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Her wnld tevered words out me to the hem 0. Sometimes in English. sometimes in soft Issues. she called on some one; spoke words of deep love and sorrow; gave vent to the expressions of fond endear- ment. These were succeeded by cries of grief. and it seemed as It shudders ot tear pegged over_her. For me there was no word; no look of nition. I. who would have given worlds to hear my name Fp‘)ken once. during her delirium. with an expression of logo, was but a. stronger at bat: bedside. Whom was ifi she called for and lamented? Who was the man she and I had seen slain? I soon learnedâ€"and if my informgut spoke mo truth. be had, in so doing. dealt me a blow from which I ahpuld nexer rally._ It was Mooori who struck it. He called on me the day after Puuline and I had waited that house. I would not see him then. My plan were not formed. For the time I could think of nothing save my wife's danger. But two days afterward. when he again called, I gave orders for him to be admitted. The doowr told1me her state was a most critical one. There was hope for her life. hm no certaimy of saving It. It was during those days of anxiety that. I learned how much I loved my unhegpy girl. How grateful I should be if she were given back to ye. even an I ha? always known her. _ V A 'lnsrl in the Initti . s hunt for the hail; the Int-bottle shatter the capes beepetteted. Dirt pies in the hsii. the unit on the tsbie by tiny teeth bitten : Wee prints 0! wet lingers on vindow sud door: Poor h {glimms's esp. es s hook for the n. Drsaed down on the floor. Bolt angles at lsushter; s sunshlny isnoiug. As somebody time in and out like a ini : Btrsnfe sooidents oheuoiug wherever the duw K II Bmsil footsteps are heard. "Comic. Ethel. my bsby. your grove eyes uplilt- DR. stand lgm at my side. Do you know the wee spr e Who into some over new mischief in drifting From morning till night '2" A smile like s sunbeam. so coy end «teasingâ€" She lilmiiiea in my (me like the witch thst s o s. No need of more guessing. “My trouble. my blessing, Como. give me 3 kiss i" put - ‘v....-._‘. A BLACK LII. Having placed the poor girl in Priemlle‘e mouherly hands. I fetched she be» doctor I could ehink of. and efforts were as once made to restore consciousness. II was long before any sign of returning anima- fiion showed itself. but. at last. ehe awoke Need I any when a supreme moment that In! to me? I need not give details 0! that return to life. After all. it was but shall return. and brought fresh terrors in its tram. When morning dawned it found Pauline raving with win“ I prayed was but the delirium of lower. I ebuddered as I tack the hand I dared not yet refuse him. although In my own mind I was certain that n murderer'e fingers were clasped round my own. Per- haps the very fingers which had once closed on my throat. Yet. With all I knew. I doubted whether I could bring him to jugtjce. _ .r ‘ .u v. v A ouch in the nu sud tho rooon ul sutured. A gnu! in Iboynmlux. 0_ but“ tor pm bag]: ' Unleee Pauline reovered. the evidence I could bring would be of no weight. Even the victim's name was unknown to me. Before the accusation would lie.hie remains must be found and identified. It wee hope. lees t3 think of punishing the murderer. now that more than three years had elapsed since the crime. Besidesâ€"wee he Peulme‘e brother ? Brother or not. I would unmask him. I would ehcw him that the crime was no longer a secret; that en outiier knew every d. tsil. I would tell him this in the hope thnt his future would be hunted with too dread otejuet vengeance over- tehing him. I knew the name of the street to which Pauline had led me. I had noticed it as we drove lrom it a few nights ago, and the reason of my drunken gume'e mistake was apparent. In wan Hmloe street. My con- ductor had Jumbled up Walpole and Hor- ace in his drunk muddled brain. On what a slight thread the whole course o!_a_li{e bug} I_ M10311 had heard of Pauline‘a illness and delirium. He was as tenderly 5:1 cib‘ 011i in his inquiries in a brother should be. My replies ware cold and brief. Brother or not he wee answerable for everything. _ He bowad politely ; but I saw his lips close tightly for a moment. " I am quite an your service." he said. " Vary well. Betote all I must be satia- flegtbaq yo_u_9ro Ipy y.f_e‘s prother." ' Whichever the fellow feltâ€"leer or use â€"the expression of hie hoe wee ebet of blank uroniehment. Not, I knew. the enr- prinoe of Innooenoe. but of wonder thn the orime should be known. For omomenr hie jaw dropped end he goped M me in Iilonoe. . _ _ ‘ Preazutly he changed the subject. " I scarcely like t) trouble you at such a time, but I should be glad to know it you are willing to join me. as I enmeshed, In a memorial to Victor Emmanuel ‘2" He nin'ed hil hick duh eyebrows md tried to smile. “ Thu ll easily done. Hui p >01- Oonori been win: no he would huvo vouched fox-ii." " But he mid me very dnfierontly." “ Ah. he had his reasons. No mutter. I am 29mg plenty_9f_om9§ perqona." w'l‘hon he "covered. " Are you mud. Mr. Vauehnu ?' he oripd. " I am not. There are several things I mggt have gxplginqd firfil." " On the 20m 0! Augml. 186â€". g» No. ~â€" Eoruoo are». you subbed hero. m the has". a young nun who was sitting n the able. Dr. Cenuri w“ in the to m n she time. alro another man win: a no“ on hi-u luau" " Then. ugoin." I aid, looking him (all in the (no god apnkin very slowly. " I must know why you mm and 3 mon three yoga go in o pougofn Horace guest." Be imam: tad no evuion. no sprung to his led with tenures oonvulud wub maze. Be mind my um. For n moment I though: he meant to Minot me, hm hand he Only wanted in pom my hoe auentively. I cid uni shrink {tom his inspection. I badly though; he would teoogmm me; no PAULINE. Ely 'l‘n-blc, Sly lilo-ulna. CHAPTER 1X. â€"Thc Nursery. _,-_ -__ ,__-- -_ , , , “ Go." I cried, " murderer and coward 1 Every word you have ever spmen to me has been a lie, and because you unto me. you have 30-day told me the greatest lie 0! all. Go; save yourself from uhe gallows by than." Then I went to Panline'e room, and Billing by her bed heard her parched lips ever and ever calling in English or Italian on some one she loved. Heard them baeeeohmg and warning, and knew that her wild words were addressed to the man whom Macari averted he had slain because he was the lover of his eiaterfmy w_ilel 1 made no reply. So hideous a state- ment celled {or no comment. I simply rose and walked toward him. He new my purpose written in my lace. “ Not here," he said hastily. and moving away from me; " what good can it do hereâ€"a vulgar eon!- fle between two gentlemen? No; on the Continentâ€"any where. meet me, and I will show you how I hate you." 7 , 3 AnillAE_ I . , _ _V__ ,, ,, He rpoke well. the self-possessed villeg'n I What gocd could i‘ do ? Au uueeemly struggle, in which I could scarcely hope to kl“ him; and Pauline the while perhaps upon the point of denchi , J _____J I _7h_ v- He gave me a look of melioioue triumph and left me. The an of the room eeemed puler now! that he lno lf‘mger breathed is. ___J "'7 Fm?" {566131; finned. " Why digghoy am {a me do me wprk 3110;003th 7" ........... A A .\Im!l| Iunvw ullnl .u-uâ€" -_- _--_, " That manâ€"I shall not for obvious reasons tell you his nameâ€"was Pauline’e lover. Translue ' lover ' into Italianâ€"into win; the word drudo signifiss in than languageâ€"then you will understand my mowing. We. on our mother's side. have noble blood in our veinsâ€"blood which brooks no insult. He won Psuline’e. your wife's lover, I any again. He had no wush to marry her, and so Censri and I killed himâ€"killed him in Londonâ€"even in her presence. As I told you once before. Mr. Vuughun. it. Is well to marry a woman who cannot recall the put): The villain liedl I knew he lied. Over and over again I told myself it was a. black. slanderous lieâ€" that Pauline was as pure as an angel. But, as I strove to comfort myself with these aster-lions. I knew that. he no it was, until I could prove it such. it would renkle in my heart; would be ever with me; would grow until I mistook it for truth ; Would give me not a. moment‘s rent or peace, until it made me curse the day when Kenyon led me inside that old church to see “ the fairest fight of all." "Eh he know me. _IIo dropped my um and Escaped by} 1903 "I (my. . L- L.‘__-J u ‘Uhn -â€"â€" .v- __ ‘V_7,, “ You do not even deny the crime. you .illsin?" He shrugged his shoulders. “ Why ahould I. to un eye-witness? To others I will deny it issr enough. Besides, us you are interested in the matter. there is no occasion to do so." " I sm interested!" “Certainly; as you married my sister. Now my flue (allow! my guy bridegroom! my dear hrorher-in-lswl 1 Will tell you why I killed thsr msn, sud whsr I meant by my words to you at Geneva." His sir ot binor. osllous mockery. ss he .mk. than: words. made me dread what “I“ "It; uvv.-.â€"_ _- - He walked onoo orifice up wd'do'wu the room. wd thou wnn regained oom- poguxo flood in from of me. ,A__- _-.-_ u- vuudann " ”‘5' U 'WVI- u- vvvvvvvvvv " You no u gran “tor. Mr. Vaughan.” he and. um a 0 minus and oyuicmm which appnllod me. " You deceived even me. sud I augyerx auspicious." |,,,,, AL- _.‘._._ mnl‘ vi ‘-J v- v--- His air of tumor. ooiloua mockery. as he spoke these words, made me dread what was to come. ' My hands were tingling to throw him from the room. How could I prove the uniruth? There were but two other persons in the walk! who knew Pauline's historyâ€"Ceneri and old Teresa. Teresa had disappeared and Ceneri was in the Siberian mines or some other livwg grave. Even asI though, of the old Italian Woman. Macsri's slander began to throw forth its first poisonous shoots. Her mysterious words, "not for love or marriage," might bear another meaning, a dishonorable meaning. And other circumstances would come to me. Ceneri‘s haste to get hisi niece marriedâ€" his Wiah to get rid of her. Thoughts of this sort would steal into my mind until they lialf maddened me. I could bear to all; With Pauline no longer. I went out into the open air and wandered about aimlessly. until two ideas occurred to me. One was that I Would go t3 the greatest authority on brain diseases. and consult him as to Pauline'e hope of recovery â€"the other that I would go to Horace street and cx-mine, by daylight. the house from top to bottom. I went first to the doctor‘e. To bun I told everthing. ea ving. of course. Macnl‘e black lie. I could eee no otner Way to explain the ceee without confidmg telly. I woes certainly succeeded in arous- Ing his interest. He had already seen Pauline and knew exactly the erate in Which she has been. I think he believed. as many others will. all I mid bun except. then one strange occurrence. Even this he dd not re: 1! at. accustomed as he weep wnd fumes and freaks of imagination. He attributed is to this cause ; which was bu: naturalâ€"and now when oomlon or hope o‘nuld he give me? " A; I told you before. Mr. Vaughan." he said, “ nuch a thing as losing the recolleo. Iion o! the peer for a long while and then picking up the end of she threed where it fell in nor alwgelher unprecedented. I will come and see your wife; bur no the 0388 now stands il seems to me it ie on much of brain lever. and as yet no special- in ie needed. When the: lever leaves her I should like to know. the. I mey see her. It will. I expect, leave her none. but she will begin Me egein from the hour the‘ her mind wee fire! unhinged. You. her hue- beLd. mey even be no stranger to her. The one. I eey egein. ie not unprece- dented. but the circumstances which eur- round ii ere." I left the doctor sud wslked to the ment's in whose head the house in Borsoe street wee plsoed. I obtsiued the keys end made some inquiries. I found It the time of the murder tne house hod been let furnished for A few weeks to an Itelisn gentleman wnose usms won forgotten. He hod psld the rent in sdvmoe, so no ilquiuies had been msde obout him. The home had been vaosut for u long time. There was nothing sguiust It 9ch p‘. that the owner Wuuld only let it st s oenmu rent. which most people appeared to cansxfer too high. .1 game my mums and address and ‘00]: the keyn. I meat the relusinder of the uhoruuun in searching every nook und onuny In the hum-e. but no disoyvery rewuded my lab. 1'. There was. I believe, no place in which the body olswotim nun obtuse don blindness man in a could hue been hidâ€"ghouyng n_o quen in --,|_ whtoh it might bu. been buried. I tool but the toys und nid tho houu did not can no. Then I "turned homo. and wooded on my grief, while “up!“ he ate .nd no its way on my heart. And day by thy is item on working nnd gnuwing. oouodiug uud wuping. until I wu told thn the 0min was over; that Pauline was out o! danger; that «he wan hem]; pguig._ ,AL _. u I L-) -._I-_ I._‘__ ..VII'V'. â€"°â€"-â€"U Which eel! ? The self I had only known. or the eel! before that late! night? With a heating been I drew nets: to her bedside. Week. exhausted. without strength to move or speak she opened her eyes and looked at me. It was a look at wonder. 0! non. recognition. but it was the look of restored reuou. She new we not- I am etiil true. The lips of a villain epx ke to me. but for once he spoke the truth. If no for this. why the crime? Men do not lightly commit murder." Even then. when the moment I had‘ prayed and longed for had comeâ€"when sense. full eeuee.wae given back to my poor loveâ€"I wee invaded. conquered and crushed to the ground by the toe! lie which mighn he truth. - “ We are strangersâ€"she knows me not," I cried. " Let we prove that this lie i-a a lie, or let us be strangerejorever!" .‘v I wâ€"â€"-..â€"- v -_ "v me. and then roolosed themselves waurily. I went from the room with tears running down my cheeks. and at my heart. a feeling of mingled joy and sorrow. hope and tour, which words will not 9x‘greaa. . How could I prove it? How could I ask Pauline? Or. asking her. how could I expect her to answer? Even if she did, would her word satisfy me? Oh that 1 could see Ceneril Villain he might be. but I felt he was not such a double-dyed villain us Macsri. Thinking thus, I formed a flex-pants resolve. Men are urged to do strange and desperate things when life is at stakeâ€" with me it was more than life. It was the honor, the happinessâ€"everything. of two pegple l_ .- s I. l ‘r 'I ,I LIA; .,-L___ I'"" " ' Yes. I would do it! Mad as the scheme seemed. I wouid go (.0 Siberia. and if money. perseverance. favor, or craft could bnug we face to face with Generi, I would wring the truth, the whole numb from his lips I IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. Across Europe-â€"ha|t way across Asiaâ€" lor the sake of an hour‘s interview With a Russian political prisoner! It was a wild scheme, but I was determined to carry it out. It my plan was a mad one, I would, at least, insure a chance of its success by putting all the method I could in my pre- parations. I would not rush wildly to my journey's end and find it-rendered fruitless by the stupidity or suspicion of some one vested with brief authority. No; I must go armed with credentials which no one would dareto dispute. Money, one of the most important of all, I had plenty of, and was ready to use freely; but there were others which were indispensable; my first step would be to obtain these. I could go quietly and systematically to work, for it would be days before I could venture to leave Pauline. Only when all chance of danger was at an end could I begin my Journey. 60 during those days whilst the poor girl was gradually, but very, very slowly. regaining itrength, I looked up what friends I possessed among the great people of the land. until I found one whose posi- tion was such that he could ask a favor of a far greater man than himself, and, more- over, expsct that it should be granted without delay. He did this for my sake With such (flicaoy that I received a letter of introduction to the English embassador at St. Pstsrsburg. and also a copy of a letter which had been forwarded him con- taining instructions in my behalf. Each of the lettcrs bore an autograph which would insure every assistance being given to me. With these and the addition of a letter of credit for a large amount on a St. Petersburg bank, I was ready to start. - .V'I'vv- â€"â€" __ It was :1: the vagioyhad predicted. I might have been 3 tom! stranger to whose bunting! _ eyes 93 {by ope_ned. gas“ at "unva- u - u.-. â€"_- -â€" Then Muoan'a black lie cime out from its lurking place and seizad me as it were by the throatâ€"clung to me. wrestled with naeâ€"cried. “ I um um}?! ljuah ‘me away. Pauline Would be left in good hands. Priscilla would do my bidding faithlully and fully. The old woman was by this time quite aware that her charge had awakened to both memory and new forget- luluess. She knew the reaeon that for days and days I had not even entered the room. She knew that I considered PauIine. in her present state. no more my wife than when I first met_her in Turin. She knew that some mystery was attached to our relations with each other. and that I was bound upon a long journey to clear this up She was content with this knowledge or sought to obtain no more than I chose to give her. But before I left, Pauliue‘e safety and well-being during these months of absence must be considered. The dimoultien that presented almost made me abandon, or. at least, poetpme, the execution of my plan. Yet I knew it. muat be carried out bu the very letxer, or Muoaxi‘s lie would ever stand between my wfle and myself. Better 1 would go at once. While we were strangers ; better. If Generi by word or silence con- firmed the uhumelul tale. that we should My instructions were minute. As soon us she was well enough Pauline was to be taken to the seoeide. Ever thing was to hedone for her comfort on according to her wishes. If she grew curious she was to be told that some neer relation. who woe now journeying ehroed. had pieced her in Prieoille’s hoods. where she woe to stoy until hie return. But.uniees the reoolleo- t on of the pest few months came to her. she woe to no told nothing so to her true position no my wife. Indeed. I doubted nowil ehe wee legally my wileâ€"whether. if she wished. she might not ennui the marriage by stating that at the time it took piece the was not in her right mind. When I returned from my expeditionâ€"if things were right. as I told myszll they must he. ell would hove to be begun again from the begiuuing: . I had ascertained that, since the depar- t "0 of the fevm. Pauline had said nothing about the terrible deed she had witnessed three yeure ago. I feared thin when her health W58 re-ontablinhed her that wish would be to [Duke some stir in the matter. It was hard to see what she could pouibly ueger glen; again I CHAPTER X. do. Maonri, I learned. hnd lolt Euglnnd tho dty utter I had noouuod him of the crime; Gonori was out 0! ranch. I hopod that P-uline might be induced to remtiu uiot until my return; nndl instructed rinoilln. thnt in the event of her recurring to the subject of n grout orimu committed by persons she knew. to inform her thut I“ was. being done to bring the guilty to their deuertu. I trusted she would. with her usual dooility. rest ooutanted With this nouroelyporreot mrtion. hi Priscilla Well to wme to meâ€"to 6t. Petereburg. Moscow. eud o‘her pleooe 1 must Mop at. going and returning. 11m directed envelopes with her. and would send iron: 86. Pewrehurg instructions In to the dates when the venous louvre should be pmted. And won all 1 oould think of was done. All except one thing. To-morrow morn. in“ I muet start. My pauport is duly signed ; my trunks are picked «everything ready. Ouoe. once for a moment. 1 must see her before I sleep to-nightâ€"eeo her it may be for the last tune. She was sleep- ing soundlyâ€"Pziaoilla told me 80. Once more 1 must look upon that benutilul (me that I may onrry int exact imuge with me for thousand of miles! The next day I was hundreds of miles away, and my mind was in a sterner lrame. It when I reached, if ever I did reach Cenen. I found that Maoari had not liedâ€" tound that I had been fooled, oajoled. made a tool of. I should, at least, have the grim omeolation of revenge. I should be able to gloat upon the misery of the man who had deceived me and need me for his own purposes. I should see him dragging out his wretched life in chains and degradation. 1 should see him a slave. beaten and ill- treated. If this was the only reward I should reap it would repay ms for my long journey. Perhaps. considering all that had passed and my present anxiety and dread. this unohristian state of mind was not unnatural to an ordinary son of Adam. I orept upstairs and entered her room. I stood by the bedside and gazed with eyes full of tears on my wifeâ€"yet not my Wife. I felt like a criminal. a deueorator. so little right, I knew. I had to be in that room. Ber pale pure Inoe ley on the pillowâ€"the fairest (ace in all the world to me. Her bosom row and fell with her soft regular breathing. Fair and white the uu‘eugel she looked. and I swore as I gazvsd on her. that no word of man should make we doubt her iuuooeuoe. Yet 1 would go to Siberia. I would have given worlde (or the right to lay my ups on here! to have been able to wake her with a kiss. and eee thuee long. dark luehee Ilse, and her eyes beam with love for me. Even as it was I could not refrain from kxeaiug her gently on the tem- ple, just where the eolt thick hair began to grow. She stirred in her sleep, her eyelids quwered. and like one detected at the oom- meuoemeut of a crime. I flad. St. Petersburg at last! The letter I bear, and the letter already received on my account. insure me a gracious reception from Her Majesty's noble representative in the Russian capital. My request is listened to attentively; not scouted as ridiculous. I am told it is unprecedented, but the words impossible to be granted are not used. There are difficulties, great dimculties, in the way. but, as my business is purely of a domestic nature, with no political tendency. and as the letters bear the magic autograph of a per- son whom the noble lord is eager to oblige. I am not told that the obstacles are insu- parable. I must wait patiently for days, it may be weeks. but I can be sure that everything will be done that can be done. There is. at present. or so the newspapers say. little friction between the two Gav- ernmeuts. Sometimes this is shown by requests more simple than mine being refused. Still, we shall seeâ€" Ah] 61135 L cannov say. I only know him as a doctor named Ccnuri â€"uu Italianâ€"nu gpostle 9f_ tr_ge_domâ€"p_a¢.;iqtâ€"cqnap1rator. Lndâ€"was certain that no one of that name has been sentenced within the last few months. That mattered litt'e. Permission accorded. with the data I had given. the man Would at once be identified by the police. Now. good-morningâ€"as soon as possible I should hear [tom the embassy. VMeauwhilefwho is the prisoner, and where is he? I‘m“ not foolish enough to imagine he had been tried and sentenced under the name I knew him by. I supposed this to be a false one. .. And one word of caution. Mr. Vaughan," said his lordship. “ You are not. in Eug- lang. Remember that a hasty word, even a. look; a casual remark to any stranger you an mxt at. dinner. may unterly defeat. your ends. The system of government here is difl'etent from ours." " It is nll lulled,” he sold. "You will go to Biherln nrmod wish onthoriiy which the moat ignornnt jsilor or soldier will recognize. 0! course. I hove pledged my honor that in no wny will you oonnivo n she oonviot'a oaonpoâ€"thni your business is purely privatize." BI" I would rig!" willingly hue declined the honor, bus as there was no chance of soup- mg from It, uerved myself h meal the nutoorat on well an I could. The embasn- dor‘a carnage was at the door. and in n lew minutes we were driven to the Impe- l'ial Palace. I thanked him for his advice, aithough I needed no warmng. The truth is that an Englishman in Russia has an even exaggc. rated dread of spice and the consequences of a loose tongue. MJIO of us are looked upon with suspicion from our tacitnrnity than irom our garrnlity. I was not likely to err on the lane: point._ I went back to my hotel. and for the next few days whiled away the time as best I could. Not that. under ordinary circum- etaneee, I should have found much difiioulty in so doing. St. Petersburg was one of the places I had always wished to visit. [to sights were new and strange to me; Its customs worth studying; but I took little interest in anything I saw. I was longing to he away in pursuit of Generi. I was not foolish enough to pester lhe ambassador and mute myself 3 nniunoe. Balievnng he would do ell he could, I waited patiently and in silence until I received 3 letter asking me to cell an the embuey. Lord â€"- reoeived me kindly. â€"I_ :Bi’éfii vi oonlussd recollection 0! sign- tic eeniriee. gliiieriug officers. greve-looh- in where end other ofiioiele ; noble neit- ceeee end hulls. paintings. eieiuee. eepeeery end gilding; then {allowing my conductor. I entered a lerue apartment. an one end 0! which stood e um. noble-looking mun in milieery Imire; end 1 reeimed thet I wee in the preeence of him whoee nod could ewey millione and millions of hue fellow creetnreeâ€"the Emperor of all the Rnuiee â€"the White Czar Alexander 1!. The ecv- ereign whose rule etreichee from the high- on civilization of Europe to the lcwoai herher'uun o! Aein. Two years ago when the news of hi: cruel denh reached England. I ihonuht of him an I new him ihu dayâ€"in the prime of life. tell. commanding and graciousâ€"n men is does one good to look as. Whether â€"il the whole truth of hie greet ancestor Oetheiine the Second‘e fru'lliee were knownâ€"the blood 0! a penbnui or a king run in his value. he looked every inch I rnl_er ol m_en. a splendid despot. - . . u To me he was; paniculuzly kind and condescending. Hm manner sol me as much u my cause us in is possible {on man to be in such auunu company. Lord â€"â€" presented me by name. and after cproper revuencc I Waited the Czu'a commandv. He spoke in a quick. stern way which showed that he hdmiued o! no preverioa. tion. I hastened to assure him of the purely private nature of my desired inter- view with the criminal. “ Ia he a dear friend of yours ?" “ Rather an enemy. your majesty; hue my happiness and my Wife's happiness are at stake." There is no need to make it public. There are many men in Europe who believe in the disinterested character and noble aims of the unfortunate couvnct; men who mourn him as a martyr. Perhaps in the cause of liberty he was single-hearted and noble-minded. Why should I distress his followers by revealing any dark secrets of his private life 7 Let him. be an far as I am concerned, Dr. Ceneri to the and: _ He looked at me for a second irom hie towerinu Iii-fight. Then he spoke to me in French. fluently and withoui much foreign accent : “ I am told you wish to go to Siberia?" “ With your majesty’u gracioul per- mission." " To see a political prisoner. Ia tbnt so ?" I replied in the ufiirmnuve. " It is a long j )ui'ney for such a purpose." " My business is of the most vital importance. ’your mujeety.” " Private importance. I understand from He smiled at my explanation. “ You Eug linh are good to your wives. Very well, Mr. Vaughan. it shall be as you wish. The Minister of the Interior will provide you with the fullest passports and authori- tiegt Ban voyage.‘_’ ' Thuu dismiuaed, I bowed myself out. praying mentaily that no red-upism or bureaucracy might delay the transmission of the promised documents. In three days I received them. The passport authorized me to travel to the end of the Czar’s Asiatic dominions if I thought fit. and was worded in such a way that it obviated the necessity of obtaining a fresh passport whenever a fresh government district Was to be traversed. It was not until I found the trouble. annoyance and delay I was saved by this magic strip of paper. that I fully realized how much favor had been shown me. These few words of writing, unintelligible to me, were a magic spell. the potency of which none dared to resist. '1 virus most civilly treated. Indeed.for courtesy commend me to the Russian oflicial when you are properly and power- fully accredited. Censri was at once iden- tified, and his right name and secret history given to me. I recognized che name at once. Lord But now, armed with power to travel. the question was where muse I go? To ascertain this, I was taken to one of the heads of the police. To him I explained my case. I described Ceneri. gave him what I supposed was about the date of his crime and trial. and begged for informaeion as to the best means to adopt to find him in the place of his banishment: - II s '4“ I learned from the suave. obliging Rus- sian chief of police. that a few weeks after I had seen him in G=neva. Generi had been arrested in St. Petersburg. A deeply laid plot. involvmg the atesssino ation of the Czar and several members of the Government, had been revealed through the treachery of a confederate. -The police, fully cognizant of everything. had waited until the pear was nearly ripe, and then struck With dire rebults to the plotters. Searcely one of the principals ercsped. and Ceneri, one of the most deeply implicated. was shown scant mercy. He certainly had few claims on their consideration. He was no Russian groaning under (ppression and despotic government. Although he called himself Italian. he was. in truth. cosmo- politan. One of those restless spirits who wish to overturn all forms of government. save that of republican. He had plotted and schemedâ€"even fought like a manâ€"for Italian freedom. He had been one of Gari- baldi's most trusted workmen ; but had turned fiercely against his master when he found Italy was to be a kingdom. not the ideal republic of his dreams. Latterly he had directtd his attention to Russia. and the plot he was engaged in having been betrayed, his career. in all human proba- bility. was ended. Alter lying many months in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. be was'triad and condemned to twenty years‘ hard labor in Siberia. Some months ago he had been despatehed to his destina- tion. and. my informant added. was con- aidered to have been dealt with most leniently. A clothes obeerver claims the. women fell in love w tn politenen. soldiers and ooeohmen beoeuee they wear buttons. Judge Bluulord. of Gaorain, regards ageoulution as worse than poker. He says he csnnnt see how any man could tool away months Wailing to Me nooks go up or down whnn he might fill a flash and take in 3 jack pot in thmy aeooadu. eeid for certain. He might be nt the Ken gold wuhinge. at the Uutkntek eelt works. at Troitek. at Nertenhinek. All nonviou were that sent to Tobolek. which wane kind of genre! rendezvous; thence they were drnlted off. nt the pleeaure of the Governor-General, to various pleoee end various onoupetione. (To be oontlnuod.)