| Show dips d t atuef > n a 1 r w 1 N wt wwfw 1 1fit i 0 a 1 7JWfl GeOJ2G COPy RIGH 190G THE Co II II I S ME tiiL COH e 1 1 I I l j i L1iP I h f a V I i i A I = a r r ej r li G Co qna n a Telegraph Instrument Over Which He Sometimes Presided to The Clicking RF Vim m SYNOPSIS m sh rtdrlck Hnrdy a fashionable Boston ndt IIY man lost his wealth was jilted a girl and sent by 11 friend to tulle 7eof an American Trading Company wa tIn nussln On Ids Journey through i u he met Stnplclon Neville sup le n 1d11 ai Englishman They agreed to tetlifr to Uussln Bocauso of sus d II oca circumstances they wero several ne Ii I molested by the Japanese Hardy el irrcstcil and found upon his person Ie c papers showing maps of Jup forts d Ih dy was proven guiltless On n train alet Alsome Sano daughter of a Jup a9 be Ml l In Nevlllns shoes Jap found oducl 1 w itsot forlH proving him to ba a fa a spy Hardy departed tor Uus va i a steamer which was wrecked By afterward Ho was rescued by a ara ian steamer On reaching Vladl JIM > > k he was well rented lie started DIane Iberia meeting Prlncesi Homanovniv It train Hardy boarded n vessel for relp a Hardy showed the princess ms Dell rttesi as n rllle shot Tho steamer urbule stranded TJin princess and her dwere attacked by Chinese llnrdy at bel d heir lives The princess thanked lib town t 11 for his heroism Mnnchurlans upon the craft Hardy slew their own I Burning arrows were hurled upon dole Pushkins decks An attempt was 1 to board tho vessel The attacking I Tt ee 1 Pre repulsed nomnnon sneered P0 Kirdys solicitude for the princess a a a messenger sent for help wns le T to R 1 cross on tile shore To put nn lethai the awful torture Hardy himself I1nkm out of his tnlspry takliiB his neb IT He In his hands Torest urea men the vessel hardy volunteered to or help Refused permission be t overboard anti started to swim each the J princess distress message Ho C was angry nt Hardy for his brave n N ato reaci tho princess Ho wooed excurti 4 his own sat ago way lio said had rnnclo love openly to a Jap Spot Bn Help clime und the princess et Cued itheasi board CHAPTER XXI o blot after Mulr KnightErrant e d1 s journey down tho swift ped Brooil mysterious river that night 78th bli In experience never to be fort for-t Often us ho clung to his little w knees would scrape on the Butte lind < and Just as frequently he AlloT Iwlng oft Into deep wntor nnd John spcndcd above depths where It i ae fight easily drown should he an oil team j or lose his nerve Sev nfi onisand hoes ho grounded on sandbanks themorn Iii obliged to drag off his wooden morn sti a matter of no little difficulty I dersh t n I as Partly waterlogged and I aad It ad heavy Ono he drifted close to 1 O nd 6 aim d found tin d himself In n counter being h that actually was taking him jward tho Pushkin nnd It was files jjf WmniliiK nt right angles to tit i i giving his raft frequent vig illlams Pusbes that ho managed nt last uia an Out t Into tho downward sweep it I Iiga leam 00 yea t hours after leaving tho boat jtltute t iOh tho military road that tf WII dimly gray between the to lept black or tho Siberian lime I d not 8 P dad tho star Sprinkled wills ck or tho river tn Inter I in v less It I b I fa5e tl10 IHtnry stntlon n eled milling of square hewn 1 rected dated severalgsmall Ul by thoed sovoral small struc of C an but t 0 ut t 1 hout ten oclock und break Judge ho le egnve his dispatch to n t tbat t IIr es I and corpulent soldier ll cochins lrety I red face whoso frayed th anima I uniform roved him a potty Is I I oil dome ant This man glanced lt6a meat the n 1 Paper with wondering peclod I mad It aloud to n i noude script group of old women two or three soldiers and a farmer or two who soon collected about him Then he dashed Into the house and set a telegraph Instrument over which he sometimes presldeco clicking Hardy chilled tothe marrow now that he had ceased walking and running run-ning and wearied to the point of collapse col-lapse sank on a rustic bench believing believ-ing himself forgotten In the excitement excite-ment evident occasioned by his news In this he soon found himself mistaken however for a toothless old crone with a kindly face and a red handkerchief tied over her head came up to him and taking him by the arm Inquired Zakouska He swallowed three glasses of vodka vod-ka and ravenously devoured several caviar sandwiches after which he was supplied with warm dry clothing and tucked away In bed When he awoke It was mld afternoon after-noon and the old commandant had delved Into a Russian French dictionary diction-ary Sufficiently to dig out the words which ho pronounced many times with a smiling face Sauves monsieur mon-sieur tons sauvos thereby affording the American the greatest joy and relief nnd establishing his own reputation reputa-tion at tho station as a wonderful scholar Hardy remained at the station one week at the end of which time hu resumed his journey to Stryetensk on horseback escorted by a half dozen Cossacks bound for Irkutsk on some military mission or other I lie learned very soon after his arrival ar-rival at Stryetensk that the relief party had put in an appearance a I down the short time after his start trip and that river on his perilous been rescued this the princess had tlmo entirely without his aid CHAPTER XXII I Hardy Receives Two Letters was n low Stryotensk The store at Str yoteltak constructed In the rambling building mid Fi I without the n of a capital shape So board fence connect dIe bar A high of the two wings extremities fug the one side of a square yard Inclosed outbuildings and which contained droshky or two sllltIs for horses tte 1I0atshaped l seOIul of tho long IlItI se country In that that llo duty tclegas In the outhouse utoreeer its drays or plows and other supply las kept II while the In1llements alrlcuturl1l stocked with IIn 1m Itself svgs store assurtment of gen moUe mense allli retail suited to the dlsC mercllllndlle oral nIerclta and for wholo of the region deml1nll the towns along sale tlhlpnwntR to which stream river on the Shllku Stryetensl III Iuted Itself dpl1r city found the I Hardy ronslstlng merely of a In the extlellll houses located collection oC raw stlllild streets It cated on dusty > and or rough muddy as the newest wall us noW America antI hopelessly frontier town In America tbe fact unattractive lessly hills lIurroullllell lIy noble that It 11111 mid that the beautiful Sbllka flowed between It and tho extensive railroad shops that are maintained at this Point During his first day In the town ho put up at the Darnlvostock hotel but found the lodging so abominable tho faro BO execrable and tho sorvlce so Insolent that ho was glad to engage an old peasant woman of all work and begin housekeeping In some unoccupied unoccu-pied rooms of the Trading Companys store Ucildcs this old woman his only companion was a young Russian clerk who spoke a little bad English l which he practiced on Hardy with such persistence per-sistence that he became a nuisance entertaining him with such remarks re-marks as Good morning Mr Hardy The barn of my store Is not so largo as the barn of my uncle Have you seen the barn of my uncle or Good evening i i Mr Hardy Do you think the black horse Js as good as tho white horse Neither the one nor the other Is so good as the horso of my aunt This Interesting person was possessed pos-sessed of the skin of a baby pink cheeks very thick rod lips blue eyes and tinfoil hair His name was Vnsllt Ogorodnlkoff He Imagined himself a great merchant and his manner toward to-ward Hardy oscillated between superciliousness super-ciliousness and the other extreme of sudden servility when reminded of his position He was either prcsumptu ous or groveling It was Impossible I to treat him as an equal And here from the very start Hardy got his first taste of hard work and came to realize what a blessing It tti how it ennobles a mans surroundings sur-roundings however strange prosaic or uninviting and what a royal panacea pana-cea It Is for blues homesickness lovesickness love-sickness or any species of festering discontent In addition to the dally business of the store it was necessary for him to tako stock familiarize himself him-self with the details of the trade get what Idea he could of the accounts study the commercial possibilities of the region lIe saw Immediately that If he did not wish to continue at the mercy of Vaslll ho must learn the Husslan language as soon as possible this Indeed must be his first object He must swallow Russian In great gulps and must digest It Ho there fore looked about for a teacher The only available person ho could find was a Russian Jew who despite his youth wore a great bale of bushy red whlsltcrs failing to the fourth button of his shabby waistcoat Mordecai liurtich know English very well as ho had spent several years in New York In the factory of n rela live engaged there In the manufacture of caps He undertook to teach Hard Russian and he found the latter a most assiduous pupil devoting as many as four hours a day to the subject sub-ject Hardy had not been long In Stry etensk before he received a letter from Mrs Johnny Folk one the Boston Bos-ton society leader calling him a I naughty boy for running away to the ends of the earth and deserting all his friends and assuring him that soclet would not have been able to do without with-out him money or no money had he seen lit to remain Another letter received not long after his arrival In Stryetensk gave him more pleasure It was written on the daintiest and lightest of Japanese paper In very small and exquisitelyformed sqrlpt As Hardy picked this letter up from I his writing table there was something I about it that suggested femlnlnlt even before he opened it A woman eh he muttered and In Japan I wonder who are In Japai this summer Perhaps the Castlo tons tonsHe held the envelope closer to his eyes to examine the script to see 11 I ho could guess at the writers Identity when the problem was solved A faint and elusive perfume arose to his nostrils nos-trils BO faint as to bo almost Imper ceptlblc yet Imperishable as tin memory of a kiss and the Image of Alsome took shape again in his mind Alsomo as she had stood that night on the wharf at Hakodate bidding him goodby dainty as a moonflower exquisite as a Queen of Fairyland Yoknliuinu AiiKiist 1C l I3 > You will perhaps b u surprised 1 ul hear IRK from me h lint i you will not niluse me of forwardness I lun mire when yn learn my reason for nddnsslns you In the stlin this mumiiT Some lime ago able Mr Hano 1M me the honor of deslr Ing to marry me Soon after your > lig for Hakodate lie lignin offered nartme his liaml and when I IIIn ronsermtlnIto 1 mo to him that I should never consent IIP I angry and licensed imhow becnme very shall I express myi < elfof having beeome nifituaud with the American mean vml In his Jealous rage he revealed tho fast that hI I had Klven sccrl orders to the captain of the Bllkoku turn to have of You will never III ex dfspoxvl llBpoH lulnllI you BiinBhlns Ms teeth like n wolf c an npnln behold your belovd 1 American You can Unas1 lint tllls cmtetl h > im 1 ndvnnee Mr Suno to nny Kreat extent nnt not ndyamosteonlSuTiiothgh Itdld not be In tent n m frantic him I wax nearly myself III t ru v mS s tru concerning troy You I wont to limn higher 1111 7 told them frankly of Sanos pro tllorltlp8 your offhis poenllhto me nlld of his plot against yor posnt I dTscluhned nny interest In you He than the fact that you were Inno further wellknown w 01 were n nn i thai yoi cent ulld listIt + uulll 1101 lJe wise nllrknn nllrlclIl1 h09UIIU this to Ixclll A at Ihls time In cOlllpllllIl1ollS with or to 1110110 Japan w that country Hano being summoned denied the plot denied that he hall ever sought my hand or that he hnd any feel ns for me except admiration for my talents cuts The authorities were rather nmused Over the affair and scorned to think that I bore Sano some privatn grudge which I was trying to pay off I wan reduced to despair hardly knowing what course to pursue next when the news arrived that thll Shlkoku Menu had been wrecked and that you were taken off and carried to Indlvoatok by a Husslan merchnpt steamer I take It for grunted that you lire safely In Stryutrnik ero this and sure deeply Immersed In your new duttea iino by limo way Is tn bitter against meow > me-ow and BO Intent on my ruin that I have applied for service In Manchuria a ask for which I am fitted by my thorough thor-ough knowledge df the Chinese language So you see Into what trouble you barn got mo by colling mn your Queen of alryland and your Itttlo lllaa Ulo om Are not women silly I am llrmly convinced that this suscep Ibllltv lo tlnttery renders them unfitted for nil serious work In the world Hut I cctuld not rest without letting you know that I did not deceive you and that I nm not tho treacherous crtnturo you mist have thqught me If you Rallied tiny nUlnR of the deslKno upon you I suppose sup-pose you have entirely forgotten your Inpnnese frlendn ere this nid thut you have hecomo an enthusiastic admirer of he beauty of the Hussluii ladles Still II you should ever think of mo again I should hate to have uny unpleaxant Impression Im-pression associated ltlth limo memory of me whom you our thought of as n Lilac Blossom and a Queen of Fairyland and Am I not silly Your friend AISOMH MOSUKO lie gained from the letter thai Also me was a most feminine woman despite de-spite her calling but the Idea never occurred to him that she was In love with him CHAPTER XXIII The Hated Jew One morning as Hardy was busy at his desk In the rear of tho principal room of tho store Vaslll came and i stood beside him smiling superciliously supercili-ously ouslyArc Arc there many Jows In America he asked Hardy believing that this was simply sim-ply another attempt on the part of his clerk to take an English lesson replied re-plied sharply I dont know Dont talk to me now please l Im busy nut Vaslll contrary to his custom when he was coolly received persisted per-sisted Tho Jews are very numerous In Russia They are much bated by tho Christians They crucified our Saviour and they sacrifice young children chil-dren to their heathen rites This was rather an extended effort for Vaslll and though It had a do elded Ollendorflan ring there was something In his manner that Indl cated a deeper purpose than the mere desire to profit by his superiors English Eng-lish Nonsense exclaimed Hardy with Irritation I have no patlenco with any such folly That Is all an Idle superstition unworthy to bo enter tabled by a man of your Intelll gcnco Nonsense Is It 7 sneered Vaslll My father hates tho Jews and my undo hates them worse than my father fa-ther Do the Americans love tho JewsNo No tlfey do not love them neither do they hate them Sonic of our ben citizens are Jews There Is no such thing as religious persecution In America Any man Is respected In that country who earns his living honestly hon-estly Vaslli went about his work but returned re-turned later with tho remark The people1 of this town want the Jnws to go They do hot understand why you are seen J BO much with the Jew Mordecal It might bo dangerous for you If there should be troubleSome trouble-Some say that you are an American Jew JewHardy Hardy dropped his pen and looked up with Interest A slight flush n red spot crept Into his chiek You may tell my esteemed and somewhat meddlesome neighbors for me he drawled that I nm neither a Jew nor a Choctaw Indian and that when I need their advice In my prlv ate affairs I shall call them In I am a Russian persisted Vas III do you lovo Jews better than Russians Rus-sians 7 siansMy My dear Vaslll when you persist in making a nuisance of yourself as at present I am quite sure that I like tho Jews better than the Russians or at least than some Russians It you have anything to do will you1 kindly go about It I never felt better abl to endure your absence than at this very Instant Vaslli moved away smiling but It I was an evil smile Hardy returned to his accounts and tried to dismiss his clerks remark from his mind Ho succeeded for time time being as the work before him was engrossing but later In tho day I the Russians observations perslsten ly recurred to him and caused him considerable annoyance Ho fancied that the retail trade had boon failing off somewhat and wondered If this were n result of tho Russian lesson with the Jew The next morning ho took a long walk with Mordecal cross tug tho ferry that la Ingeniously runny run-ny the force of tho rivers current and struck out Into the hills Hitherto I be bad been deeply absorbed In tho Ir7iHi 11 = Cl 1 l 1 i WJ ILF9JJJI I i L r s i l Z + Iij Yi1 F g Jc ¼ I I I U I f 1 ter h = = = = 71 d if 17i7 Cl w 4xrfl 1 = xtt Jtt I Am a Russian Persisted Vaslll Do You Love Jews Better Than > Russians tusslnn lossina and over there had been constantly In his mind tho thought that this was her language antI that If I ho should over meet her again he would bo alilo to talk with her In her own tongue Now however he was distracted by the scowling faces of tho early villagers vil-lagers whom ho met on the streets The raftlike ferry was crowded and lie noticed that tho passengers drew away from himself and Mordecal as though fearing some contagion These people muttered repeating tho words The Jew The Jowl with a loathing and fear such as Hardy hind never heard put Into human speech before As uttered by them tho word Itself become an epithet of hato and superstitions super-stitions horror tho most opprobrious Insult that could be hurled at a fellow creature Hardy glanced at Mordecal Ills companion stood sllont looking down nervously clasping one hand In the other tho collar of his long cloak turned up about his ears Onco ho looked up a Heeling glance and there was a baleful light half hate half fear in his reddishbrown eyes On the country road which they took after leaving tho ferry they passed several telegas or long wagons coming Into town and Hardy observed that tho drivers of these also eyed him and his companion with looks of loathing und again ho hoard above the rattle of the wheels that ancient cry of hato The Jowl Tho Jowl They sat down beneath a tree on the side of a hill commanding a view of the town and the winding Shllka up whoso rapid current a steamer was now shouldering Its way leaving behind be-hind a trailing plume of black smoke of incredible size They conversed In Russian for awhile Mordecal skillfully skill-fully leading the dialogue without any reference to tho unpleasant Incidents of the morning When however Hardy arose at last to return to timeshare time-share the Jew said You have made great progress my dear pupil You will now bo able to get along by yourself or by tho help 6of of a Russian teacher who does not know any English I do not desire to make a change replied Hardy 1 nm moro than satisfied sat-isfied with my present teacher Nevertheless Insisted nuruch the time has come when It will be no longer safe for you to go on with mo 1 have wanted to speak of this for several days but It has boon so pleasant to me to have the society of a human being hero In this country of wolves and dogs that I havo not been able to bring myself to tho point Besides Be-sides I need the money that you pay me I greatly fear that another Jewish Jew-ish persecution Is about to break out I havo seen the storm brewing for some time If It were not for my old mother for whose sake I came back to this accursed country I would quietly leave At any rate there Is J 1110 need of your becoming Involved In our trouble perhaps losing your life limo people do not understand your associating as-sociating with me It Is even whispered whis-pered that you are of Jewish descent Hardy laughed a a My dear fellow ho said ttt Is no bodys business whom I employ for n t Russian teacher I shall pursue tho course that scorns lIst to me and I shall not allow theso people to Interfere Inter-fere with my private affairs If necessary I nec-essary wo will warn tho authorities v that trouble Is brewing naruch sprang to his feet and looked over toward Stryotonsk his eyes blazing with hate Oh the authorities ho cried do you know that tho persecutions of tho Jews In Russia are connived at by tho j authorities and tolerated oven by tho i czar himself Could not tho authorities authori-ties If they wished uproot and dispel tho superstitions that make tho Jqws hated antI feared Tho people of J Russia are mere animals Ignorant and I a o ferocious and they do what they are t Sj4 told But there will bo n day of reck t cuing for Unholy Russia Tho God who opened the Red sea for Israel who led them through tho wilderness with n pillar of cloud by day and of j fire by night who talked with Moses In tho burning bush who was with his people of old In Nineveh tho God who has made Rothschild a Icing of t kings who Inspired the brains of Solomon and Heine the souls of Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer and tho heart of Monte orohe will make I this rabble pay for tho blood of his chosen race All tho miseries of tho Palo and tho Ghetto all tho degradation degrada-tion and suffering tho starvation tho blows tho massacre and pillage aro they not written down In tho books of Recording Angel The old law of an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth j was written for you 0 Unholy Russia and when your day of judgment cones your ruin will be more terrible than that of Babylon I Draw out the score heap high the mountains of wrong k but be sure that the mills of God grind very fine not matter how slowly they turn lAs l-As Mordecal said these words something of tho bower of an ancient seer crept Into his bearing his red I eyes flashed fire his shabby cloak seemed the robe of a prophet and his thin hooked nose and Semitic features fea-tures took on the dignity of the ancient an-cient and glorious race whoso Insignia 1 they were < Hardy arose We will walk back together Mordecai he said quietly On his return to the store he found awaiting him a letter tram Moscow It was addressed In Russian but the epistle Itself was written In French and bore at Its head a princely crest He trembled antI his face paled aa ho turned back and glanced eagerly at the signature Ellznbotha Ro manovna f Mordecai said he come early i this evening I am going to try to write n letter In Russian and I shall I want you to straighten it out for I mo TO DB CONTINUED s i S r |
