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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-11-21, Page 2November 21, 1884, A: rat woalit vies wake r" -She was reedy for bed and lay on my arm, Inner tattle frilled cap so fine, With her golden hair failing out at the edge, Like a wrote of LOOD, sunshine. „fAud. humatersthe old tune of "Banbury Gross," And" Three rani who Pot Out to fea,' When she eteepue said, as She dosed her blue °yea. " Papa, rot would you take' for me 2" 4124 I answered, 1' & do1ar, dear little heart." And she slept baby weary with play, - Bat I limt her warm in my lovestrong arms, And.1 rocked her and rooked away, .0 the dollar weans the world to me, • The hum and the sea and the sky, The lowest depth of the lowest place, The highest of all the high. The °Hike with streets and pelmets, Their pleteres and stores of art, • ' I would not take for one low, soft throb Of my sale one's loving heart. feor all the gold that ever was found In the busy wealth-iinsiing past, Would 1 take for one smile of my darling% face, Did I know it must be the last. • So 1 rooked my baby ad rooked away, &no 1 bit such a eiseet content, For the words of the eong expressed to me more Than they ever berorehad meant. And the night crept on, and 1 slept and dreamed Of things far too glad SO he, A.nd 1 wakeneu with lips saying oleo in my ear, " Papa, bot would you take tor me?" S.B.IdoM4Nue. PA.TTIAINE be veld, with a wetness) and cynicism whioh appalled we. "You (deceived even me, and I in very simpletons," "Yon do not even deny the mune, you ,Main?'' He shrugged his shoulders. "Why thould I, to an eye.witnees ? To others 1 will deny it fast enough. Besides, as you 'are interested in the matte; there is , no occasion to do so." "1 am interested I" • " Certainly; as you married my sister. Now my fine fellow! my gay bridegrooml my dear brother-in•law 1 I will tell you Why 1 killed that man, and what I meant by my words to you at liteldeva." His air of bitter, callous, mocking, ea he spoke these words, made me dread what was to come. My hapds were tingling to throw him from the room. "That man—I Shall not for obvious reasona tell you his' nanie—wadpauline's lover. Tranelate lover' into Italian—into What the word drudo signifiee in that imaguege—then you will underatand my meaning. We, on our mother's side, have noble blood in our veins—blood which brooks no insult. He was Pauline's, your wife's lover, I say again. He had no wieh to marry her, and so Ceneri and I killed him—killed him in London—even in her presence. As I told you once before, Mr. Vaughan, it ha well to marry a woman who cannot recall the. poet." ' I made no repiy. Bo hideous a state- inent called for no comment. 1 eimply rime and walked towardaiim. He saw my purpose written in my face. " Not here, he said baatily, and moving away from me; "what good can. it do here—a vulgar souf- fle between two gentlemen? No; on the Cootinent—any where, meet Me, and I will ahow you how I hate you." He apoke well, the selt-poseeesed villain What good could it do? An uneeemly struggle, in which I could scarcely hope to kill him; and Pauline the while perhaps upon the point of death i • ' Go," 1, cried, "murderer and coward Every word you have ever .apoken to me has been a lie, and because you hate me, you have to -day told • Ta0 the greatest lie of -all. Go; save yourself from the p4allows by flight." , He gave me a look of malicious triumph and left Me. The air of the room !teemed • purer now that he no looger breathed it. Then I went to Pauline's room, and sitting by her bed heard her parched lips ever and ever calling in English or Italian on some Ofitt, she loved. Heard them 'beseeching ' and warning, and knewthat her wild word,s were addressed to the man whom Maoari averred he hadelain became he wadthe lover of bie sister—my wife 1 The villain lied 1 I knew he lied. Over and over again 1 told myself it wite a black, slanderous lie—that Pauline wed ae pure as an angel...But; as I strove to comfort' myself with these assertions, I knew that, Ise as it was, until I could prove it snob, it Would rankle -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 chard to Bee " the faireet sight of all." • • How could I prove the untruth 2. There were but two other . persoos . in the world who knew Pauline's history-Csneri and old Teresa: Teresa had disappeared and Ceneri was in the Siberiauxunes or sonde other living grave. Even ad though, of thdold Italian Newnan, Maxe.ri's alander began to throw forth ite first poisonous. shoots. Her mysterious words, "not for love or marriage," might .bear another meaning, a dishonorable. , meaning. • And • other oircumstainies 'would come to- me. Ceneri's haste to get his nieoemarried— his wish, toget lid of her.Thoughte of this sort would Meal into- my mind until they half maddened me. .(-6-0111dltent ttraitswith-Paulinencslonge . I went out into the open ear. and wandered about aimlessly, until two ideas occurred •t� me. One was that I would go to the greatest authority on brain diseases,: and conault him 88 10 Panlineis hope of recovery —the other that I . would go to florae° street and examine; by daylight, the house from top to bottom. I • went Arat to the dodoes, _ To him I told everthing, saving, of course; Macan's black lie. I could see . no other way to explain the case without confiding fully. ' I mod certainly succeeded inainue- ing his interest. He had already peen Pauline and knew exactly the date in which ehe has. been. • 1, think he believed, as Many others • will, all 1 told him except 'that one strange oocurreriae. Even this he did not scoff at, accustomed as -be was to wild fanoiesand freaks, of imagination. He - attributed it to this camel which was but natural—and now what comfort or hope could he give me ? As I told you before, Mr. Vaughan," he " mob a thing as losing the reoolleo- tion of the past for a long • while and then picking up the end of the thread where it fell is not altogether unprecedented. I Will come and 808 your wife; but as the case now stands it memo. to me it is an attack of brain fever, and as yet no spatial- ist is needed. When that fever leaves her I should like to know, that I may 'see her. It will, I expect, leave her sane, but she will begin life again from the hour that her mind Was first unhinged. You, her hus- band, may even be as a Stranger to her. The case, I say again, is .not •unprece- dented, but the, cirounistanoes whion-aur- roand it aro." ' • . • . " I left the doctor and Walked to,the agent's' in whose hand the • house in Horace street was plaoed, I obtained the keys and made some inqUitiem. I found at tbe time of the murder the Inane had been let furbished for a few weeks to an Italiangentleman whom name was forgotten. He had paid the rent in advance, so no inquiries had been Wade about him, The house had been vacant for a long time. There was nothing against it except that the owner would, only let it at a Certain . rent, which most people appeared. to oongider too high. I gave Mg name and addrese and took the keys. I spent the rendainder of the afternoon in marching every nook . and aranny in the houee, but no discovery 'rewarded my labor.. There was, I believe, no place in which the beady of it victim could have been hid—there was no garden in whiob it•might havebeen buried. I • Ma back the keye and said the house did not suit me. Then I returned home, and brooded on my grief, while Maoari's lie ate and ate ite way to my heart. And day by day11went on working and gnawing, corroding and warping, until I was told that the . crisis was over;. that Pauline was out of danger; that she WM herself again. Which MU? The self I had only known, or the self before that fatal night With a beating heart I drew near to her bedside. Weak, exhausted, without strength to move or speak she opened her eyes and looked at me. It was a look of . wonder, of non- recognition, but it wite the look of restored reason. She nearme not. It was as the doctor had predicted. I might have been a total etranger to those • beautiful. eyes as they opened, gazed at Me, and then reolosed themselves .wearily. ; went from the room With tears- running &Men my Cheek; aidd at my heart a feeling • of Mingled joy aind Harrow, hope and feero Whichwords Will hot express. Than Maori% black he oarae out from itti lurking place and Mind me se it were CHAPTER IX. ciAcut LIE. Having placed the poor girl '02 Prisoilla's motherly hands, I fetohed the beet doctor I oould think of, and efforts were at once made to restore conaciousnese. It was long before any sign of returning anima- tion ehowed itself, but, at last, she awoke. Need I say what a supreme moment that was to me? I need not give details of that return to life. Alter all, it was but a half return, and brought "-fresh terrors in itestrain. When morning dawned it found Pauline raving with what I prayed was but the delirium of fever. The dootor tolkme her state was a most oritioal one. There was hope for her life, but no certainty of saving it. It was during those days of anxiety that I learned how much I loved my unhappy girl. How grateful I should be if she were given hack to me, even as I had alwaye known her. Her wild fevered. words out mp to the heart. Sometimes in English, sometimes in soft Italfitn, *she. called on Boredom ; Rieke words of deep love and sorrow; gave vent to theexpreesions of fond endear- ' ment. These were suooeeded by cries of grief, and it seemed as if elnidders of fear passed over her. . For me there was no word; no look of recognition. I, whe would have given worlds to hear my name spoken' once, during her delirium, with.an 'expression of love, was but a stranger at her bedside. Whom was it she called for and lamented? Who Was the man she and I • had seen slain? I soon learned—and if my informant spoke the truth, he had, in • so doing, dealt me a blow from which I should never rally. • ' It was Pdaoari who struck it,' He called on me the day after Pauline and L had waited that houee. I would not see him then. My plans were nob formed. 'For the time I could think of nothing save my wife's danger. But two days afterward, when he again wiled, I gave orders for him to be admitted. • • I shuddered as I took the hand I dared not yet refuse him, although in my own• mind I was certain that a murderer's fingersimmoolaaped_reund_My gym. Per- haps the very •fingers whioh had onoe closed on my throat. Yet; with all I knew, I doubted whether I could bring him to justioe. Unless Pauline reovered, the evidence I 'could bring would be of no weight. Eben the viotim's name was unknown to me. lffefore the acousation would lie, his remains must be.found and identified. 11 was hope- less to think of punishing the murderer, now that more than three yeare had elapseti since the crime. Besides—was he Pauline's brother 2 Brother or not, I would unmask him, I would show him that the crime was no longer a secret; that an outsider knew every detail. I would tell him this in the hopo. that hie f attire would be haunted with the dread of a, just vengeanne over- taking him. I knew the name of the street to which Pauline had led me. I had notioed, it as we drove from it a few nights ago, and the reason of my drunken guide'a mietake was apparent. It was Horace street. My con- duotor had jumbled up Walpole and Hor- ace in his drink. muddled brain. On what a slight thread the whole ward of auto hangs 1 Macari had heard Of .Pauline'e illness and delirium. He was Re tenderly solicit - *us in his inquirles as a brother should be. My replies were cold' and brief. Brother or not he was answerable for everything. Presently he changed the subject. scarcely like to trouble you at Moll a time, but I should be glad to know if you are willing to join me, as I euggestedon a memorial to Viotor Einnianuel?" "1 am not. There are several things I must have explained first." • He bowed politely ; but I saw his lips olose tightly for a moment: • "1 am quite at your. Saralee," he mid... "Very well. Before all I must be satis- fied that you are mg wife'e brOther." ' Be raised his hic,k, dark eyebrow and tried to smile. "That is easily done. Had poor Chilled been with us he would have vouched for it." "But he told me very differently." "Ab, he had his reasons. No matter, I xan bring plenty of other persons." "Then, again," I said, looking him full in the tam and speaking very slowly, "1 must know why you murdered, a man three years ago in a house in Horace street." Whiohever the fellow felt—fear or rage —the expression of his time was that of "blank astonishment. Not, I knew, the =- prince of innocence, but of wonder that the orime should be known. For a moment his jaw dropped and he gaped at me in . Then he recovered. "Aro you mad, Mr. Vaughan ?" be ruled, "On the 201h of August. 186—, at No. -- Horace street, you stabbed here, to the heart, a young man who was sitting at the table. Dr. Cleneri was in the room at the time, also another man with a soar on bid facie." He attempted no evasion; He sprartg to his !Gilt with habitat convuleekwilb rage He seized my arm. For a moment I thought he meant to edit& roe, but found he only wanted to soah my face attentively I did not shrink from his inapeotion. I. hardly thought he would recognize me; se great a change does blindness Make in a btoe. But he know me. He dropped my arm and etamped his foot in fury, "Fools /diets 1" he Mimed, "Why did they not let me do the work thinoughly?' He walked onoe or twitie up and down the room, and then with regained coin, poeure stood in frOnt of me. " You arca great aator, Mr. Vaughan.' 1 by the throat—olung 10 500, wrestled with me--oried, "1 am true 1 Push me away. I am still true. The lips of a villain spoke to me, but for onoe be epoke the truth. If not for tine, why the ammo 1 Men do not lightly oonomit murder," Even then, when the moment I bad prayed and longed for had come—when one; full senile, was given book to my poor love—I wasinvaded, oonquered and °rushed to the ground by the foul lie which might be troth. "We are strangers—ehe knows roe not," I cried. "Let me prove that this lie is a lie, �r let us be strangers forever 1" How oould I proywit 2 lEtow could•I ask Pauline? Or, asking her, how oould I expect her to asiewer Even it she did, would her word satiety me? Oh that I could see Ceneri 1 Villain he might be, but I felt be wax not ouch a double -dyed villain as Malan. • Thinking thus, •I formed a desperate resolve. Men are urged to do strange and deeperate things when life is at stake— with me it was more than life. It was the honor, the happiness—everything, of two people 1 Yes, 1 Would do it I Mad as the whom° deemed,' 1 would go to Siberia, and if money, perseverance, favor, or craft could bring me face to face with Ceneri, I would wring the truth, the whole truth from his lips! CHAPTER X. • IN SEARCH or nut Tama. Amass Europe --halt way across Asia— for the Bake of an hour's interview with a Russian political prisoner 1 It was a wild scheme, but I was determined to 'carry it out; It my plan was a mad one, I would, at lead, insure a chance of its success by putting all the method I could in nay pre- parations. I would not rush wildly•Scerny journey's end and find it ,rendered fruitless by ihe stupidity or suspicion of some one ' vested with brief authority. No; I must go armed with oredentials whioh no one would dare to dispute. Money, one of the most important of all, .1 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, fora would be -days before 1 oould venture to leave Pauline. Only ..when all chance of danger was at an end could I begin my 'journey. So during those days whilst the poor girl was gradually, but very, very slowly, regaining itopgth, I looked up what friends, I possessed among the great people of the land, math I found 'one whose poet tion was moll that hoamuld ask a favor of a far greater man than himself, and, more- over, expect that • it should be granted without delay. He aid this for my sake With such Efficiacy that I received a letter of introduction to the English embasaador atSt. Petersburg, and also a copy of a letter which had been forwarded him con- taining instructions in my behalf. Each of the letters bore an autograph which would insure every assistance home 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. . But before I left, Pauline's safety and well-being during these months of &been'se. must be considered. The difficulties this preeented &lomat made me abandon,. or, at least, postpone, the exeOution of 'my plan. Yet I knew it must' be carried out to the very letter, or Maeari's lie Would ever stand -between my wife and meet!. Better I 'should go at once, while we wen() strangers; better, if Ceneri by word or eileuoe con- firmed the shameful4alok that • we should 'never meet again 1 ' 1 Pauline would be left in good hands. Priscilla, would do my bidding faithfully and fully. The old woman was by this time quite aware that he; charge -haa awakeued to both Memory and new forget- fuluese. She knew the reaeon that for days and days I had not' even entered the room. She knew that I considered Pauline, in her present state, no more my wife than when I fired 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 chosito .give her. • " • • - My instructions were minute. As soon is she was well enough Pauline was to be taken to the Seaside. Everything was to be done for her comfort and 'according to .her wishes. If she grew cations she was to be told that some near relation, who was now journeying abroad, had placed her Prisoillitat hands, where she was to stay until his return. But, unless the mellow tionof the past few' months came to her, shewas to be told nothing as teher true position as my wife. •Indeed, I doubted now if She was legally my wife—whether, if Ow wielded, she might . not annul the tiantriage by stating that at the .time it took place the Was not in her right mind. When I returned from' my expedition—if things were right, as I told myself they must be; all would have to be begun again from the beginning. I had ascertained that, .since the dew-. tura of the feyer, Pauline had. said nothing about the terrible deed ehe had witnessed three years ago. I feared that when her health • was roestablided her first wieh would be to make some etir in the matter. .16 Was hard to me what she could poerfibly do. I learned, had left 'England the day after ,I had maimed him of the crime; Caned was tont of reach. I hoped that Faunae might be induced to remain quiet nail my return; and 1 instruoted Prisoilla, that in the event of her reourring to the subject of a 'great midst committed by pardons she knelt; to inform her that all was being -done to bring the guilty to their deserts.. I trusted she would, with her usual docility, rest contented with this Mandy coned amertion. . 'Priscilla was to write to me—to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and ether places I • must atop at, going and returning. I left directed ,envelorso with her, and would aend from 81. Petersburg instructions as. to the dates when the various letters should be poated. And then all I oould think of was done. • • " All except one thing. To-moirow.roorn- ing 1 must Mak. Mg passport is duly signed; my trunks are paoked—everything ready. One; once for a moment, I must Bee her before I sleep to -nights -see her it may be for the last time. She was sleep- ing eoundly—Prisoille, told me so. Once more I must 'milt upon that beautiful face that I may carry its exact image with me for thousand of Miles I I crept upstairs and entered her roorii. stood by „the bedside and gazed with eyes full of teara. on my wife—yob not my wife. I felt like a criminal, a deseerator, ao little right, I knew, I had to be in that room. Her pale pure face lay on the pillow—the fairest face in all the world to ,me. Her bosom rose and fell with her ialft regular breathing. Fair and white as an angel she It...Joked, and I more, as I gazed on her, that no word of man ahould Make me doubt her innocence. Yet 1 would go to Siberia. I would have given worlds for the right to lay my lipson here 1 to have been able to Wake her with a kiss, and eee those long, dark lashes rise, and her eyes beans with ple, just where the soft thick hair began to grow. She stirred in her sleep, her eyelida quivered, and like one detected at the 00M" 0261100133011i1 of a crime, I fled. The next day I we hundreds of mike away, and my mind was in a sterner frame. If when I readed, if over I did reach Caned, I found that ?Liman had notrlied— found that I had been fooled, cajoled, made a tool of, I should, at least, have the -grim consolation of revenge. I ebould be able to gloat upon the ixtieety of the man who bed deceived Me and Used me for his own purposes. I 'should see him dragging out his wretched life in chains and degradation. I 'should see him a slave, beaten Kid ill- treated. If this was the only reward I should reap it would repay me for my long journey. Perhaps, ceneidering all that had paned. and my present anxiety and dread, this ungliristie,u state of mind was not unnatural to an ordinary son of Adam. St. Petersburg at last! The letter I bear, and the letter already received 012 My amount, insure moitgraoious reception from Her Majeety'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 diffioultiee, great difficulties, in the way, but, as my business is ,, purely of a domestic nature, With no politioal tendessoy, and as the letters bear the magio autograph of a per- son whom the noble lord is eager to oblige, I am not told that the obstacles are item - parable. I muat wait patiently for days, it may be weeks, but I can be sure that everything will be done that MO be done. Where is, at present, or so the newspapers say, little fruition between the two Gov- ernments. Sometimes this is ehown by requests more simple than mine being refused. Still, we shall tee— Meanwhile, who is the prisoner, and where is he 2 Ali 1 that 1 cannot say. i only know him as a dooter named Ceneri —an Italian—an apostle of freedom—patriot--conspirator. I was nob 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. • Dord was certain that no one of Abet' name has been sentenced within the last few months. That, mattered little. Permission accorded, with the data I had given, the man would at once be identified by the police, Now, good-morning—as soon as passible I should hear from the embassy. • "And one word of caution, Mr. Vaughan," said his lordship. "You are not in Eng - lung. Remember that a hasty word, even a look; a casual remark to any stranger you sit next at dinner, may utterly defeat your ends. The system of government here is different from ours." I thanked him for me -advice, although I, needed no warning. The truth is that an Eoglishinan in Russia has an even exagge- rated dread of spies and the consequences of n loos& tongue. More of us are looked upon with suspicion from our taciturnity than fromour garrulity. I was not likely to err on the latter point • I went back to my. hotel, and for the next few days whiled away the time as beat I °mild. Not that, under ordinary oirouin- stances, I should have found much difficulty in no doing. St • Petersburg was one of the plaoes I had alwaye wished to visit. Its sights were DOW and strange to me; its customs worth studying; but I took little interest in anything•I eaw. I was logging to be away in pursuit of Ceneri. • I was not foolish enough to pester the ' ambassador and • make myself a nuisance.. Believing he would do all he could, I waited. patiently and in silence until I received a letter asking me to call at the embassy; Lord ---- reoeived me kindly. . "11 is alLsettled," he said. "You Will go in Siberia armed with anthonty wIuob the most ignorant „jailer or soldier will recognize. °kaoline, I have pledged my honor that in no way wilt you connive at - the convict's escape—that your bueinese is purely private." , I expressed my thanks, and 'asked for instructions. " Firet of all," he said," my instructions are to tele you to tha palaoe. The Czar desires to see the eccentric Englishman whowishes to. snake such a journey inorder to ask slew questions." I would right willingly have declined the honor, but as there was no °hence of escap- ing from it, nerved myself to meet the autocrat as well as I could. The embassa- dor's carriage was at the door, and in a few minutes we were driven to the Impe- rial Pekoe. I retain a confused recollection of gigan. tio sentries, glittering onion, grave -look ing ushers and other canals ; noble stairs omen and halls, paintings; statues, tapestry and gilding; then following iny conduotor, I entered a large apartment, at one end 'of which stood It tall, noble -looking man in military attire; and.. 1 realized that I was in the presence of him whose nod Gould sway millions and millions of his , fellow oreatureEi—the Emperor of all the Russias —the White Czar Alexander II. The sov- ereign whose rule stretches from the high- est oivilization of Earope to the lowest barbarism of Asia. •• Two years ago when the news of his cruel death reached England, I thought of him as I Saw him that day—in the prime of life, tall, commanding and gracious—a man it does one good to look at. Whether =if the Whole truth of hissgreat ancestor Catherine the Second's frailties were known—the blood of a peasant or a king roda in his veins, he looked every inoh ruler of men, atsplendid despot. • To me he was particularly kind and oondeecending. His manner set me as much as my ease as it 18 possible for 'a man M be in such august company. Lord — presented me by name, and after a proper reverence I lofted the Czar's commands. He looked at me for a second from his towering height.. Then he spoke to me in French, fluently and without muoh foreign accent: "lam told yoid wieh to go to Siberia?" "With your majeaty's gracious per- mission." °. , • • " To see a, political prisoner. Is that so 2" I replied m the affirMatIVe: "11 is a long journey for such a purpose." " Mg business of the most vital importance, your majesty." di Private importanoe, I underetand from Lord —" • • He spoke in a quick, stern way which ishowed that he admitted of no prevariaa- tion. I hastened to assure ' him of the purely private nature of my' desired inter- view with the criminal. s "Is he a dear friend of youre 2" "Bather ail enemy, your. majesty; but my happiness and my wade happiness are at take."s He antiled at my explanation. "You English are geed to your wivea. Very well, Mr. Vatighan,it shall be as you VAAL The Minister of the Intekior will provide you with thd fulled pasepOrts and atithori- ties. 73on Voyage." Thus dienaiseed, I bowed myself out, praying Mehtally that no red-tapiam or bureaucracy might delay the transmission of the promised doottinente. In three days / received them. The fit, and was worded ii . such a way that it obviated the necessity of obtaitailifl a Utah. OHM') whaaaVer fresh government distrint was to be traversed. It was not Utotil 1 found the trouble, annoyanoe and delay 1 was saved by this magic 'strip of paper, that I f uby realized hole much favor had been shown me. Those few words of writingonintelligible to me. were e. me& open, the petulant of whioh none dared to resiat. But now, armed with Neter to travel, the question waswhere muet I' go? To aeoertain this, I wee talon to one of the heads of the polies. To him I explained ray ease. I described Ceneri, gave him what I supposed was about the date of his orinse and trial, and begged for information as to the best meana to adopt to find him in the place of his baniehment I was most civilly treated. Indeed, for oesirteey commend me to the Russian official when you are properly and power- fully anoredited. Caner' wa,a at once iden- tified, and hie right name and Becret history given to me. I recognized the name at onoe. 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 convict; 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 aseerets et his private life? Let him, be so far as I am concerned, Dr. Ceneri to the end. I learned from the suave, obliging Rue - shin chief of police, that a few weeks after I had seen him in Geneva; Ceneri had been arrested in St. Petersburg. A deeply laid plot, involving the assassin- ation of the Czar and iseveral members of the Government, had been revealed through the treachery of a oonfederste. The police, fully cognizant of every Oleg, had waited until the pear was nearly ripe, and then struck with dire results to the plotters. Scarisely one of the principals escaped, and Coned, one of the most deeply implicated, was shown scant mercy. , He certainly had few claims on their ooneideration. He wan no Russian groaniog under °percolates and despotio government. Although he called himself Italian, he was, in truth, memo- polittn. One of those restless spirits who wish to overturn all forms of government, save that of republican. He had plotted and sohemed—even fought like 0, man—for Italian freedom.' He bed been one of Geri, baldi'a most trusted world:nen ; but had turned fiercely againet his master when he found Italy was to be 'a kingdom, not the ideal republio of his dreams. . Latterly he had directed his attention to Russia, and the plot he was engaged in having been betrayed, his career, in all human proba- bility, was ended. After lying many months in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, he was tried and condemned to twenty years' hard labor in Siberia.. Some months ago he had been despatched to his destina- tion, and, my informant added, was con- sidered to have been dealt with most • leniently.' •'Where was he now? ? That could not be said for Derwin. He might be at the Kara gold waehings, at the Ustkutek salt works, at Troitsk, at Nerteohinals. Allsoonviote were first sent ro Tobolek, whioh was a kind of general rendezvous; thence they were drafted off, at the pleasure of the Governor•General, to various places and various cmoupations. -• (To be continued.) . FRa FESTIVE. DANCE. But Few Innovations to be Introduced Time Winter. On the authority of a member of the American Society of Professors of Dancing it may be said there are to be no new dances this season; except in quadrilles. At its TaiiiiniatinrirrIre-WYtitkilitraSSOciatitin-- adopted the society quadrille. This lain respect to figures the BaD10 as the plain French quadrille, but is danced diagonally inatead of opposite. The advantage is that it keeps the dancers in motion uninter- ruptedly and permits of no cessation in the pastime.' 'The change is a popular one, and is similar to that made in the Saratoga lancers some seasons ago. The member . of the Amerioan society likewise asid " The•national guard, lawn tennis, and waltz quadrilles are also new. This season the waltz quadrille will lead in popularity. Polkas will be announced here and there on fashionable programmes, and the galop and. glide waltz will be very generally danced. As a matter of fact, there are no radical innovationa for the coming winter. The field for parlor dances has been thoroughly exhausted. Galope, polkas, quadrilles and waltzes are all the species that (amid be devised, and what- ever—forms are new are variations or improvements on the old styles." • "How does the german stand in popular favor ? " "The german is atill a feature, , It will 'dwarf be popular in good moiety. It is 'not adapted for a promiscuous gathering. Those taking part must he well acquainted, For this reason it oontinuee in favor. To lead a gerraan well requires great familiarity with • its intrioamee. Many people now employ professionals as leaders, and when gentlemen acquire proficiency it is gonsidered a great. distinction. The sehottische and fiva-step waltz are not danced by nice People. The racquet is little less than the redowagliseade. It is also tabooed in fashionable circles." • "Has the amusement of roller-skating affected the dancing-andeinies ? " 1! It has not sfleeted the schools proper to any extent, but it has diminished the attendance on the aseemblies for advanced pupils. The character of the two amuse- ments is very muoh the same." love for me. Even as it wag I oould nob 1 passport authorized me to travel tee the end refrain from kiseing her gently on the tena- of the Czar'a Agiatie doMinions if I thought ISTIUDF OF 1111181188. Tite Horror, and Ghastly Attractions 01 an Anatombial frintseass. One of the moat ghastly sights in Munioh is to be witnessed in the A.natomioal museum, on Sohiller stresses It cousiets of the heads of persona who have been guillotined in Eavaria for it good many years back. dropped into the museum yesterday and paid for my prurient ourioaity by the toes of my appetite for the rest of the day. The mows= contains assoocl many attrac- tions,. but these heads are the great drawing-oard. Nothing is said about them in the guide-booke. and so the average tourist goes and comes without the alighted atopielon that so remarkable a apeotaole is to be seen for a very emall fee, The heads in queetion are just inside of the door, to the right as you enter, They are inclosed itt rowe of glass jars filled with alcohol. There are seven in a single row which are made more oonsiploubus than the rest, for the reason, I suppose, that they are souvenirs of criminals who attempted SOME extraordinarily audacioue thing, and there- fore • became specially celebrated. The eyes were all °Weed,iand the faces expres- eionlees I looked n vain for any that beepoke atilt, by facial dtatortion, the agony of dread which must have inspired the victim, as he approached the instrument of hie death. Not a few wore muetaoheaslut none beards; from which I infer that 11 10 ouatomary to shave the ObanAtet.919 exeott- tion. The eyes of over half the heads had been out out. An examination of the placeewhere the neck had been severed revealed skilful work on the part of the maohimssailis Xules Some were as neatly out as an apple that you halve to divide with a friend. One head bad evidently belonged to a man with a, ehort neok, as the amputation had taken place sio close to the chinas td almost pare off its under surface. A few neolse were very ragged where the knife had struck, as though the machine had bungled —neosesi- tating more than one stroke. The heads of prisoners executed in Bavaria, are thus publicly preserved, for the warning of those who are disposed to be similarly lawless and the bodies are turned over to the medical stu- dents for dissection. The anatomical collection contained many other remarkable attractions. There were sihelves loaded down .with skulls and dried heads. The "various organs of the body are preeerved accord- ing to several methods, some specimens being preserved in aloohol, others dried, pickled, etc. The odor was byno means savory, or else my imi agination s too vivid. There were glass tanks filled with aloohol oontaining nearly full-length seotions of the body, sawed and split so as to illustrate the functions of all the myriad organs. There were dried bodies intact, hung up as skeletons are ,usually hung. There were also all sorts of malformations and mons etropitiek presented in bottles and glass retorts. The aseortment of infants with an extra iumber of heads, mai or kgs was especially comprehensive. A series of glass' jars contained heads of individnala • who had evidently met with violent mei- dental deaths, as their °racked skulls or mashed countenances implied, In feet, the place was such a repository of horror that I hurried from it with a feeling that I had been following Rome invisible Mephistopheles into tha infernal regions by epeoial permit.—Cor. • Kansas • City Journal. aittAiet.'s• FROZEN. • A. Man Lies In the snow all Night and Almost •Dies. How it Feels to be in at Battle. ' The question has been of ten asked: "How do 'soldiers feel when in battle ? " and it is. one diffloult to answer. A long experience amongs veterans in the ranks leads the writer to believe that the ' emotion -experienoectin. goingainder same with all men. To the 'raw recruit the oraeh of small arms and the roar of °station were simply appalling; he felt that he was going forward to certain death. With pate &cake and clenched teeth he held his place, determined to do his duty as - best he might. If very •much excited . he loaded his musket, and, forgetting to put on the neeeesary percussion _cap, went through the motion of firing, onlyto rani a fret& cartridge on the top of the first one, when, for the firet time using a 'oe,p, he was inoontioently knocked down by the tremendous recoil of his gun, and believed he was badly wounded. Instances are known where muskets have been foiled on battle -fields • 'containing six or seven cartridges. Finally, the green soldier dis- covers that he is not hurt, and that every - •body does not get killedin an engagement, so he regains confidence and Passes semen - fully through his baptism of fire, To the veteran it is far different. • He ' knows too well that every battle reduces • the average chance of his escape, yet BO habituated does he become to rattling fusi- laden and desperate charges, he scarcely heeds the danger surrounding him. The shriek of the sheik over his head, the buzz of the bullets past his ear, are now familiar sounds, and, trusting to the chances of war, the infantryman fires rapidly with his nmaket or the artilleryman calmly rams home another charge of grape and canister as hie battery opens at close range On ae advancing body of the enemy. All men are naturally afraid of death, but the trained and experienced •soldier learns to keep down that fear, and nonchalantly do whatever is required of Min.—George F. Williams. Early yesterday morning head turnkey McKay, of the Provincial Sail, on making his regular tour cif inspection around the jail premises, found a man named Alex- ander Moore, who lives in a shanty adjoining the Bay Horse Hotel, Portage avenue, lying in the snow and unable to move. Be left the man in charge of a turnkey, and then procured a rig and had him removed to his shanty. Moore's pante were torn at the knees, and one of his legs wax badly frozen. Half of hie under lip had been entirely out or bitten off, and he WAS in a very pitiable condition. On intipeoting his trade, Mr. McKay found that the unfortunate man must have wandered from the vicinity of Russell's spice mills, and crawling on his hen& and kneee reached the spot where he was discovered. He was taken to the hospital. —Winnipeg paper. • audge Wexford, of Georgia; regards stimulation as wore° than poker. Jae says he cannot see hots any man could fool away maths waiting to eee stocks go tip or down when he might fill a flash and rake in a jackpot in thirty emends, In the Ilritieh House 'of Ciommone Lord dmond Fitzmautioe, Under,Seordary ,of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that Mexico ratified the agreenient in regard to the converiden of the Mexican debt made in England on October 28112. French as it was Spoken by aScbtclunam Says the Waterloo Advertiser : "Mr. White, who has juet been • elected to the Local Legislature for Megantio, is a shrewd, intelligent Sootohman, niet in the prime of . life. He is a business man, and has strong common sense. Thougn not an orator he us a good public speaker, and will n) doubt be heard in the debates of the House, Mr. White, however, cannot speak Frenoh, and daring the canvass his opponent, Dr. Hume, had the advantage of him in that reepeot. Mr. White's French Liberal friends, fleeing that oomething had to be done, got up a short French speed for him which he committed to memory, The delivery of this speech with a pronounced Scotch accent its said to have been One of ° the most humorous inoideeta of the cans- paign." Enormous profits are anticipated_ from the pearl fisheries in Lower Califortia. While it freight train from Montreal on the 0.1).R. was entering on to the bridge across the Ottawa, about 10 o'clook yester- day morning, two oars left the tied. One of them before the engine could be stopped was hanging over the embankment into the water. Workmen were busily engaged all day, and at a late hoar this evening got the line cleared for traffio. The mama of the oars leaving the traok was due to a stick of timber which got displaced from a loaded "'The Prince of Wales attained his 43rd year yesterday.His birthday was publicity celebrated on Saturday, when the usual royal salute was fired. The Guards went through the ceremony of trooping the oolore, which &Waded a large orowd of speotatore to Hyde Park, and at night a large number of handsel:12e illuminations were dieplayed in the city.