow the other, and my face stung as If it had been lashed with a bunch of net- tles. But I struggled desperately, bilndly on till I reached the village,